Posted on 11/16/2005 6:14:03 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A summit focusing on narrowing the digital divide between the rich and poor residents and countries opened Wednesday with an agreement of sorts on who will maintain ultimate oversight of the Internet and the flow of information, commerce and dissent.
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Where's my Buffalo Rifle? Ah, here... BLAM!
Just say "no".
With wack jobs like Chavez and Kadhafi wanting control of the Internet we might as well hand over ICANN to N. Korea. This "digital divide" between rich and poor is pure BS...what is at stake is control and the censorship of ideas being shared over the Internet.
Lets see, we still control what we built, and the UN gets an opportunity to have diarrhea of the mouth about it, but we get to ignore them. I am not sure how this changes anything.
Plagiarized from Slashdot.org
World: We want to control the internet. USA: No. World: Come on! USA: No. World: Will you at least think about it? USA: No. World: If you don't we will be forced to make our own DNS systems. USA: OK. World: But that will break the internet. USA: OK World: But that would be bad. USA: Then leave it alone. World: OK. But we're making a committee. USA: That's cute.
What's that line "no binding authority" mean? They get to do whatever they want?
"No binding authority" -- That could be a very good thing. It all comes down to who do your trust with regard to routing tables (the maps of connections of the internet) and the directory of names. Personally I think, allowing ANY sole or non-disbursed authority to hold that by force of law, courts, and police power is counter to the intent and hazardous to the health of the internet.
See E. Pluribus Unum's post above yours and it pretty much says it all. What "no binding authority" means is that they can say what they want, and we can ignore them with impunity. You never know their little committee might come up with a good idea, I highly doubt it, but miracles are known to happen.
The U.S. is brilliant - give the UN just what is ultimately wants the most.
The right to talk....
The right to talk....
...and we all know talk is cheap. ;)
The accord reached late Tuesday also called for the establishment of a new international group to give more countries a stronger say in how the Internet works, including the issue of making domain names -- currently done in the Latin languages -- into other languages, such as Chinese, Urdu and Arabic.
Can anyone tell me what this is referring to? Most of the domain names I use are done in English- which is not a Latin language. English is Germanic. I realise many domain names are in Spanish, Italian, French and Portugese but I would have thought that enough domains were in English (or German) to be able to say 'most are done in Germanic/English...
Anyone know? How do they figure the Latin?
What that is referring to is the Latin-1 character set.
There is a desire to allow other character sets for languages which use them, instead of transliterating them.
That actually was underway, until it was realized that it opened significant security holes.
I presume they mean the latin alphabet.
ROFL!
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