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The domain name system is, in fact, two decades old this year -- and has not evolved much in that time compared to other Internet technologies. Meanwhile, much traffic, from instant messaging to peer-to-peer networks, travels outside the ICANN-sanctioned domain name system -- underscoring that the Internet is not immutable and that one day all the political bickering may not mean much.
Yet legacy technologies can be awfully persistent. The British Admiralty used Morse code as a back-up for ship communications as late as 2000. Technologies still in widespread use are difficult to unseat, regardless of kings and presidents -- or even rough consensus and a running code.
Kenneth Neil Cukier covers technology and regulatory issues for The Economist in London.
The photo accompanying this article on the TechnologyReview.com home page shows President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia addressing delegates at the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society. It was taken by R. Guerra and is reproduced under a Creative Commons license.
Guest (Jack Vaughan)
I know there has been controversy in similar hearings before..but the picture arises here of a contentious world confab. Not terribly unlike Hallie Ss League of Nations speech or one in StarWars. Have we entered a really new era in globalism and the Web? Is the U.S. in its own world?
Guest (Jack Vaughan)
I know there has been controversy in similar hearings before..but the picture arises here of a contentious world confab. Not terribly unlike Hallie Ss League of Nations speech or one in StarWars. Have we entered a really new era in globalism and the Web?
Guest (Jack Vaughan)
I know there has been controversy in similar hearings before..but the picture arises here of a contentious world confab. Not terribly unlike Hallie Ss League of Nations speech or one in StarWars. Have we entered a really new era in globalism and the Web? Is the U.S. in its own world?
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Guest (Jack Vaughan)
Stange confab
I know there has been controversy in similar hearings before..but the picture arises here of a contentious world confab. Not terribly unlike Hallie Ss League of Nations speech or one in StarWars. Have we entered a really new era in globalism and the Web?
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Guest (Erik Karl Sorgatz)
Internet rights vs responsibilities
Ive read all the RFCs and the informal proposals - not one of these tin-pot backwater whinners is willing to step up to ICANN and offer to trade good practices and accepted methods for autonomy in managing their network extensions. France is a global haven for spammers, scammers and identity thieves, as is Korea, the Caymanns, China, etc. Besides, the Internet is really the commercialized product of ARPA-NET so why shouldnt the US continue to lead in the businesss of names and IP numbering? If those people want it SO BAD, let em build a national LAN! - we can always discuss the idea of allowing their traffic on gateway-basis, IF they behave themselves! I mean come on, half these places dont even have indoor plumbing or a stable agricultural infrastructure, yet theyre worried about having "control" over something to do with the Internet? Whats the point? They just dislike the idea that America is the last standing superpower - plain and simple.
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Guest (Erik Karl Sorgatz)
Internet rights vs responsibilities
Ive read all the RFCs and the informal proposals - not one of these tin-pot backwater whinners is willing to step up to ICANN and offer to trade good practices and accepted methods for autonomy in managing their network extensions. France is a global haven for spammers, scammers and identity thieves, as is Korea, the Caymanns, China, etc. Besides, the Internet is really the commercialized product of ARPA-NET so why shouldnt the US continue to lead in the businesss of names and IP numbering? If those people want it SO BAD, let em build a national LAN! - we can always discuss the idea of allowing their traffic on gateway-basis, IF they behave themselves! I mean come on, half these places dont even have indoor plumbing or a stable agricultural infrastructure, yet theyre worried about having "control" over something to do with the Internet? Whats the point? They just dislike the idea that America is the last standing superpower - plain and simple.
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