Comments on: How the Net is run

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:46:42 +0000

Well…. it was invented in the us.. not like it’s being bogarted, that much. sure .gov and some other tld’s aren’t shared with other countries, but they get thier own.

Are people really going to keep crying because the “good” names were all taken?

Seriously. WTF?

Face it. If DNS control were handed over to everyone, it would be an even bigger clusterfuck then it already is.

Should things that are used and depended on worldwide be reliquinshed to the UN? LOL i’m sure all countries with things like that would love to give up thier good stuff because some people have issues with it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:14:10 +0000

I’m not sure i really want the net to be run by a committee of committees every single one of which has their own agenda.

For example, i’m sure the chinese govt for one would LOVE to be able to stop everybody being able to search for evil words like “democracy” just to make sure that noone in their country can.

I can also see issues with some countries happy to grant urls that would offend other countries and then a huge bunfight starting over it all.

In fact the more i think about it, the more i believe letting ANY govt have any say in how the net is run would be a catastrophe. Just put it in the hands of nerdy scientists who’s only concerns would be to make it better and faster than it is now. And don’t let the Korps get their bloodsucking fangs into it!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:32:22 +0000

With all due respect, i think you are missing the point, which is, the internet is world wide, not just american, so why should it be run soly by americans?

The internet is integral to the social and economic success of the entire world. Be that as it may, the entire international community should have a say in how it’s run.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:19:34 +0000

to an international group… end of story…

I know the US government wants too… but it CAN’T rule the world… =P

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:04:34 +0000

I say that the P.S.A. (U.S.) has been doing a pretty fair job at running the Internet DNS the way things are. Granted, the Bush administration is in big with all of the cartels, but that does not mean that this corruption has made it to the Domain Naming Sytem. If the U.N. forces the issue and creates a competing U.N. DNS system, the Internet will fragment. I know that I, for one, will not pay good money to register my domain name with both P.S.A. and U.N. registrars.

The U.N. running the DNS sytem will put too much control of the Domain Naming system into the hands of despotic governments. The only way I would want to replace the P.S.A. as steward of the DNS system is if the DNS system were to by run by the likes of the founders of the Free Software Foundation or the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I do not believe that any big company, government, or organization of governments are trustworthy enough to run the DNS system in a just manner. Governments and corporations have proven time and time again that they are not capable enough to do the job in a fair manner.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:00:22 +0000

Is it bad that this

“On Sunday, a reporter with the French daily Liberation, Christophe Boltanski, was stabbed and kicked - but not seriously hurt - outside his hotel in Tunis,” says AP. “Boltanski had been investigating the recent beating of human rights activists in the country.”

gave me a laugh ?

/ponder