 TamaraBQuestion The Current ParadigmPremium
join:2000-11-08
Da Bronx
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Clearwire Wireless
| Playing nice with othersActually it would be quite trivial for the UN, with the cooperation of every other nation, to set up a parallel root-server, and IP Allocation system and maintain it; there is nothing which would technically prevent this from happening. Where allocation overlaps, and disagreements with the US happen, the US could simply be cut off from that portion of the IP or name space in dispute, making disputed IP addresses, and disputed names, rout-able only within the US.
After all, in-country IP routing is already under the control of each individual nation, and if they wanted to, all they would have to do is simply ignore ICANN. Name-space, and IP allocations could easily be coordinated by an International body like the UN. The US would have to go along, or jeopardise having portions of their network cut off from the rest of the world. Of course, the US may actually prefer to be further isolated, but that's another issue.
What if every nation began consulting "root servers" scattered throughout the globe, and only consulted the US system for US information? Bottom line is, the world does not need US "permission" to govern their own Internet space, they could just organise and implement it on their own.
The Internet has become an International communications medium, and I see no valid reason, technical or political, why it should not be Internationally governed. Having Internet governance centered in one country, is actually contrary to the original ARPANET concept of a "distributed" and "decentralised" system, where no single point is critical to it's operation, and where no single point can disable the entire network.
Cooperation, and "playing nice with others" here is the key, not absolute control. The concept of the US controlling a worldwide International communications system is hubris at it's worst, and in the end can only further exacerbate our already rapidly declining standing in the world community.
Further; given the US Government's ever increasing thirst to monitor, intercept, spy, control, and disrupt communications based on it's own narrow political agenda, it becomes clear, that the world at large, actually needs to dis-engage from US-based Internet control, with it's ever increasing potential for politically-motivated disruption. When you don't play nice with others, others don't want to play with you.
Bob
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