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Milton MuellerMilton Mueller, professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, was quoted in "Ted Cruz Incorrect About Obama Giving Control of Internet to UN-like Body" by PolitiFact.
Excerpt:
By "root zone file," Novack was referring to the nonprofit’s coordination of the domain name system, meaning a text file of the top-level domains that form part of web addresses. Contrary to Novack's characterization, though, the root zone file is not the "master address book" of the Internet, Milton Mueller, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy and author of a book on ICANN’s creation, cautioned when we asked. Rather, Mueller said by email, the root zone file "is just a list of top level domain names (like .COM, .ORG or .EDU)." Mueller presents a longer description in this September 2015 blog post.
For the full article, read here.
