“In theory the US could decide to delete a country from the master root server.â€
Went thru a very interesting article on HOW and WHY a group convened by the UN is calling for an end to US domination of the net, proposing that instead a multinational forum of governments, companies and civilian organisations is created to run it.
Went thru a very interesting article on HOW and WHY a group convened by the UN is calling for an end to US domination of the net, proposing that instead a multinational forum of governments, companies and civilian organisations is created to run it.
However it seems that the US is not ready to give up its authority that easily.
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arZan
Aug 2nd, 2005 at 8:34 pm | #
Yes this is a scary issue. I had written a paper on this theme as part of my graduate architecture thesis. Will post it on the web someday.
The monopoly will end someday. More and more technology is getting open-sourced and such controls over public domain will have to get decentralized or at least politically sterile. Thats not the case just now.