Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Jul 2006 22:04 UTC
In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. Having been the internet's instigator and, since 1998, its voluntary taskmaster, the US government finally agreed to transition its control over not-for-profit internet overseeing organisation ICANN, making the organisation a more international body. Update: Ars contradicts El Reg's claims: "Contrary to some reports, things are not about to change. After a meeting at the Commerce Department, Acting Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, John M.R. Kneuer, said that the existing arrangement was likely to continue, at least for another year."
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2005-07-06
That's not entirely the same thing. HTML isn't a physical thing that costs money to maintain, like the root nameservers. It's a specification. The closest analogue would be TCP/IP , which is actually a much more complicated technology than HTML, and which DARPA spent a lot of money to create, and which the US has allowed the world to use freely.
Edited 2006-07-28 01:16