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ICANN CEO Wants To Make Progress On Leaving US Control

itwbennett writes: ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé hopes to make progress on preparations to take over running the world's central DNS servers from the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Agency when the organization meets in London next week. 'I think this is a meeting where the ICANN community has to deal with the fact, the good fact, that its relationship with the U.S. government, which characterized its birth, its existence and growth, has now run its course,' Chehadé said.

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  1. NSA tapped all cables by Greg666NYC · · Score: 1, Troll

    The move is rather symbolic. Economic espionage is too important. US economy is failing, jobs are only created in financial sector and military.
    Dissidents are put in jail. No wonder US has the largest number of its own population in Gitmo style jails.