Posted on 10/12/2005 4:41:27 AM PDT by Rhadaghast
As Reagan said regarding the Panama Canal, "We Built It, We Paid for It, It's Ours!!!"
That's the problem. This belief doesn't fit the socialist attitudes of most of these whiner countries.
Thank you for the answer. I still don't understand if UN wants to control, why don't they ask the other rich countries to fund the new internet--which is not based on the US? Oh wait, like all liberals, they love to spend somebody else's money...
Cyber speak is over my head, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to follow the money.....or to see that America was per-usual, first up and best dressed and the United Nations Do Nothings don’t like this.
How do I fix the title once it is posted?
With mature, rational national minds like these, isolationism sounds better and better...
Ask a friendly mod.
On what basis, and with what justification could this be possible?
Does anyone have a legal, technical or procedural justification?
This stuff is hard to believe!
Since algore invented it, he thinks it's ok to give it to the un. I agree. Anything that algore invented belongs in the un. The USA will keep that portion of the internet that algore didn't invent.
They just gotta wait until the appropriate group of RINOs or Dems are in power...
This pretty much tells you all about the future of the Internet if the UN gets control of it.
BUMP!
from Cato Institute:
Largely decentralized, the Internet has, to date, required minimal governance. The struggle to gain control, essentially a battle between the United States and the international community, has gone on for many years despite this fact. Cato scholars have produced a number of works on the topic:
"The World Wide Web (of Bureaucrats?)," by Adam D. Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., October 9, 2005.
"Everybody Wants to Rule the Web," by Adam D. Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., December 17, 2003.
"Caught in the Seamless Web: Does the Internet's Global Reach Justify Less Freedom of Speech?," by Robert Corn-Revere, Cato Briefing Paper no. 71, July 24, 2002.
"Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet," by Jonathan D. Wallace, Cato Briefing Paper no. 54, December 8, 1999.
Who Rules the Net?, edited by Adam D. Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. (2003).
Basically, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the private sector, non-profit corporation created in 1998 to assume responsibility for assigning domains on the internet. In other words, they control the access to websites. When you see an URL (uniform resource locator), like http://www.freerepublic.com, ICANN's server computers converts that to a number, freerepublic's numerical designation is 209.157.64.200, which is then looked up in the servers database and then connects your computer the the domain with that numerical address. This is done through assigning a 32 bit numerical code in the sequence 255.255.255.255 where each 4 digit part of that numerical sequence represents a part of that address. the 255 number actually gives 256 possible bits because in computer counting, you start at 0 instead of 1. So, a that 32 bit code can give a total of 256^4 (that's 256 raised to the 4th power) addresses for a total of 4,294,967,296 possible domains. That sounds like a lot, but the U.S. government has reserved about half of those domains for U.S. Gov and mil usage. So, the rest of the world only has about 2.1 billion possible domains available. ICANN and Internet2 is looking to address the problem by creating an addressing scheme that uses 64 bit addressing which will give 256^8 domains or a total 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible domains (I think thats called 18 quintillion) which should do for a few years. That is probably clear as mud, but I hope it helps.
I am clueless here.
How do I ask a friendly moderator?
To change the title of this article?
I made it know that I wanted control and called for it long before the UN did.
Looks like it's already been done. Next time, either address a reply to "admin moderator" or hit the "report abuse" button and post your request there.
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