{"id":282,"date":"2005-07-04T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:44","slug":"u_s_to_retain_control_of_internet_domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/07\/04\/u_s_to_retain_control_of_internet_domain\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to retain control of Internet domain names"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/2100-3513_11-5770937.html\">TechRepublic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Bush administration announced Thursday that the U.S. government will not hand over control of the Internet to any other organization, a surprise move that could presage an international flap.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the U.S. government maintains control of the Internet&#8217;s &#8220;root&#8221;&#8211;the master file that lists what top-level domains are authorized&#8211;but has indicated in the past that it would transfer that responsibility to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.<\/p>\n<p>The new principles, outlined by Assistant Commerce Secretary Michael Gallagher, say the U.S. government will &#8220;maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file.&#8221; In addition, the principles say, the U.S. government will continue to maintain &#8220;oversight&#8221; of ICANN and prevent its &#8220;focus&#8221; from straying from technical coordination. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TechRepublic: The Bush administration announced Thursday that the U.S. government will not hand over control of the Internet to any other organization, a surprise move that could presage an international flap. At the moment, the U.S. government maintains control of the Internet&#8217;s &#8220;root&#8221;&#8211;the master file that lists what top-level domains are authorized&#8211;but has indicated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}