Citing international security, India wants more government control over the internet

As the internet prepares to emerge from the administrative oversight of the US government on 30 September, India proposes that in its new management by the global online community, governments should have “supreme right and control” on matters relating to international security.

Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said this at a meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, which discussed the internet’s transition from the US government’s direct administration of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), mandated by the US Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration under a contract that expires on 30 September this year.

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