[governance] FW: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online

[michael gurstein]

From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave at farber.net] 
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:28 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's
Daily Online

 

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html

 

(People's Daily Online <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/> )

11:10, August 18, 2012   

 

The Internet has become one of the most important resources in the world in
just a few decades, but the governance mechanism for such an important
international resource is still dominated by a private sector organization
and a single country. 

The U.S. government said in a statement on July 1, 2005 that its Commerce
Department would continue to support the work of Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and indefinitely retain oversight of the
Internet's 13 root servers. 

This indicated the U.S. decision to retain ultimate control over the global
Internet, which enabled it to unilaterally close the Internet of another
country. A suddenly paralyzed Internet would definitely cause huge social
and economic losses to the country. 

More and more countries are beginning to question the U.S. control over the
world's Internet as the international resource should be managed and
supervised by all countries together. However, the United States has
conducted a pre-emptive strike, and refused to give up control over the
Internet in the name of protecting the resource. The refusal reflects its
hegemonic mentality and double standards. 

The United States controls and owns all cyberspaces in the world, and other
countries can only lease Internet addresses and domain names from the United
States, leading to the U.S. hegemonic monopoly over the world's Internet. 

 

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