joe, you know the internet better than most. your thoughts on this? there is nobody in control of the internet, used to when we started out. but look every machine connected to it builds the network out in different ways. this is not ceding control out to anybody. ican is literally the phone book issuer of the internet. it issues the names and numbers. that s what it s the internet corporation for assigning names and numbers. that is all it is. it is like turning the phone book over to a private corporation. in this case it will be a multi-stakeholder corporate entity. but that stakeholder is somehow tied to russia and china. and brad blakeman pointed out. russia and china don t fully let their citizens enjoy the internet. isn t that an issue? well, if that is what the commerce department agrees to but it is not happening yet. it is based in los angeles, california, ican is.
internet. we are talking about the naming authority. and how website names are reserved and assigned, the way it works right now, the u.s. commence department overseas a contract with a private entitty and called the internet corporation. and the administration wants to end the u.s. oversight and already a group of republicans in the house is pushing a bill to oppose the move. it is not conceding control of the internet to anybody. i can is the phone book issuer and issues the names and numbers. it is the internet corporation for assigning names and numbers. that s all it is. oshs ponents think the issue runs much deeper than that and what happens if the international community wield the authority against other countries like israel. international communities canada and syria and denmark, it
tyranny that the world has seen, and it ought to be the way it is now. joe, you know the most about this. your thoughts on it. there is nobody in control of the internet, used to when we started out. but look every machine connected to it builds the network out in different ways. this is not ceding control out to anybody. ican is literally the phone book issuer of the internet. it issues the names and numbers. it s the internet corporation for assigning names and numbers. that is all it is. it is like turning the phone book over to a private corporation. in this case it will be a multi-stakeholder but that stakeholder is somehow tied to russia and china. and brad blakeman pointed out. russia and china don t fully let their citizens enjoy the internet. isn t that an issue? well, if that is what the
with details. there is a battle brewing in congress over this. growing opposition to the administration s plan to eliminate u.s. oversight of the internet. we re talking about the internet s naming authority. how website names are reserved and assigned. the way it works right now, the u.s. commerce department overseas a contract with a private entity that handles name management, called the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers. the administration wants to end u.s. oversight, but already a group of republicans in the house is pushing a bill to oppose that move. for some, though, this is not a big deal. this isn t seeding control of the internet to anybody. ican is literally the phone book issuer of the internet. it issues the names and numbers, it s the internet corporation for assigning names and numbers, that s all it is. opponents think the issue runs much deeper than that. what happens if the international community decides to wield this authority against
tyranny that the world has seen, and it ought to be the way it is now. joe, you know the most about this. your thoughts on it. there is nobody in control of the internet, used to when we started out. but look every machine connected to it builds the network out in different ways. this is not ceding control out to anybody. ican is literally the phone book issuer of the internet. it issues the names and numbers. it s the internet corporation for assigning names and numbers. that is all it is. it is like turning the phone book over to a private corporation. in this case it will be a multi-stakeholder but that stakeholder is somehow tied to russia and china. and brad blakeman pointed out. russia and china don t fully let their citizens enjoy the internet. isn t that an issue? well, if that is what the