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I get so tired of people complaining about American control of ICANN. The damn thing works, doesn't it? Then leave it the heck alone. If we go pandering to anyone who has a stick up their butt about American control of things, then the internet will go down with frustrating regularity. Leave the DNS alone, and let ICANN keep running it. The people at ICANN should get freaking awards for all the crap they have had to put up with lately.
I agree with previous posters.
We funded it
We created it
We held it together.
We invited everyone on to party.
It aint broken
Don't try to fix it.
Got my nod as well. Don't like it ? Don't use the internet ... or just start typing in random IP numbers and see what ya come up with. Bah, we don't need no stinkin' DNS !
Let the chinese do whatever they want ... let them have \"their\" internet and the rest of us will keep ours. Just don't ask me to let you use my proxy in Antigua. :o)
The Internet is a direct byproduct of the Department of Defense, no spun free and worldwide.
I don't have a problem with \"Americans\" running it, as those \"Americans\" are independent and not an arm of our government bureaucracy.
Big difference. Can you imagine the kind of censorship that would occur if other nations played in the decision-making process? The United Nations charter on human rights has an exception for \"free speech.\" It's free, unless it goes against the aims and goals of the U.N.
Once ICANN passes some of the authority overseas, it's a slide down that slope to U.N. oversight. And they will start censoring news coverage they don't like. It's in their charter.