Deal averts Internet showdown

November 17, 2005

It looks like the current system for controlling Internet domain names has survived the effort to put it under UN control. This is a Good Thing.

CNN.com - Deal averts Internet showdown - Nov 16, 2005

Negotiators from more than 100 countries agreed late Tuesday to leave the United States in charge of the Internet’s addressing system, averting a U.S.-EU showdown at this week’s U.N. technology summit.

So long as ICANN continues to operate independently from the word’s assorted political machines, including ours, the message to the world should be “hands off.”

Dave, who values his domain names.

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