US heads for internet showdown
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BBC reports that the controversy over control of the internet's TLD servers will soon come to a head.
Source: BBC
Submitted by: Trogan_1000The US is headed for a showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the internet at this week's UN summit in Tunisia.
Most net users probably do not spend a lot of time worrying about who runs the resource they are using, but there is a global battle brewing over that very question.
The internet grew out of US military and academic research, and the US government still has certain measures of control over it.
Other nations, however, are clamouring for a bigger say and are pushing for significant changes at the UN's World Summit on the Information Society.
The issue is expected to overshadow the summit, which is intended to focus on how to take the internet to less developed parts of the world.
Source: BBC
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