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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=section1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:Arial;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span style='border:
none'>Internet</span></span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><br>
</span><span class=topstory1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>US unexpectedly agrees to relinquish
some Internet controls</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><br>
</span><span class=newsbody1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>by Martyn
Warwick - 28/7/2006 12:02:25</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><br>
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</span><span class=newsbody1><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;
letter-spacing:0pt'><a href="http://www.telecomtv.com/"
onmousedown="MM_openBrWindow('refer.asp?url=news.asp?cd_id=7095&cd_id=7095','refer','scrollbars=no,width=220,height=270')"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#003366;text-transform:uppercase;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Forward this
story to a colleague</span></a></span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>In a sudden and
unexpected about-turn that will have far-reaching consequences, the US
government has finally admitted that it cannot expect forever to remain the
sole guardian of, and ultimate authority over, the Internet.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>In the first move of
what will be a long and careful process, the US administration will now
steadily relinquish control over ICANN, (the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers) the not-for-profit private-public partnership responsible
for the allocation of IP address space, the management of the Top Level Domain
name system and the operational stability of the World Wide Web. </span></span><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>Henceforth, ICANN will
be less US-centric and have on its board more representation from the
international community. However, in a statement issued in Washington DC
yesterday, the US Assistant Secretary of Commerce emphasised that America will
continue to retain control over the Internet’s root servers for some
considerable time to come.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>The surprise U-turn
seems to have been occasioned by a slowly dawning realisation that the Internet
truly is a global resource and that no single government, regime or
administration can, in the long-term, manage and have complete power over the
whole of cyberspace.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>Hitherto, ICANN has been
a remarkably secretive and even paranoid organisation, ever loath allow
observers in to watch its proceedings and determined not to issue minutes of
its deliberations or explain its actions.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>But, with a groundswell
of international opinion steadily undermining its increasingly exposed position
the organisation finally succumbed to change after a meeting at which speaker
after speaker, all of whom were broadly sympathetic to the US and its
aspirations, told the authorities that America must face up to the fact that
the Internet, by its very nature, is an international phenomenon.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>A representative of the
Canadian government, Bill Graham, was the most outspoken. He told the Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, “It is time for ICANN to recognise that it is in many
ways a quasi-judicial body and it must begin to behave that way. The ICANN
board needs to provide adequate minutes of all its meetings. There needs to be
a notice of what issues will be considered, and the timeframe when a decision
is made. A written document needs to be posted setting out the background and
context of the issues. There needs to be an acknowledgment and a summary of the
positions put forward by various interested parties; there needs to be an
analysis of the issues; there needs to be an explanation of the decisions and
the reasons for it; and ultimately there needs to be a mechanism for the board
to be held accountable by its community.”</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>In the past the US would
have bridled at such comments but, having lately realised that maintaining a
hammerlock on the development of the Web would almost certainly result in the
Internet breaking into several regional iterations of itself, the authorities
suddenly agreed that not only is change inevitable, but also that it is
actually desirable.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class=newsbody1><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>And ICANN itself will
lead the transmutation process by becoming more democratic, internationalist
and accountable. Who’d have thought it?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=newsbody1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=newsbody1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Source :
TelecomTV Today, July 28<sup>th</sup> 2006 (www.telecomtv.com/news)</span></span><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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