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The Letter That Won US Internet Control

Posted by samzenpus on from the send-an-angry-email dept.

K-boy writes "Pushing my own scoop, but I think it's a valuable piece of Net history, I have come into possession of the vital letter sent by Condoleezza Rice to the EU over Internet governance. And posted it on the Web. The letter is pretty stern but you should also read it bearing in mind that letters of this type are not only very rare but they are always written in very, very soft diplomatic language. This was not. The result of the letter was that the EU dropped its plan for an inter-governmental oversight body for the Internet and we have ended up with the status quo (ICANN, US government control). The letter was never meant for publication."

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  1. Re:Question for experts? by Jan-Pascal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, they can. The root zone ( "." ) contains the IP addresses of the .fr name servers. French ISPs usually will not have the .fr name servers hard coded, but will ask the root servers (which are hard coded, bind9 has them in the "root.db" file) where to find the .fr name servers. As long as ICANN controls the root zone file, they could remove the .fr DNS servers from it. Then, French surfers would not be able to resolve .fr domain names. Until the French ISPs would hard-code the .fr name servers, that is.

    Jan-Pascal

  2. Re:FUCK THAT! by parcel · · Score: 5, Informative

    you guys say that, but i doubt you could point out a single incident where a citizen was restrained from protesting the government.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone