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Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax
Fredden wrote to mention a BBC piece discussing the U.S.'s poor image when it comes to Internet management. From the article: "It has even lost the support of the European Union. It stands alone as the divisive battle over who runs the internet heads for a showdown at a key UN summit in Tunisia next month. The stakes are high, with the European Commissioner responsible for the net, Viviane Reding, warning of a potential web meltdown. " We've previously covered this story.
India is the world's biggest democracy.
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That would be a giant PITA and would be like having the entire World use the NANP system of phone numbers yet each nation assigns them locally -- so 212 in the US would be NYC but not in the UK. It would probably also violate a ton of treaties related to trademarks and copyrights if anybody but IBM controlled that domain in Germany (per your example).
My suggestion (it will never happen) to solve this "problem" (I don't think there is one but the rest of the World seems to...) would be to get rid of the TLDs like .com, .net, .org, etc. and go back to the country code TLDs. Let every nation set their own policy for how they work. Then you could have .com.us, .com.uk, etc.
I've advocated this for years but there is no way in hell it would happen because of the saturation of .com.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
It doesn't matter what power the Department of Commerce exercises over ICANN. Neither body exercises any control over the root server operators. ICANN's output is purely advisory as far as the root servers are concerned. For that matter, the list of root servers is totally advisory. You, or any network, could decide to switch root systems at any time, for any reason.
If the DoC were to become heavy-handed with ICANN, the root server operators would probably not go along. The same would be true if the EU pretends they are in charge. Anybody can ride around saying "I am your King!", but the Internet is still an autonomous collective.
The DNS mess isn't as bad as it could be though:
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Your link contains a pack of lies. First one that comes up is "When asked to produce credible evidence of the destruction--the location of destruction sites, fragments of destroyed weapons, some documentation of the destruction, anything at all--the Iraqis refused."
No, they provided the information, it just wasn't believed. They didnt have extensive documentation on this, after all they were destroying weapons they weren't supposed to have.
The whole article contains a mixture of misinterpretation mixed with outright lies. Before the war one could read what Scott Ritter or Joseph Wilson was saying and it turned out they were entirely correct. You can and will believe what you like, but as far as the rest of the world is concerned the evidence is conclusive. As for why oil prices going up proving it wasnt for oil, are you being deliberately stupid or what ? Nobody in their right mind claimed the point of the war was to provide American proles with cheap oil, the point was to provide American corporations with the control of vast oil reserves.
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