RE: Global HIGH Security Risk

[Melvyn Sopacua <msopacua () idg nl>]

At 10:06 2/5/2003, John.Airey () rnib org uk wrote:

> Individual computers connecting to the Internet are the property of those
> using it (unless you've stolen it, but then we've tracked you down already
> and the police are on their way...). However, the core infrastructure could
> be shut down by the US Government if it so wished (by virtue of the location
> of the primary root A server). Like I said, this could be reconfigured
> although the US Government could potentially shut all the roots down.

Again: it's not a matter of ability, it's a matter of ownership. Since the 
internet
is a dynamic entity, with routes being setup, without even an American
descendant (is their such a thing?), having anything to do with it - there can
be only legal claim for parts of the internet's infrastructure and even 
then - the
ownership of the soil could legally be seperated from what's in them (but 
that's
prolly what I should leave to a lawyer).

If you take it to services, since you seem to emphasize the 'internet 
experience',
then many concepts of today's internet are ideas of groups of people who are
not as individual nor as a group bound by US law or people working for a US
government agency. That even bypasses the fact whether these concepts and
ideas can be awarded to a governmental entity.

So no matter how you twist it, there's no way to award legal ownership of the
internet to the US.


Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards,

Webmaster IDG.nl
Melvyn Sopacua

<@Logan> I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident.
<@Logan> I was thinking "What the hell is this guy doing?"

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