 Jafo232You Can't Spell Democrat Without Rat.Premium
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Boonville, NY | Heres the flaw in the slaw »www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/3···481.html
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They also want greater assurance that as they come to rely on the Internet more for governmental and other services, their plans won't get derailed by some future U.S. policy.
Policy decisions could at a stroke make all Web sites ending in a specific suffix essentially unreachable.
As opposed to leaving the US government and other services derailed by some future UN policy.
No thanks.
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 sporkmedrop the crantini and move it, sisterPremium,MVM
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| said by Jafo232:» www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/3···481.html quote:
They also want greater assurance that as they come to rely on the Internet more for governmental and other services, their plans won't get derailed by some future U.S. policy.
Policy decisions could at a stroke make all Web sites ending in a specific suffix essentially unreachable.
As opposed to leaving the US government and other services derailed by some future UN policy. No thanks. Oh please, don't be so dramatic. It's the Internet.
If some governing body runs amok and we don't like it (and assuming we don't bomb the shit out of them) we still have "our" network here and we could easily remedy this by taking control of any root DNS servers that are on our own soil.
But humor me, since everyone's so scared, what is the nightmare scenario that we would not be able to prevent? Can you name another such scenario of an ITU-ruled technology? Ruskies taking the "9" digit off of our phones? Help me out here. If we're going to be all scared of the ITU, I'd like to know what I'm supposed to be quaking in my boots over. |
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 click_310Eat my shorts
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Savannah, GA | funny no one's explaining what the FUD is about..... |
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Jafo232You Can't Spell Democrat Without Rat.Premium
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Boonville, NY | reply to sporkme
said by sporkme:Oh please, don't be so dramatic. It's the Internet. If some governing body runs amok and we don't like it (and assuming we don't bomb the shit out of them) we still have "our" network here and we could easily remedy this by taking control of any root DNS servers that are on our own soil. But humor me, since everyone's so scared, what is the nightmare scenario that we would not be able to prevent? Can you name another such scenario of an ITU-ruled technology? Ruskies taking the "9" digit off of our phones? Help me out here. If we're going to be all scared of the ITU, I'd like to know what I'm supposed to be quaking in my boots over. First of all, your assuming the root DNS servers would stay here.
The nightmare scenario is the UN within about 4 seconds could shut the US or any other country off for that matter. Sure we could bomb our way back online, but not after billions of dollars went down the sewer.
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 kapilThe Kapil
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Chicago, IL | reply to Jafo232
The current US policy could use some derailment! 
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said by Jafo232:First of all, your assuming the root DNS servers would stay here. That's a very fair assumption. There will always be some root servers here, it makes technical sense. Right now you know that they are not all in the US, right?
»www.root-servers.org/
said by Jafo232:The nightmare scenario is the UN within about 4 seconds could shut the US or any other country off for that matter. Sure we could bomb our way back online, but not after billions of dollars went down the sewer. So let me get this straight, the ITU (or as you like to keep saying "The UN") who typically can't make any decision in less than a few months would make a sweeping change in 4 seconds? And technically can you explain how they would "shut a country off"? How exactly would they do that? The internet is a collection of private networks driven by profit. Network operators have proven time and time again that they can work around stupidity when the shit hits the fan. We're entering tinfoil hat territory here... |
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| You, sir, are as big an ignorant idiot as they come. The U.N. wants control of the Internet so they can hold it over us -- no other reason. If you can disrupt or even cut off the flow of information to/from a country (specifically financial transactions) you can bring its economy to a grinding halt. This is reality -- something apparently you, like so many other liberal Dems, refuse to live in. |
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click_310Eat my shorts
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Savannah, GA | Time to cut off the direct Fox News feed going in to your head.
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said by LinuxJunkie:You, sir, are as big an ignorant idiot as they come. The U.N. wants control of the Internet so they can hold it over us -- no other reason. If you can disrupt or even cut off the flow of information to/from a country (specifically financial transactions) you can bring its economy to a grinding halt. This is reality -- something apparently you, like so many other liberal Dems, refuse to live in. How do you know my political affiliation, and why do you need to resort to talking like a 5 year old?
I've been in the ISP business since 1996. Know what? I know more than you. I know that you folks are just spreading FUD. You don't know anything about the ITU, either it seems.
I will ask again:
-TECHNICALLY, how would the UN "turn off the internet"?
-If we don't care about the rest of the world or connecting to it, why do you care if that part of the internet is turned off?
-How would the private sector here respond?
On the last one, there are plenty of examples in the last ten years of how private enterprise has worked around political issues. It's simple enough to be boring. |
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Hey with you harping on the fact that sound decisions take time.. that blew my theory that you are a democrat. So what are you actually other than thoroughly confused? |
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 CheddarheadAin't Nuthin But A Thang
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Hudson, WI | reply to sporkme
Wow... 1996... well, I've been in the IT biz since 1983... so I know more than YOU! The UN, ITU will never control the internet, not in our lifetime, guarenteed... any questions?
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