UN control of the Internet! Slashdot reports that the U.S. has recently re-affirmed that they do *not* plan on handing over control of the Internet to the UN at any time in the till-GW-leaves-office future. Back off! was the message sent. Many think that this will cause the non-U.S. world to start up their own DNS systems.
I have an opinion. 1) I don't think I want the UN controlling Internet resource naming. Declan McCullagh has reported well on this subject. b) What's wrong with other nations starting their own DNS's? Oh yeah, interoperability. But I think DNS should be decentralized anyway. The ideological battle-cry of the Internet has been "decentralization" and "power to the individual". DNS is one area that this very well could apply to. I suppose YouCANN and the rest are dead now, but the spirit lives on. If the geeks of the world can't figure out how to tackle the interoperability issue, then they're not the geeks we've come to know and love. Earthlink adopted an alternate DNS. The I2P network has managed to decentralize naming services. If a Democrat were in office, I think the Internet, lock stock and barrel, would have been handed over to those bureaucrats long ago. I hate not hating Bush, but I think it's due for once. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
