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U.S. Voices Openness to Private Net Control

Anne Broache writes on C|Net News:

The United States may be willing to cede at least some of its historic control of the Internet domain name system after all, a U.S. Commerce Department official said Wednesday.

Despite bold statements last year that seemed to indicate otherwise and ignited a worldwide debate, John Kneuer, the acting assistant secretary for communications and information, said the government "remains committed" to private management of the DNS.

posted by Fergie @ 7/26/2006 04:46:00 PM