By Polly Raymond, 9 July 1998 09:28
NEWS The European Commission (EC) handed full control of the global Internet naming process over to the private sector in a Brussels meeting on Wednesday. More than 100 companies, user representatives and Internet organisations gathered at the DGXIII Directorate - responsible for IT and telecoms. Eddie Bleasdale, director of Internet company, Netproject, welcomed the move, saying: "That's the best bit of news I've heard on this debate so far. It's proof that politicians have finally realised they can't control what they don't understand." In June, the US Government issued a White Paper decreeing that Internet naming should be handled by a private multinational organisation - IANA - which is already controlling much of the current operations. At the time the EC agreed with the decision. It was also agreed at yesterday's meeting that the EC will invite companies to elect to join IANA and make it a multinational organisation. Jochen Kubosch, spokesman for DGXIII commissioner, Martin Bangeman, said the only thing left now to do is decide which companies will take over IANA. He added: "There is no resistance coming from member state governments over losing control of this."
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