Root Name Servers

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Looks like the U.S. won! http://slashdot.org/articles/05/11/16/1255212.shtml?tid=95

The "compromise" (lol) is that the U.N. now has a committee that will be consulted on decisions, but the U.S. still has 100% control of the root servers. In other words, nothing has changed.

btw, some of the comments on the above news article are great:

World: We want to control the internet.

USA: No.

World: Come on!

USA: No.

World: Will you at least think about it?

USA: No.

World: If you don't we will be forced to make our own DNS systems.

USA: OK.

World: But that will break the internet.

USA: OK

World: But that would be bad.

USA: Then leave it alone.

World: OK. But we're making a committee.

USA: That's cute.

[Capitalism Forever]

From The Washington Times:

"No new organizations were created," said David Gross, the State Department's Internet policy chief and head of the U.S. delegation. "No oversight mechanisms were established by anyone over anyone. There was also no change in the U.S. government's role in relation to the Internet, and no mechanism for such a change was created.

"It was a clean sweep, I'd say."

[...]U.S. government officials rejected all efforts to change the current Internet governance structure.

[...]

John R. Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on Monday said the U.N. summit would be worthwhile, but would not resolve an issue with so many global participants offering different opinions.

"Other governments are sophisticated enough to argue that they don't want greater control over the Internet, they want greater benefits from it," Mr. Bolton said at a luncheon meeting with reporters and editors at The Washington Times. "Greater benefits means a greater say in how those benefits are distributed, and that's the camel's nose under the tent that we have to be very careful of. Whatever happens in Tunis, I don't think that's the end of the issue."