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Transfer of Internet Governance Will Go Ahead On Oct. 1 (computerworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Computerworld: The U.S. says it will proceed with its plan to hand over oversight of the internet's domain name system functions to a multistakeholder body on Oct. 1. Computerworld reports: "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), under contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce, operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) which enables the operation of the internet domain name system (DNS). These include responsibility for the coordination of the DNS root, IP addressing and other internet protocol resources. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency within the Commerce Department, said in March 2014 that it planned to let its contract with ICANN expire on Sept. 30, 2015, passing the oversight of the functions to a global governance model. NTIA made it clear that it would not accept a plan from internet stakeholders that would replace its role by that of a government-led or intergovernmental organization or would in any way compromise the openness of the internet. The transfer was delayed to September as the internet community needed more time to finalize the plan for the transition. The new stewardship plan submitted by ICANN was approved by the NTIA in June. NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling said Tuesday that the agency had informed ICANN that 'barring any significant impediment,' NTIA intends to allow the IANA functions contract it has with ICANN to expire as of Oct. 1, said Strickling, who is also assistant secretary for communications and information."
Gondor had a better stewardship.
So, on October 2nd the countries, where it is Ok to block the entire populace from foreign Internet-resources, where "hate speech", "blasphemy", and mocking the president or king are criminal offences — they will all have more say in how the network is operated than before. Yay!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
The NSA still owns all the Internet's anyways. :)
I predict we'll see a split of the internet along international lines shortly thereafter. Under the laws of each nation certain content will be unacceptable and each domain will begin by censoring those that interfere with their personal political agenda's on how things should be represented. Within a year half the net will not 'see' the other half and business and commerce will stutter and survive in certain regions and fail in others.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
If they also suddenly mandate that all voting be done online...
Then I may begin to worry, and don my foil hat.
Just the other day I was talking with an older German lady at a community council meeting. We were discussing about all the global problems we are having right now and she was waxxing poetic about Chinese an Russian hacking activities on the web. I reassured her that as long as DNS is under US government control, we holds the keys as far as global internet abuse and censorship. Welp I guess that's over.
Seriously, we should not have given this up.
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errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
What have we seen of their stewardship? A cray number of stupid domain names which screech spam and malware, and inflating domain name fees which are disproportionate to their cost of provision: basically rent seeking and profiteering. ICANN is technically non-profit, but it pays out big salaries, nice junkets and favors to industry.
"Last week, ICANN said Public Technical Identifiers, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, had been incorporated in California, to eventually run the IANA functions under contract from ICAAN, after the transition was complete." So who are "Public Technical Identifiers"? These articles say they were incorporated by ICANN who designed the "transition plan". No body ever willingly gives up power. Is PTI an ICANN facade? http://www.computerworld.com/a... https://www.icann.org/news/ann...
The internet will route around the problem. If DNS were to completely go away the only things that would happen is the signal to noise ratio would be vastly improved and some apps will break.
DNS was only created for human comfort.
To quote the 44th president of the United States. "Elections have consequences", "I won".
+1 Oversightful
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$10 says that the US and most of the West will *deeply* regret this within a year at most.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Oh fuck this is not good. Really not good. I have no words, didn't hear about this coming. May have more words later after I have time to think about it. But this is not good.
That will take time to reveal.
Earth is a single point of failure.
This part of the article is interesting:
"Last week, 25 advocacy groups asked Congress to sue to enforce riders it passed on prohibiting spending of taxpayer money on the IANA transition"
Did Congress get a say-so in letting go of control initially? If riders were added to it, then that tells me that they agreed to handing over control at some point (with conditions). When did this happen?
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
No they wouldn't ban anything, they would just change the domains TTL (Time To Live) to 1 second and make sure the records were on the "slow server" and it would go into a DNS meltdown and not load.
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
I don't want to be shot for being unhip and not wearing black turtleneck shirts.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
First t6eh Panama Canal and now ICANN.
How long before the Europeans try to tell everyone they invented it.