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Saturday Noon Round-Up

I was supposed to go to a wedding in Tampa but I misread the invitation and blew this one. So, here's what I'm reading.

• Think2004 at Daily Kos has an excellent diary concerning a CNN article that announced that the United States is going to retain control of the computers at ICANN which direct internet traffic. His analysis of the Project for the New American Century's stated aims connection to this event is spot on. The international community reaction, of course, has already begun.

From The Register:

An extraordinary statement by the US government has sent shockwaves around the Internet world and thrown the future of the network into doubt.

In a worrying U-turn, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has made it clear it intends to retain control of the Internet's root servers indefinitely. It was due to relinquish that control in September 2006, when its contract with overseeing body ICANN ended.

The decision - something that people have long feared may happen - will not only make large parts of the world furious but also puts ICANN in a very difficult position. The organisation has slowly been expanding out of its California base in an effort to become an international body with overall responsibility for the Internet.

The whole "UN bad" mantra is ridiculous and this it would seem is another move to stifle international, interdependent cooperation until one looks at the PNAC aims angle of this move. Gives it an entirely different connotation.

posted by niteskolar @ 11:38 AM