Obama Administration Denies 'Abandoning the Internet'

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http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2014/03/obama-administration-denies-abandoning-internet/80881/

By Brendan Sasso
National Journal
March 19, 2014

A top Commerce Department official pushed back Wednesday against concerns 
that the Obama administration is opening the door to an Internet takeover 
by Russia, China, and other authoritarian regimes.

The fears stem from the Commerce Department's announcement last Friday 
that it plans to give the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and 
Numbers, an international nonprofit group, control over the technical 
system that allows computers to connect to Web addresses.

"Our announcement has led to some misunderstanding about our plan, with 
some individuals raising concern that the U.S. government is abandoning 
the Internet. Nothing could be further from the truth," Lawrence 
Strickling, the assistant Commerce secretary for communications and 
information, said in a statement. "This announcement in no way diminishes 
our commitment to preserving the Internet as an engine for economic growth 
and innovation."

He said the U.S. government will continue to push ICANN to adopt polices 
that are in the interest of the United States and an open Internet.


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