If not America, who? The US, beacon of life, liberty, and stalwart defender of individual rights, is giving up "ownership" of the internet. The new agreement gives other countries, and the UN the ability to set internet use policies. Wee, dear friends ..... for those whose only shot of communication will be snuffed out.
It is amazing how much damage to our rights can be done in such a short period of time.
Watch for Sharia law to find its way into this.
China will say no to their dissidents.
Islam will say no and work block sites that attempt to reveal their bloody plans.
It was our extraordinary gift to the world ............... and like some depraved drunk we toss it away and relinquish control to the vultures and destroyers. We kept it free.
John Bolton said at his recent appearance at Duke University, ""it's not American strength that's provocative, it's American weakness.'
- • Icann ends agreement with the US government
- • Move will give other countries a prominent internet role
After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish somecontrol over the way the network is run and allow foreign governments more of a say in the future of the system.
Icann – the official body that ultimately controls the development of the internet thanks to its oversight of web addresses such as .com, .net and .org – said today that it was ending its agreement with the US government.
The deal, part of a contract negotiated with the US department of commerce, effectively pushes California-based Icann towards a new status as an international body with greater representation from companies and governments around the globe.
Icann had previously been operating under the auspices of the American government, which had control of the net thanks to its initial role in developing the underlying technologies used for connecting computers together.
But the fresh focus will give other countries a more prominent role in determining what takes place online, and even the way in which it happens – opening the door for a virtual United Nations, where many officials gather to discuss potential changes to the internet.
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Pasto,
I posted on this a few posts down. My post wasn't nearly as extensive, of course.
We are screwed if we lose the Internet.
Ray,
You don't think the Internet should be owned by any one country? It should be shared just like we share authority in the UN, huh?
That makes a lot of sense.
And, yes, even though you have not thanked me, you are welcome that America's Navy keeps the sea lanes open so you guys can get oil and goods from around the world.
Why do I tie the two issues together? Because, clearly, no one else in the world is up to the task of policing freedom, either of the internet nor of the seas.
So yes, you're welcome.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_the_Internet
The Internet was originally developed by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as a means to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities. Originally it was just email and FTP sites as well as the Usenet where scientists could question and answer each other. It was originally called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork). The concept was developed starting in 1964, and the first messages passed were between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in 1969. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT had published the first paper on packet switching theory in 1961. Since networking computers was new to begin with, standards were being developed on the fly. Once the concept was proven, the organizations involved started to lay out some ground rules for standardization.
One of the most important was the communications protocol, TCP/IP, developed by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn in 1974. Robert Metcalfe is credited with Ethernet which is the basic communication standard in networked computers.
Tim Berners-Lee perhaps specified technological applicability and / or linguistic construction of HTML while working at CERN, is chiefly credited for the ease of use and wide public adoption of the web. His website is: w3.org
Al Gore really did have a substantial part in the US legal framework and governmental issues related to the internet He never said he invented it.
There wasn't just ONE person that invented the internet. The internet is just a way to view files and information that someone puts onto a server. The internet is just a way to access the information.
Although there's a guy named Leonard Kleinrock who was the first person to write a paper on the idea of packet switching which is essential for internet to work. He wrote this idea in 1961.
And here are a couple more people that were essential to what we call internet today without these guys there wouldn't be The Internet.
Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966.
Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973. If any two people "invented the Internet," it was Kahn and Cerf - but they have publicily stated that "no one person or group of people" invented the Internet.
Radia Perlman invented the spanning tree algorithm in the 1980s. Her spanning tree algorithm allows efficient bridging between separate networks. Without a good bridging solution, large-scale networks like the Internet would be impractical.
CERN
The World Wide Web began as a CERN project called ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and Robert Cailliau in 1990.[9] Berners-Lee and Cailliau were jointly honored by the Association for Computing Machinery in 1995 for their contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.
Berners-Lee was British, but he was a professor at MIT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
Berners-Lee did not invent the internet. He invented the World Wide Web:
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
ICANN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN
ICANN (pronounced /aɪkæn/, eye-can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, United States, ICANN is a non-profit corporation that was created on September 18, 1998 and incorporated September 30, 1998[1] in order to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
ICANN's tasks include responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) top-level domain name system management, and root server system management functions. More generically, ICANN is responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses. To date, much of its work has concerned the introduction of new generic top-level domains (TLDs). The technical work of ICANN is referred to as the IANA function.
ICANN's primary principles of operation have been described as helping preserve the operational stability of the Internet; to promote competition; to achieve broad representation of global Internet community; and to develop policies appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.[2]
You criticize us for our anti-British excesses quite often.
In this case, it is you who are being obnoxious.
What I said was not (a) anti American (b) obnoxious. methinks you over react. I was simply expressing my surprise that the Americans think they OWN the internet - sorry, world wide web, to be pedantic.
If you can't take it, don't dish it out. The anti British stuff here is rife. I will always try to correct over reactions/exaggeration/untruths from our American friends - who do tend to be hotheads at times AND like to put us down at any opportunity i.e. Weenie-ism.
There are many things I could criticize on this blog about America but I refrain because Islam is the enemy and we are supposed to be allies.
The US Navy is irrelevant in this. You could not expect a small island like the UK to compete on that level. We do, however, contribute more than any other Euro nation to conflicts, standing alongside the US. Our navy also patrols the Carribean in search of drug runners thus aiding the US.
Some how this could be a good thing for a thousand and one reasons.
Just compare how far the anti-jihad movement has advance with the aid of the internet with how islam has advanced without it.
Thanx to the net we have a global outreach, but in reality we have become isolated on a local level.
What good is it being able to exchange views with somebody on the other side of the world about what is happening somewhere else, when you don,t even know anybody else on your own block.
There is no need for the internet to organize on a local level, we only have to look at the moslems for proof of that.
We don't have much time left, so what time is left, we should find ways of combatting islam without the aid of the net
I can see it all now. Instead of one organizer of how the 'net runs, a hodge podge of crap per nation guaranteeing that in 'net grinds to a halt and no information gets in or out a some places, most likely on purpose. Brilliant.
Ray Boyd,
This is not ultimately over whether America "owns the internet."
You said the following:
" ... the internet should not be owned by any one country."
My answer to you was to specify what ICAAN is and who invented the internet. Strictly speaking it is impossible to "own" the internet.
But apparently, you object to the idea of America controlling the internet.
Now that ICAAN is ceding power, apparently, you think that is a good thing.
Or, at least, that's what I took your comment to mean.
What did you mean by your comment.
Sameno Kami,
You said it better than I. Ray should read your comment. That's the essence of the problem.
ICAAN has been mediating Internet Protocol and making sure the internet "shipping lanes" remain free.
Now, some nebulous world body is going to take control (as Euros have been clamoring for for the past six or sever years).
So, we'll have a Tower of Babel situation.
Great.
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