On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
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...
Which is fine.
Besides, no gov't _can_ have the single authority. You can always
ignore what other people sign or do not sign.
That said, I completely agree the DHS shouldn't have even the modicum
of power holding the keys would give it.
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TTFN,
patrick
