So far as I know the ICANN giveaway is out of our hands politically now.
It’s important to be ready to skuttle ICANN’s power legislatively just as soon as Trump is elected — even any treaties they might cleave to in order to retain power. EVEN if it means sending the UN packing.
The other battle is technology. Bitcoin blockchain for example does not need names although they use them for convenience. The current internet with named hosts eventually be replaced with something better. An example right now is NDN although it runs on top of the current internet. The replacement might be accelerated because we lose the legal battle and it will be chaotic no matter what happens legally. But chaos in the internet eventually produces order because techies will write the software to make it easy for everyone to use. It's just a matter of time.
So far as I know the ICANN giveaway is out of our hands politically now.
It’s important to be ready to skuttle ICANN’s power legislatively just as soon as Trump is elected — even any treaties they might cleave to in order to retain power. EVEN if it means sending the UN packing.
Article did have some interesting points...surprised at some of the comments here...thanks for joining the discussion :)
From the article:
Champions of freedom[3] are exploring ways to take back internet oversight, but the possibilities look bleak. One possibility is to appeal the Texas Court’s decision denying the motion made by the Republican Attorneys General. The other is to proceed to court in a full-fledged trial. Still another option is to pass legislation to try to take back control of the internet (since technically, it has already passed as of October 1, 2016). In the meantime, ICANN is trying to implement the transfer as quickly as possible, seeking completion prior to the U.S. Presidential election in November of 2016, just in case the new President disagrees with Obama’s view regarding America’s role in internet oversight.
At the stroke of midnight on September 30, 2016, in furtherance of Obama’s anti-exceptional, post-American, global agenda, the certainty of the internet’s security, stability, and freedom has vanished into thin air, only to be replaced by one big global question mark.