[botsnack]

I'm not a big fan of the UN administration, but I also see potential problems with a separatist attitude from the US that might lead to a rejection of foreign innovation.

Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web while working for CERN, a European particle physics laboratory. The US created the physical infrastructure and continues to be responsible for most of the administration, but we shouldn't let our pride blind us to the contributions that those outside of our country have made.

The Internet was meant to be a global medium, and it would be a mistake to allow it to splinter. I believe the Internet is the key to helping countries like China with oppressive regimes achieve their own freedom. The Internet is far too important to the development of the free world to allow politics to interfere.

[Prime Choice]

I also see potential problems with a separatist attitude from the US that might lead to a rejection of foreign innovation.

That's nonsense. The Open Source community crosses all ideological and political boundaries. You think all Open Source coders are going to magically stop collaborating if the U.N. doesn't wrest control of the Internet from the U.S.?? Please.

[rlmorel]

"...The Internet is far too important to the development of the free world to allow politics to interfere."

Well put...that is why, we as Americans, can NEVER allow the EU or UN or anyone else to control it...if we keep it in our hands, it is more likely to remain free and open than if it ends up in the hands of say, Belgium or France.

[Pox]

Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web while working for CERN, a European particle physics laboratory.

In August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee created the first website.

His contribution was derived from the existing infrastructure that had already been in place for decades thanks to the US.

There's nothing wrong with innovation coming from any corner of the globe, however, future possibilities regarding such innovations can never usurp the primary reasons behind our insistence that the UN or some other such corrupt entity, such as Communist or Socialist or Totalitarian governments, never be allowed to gain jurisdiction over this medium. The end result would simply kill the Internet as it is and "innovations" would be irrelevant.