fee to appear in other countries. another proposal could shake up the basic infrastructure of the web. you see your computer connects to internet service provider or isp which links it to servers hosting web sites all over the world. those servers send information back to your computer. in order for the devices to find each other, they all have their own internet protocol or ip address. but no one wants to memorize those long strings of numbers, so we link them to unique names like google.com. currently, a private company based in the united states coordinates the address system for web sites around the world. but a proposal by russia would allow each country to manage its own system and tech observers say that could fracture the internet. if you go to russia and there isn t anything that says google.com equals 191.2 dot 1 suddenly you can t get to google in russia. all of a sudden the internet looks dramatically different than it does here in the u.s. shepard: critics warn it woul