Deal Reached on Managing the Internet

Deal Reached on Managing the Internet

The fight over who manages the internet has been resolved by an agreement that leaves the United States with ultimate oversight of the main computers that direct the Internet's flow of information, commerce and dissent.Negotiators from more than 100 countries agreed late Tuesday to leave the United States in charge, through a quasi-independent body called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. Negotiators agreed to create an open-ended international forum for raising important Internet issues. The forum, however, would have no binding authority.

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