Try this... Type 173.194.33.7 into your browsers address bar. - TopicsExpress



          

Try this... Type 173.194.33.7 into your browsers address bar. What website does it take you to? -- Thanks to the work of a little-known organization called ICANN, you dont have to remember that 173.194.33.7 (an IP address) will take you to google. For more than a decade, the United States has safeguarded this important Internet addressing process through our oversight of ICANN. Now imagine the havoc a country like Russia could wreak on the open Internet if such authority were to fall into their hands? Typing in cnn could take you to Russian propaganda site rt. Or freedomworks.org could take you to communismrocks.ru. Free and open access to the Internet could be at risk. Thats whats at stake in the Obama administration push to replace more than a decade of responsible U.S. oversight of this process with a new multistakeholder model of Internet governance.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:25:27 +0000

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