IGF attendees: America, surrender the root zone file!

Back in October, the US Commerce Department changed its agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Out went the “Joint Project Agreement” and in came the “Affirmation of Commitments.” That may not sound like much of change, but the new document removed even more US control from ICANN. It was welcomed by the international community, but some continue to argue that it didn’t go far enough, and this opposition to continued US influence over the domain name system and IP addressing surfaced again at the United Nations-backed Internet Governance Forum going on this week in Egypt.

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IGF attendees: America, surrender the root zone file!

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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 P2P News

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