US hopes new Internet plan will appease critics

A senior adviser to President Clinton said on Tuesday he hoped a revised plan for reforming the Internet address system would…

A senior adviser to President Clinton said on Tuesday he hoped a revised plan for reforming the Internet address system would dispel European and Australian concerns that it was too US-dominated.Internet policy guru Ira Magaziner said he hoped the Clinton administration's white paper on phasing out US government involvement in running the Internet's naming and address system would come out later this week.The document will refine proposals made in a green paper earlier this year to turn over management of the system to the private sector and stimulate competition for registering new Internet addresses.The green paper recommended creating a US-based non-profit corporation which could take over management of the numerical address system underlying the Internet naming system.