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Breaking America's grip on the net (US FORCED to give up control of the Internet?)
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1585288,00.html ^ | October 6, 2005 | Kieren McCarthy

Posted on 10/06/2005 5:55:46 PM PDT by Blogger

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To: Blogger

Uh-oh. Folks had better consult with Al Gore. As the inventor of the internet, he SHOULD have some say in the matter, shouldn't he??? [/sarcasm]

Seriously, though - where and how was the internet developed? Wasn't the US a if not THE major player in the creation of it many years ago? That should, at minimum, give us some say i the matter.

But leave it up to the "world", probably meaning the Euro dorks - then you can BET there will be some sort of increased cost (taxes).


21 posted on 10/06/2005 6:16:23 PM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan)
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To: Blogger

Calling Al Gore ... Al Gore, please invent a new Internet...


22 posted on 10/06/2005 6:17:27 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Blogger

When the point comes where I can talk on my cell phone and post a picture or post to my blog from anywhere on the planet without "fear" of where I am, who I am, or what I say than we can think about having the UN involved. Not a day sooner.


23 posted on 10/06/2005 6:18:21 PM PDT by Ray66
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To: Blogger

Don't you mean that Algore should just invent something else, after all he did invet the internet.


24 posted on 10/06/2005 6:19:10 PM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: wildwood

No. They want ours. They want regulatory capacity over the internet.


25 posted on 10/06/2005 6:22:15 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Blogger
A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control

The usual suspects! Are they suggesting we give up naming standards, or that all the backbone servers reside in the basement of the U.N.?

26 posted on 10/06/2005 6:23:22 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: cyberdasher
Are they talking about control over the '.com' root?

And ".net" and so on.

Each country has its own suffix ( eg Canada is ".ca" ), and the country's govt can make its own rules as to how names get assigned in its suffix.

But everybody wants a ".com" name

The way naming works is the root servers point to what servers handle ".com", ".net", ".ca", etc, and the subsidiary servers may in turn point to lower level servers. So ibm.com may have its own name servers to resolve what the IP address for "magoo.ibm.com" happens to be.

So the world can do as it pleases, but we have the means to ignore them if our side chooses not to bend over. China may designate its own name server that chooses to say that "freerepublic.com" points to a machine in the basement of their secret police headquarters, but that won't affect somebody who uses the US name servers

27 posted on 10/06/2005 6:25:15 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: Czar
Any American representative who is stupid enough to attempt to make any agreement diluting American control over the internet will be quickly ID'd and trashed accordingly, right along with any of the other crapweasels in Washington who want to sign on.

If there were a Democrat in the White House right now, this would already be a done deal.

28 posted on 10/06/2005 6:25:16 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: TheBattman

This link should provide some answers to your question. Please note the remark Senator Kennedy made.

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html


29 posted on 10/06/2005 6:27:28 PM PDT by Genesis defender (Brother Maynard, bring out the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!)
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To: Genesis defender
Please note the remark Senator Kennedy made.

Nope. I'm getting ready for bed. No fat drunk lunatic 'Rat nightmares for me tonight.

30 posted on 10/06/2005 6:31:58 PM PDT by manwiththehands
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To: SaveTheChief
"But first, I would close down the U.N. headquarters, turn it into cheap housing for those in need, and make sure each and every last foreign diplomat is escorted to an airplane on it's way out of the country.

Turn it into "cheap housing"? I'd sell it to the highest bidder and give the proceeds back to the American people as a tax refund.

31 posted on 10/06/2005 6:32:03 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: Blogger
No. They want ours. They want regulatory capacity over the internet.

No, they want TAXING capability over the Internet. They want businesses to pay thru the nose for their names, and they want ISP's to pay a surcharge to the UN for allowing them to use the net (which will get passed to individual users)

They also want the ability to censor the net

32 posted on 10/06/2005 6:32:16 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: SaveTheChief
I'm afraid that if I had control of the Internet, I would unplug it to everyone outside of the United States

Ah yes using that well known Internet Plug.

33 posted on 10/06/2005 6:32:28 PM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: rogue yam
"If there were a Democrat in the White House right now, this would already be a done deal."

And so you feel that because it is an "(R)" president in the White House, this will not happen?

34 posted on 10/06/2005 6:32:28 PM PDT by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: coydog

They are going to Zimbabwe-ize it..It will go
from being a profitable and going concern,
exporting profit and success to it's neighbors,
to being cannabalized and run in fiefdoms to
the point where it can not only no longer develop
profitable markets and sussesses, but it won't even
be able to support itself, and chunks of it will
fall off the WWW...and who will it hurt the most? the self same countries that aere arguing for it's seizure.
The US, aas one poster said, will develop something
bette, and keep it to ourselves. In fact, we allready
*have* all we have to do, is start rolling out the infrastructure for it. Makes broadband look like the
Telegraph.


35 posted on 10/06/2005 6:33:35 PM PDT by NickatNite2003
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To: Blogger
This story is so full of inconsistencies and ignorance that one hardly knows where to begin.

In one place they tell us Brazil relies on the Internet for its taxes and therefore US must give up control. In another they point out that China filters what their Internet users can access. Wouldn't that imply China already has control?

The US "Controls" the net by hosting the root level domain servers, but these servers are not essential for local use of the Internet. Every ISP and their up-stream provider hosts copies of these domain server. The root level servers could go down for a week and not many people would notice. Joe user never uses these servers.

All these servers to is convert www.freerepublic.com to 209.157.64.200. Thats it. Nothing more.

And your local ISP does this for you unless their server has never heard of freerepublic.com because they don't keep it up to date. In which case it asks its upstream provider, and so on up the chain to the root servers. Joe user never gets to use the root servers directly.

Once your machine is told the IP of Freerepublic it contacts it directly to get a web page without going through any US government facilities.

Some countries host their own top level servers for in-country use. China, for example. Brazil could do the same and thereby assure its tax system would never fail.

Other than that, there is no infrastructure that is in the hands of the US government that is not also replicated elsewhere.

There is no filtering that can be carried out by the US government to prevent a tax payer in Buenos Aries from contacting the tax headquarters in Brasilia, because that transaction never leaves Brazil.

And China can prevent their citizens from ever seeing www.whitehouse.com if that is what they fear, by simply null-routing that domain in their top level domain servers or blocking that particular IP.

What are these fools going on about?
36 posted on 10/06/2005 6:34:03 PM PDT by konaice
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To: Czar
And so you feel that because it is an "(R)" president in the White House, this will not happen?

Well, no, I didn't say that, and I don't feel that either, unfortunately.

37 posted on 10/06/2005 6:35:26 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: Blogger

No one can "force" us to do anything. Our "Globalist" rulers might acquiesce to their demands however. Its a pathetic state of affairs.


38 posted on 10/06/2005 6:36:43 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis)
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To: konaice
And also the main root servers are mirrored: http://european.nl.orsn.net/

The article is pure over-reaction to an otherwise irrelevvant issue

39 posted on 10/06/2005 6:37:36 PM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: Blogger

The rest of the world thinks that they have an entitlement to use the U.S. funded Internet?


F the F'n F'ers.


40 posted on 10/06/2005 6:39:22 PM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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