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Happy birthday Dalai Lama!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/06/wdalai06.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/06/ixworld.html

government control

mystech posted a similar article on cafe arcane in the past. This is a bit of follow up.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050701-5058.html?60894

US to ICANN and UN: UCANT
7/1/2005 1:59:38 PM, by Charles Jade

On Thursday, Michael Gallagher, an Assistant Secretary of Commerce announced a stunning change in US policy regarding the Internet.

In four short paragraphs, the US has declared it will retain "its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file." The "root zone file," or Domain Name System (DNS), is composed of 13 computers containing the master lists of net suffixes, and is currently managed by private companies under the supervision of the US government. At the same time, the new policy also makes it clear that US will not interfere with country suffixes (ccTLD), as "governments have legitimate public policy and sovereignty concerns with respect to the management of their ccTLD." Finally, the principles state that while the US will maintain ultimate DNS control, the technical, or day to day, operations can continue to be run by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Of course until yesterday, it had been assumed that ICANN would eventually take over ultimate control of the DNS.

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