The Fracturing of the Internet

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 30, 2005 @07:59AM from the there-actually-will-be-internets dept.

farrellj writes "There is currently a major conflict between the US and the rest of the world about the control of the Internet. They are fighting over who will control the root DNS servers and assign IP addresses. The US is against an independent international body to do this. This could fracture the Internet into multiple country and regional mini-internets, with conflicts over IP and Domain Name assignments, with no interconnects between them." From the article: "... the Bush administration said in July that the United States would 'maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file.' In so doing, the government 'intends to preserve the security and stability' of the technical underpinnings of the Internet. Without consensus, some experts say that countries might move ahead with setting up their own domain name system, or DNS, as a way of bypassing Icann." Update: 09/30 20:45 GMT by Z : I believe this to be another view of the discussion we had a while back.

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Time warp by pmike_bauer · 2005-09-30 08:02 · Score: 5, Funny

We had a discussion about this the other day
My flux capacitor is out of whack; the earth now rotates ~every six hours.

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Fractured Internet? by rackhamh · 2005-09-30 08:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Duct tape!
ob Bender by steveness · 2005-09-30 08:13 · Score: 5, Funny

So we'll create our own Internet! With blackjack! And strippers!
On second forget the blackjack. And the Internet.
Re:Govern by Anonymous+Luddite · 2005-09-30 13:30 · Score: 4, Funny

>> Ok -- this is Slashdot -- I think we all understand the 7-layer model.

dude, this _is_ slashdot. Half your audience is thinking "pastry" when you say "7-layer"

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