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EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month

Posted by Zonk on from the seems-a-little-sky-is-falling dept.

freaktheclown writes "The battle for the control of the Internet could hit a climax next month, with the EU saying that it could 'fall apart.' From the article: 'The European commission is warning that if a deal cannot be reached at a meeting in Tunisia next month the Internet will split apart. At issue is the role of the US government in overseeing the Internet's address structure, called the domain name system (DNS), which enables communication between the world's computers. It is managed by the California-based, not-for-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) under contract to the US Department of Commerce.'"

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  1. Ok by Lije+Baley · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Good.

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  2. Big Deal... by sRev · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We'll just get Al Gore to fix it! I mean, he invented the damn thing, right?

  3. Re:Isn't it obvious... by Ignignot · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Except given the UN's history, I wouldn't be suprised if things like "remove all domains with racism in them" went through as part of some larger deal between several countries. Everyone is agreed that up until now, the united states has kept their hands off the ICANN and DNS servers. Do you expect something like the UN to mess with the servers more, or less?

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  4. Hand me a gun by Z00L00K · · Score: 0, Redundant
    and I will shoot myself in the foot. It will still hurt the economy less than this conflict.

    Even if the current situation may not be ideal from a political point of view everyone must admit that it actually works (at least most of the time). If anything - this just is another of those issues driven by the central EU heads to which we all europeans are required to donate some of our income. (but this case is a complete waste of money)

    If anything - this will actually be a larger threat to world economy than anything that Al-Qaeda can cook up. The WTC crashes was just an excuse to trigger the downward economic slope that was ripe to happen anyway. The economy swings in intervals of 10 to 13 years so no big surprise there.

    It looks like none of the EU heads understands what impact this will have on small and medium-size businesses today. Large companies are handling their own networks so they will actually suffer less (albeit they will take some dents).

    OK, it seems like we get the politicans that we deserve - Invent an enemy and go to war (economic or whatever) no matter the cost. Maybe the cold war wasn't that bad anyway. Then we all knew who the enemy was and didn't indulge ourselves into unnecessary internal conflicts.

    Or maybe somebody is willing to hand me a BFG (quake warning) and a ticket to Brussels.

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