The Internet: the Usa cedes control domains at the Icann – The Republic

Rome, 1 oct. – The Usa does not have any formal control over the network: from today, in fact, the supervision of the system of domain names, the so-called Dns, or the”address book’ of the Internet, and is passed fully into the hands of Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit entity in california. To individual users should not change anything but the turning point in the governance – to which he worked for many years – is of great importance from the point of view of the symbolism: the guarantee of full independence of the network, no longer under the control of a single State, but of a body which, at least in theory, should move under the auspices of the international. From the practical point of view, the transition occurred with the termination of a contract that was assigned to the department of Commerce Uses a supervisory role inside of Icann since its foundation in 1998. As underlined by the Economist, the independence of Icann and is still controversial; or, at least, on it it is split in american politics. To the point that prosecutors of the four States that have tried to block out the handover’. And the republicans, led by Ted Cruz, have made a battle against the Obama administration, guilty of wanting to ‘give away the internet’, making the game of China, Russia and Iran, who have so hand-much easier, in limiting the freedom of online. Even Donald Trump and who voted against the passage: ‘the freedom of the internet will be lost forever, since there will be no way to recover it once sold’, warned the spokesman of his campaign, Stephen Miller. In reality, experts calm down: as explained by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, the Washington Post, ‘the authoritarian governments spend great energy in the censor what is published online, but are not in the Icann’. By the closure of the online traffic in Egypt during the arab Spring to the blocking of YouTube in Pakistan, the Icann has never had a role in these complaints, nor could he prevent the commission of offences’ .

(01 10月 2016)

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