<story><title>US ready to &apos;hand over&apos; the internet&apos;s naming system</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37114313</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muninn_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m probably the minority here, but I&amp;#x27;d rather it just stay in the hands of the U.S. . Unless there is some sort of malice and ongoing misuse I don&amp;#x27;t really see how this improves the system.&lt;p&gt;Open to any explanation about how this will improve the system aside from &amp;quot;more involvement from other countries&amp;quot;. Not that I&amp;#x27;m discounting that as a good or bad reason, but I&amp;#x27;d just like to see more information about why this would be good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phicoh</author><text>Note that in the past the USG abused its power to seize domains belonging to foreign companies. See for example &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20110201&amp;#x2F;10252412910&amp;#x2F;homeland-security-seizes-spanish-domain-name-that-had-already-been-declared-legal.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20110201&amp;#x2F;10252412910&amp;#x2F;homel...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So they cannot be trusted.&lt;p&gt;Of course, in practice, what goes into the root zone is controlled by ICANN. The whole oversight has been mostly theoretical for many years now.</text></comment>
<story><title>US ready to &apos;hand over&apos; the internet&apos;s naming system</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37114313</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muninn_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m probably the minority here, but I&amp;#x27;d rather it just stay in the hands of the U.S. . Unless there is some sort of malice and ongoing misuse I don&amp;#x27;t really see how this improves the system.&lt;p&gt;Open to any explanation about how this will improve the system aside from &amp;quot;more involvement from other countries&amp;quot;. Not that I&amp;#x27;m discounting that as a good or bad reason, but I&amp;#x27;d just like to see more information about why this would be good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exabrial</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m with you. America is far from perfect in so many ways, but the freedom of speech is one of the most heavily defended rights here.</text></comment>