[IP] more on Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the Internet

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:15:16 -0800
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>

[Note:  This comment comes from reader Dave Hughes.  DLH]

At 9:04 -0700 12/8/03, Dave Hughes wrote:
> From: "Dave Hughes" <dave@oldcolo.com>
> To: <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: RE: [Dewayne-Net] Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the Internet
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:04:35 -0700
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> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the Internet
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> > "The world should be grateful to Uncle Sam for creating the Internet,"
> > said Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, a Jordanian businessman who is vice chairman
> of
> > the United Nations' Information and Communication Technology Task
> Force.
> > But, he said, it is time for the rest of the world to have a larger
> voice
> > in Internet governance.
>
> Grateful, my b***! It was INVENTED in the US, and not 'by' Uncle Sam -
> i.e. the US government. It just paid for the research bills. Why should
> ANY other governments have a 'voice' - which is just AKA for 'control'
> of the Internet? That's the real international goal. CONTROL! Its enough
> that the US Government has its own nose into the Internet. I wouldn't
> trust China, Cuba, France, Iran, Zimbabwe any more to 'control' the
> Internet root servers any more than I would the US Congress.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Icann's role is limited to technical matters like the format of
> Internet
> > addresses, Mr. Twomey said. "If governments think they can really find
> a
> > place to discuss spam and child porn and e-commerce, we would probably
> > welcome it," he said. "These things are not in our charter - it is not
> > what we do. So we want to assure everyone involved that we are not
> > standing in the way."
>
> Amen. But not in ICANN. As I said at least 20 years ago (my original
> quote technically updated here for those youngsters who don't remember
> what 'BBS's, or Fidonets, or UUCP were) when global, affordable,
> individual Internet communications first started spreading:
>
> Benjamin Franklin would have been the first Linux user.
>
> Thomas Jefferson would have first circulated drafts of the Declaration
> of Independence on a moderated mail-list.
>
> Tomas Paine would have first published 'Common Sense' on a Blog.
>
> I don't want any foreign Kings George treading on my long-ago ARIN
> assigned ISP Class C Address Space!
>
> We must continue to have absolute freedom of Internet space and the all
> the electronic speech that goes with it!
>
> Dave Hughes
> dave@oldcolo.com

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