Congress was wrong to give away valuable airwaves. It should not now compound the mistake by perpetuating it. Though both are setting up new nonprofit foundations, Mr. Gates and Mr. Ellison are stressing projects that bring, quick measurable results, and can also bring business benefits to contributors. More significantly, it puts them on an even playing field with foreign competitors, some of whom have won customers simply by adding stronger encryption to U.S.-made products. The National Science Foundation will turn over the responsibility for Internet Protocol numbers to a nonprofit coordinating group called the American Registry for Internet Numbers.
Every Internet address has two identifiers.
While people use domain names to find Internet addresses, computers find information with the IP numbers. Benton Foundation, 1997. The Headlines are highlights of news articles summarized by staff at the Benton Foundation. While factually accurate, the often informal tone of the summaries does not represent the tone of the original articles.