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J. Kenneth Stewart III
Benn Ray
Ideas in Writing
11/17/05
Controlling The Internet
The origins of the Internet began with Paul Baran of the RAND Corporation, which was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers after a nuclear attack. It was to be a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike, decentralized so that if any location in America were attacked, the military could still have control over their nuclear arms for a counter attack (Castells).
The Internet of present day is far more diversified in the way it is used then it was when it was originally invented. The Internet of today is the largest internet in the world. It is a three level hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level networks, and stub networks. These networks include commercial (.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks which can be accessed around the world (Ho). Although the Internet has undergone a metamorphosis since it's beginning in the 1960's, the control over the Internet has not. Today the U.S. still has control over the Internet, which is causing many countries to ask why.
The controversy began in March of 2003, when ICANN (created by the U.S. Department of Commerce to manage the Domain Name System, which is a process of assigning unique Internet names and addresses to websites), decided to limit and reduce direct public participation over how it runs the Internet. This caused uproar in many developing countries, Including China, India and Iran. These countries feel that it is the right of the world to govern and run the Internet and not the right of a sole country. Countries like China proposed that an international body much like the U.N. should be created to perform the task of ICANN. Other countries even suggested that the United...
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