[169774] in North American Network Operators' Group
US to relinquish control of Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Mar 14 19:43:31 2014
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:42:44 +0000
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
(As if the US has "control" anyway....)
It's all over the "popular press", strange I haven't seen it here.
<http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/200889-us-to-r=
elinquish-internet-control>
<http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-t=
ransition-key-internet-domain-name-functions>
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-14mar14-=
en.htm>
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-14mar14-en=
.htm>
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-14mar14-en=
.htm>
Etc., etc.
It's nice of the DoC to "relinquish" control, but I really don't see it chan=
ging much other than quieting down some hype from countries that were saying=
they were pissed at the US for "controlling" the Internet. And I couldn't r=
eally see those countries doing anything about it unless the US did somethin=
g actually bad, which they wouldn't do IMHO.
Was I being a pollyanna?
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
