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1 edit | Nation-neutral internet governance... If the brilliant political minds of the world were so interested in peeling the governance away from the politically motivated US government, why not come up with a better solution to the problem than trying to stick it with ANOTHER politically motivated body? 
The .xxx domain decision, as well as other far lessor known instances, shows that the US government shouldn't have final say over the root system. The government attempted to foist their moral opinion on the world by blocking the .xxx suffix. Thankfully they saw the facts and realized that having a .xxx suffix isn't going to create anymore problems than the ten to one hundred thousand or so .com porn sites already out there...
The real solution to this is to remove the US government's control of the root away and give TOTAL control ICANN or another new group of international experts LIKE ICANN or the IETF... As well, each contry's suffix (such as .uk, .ir, .iq, etc.) should be under the control of that government/state or their designee.
But to give it to the UN.... No thanks. Politicians of every nation screw things up more than they get them right and the UN is just that, a bunch of politicians.
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 Jafo232You Can't Spell Democrat Without Rat.Premium
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Boonville, NY | said by bmn:The .xxx domain decision, as well as other far lessor known instances, shows that the US government shouldn't have final say over the root system. The government attempted to foist their moral opinion on the world by blocking the .xxx suffix. Thankfully they saw the facts and realized that having a .xxx suffix isn't going to create anymore problems than the ten to one hundred thousand or so .com porn sites already out there... The US government built it, that is why it has the final say over it. Same thing with airforce bases and battleships.
Sorry, but turning over the control over the Internet to the UN would be akin to giving them control over the interstates.
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| said by Jafo232:The US government built it, that is why it has the final say over it. Same thing with airforce bases and battleships. The goverment "built" an initial network for military use that is no longer the Internet. NFSNet topped out at T3s. The commercial Internet, which is what we are talking about here, was built with private capital, not with government subsidies. Don't rewrite history, and don't undermine our American system of private enterprise by saying the Internet is some kind of socialist fairlyland. |
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bmn? ? ?Premium,ExMod 2003-06
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said by Jafo232:Sorry, but turning over the control over the Internet to the UN would be akin to giving them control over the interstates. How about reading what I ACTUALLY typed instead of what you THINK I typed ? My post clearly states that I oppose giving control of the root servers to the UN.
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