The majority of people commenting in the news are taking the position that what is must always be and this includes Britt Hume in spades. He is a globalist in my opinion.
The truth is that the system of routing domain names was developed and given to a private company as a monopoly to make a boatload of money. That is the long and short of it.
What was made can be re-made and that scares the crap out of all of the people committed to the survival of ICANN (i.e. make money off it).
The airwaves are still there. The trunk lines are still there. The fiber cables are still there. The server farms are still there, many owned by companies acting as ISP's or providers like GoDaddy.
There is not one thing that prevents the American genius from devising and new name routing process that will be MORE secure and unstoppable by the oppressive regimes that want to limit 'free speech'.
I put that in quotes because everyone in the world that is not seeking to dominate others wants free speech, regardless of the geographic location or regime in charge of that place.
Free people of the world; stand on your back legs and do what is necessary to maintain this thing we call the 'Internet'.
For crying out loud, we went to the moon in 1962. Give me a break. In my 35 years as a computer contractor I was associated with brilliant minds that solved far harder puzzles than this one.
Stop waiting for permission. GET BUSY and stuff the naysayers and whiners about how we MUST do it the old way.
BE FREE
For real in-depth about a cyber-war with China, a number of people have been working on solutions and I reposted them here for brainstorming in the followup posts:
China’s Conquest of Internet, ICANN + Quantum Encryption
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3473008/posts