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JohnPhoenix
I'm confused..
WHO are they giving control To?
ICANN is going to help make the transition it says but it seems as it reads - like they are just a middle man. Who is getting this control and why? How will this effect everyday users like me?
VoidHawk
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Just WHAT are they giving away?
ISP's own the hardware that gives us our connections. Other companies own the infrastructure. So it seems to me what they are giving away is the CONTROL of the internet!
999zxcv
VoidHawk
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Just WHAT are they giving away?
ISP's own the hardware that gives us our connections. Other companies own the infrastructure. So it seems to me what they are giving away is the CONTROL of the internet!
the army had the internet in 1952 ? and my first internet Dongal was licenced in 1985 we are in the stone age when it comes to these thing's [snip]edit on 14-3-2014 by elevatedone because: (no reason given)
VoidHawk
999zxcv
VoidHawk
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Just WHAT are they giving away?
ISP's own the hardware that gives us our connections. Other companies own the infrastructure. So it seems to me what they are giving away is the CONTROL of the internet!
the army had the internet in 1952 ? and my first internet Dongal was licenced in 1985 we are in the stone age when it comes to these thing's [snip]edit on 14-3-2014 by elevatedone because: (no reason given)
LOL If this present bunch of muppets running the world have their way we'll be back to two bakebean cans and a peice of string
Forget what you know about the Internet, especially the part where you have to pay to access it.
A New York City-based company, the Media Development Investment Fund, plans to launch hundreds of low-cost miniature satellites known as “cubesats” into orbit around the Earth to create the Outernet, a wireless connection to the Web available for free to every person in the world. If everything goes according to plan, the Outernet could be here as soon as June 2015.
Each cubesat receives data from a network of ground stations around the world and transmits this information on a loop until new information is received. This means using the Outernet will be more like watching a program broadcast on TV, though Outernet users will build a priority list for the information they want and make suggestions for new content.
"Our goal is to achieve equitable stakeholder participation in bottom-up fashion so as to assure ecosystem legitimacy and continued Internet success. It has grown smoothly in the last few decades to serve more than 3 billion users and will have to handle several billion additional users and devices in the years to come."
New mechanisms to map issues to solutions are needed.
New localized mechanisms and national and regional Internet governance structures are needed.
ICANN needs to further globalize.
Global, regional, and national forums and dialogues on Internet governance issues must be strengthened.
Expert communities are needed to support Internet governance structures and mechanisms.
More empowerment, development, and tools are needed to enable Internet governance mechanisms and structures at the global, regional, and national levels.
with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to the sale of infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered...
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that implementation of the bill would cost the federal government $47 million through 2016, to cover enforcement costs and the hiring and training of 22 new special agents....
The initial report of ICANN's Expert Working Group has recommended that the present form of Whois, a utility that allows anyone to know who has registered a domain name on the Internet, be scrapped.
It recommends it be replaced with a system that keeps information secret from most Internet users, and only discloses information for “permissible purposes”.
ICANN’s list of permissible purposes includes Domain name research, Domain name sale and purchase, Regulatory enforcement, Personal data protection, Legal actions, and Abuse mitigation.
Whois has been a key tool of investigative journalists interested in determining who was disseminating information on the Internet.
The use of whois by the free press is not included in the list of permissible purposes in the initial report.
Proposed Elimination of Public DNS Whois
Libertygal
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Got to love the Friday night news dumps, eh? My husband was playing with a new phone he got from work, and hit up Drudge. There it was.