Comments on: US renews ICANN deal http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9613 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9613/comment-page-1#comment-117190 Reader's Write Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:52:03 +0000 #comment-117190 If ICANN (& IANA) is not going to operate under the auspices of the US DoC, the UN stands ready and willing to scarf it right up. In fact they are drooling at the prospect. While the US Government might be a big control freak, just image how internet Governance would operate under the corrupt, bloated bureaucracy of the UN. --TG PS: By 'corrupt', I don't mean it in the criminal sense. I mean 'corrupt' as in serving the needs of the bureacracy first, instead of serving the interests of the constituents they are supposed to be providing services to in order to enable those constituents to go about their business efficiently and productively. If ICANN (& IANA) is not going to operate under the auspices of the US DoC, the UN stands ready and willing to scarf it right up. In fact they are drooling at the prospect.

While the US Government might be a big control freak, just image how internet Governance would operate under the corrupt, bloated bureaucracy of the UN.

–TG

PS: By ‘corrupt’, I don’t mean it in the criminal sense. I mean ‘corrupt’ as in serving the needs of the bureacracy first, instead of serving the interests of the constituents they are supposed to be providing services to in order to enable those constituents to go about their business efficiently and productively.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9613/comment-page-1#comment-117061 Reader's Write Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:06:09 +0000 #comment-117061 The questions that people need to ask is this: 1. Do we want countries like Lebanon, Syria, and North Korea have a say in how the net is governed? How about Cuba or China for that matter? 2. If a country like China gets ahold of it, they could block out anything at will by unregistering the, what they deem as offensive, pornographic, subversive, or controversial, domain name that is hosting the content. I think that technical control of the net such as domain names, IP addresses, technical standards, etc. should be left as is. After all, when Verisign tried to hijack all the queries that would have returned a NXDOMAIN and redirected it to a website, it broke alot of things. This happened a few years ago in fact. I remember that because I was affected by Verisign's little stunt. The questions that people need to ask is this:

1. Do we want countries like Lebanon, Syria, and North Korea have a say in how the net is governed? How about Cuba or China for that matter?

2. If a country like China gets ahold of it, they could block out anything at will by unregistering the, what they deem as offensive, pornographic, subversive, or controversial, domain name that is hosting the content.

I think that technical control of the net such as domain names, IP addresses, technical standards, etc. should be left as is. After all, when Verisign tried to hijack all the queries that would have returned a NXDOMAIN and redirected it to a website, it broke alot of things. This happened a few years ago in fact. I remember that because I was affected by Verisign’s little stunt.

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