"Reporters Without Borders prefers a continuation of the status quo in international Internet governance rather than the creation of an inter-governmental system to replace the existing oversight by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), a California-based non-profit..."
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can.axis
15 years 3 days 7 hours 8 min ago
The US government gave up control over ICANN
RMS: « The US government gave up control over ICANN wich allocates Internet domain names and IP numbers.
Interpreted in nationalistic terms, this change would appear to be ipso facto good for the world outside the US. However, the question that really matters about ICANN is not which country nominally controls it, but how it deals with the rights of internet users; specifically, whether it bows down to companies that wish to use ICANN to extend their control over names they use beyond what trademark law allows. I don't know how this change will affect that question. »