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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 18 2015, @07:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the letting-go-is-hard dept.

The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday delayed for at least a year its plans to give up oversight of a key component of Internet governance.

The department said it would renew its contract with the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers for one year. ICANN administers the Internet's domain-name system, through contracts with the companies that sell website names and addresses. Commerce has overseen ICANN since the organization was created in 1998. Last year, the Obama administration said it planned to transfer ICANN oversight to an unspecified group of international stakeholders by September 2015.

Critics of the plan have expressed concerns that it may open the door to influence by foreign governments that aren't committed to Western principles of free expression, and may want to impose different rules for administering the Internet in different parts of the world.

Original is available at iBloomBerg.

[Also Covered By]: U.S. Transfer of Internet Oversight Is Delayed


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  • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Tuesday August 18 2015, @08:50PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Tuesday August 18 2015, @08:50PM (#224594) Homepage Journal

    Critics of the plan have expressed concerns that it may open the door to influence by foreign governments that aren't committed to Western principles of free expression, and may want to impose different rules for administering the Internet in different parts of the world.

    There's a lot at stake, here. While I'm committed to free expression, I'm also committed to the value that one part of the world doesn't get to tell the rest of the world what to do. So to me, you get with a group and collectively guarantee your own rights by doing what it takes to secure them; you don't receive them from some larger organization that has the power to make everybody behave, because if such power exists, it will corrupt, and you will lose more liberty than you gain. I don't believe in "liberating" people any more because of what it turns out to mean in practice.

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