(AFP) – The US government on Saturday ended its formal oversight role over the internet, handing over management of the online address system to a global non-profit entity.
The US Commerce Department announced that its contract had expired with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the internet’s so-called “root zone.”
That leaves ICANN as a self-regulating organization that will be operated by the internet’s “stakeholders” — engineers, academics, businesses, non-government and government groups.
The move is part of a decades-old plan by the US to “privatize” the internet, and backers have said it would help maintain its integrity around the world.
US and ICANN officials have said the contract had given Washington a symbolic role as overseer or the internet’s “root zone” where new online domains and addresses are created.
But critics, including some US lawmakers, argued that this was a “giveaway” by Washington that could allow authoritarian regimes to seize control.
A last-ditch effort by critics to block the plan — a lawsuit filed by four US states — failed when a Texas federal judge refused to issue an injunction to stop the transition.
Lawrence Strickling, who heads the Commerce Department unit which has managed these functions, issued a brief statement early Saturday confirming the transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
“As of October 1, 2016, the IANA functions contract has expired,” he said.
Stephen Crocker, ICANN’s board chairman and one of the engineers who developed the early internet protocols, welcomed the end of the contract.
ht/ fdr in hell
He is a lame duck
Impeach his skinny ass
I can’t believe this TREASONOUS BASTARD gets away with everything he tries! How congress allows this to take place just shows you how corrupt the federal government is. It might be too late to Make America Great Again.
More Treasonous than the average guy thinks. This has huge National Security implications. Mid blowing implications. One can start with the DLA procurement system is all web based. Sensitive part design and criteria will be there for the taking. And it’s not just old legacy stuff. I’ve seen VF22 replacement parts on the bid board. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Fa Kim, the lame duck.
Begs the question for the millionth time: WTF are the majorities in BOTH Houses of Congress DOING about ANYTHING!?!
for those who seem to think this xfer is ok, pls explain the upside of this irreversible occurrence, or the downside of the us maintaining oversight
For many Congress Critters up for re-election next month, this may be their death-knell ringing. Either party complicit in this will suffer at the polls. Its a good time to be independent! The remainder can try to explain how sending out monthly “look what I have accomplished for you now” emails hides this total lack of inaction and attention depravity. Start packing Representatives and Senators up for election. You ran out the meter, and now you pay. Your Final exam grade = F-
I loathe that mulatto Kenyan as much as I abhor that whore Cankles. Neither one deserve to avoid what they have coming to them.
We will never hear about another terrorist attack again in a few short months.
Brad – unless it’s in our own backyards!
One good thing is that the Commerce Department will shrink is size in that Lawrence Strickling and his staff will no longer be government employees. NOT!
The MSM is comfortable with the transfer of control…
BECAUSE THEY KNOW DAMN WELL THAT COMPETING VOICES WILL EVENTUALLY SILENCED.
A Supreme Court Justice told Matt Drudge, “Your days are numbered.” 🙁
Could this be the answer?
https://www.codias.com/
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/20/conservative-only-codias-social-network-wants-to-be-digital-basecamp-for-the-right/
The Internet Society, a group formed by internet founders aimed at keeping the system open, said the transition was a positive step.
“The IANA transition is a powerful illustration of the multi-stakeholder model and an affirmation of the principle that the best approach to address challenges is through bottom-up, transparent, and consensus-driven processes,” the group said in a statement.
Nice Commie closing remarks, sounds like an Alinsky Quote. I recall Van Jones using the same Bottom-up, transparent Blah blah blah.
annie Go Trump
It looks promising, Bad_Brad. What i wonder is can Cody Brown circumvent the www traps that will be or have already been laid?
My idiot self-proclaimed conservative Republican Senator just sent me a self-serving monthly newsletter extolling what a ‘great bi-partisan month congress’ just had. Hacks and cracks now make up our congress and Obutthole rides supreme over their prostate bodies!
Oh yeah “consensus-driven process” is a fav
If you’re worried about this, you don’t know what makes the internet work.
This is a non issue.
Yes, I speak IPV6, Cisco router protocols, and know a few folks that make all this shit work.
Calm the fuck down.
Focus on winning this election or we night find ourselves without a blog to call home.
If H wins, her SCOTUS appointments will allow the decimation of the Second Amendment. Once that’s out of the way, the First Amendment will be a empty vessle.
Typical liberal asshole, he loves to give away other people’s stuff.
lowell, explain the upside and the need to make any change whatsoever
Why is no one talking or talked about this on radio shows? Unless I missed something.
freedomcat, precisely
Lowell, can someone else shut it down now?
uummmm…..my guess is…..uummmm………
Lowell, name one program the liberal/regressive/globalists have ever gotten their hands on, that they didn’t over-reach their authority, expand their control by activist judges or simply just fuck up altogether.