Other Nations Hope to Loosen U.S. Grip on Internet

[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Victoria Shannon]
What if, by historical chance, France or Britain controlled country domain names on the Internet? Would the United States settle for asking another government to fix its own addresses? That kind of power to hinder or foster freedom of the Internet, centralized in a single government, is the crucial issue for many of the 12,000 people expected in Tunis this week for a United Nations summit meeting on the information age.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/technology/15net.html?pagewanted=all
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* Clashes precede Net governance showdown
[SOURCE: News.com, AUTHOR: Anne Broache]
Nothing says "global information sharing" like beating the crap out of journalists and activists.
http://news.com.com/Clashes+precede+Net+governance+showdown/2100-1028_3-...

* Flagrant violation of human rights this morning alongside UN summit
http://www.apc.org/english/wsis/blog/index.shtml?x=2430526

* US Seeking to Scuttle UNESCO Cultural Treaty
http://www.newsdissector.org/blog/

Also see some dueling commentary --

* U.N. control of Internet? An idea for the ‘delete' file
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20051115/edit15.art.htm

* Govern 'Net globally
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20051115/oppose15.art.htm