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4 answers about the US giving up key role in Internet governance
The U.S. government announced it is giving up control of a system that directs internet traffic and web addresses.The decision announced Friday begins a long-planned transition affecting the stewardship of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. That's a not-for-profit agency launched in 1998 by the Commerce Department to govern the system that assigns website addresses and directs Internet traffic.What is happening?The commerce department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA, hopes to end its oversight of …
