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An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands

Posted by timothy on from the no-let's-give-it-to-the-UN's-human-rights-council dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ariel Rabkin has a piece over at News Corp.'s Weekly Standard arguing that the US should maintain its control over the Internet. After reading his piece, I have a hard time arguing that it should be handed over to some international body."

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  1. Re:Seriously? by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean the guy who created HTML (based on a lot of previous work by many others) and had complete boo to do with the hardware side, which came from ARPANet?

    Look, nothing against Tim Berners-Lee, but I keep seeing this growing meme that he somehow fathered the entire blessed Internet.

  2. TBL didn't create internet, USA/ARPA did in 1958 by helpacoder · · Score: 5, Informative

    The USA created ARPA in Febuary 1958 in resonse to the launch of Sputnik by the USSR on October 4, 1957.

    The inter-computer transport medium that eventually became 'the internet' of today was tested successfully on October 29, 1969 and was named ARPAnet.

    (Sir) Tim Berners-Lee conceived the World Wide Web, in March 1989. He tested it successfully on 'the internet' on 25 December 1990.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee