Via AFP:
The US government announced Friday it was giving up its key role in charge of the Internet's technical operations, handing over those functions to "the global multistakeholder community."
The US Commerce Department said it would seek "to convene global stakeholders to develop a proposal" for a transition away from US government oversight of the Internet's domain name system.
The move "marks the final phase of the privatization" of the Internet domain system, a statement said.
In 1997, the Internet domain system was handed over by the US government to the Internet Corporation for Assi...
