At 04:52 PM 4/23/2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
I do not want any particular gov't (US or otherwise) to be "in charge" of the Internet any more than the next person. And good thing too, because it simply cannot happen, political pipe-dreams not withstanding. But what has that got to do with the DHS promoting an idea to sign IP space allocations and/or annoucements? The idea in-and-of-itself doesn't sound wholly unreasonable. (I am not advocating this, just saying the idea shouldn't be rejected without consideration simply because the DHS said it.)
The question is who would do the signing and revocations. Whoever does that would indeed have a great amount of control over the internet. A single government agency should not have that sort of power to make a (for lack of better term), "no surf list" of IP space...
---Mike
