Tuesday September 30 8:22 PM EDT
Companies ask US to keep control of Internet names
By Aaron Pressman
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (Reuters) - U.S. private-sector groups on
Tuesday urged lawmakers to
keep control of the Internet's address system within the country
and block an international proposal
for overseeing net addresses.
The trade groups, representing leading Internet and new media
companies, charged at a hearing of
the House Science Committee's basic research subcommittee that
the international plan would give
control of the Internet to intergovernmental organizations that
could ignore U.S. laws and U.S.
courts.
The international plan, created by a group called the International
Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC), has
already run into problems. The Clinton administration said last
week it had concerns with the
proposal and would issue its own plan within a month.
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