[kictanet] China: US must hand over Internet control to the world

[Michael Bullut]

A worthy initiative! Quoting Francis Bacon, "Knowledge is power."

Sent on the run,
Please excuse errors & ommissions!
On Aug 21, 2012 8:21 AM, <alice at apc.org> wrote:

> And speaking of our KeNIC, do you recall the un-delegation of .iq. (Dot
> Iraq) sometime, here's a view on that from China.
> Best
> Alice
>
> From "China Peoples Daily"
>
>
> http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html
>
> US must hand over Internet control to the world
> (People's Daily Online)
> 11:10, August 18, 2012
>
> The Internet has become one of the most important resources in the world
> in just a few decades, but the governance mechanism for such an
> important international resource is still dominated by a private sector
> organization and a single country.
>
> The U.S. government said in a statement on July 1, 2005 that its
> Commerce Department would continue to support the work of Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and indefinitely
> retain oversight of the Internet’s 13 root servers.
>
> This indicated the U.S. decision to retain ultimate control over the
> global Internet, which enabled it to unilaterally close the Internet of
> another country. A suddenly paralyzed Internet would definitely cause
> huge social and economic losses to the country.
>
> More and more countries are beginning to question the U.S. control over
> the world’s Internet as the international resource should be managed and
> supervised by all countries together. However, the United States has
> conducted a pre-emptive strike, and refused to give up control over the
> Internet in the name of protecting the resource. The refusal reflects
> its hegemonic mentality and double standards.
>
> The United States controls and owns all cyberspaces in the world, and
> other countries can only lease Internet addresses and domain names from
> the United States, leading to the U.S. hegemonic monopoly over the
> world’s Internet.
>
> During the Iraq War, the U.S. government in 2003 asked ICANN to
> terminate services relating to Iraq’s top-level domain name “.iq” and
> then all websites with the domain name “.iq” disappeared overnight. The
> United States has taken advantage of its control over the Internet to
> launch an invisible war against disobedient countries and to intimidate
> and threaten other countries.
>
> The United States have repeatedly called for “protecting Internet
> freedom.”In fact, it is only protecting its own “Internet freedom” even
> at the expense of other countries. Ten of the global Internet’s 13 root
> servers are located in the United States, and the U.S. government can
> supervise the Internet for national security reasons according to the
> U.S. law. By doing so, the United States actually gains access to all
> information transmitted online, while other countries can do nothing
> about it.
>
> Ultimate control over the Internet has been an important tool for the
> United States to promote its power politics and hegemony worldwide, and
> any other country may fall victim to this. As a big country on the
> Internet, China opposes the U.S. unreasonable and unilateral management
> of the Internet, and seeks to work with the international community to
> build a new international Internet governance system.
>
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