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EU Domain Registries & ICANN

Posted by Hemos on from the fight-the-man dept.

rob_levine writes "Following on from the announcement a few weeks ago that the U.S. Department Of Commerce intends to retain control of the Internet's root domain servers (originally to be relinquished in 2006), several EU domain registries are preparing to build, test and install a system to prevent U.S. government meddling, according to this article in The Register. Could this be the beginning of the end of the centralised autocracy that is ICANN?"

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  1. Decentralization... by JossiRossi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I suspect that if this goes through it'll be a start to where the internet speads apart and out, someday entire seperate networks set up. Like "ChinaNet" instead of internet. I imagine the seediness of the internet could only go up... Not that I mind. =]

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  2. WWW by Beuno · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wasn't this suppose to be the "WORLD Wide Web"?
    I think someone lost sight of what they were doing...

    1. Re:WWW by nixkuroi · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yes, WWW does equal World Wide Web and it was created by Tim Berners-Lee, an English guy. The WWW runs on the Internet and the Internet was created by the US government. It's a little like someone creating a road and then someone starting a cool bus service on it.

      The road owner (RO)is telling the bus service owner's (BSO's) that it is going to continue owning the road and the BSO's are getting pissed because they're afraid the RO is going to put in some traffic signals and road signs they don't like. So now the BSO's are threatening to create their own side roads with their own signs and signals.

      This kind of stuff happens whenever you create something that becomes a standard upon which people build other standards. People freak out when they think the infrastructure upon which their livlihoods are based is being messed with, especially by someone can't pronounce the word nuclear. :)

  3. Sounds Like Good News by mechsoph · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let's hope they set up a good system that we all can use.

    I'm not really sure why everyone's so worked up about this. If the US Gov. doesn't run things right, we can all just point our resolvers at an alternate root, like this one. And considering the the US was just maintaining the status quo, it really seems like even less of a big deal.

    It looks like these guys are just gonna set up an alternate root for everyone and try to automate the system as much as possible. Hopefully it works.

    BTW, anybody else annoyed that all these news articles on this keep confusing DNS with "The Internet?"

  4. Suprize! by arrow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can set up automated systems and launch shared responsibility campaigns untill your blue in the face.

    The fact still remains that your shared trusted ultra 31337 root zone file won't actually be used.

    The operators of the root servers have stated time and time again that their job is to only serve the root zone, the contents of which is the responsibility of ICANN (and in turn the US government).

    This is just more "alternate root" quackery.

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