Quickly following the rise of G20,The US government has relaxed its control over how the internet is run.
It has signed a four-page "affirmation of commitments" with the net regulator Icann, giving the body autonomy for the first time. Previous agreements gave the US close oversight of Icann - drawing criticism from other countries and groups.The new agreement comes into effect on 1 October, exactly 40 years since the first two computers were connected on the prototype of the net.
'Global system'
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is a not-for-profit private sector corporation - set up by the US government - to oversee critical parts of the internet, such as the top-level domain (TLD) name system. Top level domains include .com and .uk.
can Sept'09 be marked as the start of globalization 2.0?
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