US retains hold of the internet

[temi]

Negotiators worked late into the night on a deal
The US has won its fight to stay in charge of the internet, despite opposition from many nations.
In an eleventh hour agreement ahead of a UN internet summit in Tunis, Tunisia, negotiators agreed to leave the US in charge of the net's addressing system.

Instead a international forum will be set up to discuss net issues, although it will not have any binding authority.

The deal clears the way for the summit to focus on how poorer nations can benefit from the digital revolution.

About 10,000 delegates, including world leaders, technology experts and campaigners, are expected at the three-day World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis.

The Tunis meeting will look at how far governments have gone in their pledges for an "inclusive information society" set out two years ago at a first summit in Geneva.

source: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4441544.stm

[Paul_KY]

I don't understand how any country can be 'in charge' of the Internet. LOL How in the h*ll can one country own something that isn't tanglible in the first place?

[temi]

What makes internet are the root nameservers. Its control by US.

BTW, if you can switch of the root servers there will be not Internet

[Paul_KY]

Well, you can now breath a sigh of relief.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237279,00.htm

it was also US created. they created the packet transmission of the internet.