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Us fights for Internet control

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Investor's Business Daily (subscription); By Frank Barnako
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The European Union proposed stripping the Commerce Department and the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers of authority over domain name management and other regulatory tasks. David Gross, the State Department official in charge of America's international communications policy, reacted saying, "No intergovernmental body should control the Internet, whether it's the United Nations or any other" according to the International Herald Tribune. He said such a system would lead to unnecessary bureaucracy.

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