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U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS
An Anonymous Reader wrote in with a story on the Eweek site, reporting that the Federal Government is going to keep control of the Domain Name System rather than handing it over to ICANN. From the article: "...the United States is committed to taking no action that would have the potential to adversely impact the effective and efficient operation of the DNS, and will therefore maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file..."
No text really necessary.
Speaks for itself.
Oh, yeah. This is a dupe and there's no reason for the US to let go of it.
U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS? Hi, we've met before. Yeah, I know, I was drunk too, but it's all coming back to me now. I'm sorry. It's time to move on.
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You can take your "DNS" and shove it up your ass! I'm watching Tivo!!!
Oh, come on now. Any organization that can hold giant bitching sessions about the U.S. while simultaneously spending all of its money, and then bitch about the U.S. not paying its member dues can't be all bad.
Don't you remmeber, this is Slashdot, News for People who Hate America, Stuff about Hating America.
Why in the world should the US give up control?
We have been softened for decades. Think of it! The continual dumbing-down of our educational system and the increasing banality of popular culture are just two clear trends, now becoming so clear we can look through them to their source.
That source is Communism.
Communism, you see, is not "dead." It is not even napping! In fact, it is right out in the open. Our nation's newspapers are edited by socialists. The TV networks spew endless hours of mind-numbing groupthink.
Society has become so left-of-center that most people do not recognize Communism when they step in it. Even Republicans get down in that wallow, like porky squealing pigs.
Of course the Democrats have been totally up front about their support of Communism since the FMLN/Contra War. Give 'em a point for honesty, at least.
The UN is often outright anti-Christian.
Christians are persecuted in Nigeria too (sometimes burned and beheaded) - but the UN won't even publicize that either.
The UN is anti-Christian and anti-American in many ways.
If we complain about it - we are called bigots.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
However, when the US *does* act when the UN is disinterested, the people who are asked to act are the next generation of Americans. The "plight" of the rest of the country seems to have no importance to our current administration.
The US has a military budget at least 3 times that of Russia, is smaller than Russia, and is less populated than Russia. If some of that good olde Amerikan money were diverted from feeding Our Bush's warmongering to feeding Our Poor, this country wouldn't be the war-mongering cesspool it is now.
Conversely, the gene pool is being slowly cleansed of the warrior types that are useless outside of wartime, but invaluable when truly needed. So we can thank Dubya for that at least... Too bad he's a chicken hawk draft dodger.
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You've got to be fucking kidding me. How the fuck did the mods mark this as "Insightful"?
Don't blame the UN, eh? I didn't see Russia, or South Africa, or France, or Belgium, or any other country doing jack fucking shit to help the people of Sudan.
The only "big part" of the UN the United States plays is its seat on the security council and the assload of money we hand over to the useless, corrupt ambassadors of the rest of the world so they can buy their children faster cars.
This is the fucking problem with the rest of the world. You bastards are too fucking lazy/appeasing/pussy to stand up against ANY wrong doing. The second someone does stand up to fix a broken region of the world, you all harp in about how self cenetered and evil they are. You totally fucking ignore whatever evils are being comitted, and turn on whoever is doing something like a pack of wild dogs suddenly turning on its own.
Yeah, I think what happened in Sudan was terrible. There's not a lot I can do about it, however. But saying America did nothing - what, we're supposed to police the hole fucking world so that everytime some group of backwards, cave dwelling fundamentalists decide to go to war with their neighbour, it's our fucking fault? What the fuck do you think the UN was created for?
And - surprise - Islam has a pretty bad reputation in some parts of the world right now. The latest iteration of the "My Religion is Better Than Yours - The Story of Humanity" is getting pretty fucking old, and there are plenty of us who are getting more than slightly sick of the shit religion keeps hashing up (yes: this includes the budding christian fundamentalist movement in the US today). Of course, these fundamentalists don't behead people, video tape it, and post it on the internet. Believe it or not there is a fucking difference.
Don't fucking defend the UN when they fail to do their job by trying to make this the United States or any other countries fault. The people at fault here are those who are comitting the attrocities in the Sudan, and its the responsibility of the UN to keep the peace. (SURPRISE! That's why they call them UN Peacekeepers!)
Hmm... HTTP was born WHERE?
Before shooting your gob off check the facts.
HTTP was orginally developed at CERN in Switzerland not in some over hyped country that thinks it invented everything.
As the current people responsible for the root dns haven't done too bad a job unlike ICANN then I don't really see what the urgent need is to fix it...
--- Users are like bacteria -> Each one causing a thousand tiny crises until the host finally gives up and dies.
"Most countries have servers for their own TLD's (.au in Australia). Come to think of it there is nothing to stop countries with firewalls (Iran, China, Sauda Arabia, etc) from diverting root server traffic to their own root servers. Personally this is the type of control which I would _not_ want my Government to have"
.com/net/org/us/uk/de/ca/fr/...etc and now the US is saying "Either we like any proposed change to the root or it won't happen".
You're complaining because China and Saudi Arabia censor their countries Internet but don't mind the US censors the worlds DNS? No government ever approved
This is not about the computers that are the root servers, it is about who gets to edit the file that is a list of all the TLD servers - the DNS ROOT (".") zone file.
The top level DNS namespace is so stagnant it might as well be dead. We've gone from 315 to 321 tlds in ONLY TEN YEARS of explosive internet growth - a time when all other Internet namespaces scaled appropropriately. But, because of the US stanglehold, Jon Postel's plan to create another 300 tlds, 150 the first year (in 1997) never came to be.
But, bad as USG control is, giving that control to ICANN, would be worse, as ICANN are overpaid doodyheads that make the US government look small, honest, efficient, smart, wise and sensible by comparison.
Those of you here who think the ITU is cool should read Carl Malamud's "Exploring the Internet" to see exacly how anti-internet the ITU is. They're meerely seeking relevance in a world where all the phones work now, thank you very much.
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