Contract expiration to end U.S. authority over Internet IP addresses

Forty-seven years of U.S. government authority over the Internet’s most basic functions is slated to end Saturday, not with a celebration or a wake but with the quiet expiration of a contract.
The agreement essentially gives a California-based nonprofit group the sole authority to organize ...

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