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The Fracturing of the Internet
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.
Currently a major conflict between the world and the US?
Arash
Arash Partow's Philosophy: Be a person who knows what they don't know, and not a person who doesn't know.
Zonk is travelling faster than light, and due to time contraction, their "other day" is our few hours back.. and the reason for dupes is also the same.. they(eds) dont remember stories posted a couple of hrs coz it is days in their timeframe!
am waiting for next week's story Zonk..
dt: Oct 2, 2005
Well, I think this reveals a lot on the whole slashdot dupe thingy.
In his mind, it was the other day or some other fuzzy timeframe. That's how far removed from a few hours ago it is. Can you imagine how long ago a few days or even a week or more must seem if time is this badly distorted?
Disclaimer: I tried blocking stories posted by Zonk -- it was an intesting experience for a couple of days. Guess I never realized that most of the stories posted during the workday were by Zonk, therefore the front page looked like it hadn't had anything added all day. At the same time, my firefox rss bookmark thingy obviously doesn't know about my preference settings, and all the stories were showing up there.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Me thinks GWB maintains a list of things he'll like to fuck-up:
1) War on Terror - do something which will create more terrorists. DONE.
2) Mess up Iraq. DONE.
3) Piss off everybody in the world, including allies like Europe, Canada, etc. DONE.
3) Mess up this thing Al Gore invented (the Internet), coz i don't like him anywayz. ALMOST DONE.
4) Self-destruct America. ALMOST DONE.
So that's what Bush meant by the internets!
Troll? Come on people, I got the conversation rolling there for a little bit. How is that a troll? Lay off the crack. If anyone actually travelled outside of the United States to other countries, you'd know what I'm talking about. Most of the other countries in the world rely on us for very very little these days. I'm serious. They don't buy cars from us. They build their own. They don't buy electronics from us, they buy from Japan, China and Korea. The only thing we tend to be is a useless "middle man" on the world stage. Middle men should ALL be eliminated at the earliest chance because they do, well... NOTHING. Our universtities are a joke because they get continually worse in quality with only a hanful of excpetions. People aren't coming here to get educated anymore. We aren't as "free" as we used to be in the past because our rights are slowly being taken away by corporations and a business friendly corrupt government. Seriously folks. Open your eyes. The US is in collapse. Our economy is totally out of control with the EU steadily growing more powerful. And why? Because the EU does some things better than we do. Our elections are no longer trustworthy and there are a lot of people with money and power who want to make it damn hard to determine the validity of results for their own personal gain. Again, more corruption. This isn't about republicans or democrats or irrelevant third parties. This is truth. And I'm slapping you in the face with it. For the last time, WAKE THE HELL UP!!!
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Yes, I have. I have seen many fellows get their faces covered in cum at Irish pubs. That's a funny thing about the Irish: if you can drink, they'll respect you. But if you're a ninny boy from the US or continental Europe and you can't hold your ale, then be prepared for a semen shower! The worst part is that it is your own cum that you get showered with. It is mighty easy to convince a drunk Frenchman to ejaculate into a beer mug when he is drunk, and then even easier to convince him to spill it on his face moments later.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.