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IGF: EU Exec Praises ICANN Work on Internet

An AP newswire article by Derek Gatopoulos, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

A top EU official praised the United States' commitment to pull back from its historic oversight of the Internet as a worldwide conference on the network's future opened Monday.

EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said she hoped last month's deal would lead to eventual independence for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit agency in charge of the Internet's key traffic-management technologies.

"We are very satisfied with the work of ICANN. What Europe was objecting was the government oversight of ICANN," Reding told The Associated Press. "I think ICANN is doing a perfectly good job as it is. Just leave it alone."

posted by Fergie @ 10/30/2006 12:27:00 PM