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2005-07-01 Home Front: Tech

U.S. Won't Cede Control Of Internet's Root Servers

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Posted by tu3031 2005-07-01 11:56|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Amen.

Posted by .com 2005-07-01 12:17|| 2005-07-01 12:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank goodness. If some other county wants to build their own internet, fine. Don't give control of our backbone and porn surfing to someone else!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-01 12:37|| 2005-07-01 12:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Out of my cold, dead hands!

Posted by BA">BA 2005-07-01 13:20|| 2005-07-01 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 This is necessary, but invites balkanization of the net's address space. Conflicts caused by "alternate" root servers could be interesting, in the chinese curse sense.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-07-01 14:06|| 2005-07-01 14:06|| Front Page Top

#5 The Gov. should put a new engineered "super virus" on these whinning bastards.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-07-01 17:18|| 2005-07-01 17:18|| Front Page Top

#6 In a worst-case scenario, countries refusing to accept U.S. control could establish their own separate Domain Name System and thus fracture the Internet into more than one network. BS, just set up a new root, such as .UN that ICANN ignores or routes to the other root servers which is more or less how it works at the moment.

BTW, international control is the route to both taxation and censorship.

Posted by phil_b 2005-07-01 18:40|| 2005-07-01 18:40|| Front Page Top

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