Why Talk About Internet Governance?

Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 20, 2005 @02:04AM from the the-future-of-tar-interweb dept.

andyo wrote to mention an article on the O' Reilly network entitled Why They're Talking About Internet Governance. The piece goes into the history of how things came to be in the first place, as regards the distribution of internet domain space. From the article: "Having established commercial beachheads on the Internet, corporations wanted to own the whole terrain. Through the World Intellectual Property Organization ... they were designing a new regime for handling domain names. It was nicely suited to large corporations ... Within weeks of the successful conclusion of the Global Incorporation Alliance Workshop, a lash-up of Internet leaders, Network Solutions, and other back room forces popped a proposal of their own on a surprised and unprepared Internet community. The proposal ... ultimately led to ICANN. Most stakeholders were left out of the decision--even many large corporations were angry--but the Commerce Department approved the proposal, happy to wash its hands of the issue. "

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I have already completed this entire thread by lbrandy · 2005-10-20 02:29 · Score: 5, Funny

I have finished this thread for you:

>It's not broke don't fix it. (+5, Insightful)
>>Yea but America controls it and I don't like America. (+4, Interesting)
>The UN IS CORRUPT (+4, Interesting)
>> We can just have some countries control it, then (+5, Insightful)
>>> Most of those countries already censor the internet! (+5, Interesting
>>>> At least they don't bomb people! (+4, Funny)
>>>>>We saved your ass in WWII. STFU (-1 Troll)
>>>>>>Arrogant Americans. Just like all Americans. All Americans are ignorant and generalize. (1, Redundant)
>I hate microsoft (+5, Off-Topic)