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US Relinquishes Control of Internet
Guardian, UK ^
| September 30, 2009
| Bobbie Johnson
Posted on 10/02/2009 6:51:07 PM PDT by NorwegianViking
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To: vox_freedom
You might not want to reference a protocol (WWW) developed by a british citizen in switzerland when we argue for continued U.S. control of ICANN. ICANN is not the world wide web, and www is not the internet.
ICANN’s role is to handle addresses (IP’s, domains, the root servers). The majority of the root servers are outside the United States. This really has no effect on our internet infrastructure domestically.
This is not “US Giving up control of the Internet”. That is a headline being used all over the place to attract attention.
Simply, ICANN is getting more autonomy to manage its own affairs. Does this mean foreign governments get any additional authority over ICANN. Nope. They get to sit on oversight panels. Does ICANN have to do what they say? Nope.
When it comes down to it, is it practical to NOT let ICANN do this?
To: LibertyRocks
You are right to be skeptical. The problem with headlines like this is it gives the impression that somehow the US Government had real control over ICANN.
ICANN != internet.
To: hyperconservative
note
Ed thinks this is a democracy...cue the robot from “lost in Space”.
Be warned.
Still looking for some better info...
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posted on
10/03/2009 4:53:35 PM PDT
by
hyperconservative
(Seek and find. Read, verify, and share info. Work and fight.)
To: LibertyRocks; All
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posted on
10/03/2009 6:06:53 PM PDT
by
hyperconservative
(Seek and find. Read, verify, and share info. Work and fight.)
To: LUV W
I have verizon and I get cut off every few days, I have to call someone in pakistan to reconnect me
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posted on
10/03/2009 6:38:56 PM PDT
by
KTM rider
( ..........tell me this really isn't happening ! !)
To: Forgiven_Sinner
The article says an advisory boardthat doesnt sound like control to me. It never does. Not at first anyway...
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posted on
10/03/2009 8:22:58 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 255 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: nocarrier
Thanks for that excellent, and pertinent clarification.
Appreciated...
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posted on
10/03/2009 9:46:07 PM PDT
by
vox_freedom
(America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
To: guitarplayer1953
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posted on
10/03/2009 10:13:52 PM PDT
by
Joya
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
To: Marty62
The ramifications are .....China China China
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posted on
10/03/2009 10:39:32 PM PDT
by
TomasUSMC
( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
To: Joya
A some have suggested a satellite based mega server free of government control would be ideal. With roaming severs that would change daily so that the man could not get control of them similar to pirate servers for porn and software downloads. would work. Other wise the free and open exchange of ideas will die under international control of the web. Use China or Iran as examples the have an iron fist on the net and will not let any free exchange if ideology to flow. I wold be like the under ground free presses of the 60’s.
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posted on
10/04/2009 1:13:55 AM PDT
by
guitarplayer1953
(Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN BANG BANG YEA YEA)
To: Marty62
No foreign power RECOGNIZES our Constitutional Rights! It does NOT square with them. WE just LOSE them.
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To: NorwegianViking
Where in the constitution does it say that the federal government is to run the Internet? Do you want a small federal government or not?
IANA was established informally as a reference to various technical functions for the ARPANET, that the Information Sciences Institute performed for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.
The earliest reference to a registry function is probably RFC 322, published on March 26, 1972, in which Vint Cerf and Jon Postel established a "socket registry". This registry was published as RFC 433 in December 1972.
The first reference to the name "IANA" in the RFC series is in RFC 1060, published in 1990, but the function, and the term, was well established long before that; RFC 1174 says that "Throughout its entire history, the Internet system has employed a central Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)...", and RFC 1060 lists a long series of earlier editions of itself, starting with RFC 349.
In 1996 the "DNS Wars" began as the FNAC ordered the NSF to instruct its contractor, Network Solutions who ran the Internic project, to begin charging for com/net/org domain names. There was widespread dissatisfaction with this concentration of power (and money) in one company and people looked to IANA for a solution. Postel wrote up a draft on the creation of new top level domains.
USC/ISI would not back Postel in the legal sense and IANA, which was a part time "task" had no legal personality - it could not sign contracts - and there was some resentment in the community at paying IANA large sums of money to add one or two lines to the legacy root zone. Jon was trying to institutionalize IANA.
Jon Postel managed the IANA function from its inception until his death in October 1998. Postel had been given defacto authority to perform the IANA function, as he had always done it in his position at the Information Sciences Institute, under its Department of Defense contract. After his death, Joyce Reynolds, who had worked with him at IANA for many years, managed the transition of the IANA function to ICANN.
Starting in 1988, IANA was funded by the U.S. government under a contract between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Information Sciences Institute (ISI). This contract expired in April 1997, but was extended to preserve IANA's function.
On December 24, 1998, USC entered into a transition agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, transferring the IANA function to ICANN, effective January 1, 1999, thus making IANA an operating unit of ICANN.
On February 8, 2000, the Department of Commerce entered into an agreement with ICANN to perform the IANA functions.
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posted on
10/04/2009 8:15:22 AM PDT
by
sefarkas
(Why vote Democrat Lite?)
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posted on
10/04/2009 8:50:13 AM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
(A Socialist becomes a Fascist the minute he tries to enforce his "beliefs" on the rest of us.)
To: guitarplayer1953; Quix
Interesting.
Feels like to me what FR is serving as now.
Somewhere to get the truth despite all the propaganda everywhere else.
Thanks.
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posted on
10/04/2009 9:34:05 AM PDT
by
Joya
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
To: guitarplayer1953; Joya; Alamo-Girl; airborne; Amityschild; AngieGal; aragorn; auggy; autumnraine; ..
GP, I think you’re right.
However, I think . . . mostly . . . human efforts will fail . . . the oligarchy plus the fallen angels are more than prepared for human efforts.
They are not prepared for God Almighty’s surprises.
I don’t think God is going to leave HIS KIDS in the dark.
He may not tell us all we’d like to know in our natural humanness. He will tell us all we need to know in time to use it, imho.
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posted on
10/04/2009 9:38:35 AM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: GWConservative
Thanks for the new site! Hope your home sells soon and for the price that you are wanting. Looks like we are in for some wet weather.
To: Quix
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Your view is so typical of a techie: thinking out very carefully all the details and not noticing that the very framing of the problem and the initial axioms may be faulty.
"Up links and down links would be carefully controlled so that no government involvement is permitted."
One can say this only as a joke. You have only those rights that you can defend. If the Chinese government decides to "get involved" in your scheme, who is going to stop it and how?
To: Charles Martel
Look for more “pirate servers” to be set up and that is where the free flow of information will go.
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posted on
10/04/2009 2:43:41 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
(Called To Be Patriots!:)=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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