Should the US keep control of teh interwebz?Follow

Back in the can Oscar.

Well for one we don't have to convene an inefficient meeting of disparate countries to argue for weeks on end on exactly what the impact will be by trying to handle a widespread DNS attack.

Instead we can just fix the problem and move on quickly.

I don't know much about this subject, so maybe this is more of a question. Isn't sites like that exactly what we stand to lose? We give the internet up to the UN and they start having little votes about which sites should be banned world-wide. It starts out small with chicks with ***** sites, and suddenly any site bashing the rulers of whatever country are banned.

Anyhow just a thought.

the contries are not buying bandwidth, they are looking to aquire IP ranges from ICANN. They are also wanting to make sure that root domains are not removed from the DNS records of the world.

example is .tw if you remember about a year ago there was a HUGE rash of both viruses and spam mails that came out of that root domain. most e-mail servers in the US and Europe have blocked that root domain on their spam guard systems, but the .tw is still a valid root domain.

now if ICANN had chose to drop the .tw as a root domain, then every domain name in the world that ends in .tw would be dropped within 48hrs.

I do not see that happening as nothing like that in history has happend and in the past few years more and more root domains are being ADDED while none are being removed.

as for the IP pools? well that is what IPv6 is for. the older IPv4 (the standard XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) have all but ran out of blocks, but with IPv6 you will not run out of IP pools any time soon and when they do, there will be the next vs of IPvX to come along and help with that issue.

In all, i think it is just a bunch of someone trying to take from the haves who created something that have no claim to it. as stated above F-them and the horse they road in on.

They are welcome to creat their own RFC standards and their own Internet type system if they really want full controll over it.

The internet is a viable military asset. Most of the U.S., most of Europe, Austalia, and portions of Asia and south america have power grids, traffic controlls (signals, ATC and control systems, Radar) communications infrastructures (IP telephony) that are all internet controllable, or at least dial in networking. Do a search for Naztec Streetwise, it's one of the most popular traffic signal control programs out there, and has security holes big enough to drive a small city through. In order to block attacks, and in order to launch the same sort of attack on people we're pissed at in the future. You sure as hell don't want a body mired in the worst form of world politics running things.