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7 Days Before Obama Gives Away Internet & National Security

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jodywestby/2016/09/24/7-days-before-obama-gives-away-internet-national-security/#5a492c5c30d4

In one week, President Obama will allow what remains of the United States'

control over the Internet to pass to a California non-profit organization,

the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This is

a reckless and dangerous decision that has serious national security

consequences that have not been fully considered.

Currently, ICANN has a contract with the Department of Commerce's National

Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to manage the

naming and numbering functions associated with the Internet. The most

important of these is the assignment of Internet Protocol Addresses

(IP Addresses) to domain names. This is called the IANA function --

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. ICANN performs this function pursuant

to its contract, then NTIA reviews the assignment, and authorizes Verisign

to post the IP Address to the "A server" -- the authoritative root zone

server that is the "master" file of all IP Addresses. This A server is

replicated to all of the other root zone servers globally on a daily basis.

This is how a domain name gets online.

Domain Name ---IP Address Assigned ---> NTIA Reviews & Authorizes ---> Verisign Posts

Thus, the integrity of every IP Address for every domain name on the

Internet is under U.S. control and stewardship. The NTIA contract with

ICANN expires October 1, 2016. Even though it could be extended for any

period through September 2019, upon expiration, President Obama has agreed

to let the Department of Commerce hand full control over the IANA functions

to ICANN, effectively ceding the last control that the U.S. has over the

Internet to an ambitious non-profit organization that will have no ties

to the U.S. Government.......