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Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu
From: Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:59:33 -0700
Stories like these keep popping up: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/05/minc_icann_letter/ I know this has been talked about before, both on jabber and this list, but this is starting to worry me. I had thought that ICANN and IANA do not have to answer to any government, including my own. I guess this opinion is not shared worldwide (big surprise). At my last job plans were underway to separate business, resnet, building controls, and academic/research networks. While I understand that the Internet today has private offshoots (LambdaRail, SLR, inet2.edu, etc) I am still wondering if this will further develop into "separate but equal" Internet branches. This scares me when I take into consideration what some countries (great firewall, *.tn, etc) do when passed control. It also scares me when I see what my government does when The People stop paying attention or fighting for their rights. I can see a future where national security dictates that we cannot browse foxnews.com or cnn.com (depending on your demographic) and I wouldn't be surprised to find that we are being blocked today from Al Queda sites (not as if I could read them anyhoo, but still). I remember someone mentioning that a service would probably be set up, bridging the varying branches. Care to enumerate this view, and what the structure would look like. How would it get around filters and attempts to isolate it? Since most of you have been around longer than me, I was wondering if any of these types of issues has ever arisen before, say when the Internet was being created or refined? There has to be a precedent in which the way these types of affairs usually conclude or an impasse which is usually reached. Care to enumerate? -JP "In my day the Government took the time to craft lies that I could believe. It seems these days, they have just gotten lazy" -JP p.s.: While I agree that it is important for people to be able to read in their native language, I feel the Internet is a great way to develop homogeny with human languages (preferably choosing my native language as the standard, but I guess Chinese would be a more logical choice ;-). _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Dude VanWinkle (Dec 05)
- Re: Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Drsolly (Dec 05)
- Re: Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Barrie Dempster (Dec 06)
- Re: Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Florian Weimer (Dec 06)
- Re: Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Drsolly (Dec 06)
- Re: Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Florian Weimer (Dec 26)
- Re: Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Dude VanWinkle (Dec 06)
- Re: Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Drsolly (Dec 06)
- Re: Internet.na.us intenet.me.iq internet.uk.eu Drsolly (Dec 05)