Earlier this month, at the Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union — its highest decision-making forum — India moved a radical proposal to govern the internet. Online traffic originating and terminating in a country should stay within that country, argued India, making the case for a “routing plan” that ensured all communication was traceable. The proposal also asked the ITU to help ensure IP addresses from different countries would be easily identifiable. Above all, India expressed its desire that the current system of allocating IP addresses, run by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) with the help of Regional Internet Registries, be made “fair, just and equitable”.
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