Thank you Brain. It's nice to see someone else understands the significance of Russia's cyber attack on our nation.
http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/19/america-to-hand-off-internet/
The transition process that is underway will help prevent authoritarian countries from exerting too much influence over the Internet by putting control of key Internet domain name functions in the hands of the global community of Internet stakeholders — specifically industry, technical experts, and civil society — instead of an intergovernmental organization.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-internet-giveaway-to-the-u-n-1472421165
It’s shocking the administration admits it has no plan for how Icann retains its antitrust exemption. The reason Icann can operate the entire World Wide Web root zone is that it has the status of a legal monopolist, stemming from its contract with the Commerce Department that makes Icann an “instrumentality” of government.