An Internet Giveaway to the U.N.

[Keith Smith]

As far as I know, the Internet was created by Americans with tax payer 
dollars.  The Internet belongs to the taxpayers.  If other countries do 
not like that they do not have to play.  The Internet should stay the 
property of the USA.

I think we should think about allowing private networks.  Something you 
and I would be able to run out of our garage. Why should it cost 
$100,000 to become a registrar? Let anyone buy an extension for $100.  
Then let the free market dictate what domains go for.

Let the rest of the world take their top level domains and create their 
own subnets.

The Internet is an American invention.  If the rest of the world does 
not like that so what?






On 2016-08-29 00:50, trent shipley wrote:
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/14/icann-internet-control-domain-names-iana
> [3]
> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37114313 [4]
> 
> And for those who don't trust liberals:
> http://www.hoover.org/research/tricky-issue-severing-us-control-over-icann
> [5]
> 
> Basically the US had to turn it over, or there would be a rebellion,
> and the US controlled ICANN would be forked, and made irrelevant.
> 
> It appears that the post-American ICANN will mostly be run the same
> way that standards for the web itself (W3), ethernet, and USB work.
> ICANN will mostly be run by a consortium of big companies, and to a
> lesser extent governments. Some governments will favor easy to censor
> internets, and some will favor open internets, and almost all will
> want easy to monitor internets, and the companies won't care what
> happens. I think we will see flexible solutions so that constituencies
> can optimize solutions for their own needs, while still maintaining a
> lot interoperability at the edges of subnets.
> 
> Organized and coordinated internet Balkanization.
> 
> Trent
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:27 AM Wayne D <waydavis at centurylink.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> 8 years ago, when Obama was elected the buzz HERE was how it was
>> wonderful, he'll bring change.
>> 
>> 8 years ago, MY reply was: "You people are going to get exactly what
>> you deserve. The only problem (I) have is that (I) will get what
>> YOU deserve as well."
>> 
>> On 08/28/2016 09:06 PM, David Schwartz wrote:
>> 
>> It seems like pretty much everything in America started with the
>> election of one Barack Hussain Obama in 2008.
>> 
>> I guess the world will end when he steps down next January, eh?
>> 
>> -David Schwartz
>> 
>> On Aug 28, 2016, at 6:58 PM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> The article states in part “Without the U.S. contract, Icann would
>> seek to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its
>> antitrust exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed
>> Icann become part of the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor
>> the internet globally. So much for the Obama pledge that the U.S.
>> would never be replaced by a “government-led or an
>> inter-governmental organization solution.””.
>> 
>> This could be really bad.
>> 
>> What is the solution?
>> 
>> Keith
>> 
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