Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

[Tony Li <tony.li () tony li>]

On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Randy Bush wrote:

> > Saudi Arabia, Iran, Northern Nigeria, and China are not likely to
> > have the same liberal views as, say, the Netherlands or Denmark.
> > Saudi Arabia and China, like some other nations, extensively filter
> > their Internet connection and have created government agencies to
> > protect their society from web sites that officials view as immoral.
>
> and in the united states, we're madly hiring new fbi agents
> to protect our society from web sites our officials view as
> immoral.



I should have made my comment more specific: what is the problem with  
single namespace without ccTLDs and without per-country exceptions?   
Assuming that we can reach consensus on namespace administration (a  
process that should only take another decade or so ;-),  it would  
seem that operating within that consensus would be in the best  
interests of all.

Per-country exceptions just creates more Balkanization of the  
Internet, which hardly seems beneficial.

Tony