Right before the election. NOT a coincidence.
>>>>0hbama on Internet Giveaway: "Al Gore Can Invent a New One"<<<<
Posted on 10/01/2016 4:16:17 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Washington (AFP) - The US government on Saturday ended its formal oversight role over the internet, handing over management of the online address system to a global non-profit entity.
The US Commerce Department announced that its contract had expired with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the internet's so-called "root zone."
That leaves ICANN as a self-regulating organization that will be operated by the internet's "stakeholders" -- engineers, academics, businesses, non-government and government groups.
The move is part of a decades-old plan by the US to "privatize" the internet, and backers have said it would help maintain its integrity around the world.
US and ICANN officials have said the contract had given Washington a symbolic role as overseer or the internet's "root zone" where new online domains and addresses are created.
But critics, including some US lawmakers, argued that this was a "giveaway" by Washington that could allow authoritarian regimes to seize control.
A last-ditch effort by critics to block the plan -- a lawsuit filed by four US states -- failed when a Texas federal judge refused to issue an injunction to stop the transition.
Lawrence Strickling, who heads the Commerce Department unit which has managed these functions, issued a brief statement early Saturday confirming the transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
"As of October 1, 2016, the IANA functions contract has expired," he said.
Stephen Crocker, ICANN's board chairman and one of the engineers who developed the early internet protocols, welcomed the end of the contract.
"This transition was envisioned 18 years ago, yet it was the tireless work of the global Internet community, which drafted the final proposal, that made this a reality," he said in a statement.
"This community validated the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance. It has shown that a governance model defined by the inclusion of all voices, including business, academics, technical experts, civil society, governments and many others is the best way to assure that the Internet of tomorrow remains as free, open and accessible as the Internet of today."
The Internet Society, a group formed by internet founders aimed at keeping the system open, said the transition was a positive step.
"The IANA transition is a powerful illustration of the multi-stakeholder model and an affirmation of the principle that the best approach to address challenges is through bottom-up, transparent, and consensus-driven processes," the group said in a statement.
>ping<
If we want to create a website now we have to apply to Icann:
https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/terms
Anyone thinks they’ll approve a website that exposes Islam as lies?
Thank you for keeping this ball rolling.
Please feel free to put me on related update list.
Thank you too. Will do.
Traitorcongress again does............................................................................................... nothing.
The members of Traitorcongress are despicable and gutless cowards.
They won't have to pressure Google, Google already does that willingly to some extent.
Anyone think If I try to start a website called Islam Is the Problems .com that Icann will approve it? If you do then post your justification here if you dare.
Sure, and you also be able to host it. But some people will opt-in to some censorship and they won't see it. The censorship will be much like the net nanny / safe space programs are today except ICANN will enforce certain rules such they will be harder to get around. They will never shut down your site, just make it virtually impossible to reach. They won't even need a blacklist of sites, they will do it (or Google will do it for them) with algorithms that block content like yours.
Well, bushwon, in this ‘Communitarian’ view, it takes a village to run an internet. The problem will come when villagers who disagree with the “Stakeholders” are forced to agree—or else.
Well I would consider doing the same, maybe starting with Named Data Networking. This would lend itself nicely to mesh networks since you would not have to maintain a virtual circuit over changing topology with intermittent connections. With NDN you drop your content packets into the mesh and people who want them get them, sort of like broadcasting except knowing who the recipients are makes it more efficient than broadcasting everywhere.
The role of the US Govt is to protect US interests locally and internationally. To hand US sovereignty over to a foreign body that will like make decisions that will hurt the US will be a failure of this responsibility.
Thanks , here is an interesting comparison and discussion of
maidsafe freeenet ipfs etc :
https://safenetforum.org/t/maidsafe-vs-freenet-i2p-ipfs/9409
OK no more size or bag limits
I’m torn. On the one hand, government over site and regulation no longer insure a free and fair result. I’m not sure I trust Obamas control of it more than any other actor. Privatizing industry tends to be a positive for that industry.
Right before the election. NOT a coincidence.
>>>>0hbama on Internet Giveaway: "Al Gore Can Invent a New One"<<<<
Welcome to ObamaNet ,don’t worry it’s just one of the Freedoms you have to give up
I tried to save a document and send it to myself. The title included the word “devotion.” I never got it so I assume it was blocked from being delivered to me.
To be completely honest, I would normally think that this is a bad thing, but given the quality of our current illegal alien government, they won’t do anything right anyway, so at this point, what difference does it make?
You know darn well that someone made a YUGE amount of money by selling us out.
Who got the money, who paid it and how much?
Nothing has ever stopped that. The problem is resolving collisions if two top level domain names exist on the same network.
There's a pretty good write up here.
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