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第二頁第七段：
Jon Postel, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California…

第二頁第八段：
Postel made seemingly technical decisions such as who should get to operate a country-code domain…..

第二頁第八段後：
By the mid-1990s, however, it became clear to the small coterie of officials in the United States and elsewhere who were aware of the matter that the Internet could no longer be administered by a single individual. But who or what would replace him?

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After a bitter series of negotiations among the business community, governments, and nongovernmental organizations worldwide, the Clinton administration helped broker a compromise and established ICANN in 1998….

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ICANN, in their view, is an instrument of American hegemony over cyberspace: its private-sector approach favors the United States, Washington retains oversight authority, and its Governmental Advisory Committee, composed of delegates from other nations, has no real powers.

插播一下，第三頁第一段有則有趣的小故事

第三頁第三段中：
Watching the United States go to war in Iraq despite global opposition, these diplomats saw ICANN as yet another example of American unilateralism.

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This discontent finally boiled over at the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society….

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All this came to a head in 2003, during the preparatory meetings for the World Summit on the Information Society…

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As other countries sharpen their diplomatic knives for the final round of the summit in Tunis in November……

「聯合國網站費了大量篇幅刊載這兩次會議的討論，然而結果幾等於零。」這個我好像沒看到，可能是陸先生從其他地方看來的。

第一頁第七段：
First, there are domain names, such as www.foreignaffairs.org. Somebody must decide who will operate the database of generic names ending with suffixes such as “.com,” “.net,” “.info,” and others (a privilege that promises handsome profits). Also, someone must appoint the operators of two-letter country-code suffixes (such as “.cn,” for China). 我看不出來陸先生文中所謂"DNS爆滿"從何而來(原文沒有)，是什麼意思，也不確定這 "DMS" 是報社打錯還是作者筆誤。

第二頁第一段：
Second, there are Internet Protocol numbers, the up-to-12-digit codes…..

第二頁第二段：
Third are what are called root servers. Some form of control is
needed in the actual machines that make the domain name system work…..

第二頁第三段：
Fourth and finally, there are technical standards that must be formally established and coordinated to ensure the Internet’s interoperability
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They entail more than just the addressing system and involve everything from how
routers send traffic to parameters so that video flows smoothly. Ultimately, the standards
let the Internet evolve. 這一段指的是標準的制定，沒提到「這也是各國在ＷＳＩＳ裏振振有詞的理由」。這應該是陸先生的「見解」吧。

第一頁第五段中：
Washington’s answer to these concerns — the Commerce Department’s four terse paragraphs, released at the end of June, announcing that the United States plans to retain control of the Internet indefinitely — was intended as a sort of Monroe Doctrine for our times. It was received abroad with just the anger one would expect, setting the stage for further controversy.

第四頁第一段：
Ultimately, what is playing out is a clash of perspectives. The U.S. government saw the creation of ICANN as the voluntary relinquishing of a critical source of power in the digital age; others saw it as a clever way for Washington to maintain its hegemony by placing Internet governance in the U.S. private sector. Foreign critics think a shift to multilateral intergovernmental control would mark a step toward enlightened global democracy; Washington thinks it would constitute a step back in time, toward state-regulated telecommunications. Whether and how these perspectives are bridged will determine the future of a global resource that nearly all of us have come to take for granted.

「考慮國家利益 / 先發制人 / 門關得緊緊的，文風不漏」看來陸先生的確有自己的解讀。