U.S. Decides to Hog the Net

Mr Biglesworth · 07-02-2005, 11:39 PM

Don't a few different companies oversee different aspects of the internet, and aside from them it's a mostly freestanding thing? Ie ICANN oversees domain names... umm, i don't know what else, but alot of things seem to be done by convention, and if something is adopted on a widespread enough level it 'becomes' the internet - new protocols, new languages. I guess I should read the article.

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07-02-2005, 11:39 PM	#1
Mr Biglesworth Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: I live in London Posts: 862	Don't a few different companies oversee different aspects of the internet, and aside from them it's a mostly freestanding thing? Ie ICANN oversees domain names... umm, i don't know what else, but alot of things seem to be done by convention, and if something is adopted on a widespread enough level it 'becomes' the internet - new protocols, new languages. I guess I should read the article.