{"583012":{"#nid":"583012","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ted Cruz Incorrect About Obama Giving Control of Internet to UN-like Body","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMilton Mueller, professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, was quoted in \u0026quot;Ted Cruz Incorrect About Obama Giving Control of Internet to UN-like Body\u0026quot; by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EPolitiFact.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy \u0026quot;root zone file,\u0026quot; Novack was referring to the nonprofit\u0026rsquo;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\u0026#39;s characterization, though, the root zone file is not the \u0026quot;master address book\u0026quot; of the Internet,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.internetgovernance.org\/people\/milton-mueller\/\u0022\u003EMilton Mueller\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/ruling-root\u0022\u003Eauthor of a book on ICANN\u0026rsquo;s creation\u003C\/a\u003E, cautioned when we asked. Rather, Mueller said by email, the root zone file \u0026quot;is just a list of top level domain names (like .COM, .ORG or .EDU).\u0026quot; Mueller presents a longer description in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.internetgovernance.org\/2015\/09\/29\/does-the-iana-transition-constitute-a-transfer-of-us-government-property\/\u0022\u003Ethis September 2015 blog post\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/texas\/statements\/2016\/sep\/14\/ted-cruz\/ted-cruz-incorrect-about-obama-giving-control-inte\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-10-24 19:23:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-24 19:23:36","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2021 Richard B. Shultz Best Transaction Paper Award","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/texas\/statements\/2016\/sep\/14\/ted-cruz\/ted-cruz-incorrect-about-obama-giving-control-inte\/","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582876":{"id":"582876","type":"image","title":"Milton Mueller","body":null,"created":"1476981182","gmt_created":"2016-10-20 16:33:02","changed":"1610725021","gmt_changed":"2021-01-15 15:37:01","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Public Policy professor Milton Mueller","file":{"fid":"222189","name":"Mueller_Web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5365409,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg?itok=jBv6d4Qa"}}},"media_ids":["582876"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}