Fred Right on the Internet

Fred has a blog entry at his site regarding the proposal to turn over management of the Internet to the UN. Fred is right when it comes to the fact that it is a bad idea to turn the internet management over to the UN. But what impressed me more is his understanding of the technical details or history of the Internet:

Despite what Al Gore may think, the Internet was an invention of the U.S. government and a number of universities and other entities a couple decades ago. As the Internet became what it is today, the government created a nonprofit organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to manage what was then a growing network of networks. Today ICANN does things like manage the assignment of Web sites domain names – the .coms, .orgs, .edus – for example.

This isn't a reason to vote for a guy. But it does indicate that he either understands what is going on or he talks to people that do. Important stuff.