U.S. willing to let go of Icann

[Deja Q]

Source: ZDnet

The ties between Icann, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and the U.S. government have long been a sticking point for many other countries, who are pushing for a true internationalization of the Internet. Issues that could be affected by the upcoming announcement include domain names in non-western scripts, the policing of the internet and the introduction of new domain extensions.

Read more: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-347254.html

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More interesting are the freeper dingbats with their nonsensical responses. Such as this doofus:

...with the free market? Ever thought of that? Also you want to keep the U.S. standard of living down so we can house manufacturing jobs that are money losers when produced in the U.S. which would bring many corporations to little profit and decrease their competitive edge? Oh i know they are all evil, but look around you and see how many jobs they provide this country. Also ever think about how the unions pushed many companies to move their operations overseas by asking huge wages for mindless work? No one should make $50/hour working on a line, its just dumb and very wasteful for a company to pay that absurd amount. I know reality gets in the way, but you like Obama just don't get it and see everything with your damn "emotional" cap on.

And if you think turning over the internet to the U.N. is good, i will have to say you are a bumber sticker kind of guy/girl with not much going on in the thinking department.

oooh, the free market? If I cared enough, I'd rail on his idiocy about how selective that "free" market is. Trouble is, how does one deal with cretins?

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Does everything we build need to be internationalized?

We (US taxpayers) built it, they came.

I don't understand our motivation for surrendering control.