U.S. Won't Concede Control of Internet Root Servers

AP ^ | 6/30/2005 | Anick Jesdanun

[RKV]

GO GAUCHOS! I also am a UCSB alum (class of '78) and worked with the net using Gopher and Wais before HTML was invented. UCSB was in the first 4 sites connected to the ARPANET. Good to hear from you. I still live in SB.

[RKV]

He says he invented it. WRONG. I was there pretty early - used ARPANET in the mid 1970s at UC Santa Barbara (the predecessor to the Internet).

[commonasdirt]

"Speaking of the Carter Administration..."

My sons, 25 & 26, are typical of most young people having no knowledge of history and do not believe what I have told them of the Carter Years (not even about the swimming attack bunny). Not the high interest rates....Not the trying to please everyone and having no respect at all.....nothing, they think I tend to exaggerate. For that reason I fear we are doomed to repeat history once again at some point. Be afraid....be very very afraid. Thanks for '80 Teddy info. Fortunately that aged alcohol fueled gasbag will not be much of a threat in the future.

[bobdsmith]

But thinking about it more, this is a different issue. Intercepting data is something you can do with control of a DNS server, but not really a root server as noone directly connects to one to resolve hostnames.

Also doing this with a DNS server is detectable. If the DNS server says the address of hotmail.com is something you know it isn't then surely you know that someone may be attempting to redirect your data.

[hiredhand]

Yeah. :-) It's LOT of power to give away. I'm HOPING that "somebody" is advising our people in power.

[benjibrowder]

If it happens, (God forbid it does =( ) We should give the internet to the swiss, because above anyone else, I'd trust the swiss rather than the mexicans french germans italians, russians, chinese etc.

[Gaffer]

Damn straight....let them get their own internet!

Besides, have they consulted Al Gore....he invented it!

[hiredhand]

It's a phenonminal, TREMENDOUS amount of power to give away. As I was saying, whoever controls the roots, basically has the ability to control e-mail on this planet.

Worse than this though, they could subvert it and never get caught. Especially with BIND v.9.x and a little feature called "views".

[Meldrim]

"plus, you know, thats our porn, not theirs..."

Madoka Ozawa would question that assertion.

[xrp]

Thanks for posting Blowhard Kennedy's campaign rhetoric from 1980. How interesting it is to see that the Democrat message and warchants really haven't changed much in 25 years.

[bobdsmith]

"If it happens, (God forbid it does =( ) We should give the internet to the swiss, because above anyone else, I'd trust the swiss rather than the mexicans french germans italians, russians, chinese etc."

*Trying to think of a joke about clocks*

[Army Air Corps]

Hell's bells, the UN can't organise lunch and now they want to control the 'net? With their abundant ability for mismanagement, people with return to snail mail and ham radio because they would be a helluva lot more efficient than UN-Net.

[jveritas]

The internet was invented and used in the US years before the world knew what is an internet. We invented 95% of the softwares and hardwares required to run the world wide web internet service. Of course we should retain control over its traffic.

[cyborg]

Telephone tin cans, smoke signals, bongo drums...the future if the UN gets their hands on the Internet. FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!! ;-)

[CatoRenasci]

No, no, remember the student body voted in '70 or '71 to change the name of the teams to the Roaches (not the insect kind)!

you're lucky to be living in SB, what a wonderful place! Hard to do any work, though, especially in the '60s and early '70s with the riots.

[wanderin]

Others supported the Panama Canal deal against conservative stance.

One of them was John Wayne, who was a conservative. He was behind the deal 100%.

Here is some info...

More recently, he found himself the target of much hate mail from the right wing, whose political idol he had been, after he supported President Carter's espousal of the Panama Canal treaties. He did not mind. Although his basic views had not moderated, his tolerance, it seemed, had.

He had even shown up at a function to congratulate Jane Fonda, who was to the left what he was to the right, on winning a screen award.

Here is the link to the source.

http://www.jwayne.com/biography.shtml

[dfwgator]

Of course at one time nobody thought we would have given up the Panama Canal either.

[subterfuge]

"Some critics can go to hell."

Hey "some critics" is Katie Couric's source too! She also uses "some people."

[subterfuge]

" Liberals would rather push needles into their eyeballs and torture their aging parents than give away power. :-)"

Agreed hired. But what about the great potential for reducing America to a sniveling socialist state like the liberals want? Wouldn't they see some value in that? On the one hand, they want their power, but hey, if a great opportunity comes along that pushes our country into socialism I would think they could overlook a little thing like control of the 'net. My $.02.

[bobdsmith]

control of root servers is not control of the net.