Posted on 07/05/2005 11:15:17 AM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch
I see your point. I suppose it comes down to whether or not they are willing to give something away that's valuable in order to attain their ultimate goal.
bttt
I saw a rerun a few years back of a debate with William F. Buckley supporting it with Governor Reagan against it. It was amazing that the dumb actor had a much better grasps of the facts than the intellectual Buckley.
Giving up the internet, which we funded and built, would be like giving up the Panama Canal. Put a Dem in the Whitehouse and it could certainly happen.
In 1998, the Commerce Department selected a private organization with international board members, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to decide what goes on those lists. Commerce kept veto power, but indicated it would let go once ICANN met a number of conditions.
Thursday's declaration means Commerce would keep that control, regardless of whether and when those conditions are met.
"It's completely an about-face if you consider the original commitment made when ICANN was created," said Milton Mueller, a Syracuse University professor who has written about policies surrounding the Internet's root servers.
ICANN officials said they were still reviewing Commerce's statement, which also expressed continued support of ICANN for day-to-day operations.
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Certainly it's better to have it under the control of the US governemnt that the UN. But even better... WHY NOT KEEP IT IN PRIVATE HANDS WHERE IT HAS BEEN? Why is commerce getting their grubby hands all over the internet?
thnx. I would rather trust the citizens of this country with the internet than our government.
Soon there will be some 'problem' and government will jump to impose regulation to fix it and then this regulation will cause all types of problems which needs more regulation and then more and more until the internet is screwed up like everything else in society. Thats what Im fearful of.
I prefer it was private run as well. At least it is better it is run as it currently is. The more I read about this proposed international body ICANN, the less I like them.
Great News bump
What was BITNET? Where did that fit in? I remember using that before the Internet back around 1992.
sorry I can't help ya on bitnet
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