U.S. Won't Cede Control of Net Computers

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[TommyDale]

You mean we're not just going to hand over all control to the U.N.? Wow, this is a pleasant surprise!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Is there any doubt who would be immediately given power over these computers should Hitlery become our next president?

[kimosabe31]

Thanks for the post.

[MirrorField]

This decision will annoy rest of the world. It might even result in fragmentation of internet. We'll see what happens...

[RedBeaconNY]

Good. At least some people still have balls here.

[Yak]

What? Countries like France or China might break-off the internet? An internet only for the U.S and it's allies? What a tragedy!

[snowsislander]

In a worst-case scenario, countries refusing to accept U.S. control could establish their own separate Domain Name System and thus fracture the Internet into more than one network. That means two users typing the same domain name could reach entirely different Web sites, depending on where they are.

Reliance on a single conceptual root is just a convention (though a better one than the old days where people ftp'd in the latest hosts.txt) in using the DNS protocol.

There's nothing that I find particularly worrisome about groups setting up alternate root servers serving alternate roots.

[RedBeaconNY]

Notice they can't just say 'No' and 'Yes'. They say, 'Yes, I believe 2 caring people should be allowed to get married' or something like unto it, an 'no'. Casting us as coldhearted cruel people with no compassion. Just a point of interest...

[RedBeaconNY]

WRONG FORUM IDIOT

[William Terrell]

Is there any doubt who would be immediately given power over these computers should Hitlery become our next president?

The president can do this without Congress?

[gura]

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Fragmentation ? Well, the French have 300 kinds of stinky cheese. Africans have their drums...

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

We invented the Internet! We use the Internet! It is ours! Nobody else will lay his clammy hands on it!

[rightwingextremist1776]

If they don't like it, they can build their own damn internet!

[caver]

The USA is probably footing all the bill, so we should be the ones that call the shots.

[phil1750]

We invented the Internet! We use the Internet! It is ours! Nobody else will lay his clammy hands on it!

Thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blood of Tyrants]

"Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool." - WJ Clinton

[William Terrell]

"Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool." - WJ Clinton

Having to do with executive orders. Ratification of treaties with foreign powers requires congressional action. My understanding is that any present treaties we have with the UN and our membership therein can't be stretched to cover ceding new areas of sovereignty. Like the other treaties we have with that organization, a new one would have to be ratified.