USA is getting out of the internet…

At least the management business…

San Francisco (AFP) – The head of the nonprofit group that oversees the world’s Internet addresses expressed confidence Thursday that it would be privatized and out of US government control by year’s end.

You can read the full article HERE on Yahoo news… Sigh…

Neutral and well governed… Yeah, right!

Comments

USA is getting out of the internet… — 13 Comments

  1. I don’t know why we’re doing that. It makes no sense at all.

  2. Hey Old NFO;

    I am not sure if this is a good or a bad thing, I really don’t know enough to make an educated opinion. Before Obama I would have wanted to keep the control of the internet with the U.S. GOV because there was an altruistic attitude for “no controls”. But with Obama trying to use the FCC to “regulate” which in my mind is “censorship”. I am not sure if that is a bad thing. After seeing what I have seen for the past 7 years, I trust my government even less. Perhaps I am ignorant and talking out of my a$$,,I don’t know.

  3. LL- No it doesn’t…

    Bob/WSF- Considering the USA handles over 90% of the world wide backbone and traffic, it doesn’t make sense… This cedes control of ICANN and who knows what we’ll be getting charged for IP addresses/web addresses/etc???

  4. Not unlike the UN Commission on civil rights having Cuba and Libya as members.
    Sigh.

    gfa

  5. They are doing it so that international agencies can take it over. Foreign places are complaining that teh internet is “too American” and that the current management agencies have created a near monopoly of .com, and .org domains.

    My answer is: Fine. Go build your own internet and you can control it all you like.

    That is how things used to be. For a brief time, individual ISPs had their own tiny “internets”. You could not email unless someone else was on your network (AOL to Aol. Compuserve to Compuserve, etc). Each ISP had a small on line shopping marketplace that they controlled access to. So, it’s not that hard.

  6. I see this more of an indication that ICANN is increasingly irrelevant. No one remembers a domain any more they just ask Google or save a link. DNS and TLDs are not the Internet, they’re just pointers to an IP address. With IPV6 finally making headway and an “Internet of things” on the horizon we will likely see DNS superseded by other, more useful, methods of locating things by something other than IP addresses.

  7. Prof- Good point, I’d forgotten that!

    Alan- Yeah, but until IPV6 is ‘running’, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to cede control…