EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US

Anonymous Coward writes "The Guardian is reporting that the EU, obviously unimpressed with the US's refusal to relinguish control of the Internet, will be forming several comittees and forums with a mind to forcibly remove control of the Internet from the United States." From the article: "Old allies in world politics, representatives from the UK and US sat just feet away from each other, but all looked straight ahead as Hendon explained the EU had decided to end the US government's unilateral control of the internet and put in place a new body that would now run this revolutionary communications medium. The issue of who should control the net had proved an extremely divisive issue, and for 11 days the world's governments traded blows. For the vast majority of people who use the internet, the only real concern is getting on it. But with the internet now essential to countries' basic infrastructure - Brazil relies on it for 90% of its tax collection - the question of who has control has become critical."

Comments

Re:The UN has finally lost it

[just_another_sean]

Not to mention that not all root servers are even in the US. According to that source:

However, a number of root servers lie outside the United States:
* i.root-servers.net is in Stockholm
* k.root-servers.net is in Amsterdam and London
* m.root-servers.net is in Tokyo

Couple that with anycast and other emerging redundancy methods and I'd say we have a pretty global effort to maintain DNS going on.
Again, according to wikipedia.org:

Use of anycast to implement DNS
A number of the Internet root nameservers are implemented as large numbers of clusters of machines using anycast. The C, F, I, J and K servers exist in multiple locations on different continents, using anycast announcements to provide a decentralized service. As a result most of the physical, rather than nominal, root servers are now outside the United States. (emphasis mine)

Re:This again? Where's the problem?

[ivan256]

Since you've been modded up, I'm surprised that nobody has bothered to explain to you yet that the web isn't the internet.