[JRandomFreeper]

You should understand. The concept is easy. Implementing it is non-trivial. ;)

The internet is an agreement that over any wire/fiber-optic cable/smoke signal that you and I both own, lease, rent, or have rights to traverse, we will communicate in a certain way. When I send data to you, that 'packet' of data basically says where it is from, where it is going, how long it is, and if it's part of a sequence, which one it is in the sequence. Followed by the data.

And that's it. That's the internet.

Everything else is refinements on the computer side (generally speaking). Doesn't matter if the data is video of the grandkids, your blood-sugar levels, or Angela Jolie doing the bump'ngrind.

The internet can't be controlled by ICANN anymore than morse code can be controlled by the ITU. If you know morse code. You own it.

/johnny

[prairiebreeze]

Thanks. Understand that I’d prefer to have a TV with an on-off knob and a volume knob and that’s it.

[muawiyah]

All sounds good but these new guys are bigoted fanatics who hate your guts and want to turn you into a rug crawler any chance they can get.

They'll be suing us in our own courts using our own lawyers no less to make us do what they want us to do.

They'll fill the docket with URLs.