US Government Rushes Key Internet Traffic Management Changes for Security

The Bush administration sped approval for moving one of the Internet's 13 traffic-management computers after a prominent technology company urged the government to ``declare some kind of national security threat and blow past the process,'' according to federal officials' e-mails. . . The Bush administration sped approval for moving one of the Internet's 13 traffic-management computers after a prominent technology company urged the government to ``declare some kind of national security threat and blow past the process,' according to federal officials' e-mails.

The correspondence provides a window into how U.S. corporations invoke national security to expedite business requests.

In this case, the Commerce Department approved in just two days Verisign Inc.'s request at the end of October to move one of the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic. Verisign operates two of the world's ``root servers,' which contain lists of directories that control e-mail delivery and Web surfing.

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