Posted on 10/02/2009 6:51:07 PM PDT by NorwegianViking
After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish some control over the way the network is run and allow foreign governments more of a say in the future of the system. Icann – the official body that ultimately controls the development of the internet thanks to its oversight of web addresses such as .com, .net and .org – said today that it was ending its agreement with the US government. The deal, part of a contract negotiated with the US department of commerce, effectively pushes California-based Icann towards a new status as an international body with greater representation from companies and governments around the globe. Icann had previously been operating under the auspices of the American government, which had control of the net thanks to its initial role in developing the underlying technologies used for connecting computers together. But the fresh focus will give other countries a more prominent role in determining what takes place online, and even the way in which it happens – opening the door for a virtual United Nations, where many officials gather to discuss potential changes to the internet. Icann chief Rod Beckstrom, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Washington insider who took over running the organisation in July, said there had been legitimate concerns that some countries were developing alternative internets as a way of routing around American control. "It's rumoured that there are multiple experiments going on with countries forking the internet, various countries have discussed this," he said. "...He added that the changes would prove powerful when combined with upcoming plans to allow web users to use addresses with names in Chinese, Arabic or other alphabets other than Latin...
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Please see post number 160.
Look for pirate servers to be started up.
It’s just like The Panama Canal, we build it and then we get an idiot President who gives it away.
Thank you!
It is fundamentally a numeric system. There are databases (Domain Name Servers) that translate alphabetic addresses into numeric addresses. They will just expand the types of characters that can be translated into numbers.
They will just expand the types of characters that can be translated into numbers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Right, I know all that
Think about it.
When English is NOT the major notation language, what happens?
The numbers work, the text that you may want to use might work, or might not. Depends on what part of the web you might be using it.
Babel revisited?
Not even considering the security ramifications.This is not a welcome move, IMHO.
Its a way to chop the WWW up.
he’s doing everything else he wants while the gop fiddles
The Bilderbergers have been working on this for 10 years or so.
The Web is powerful. They want the Web. Any questions?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/us/politics/17cyber.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
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This move would appear to be Zero's response to a brouhaha that blew up last April, with people (incl. Republicans) complaining the National Security Agency had too much Net capability and control.
But still .... alienating the 'Net completely? Damn!
Idiots. Freaking idiots.
freaking idiots in dc ping [not surprised, just disgusted]
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