Friday, January 29, 2010 WASHINGTON: Clandestine efforts by some countries to create alternative versions of the Internet for political ends could put the Web at risk, the man responsible for organizing the network said while talking to a French news agency. Rod Beckstrom, the CEO of ICANN -- the firm which oversees how the Internet is organized -- said unnamed nations had tried to create parallel networks, but he expressed confidence they would eventually stick with the global-used original. "It has been done," said Beckstrom. "We don't speculate about who is doing it, it is really their private business." Beckstrom heads the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a California-based firm which controls a master list of domain names and IP addresses known as "the root," which is crucial to all Internet use. The blogosphere has been awash with accusations that China and Russia are developing alternative Internet roots, which woul...
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