Teh Entarnets In Je0pardy?

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So I was surfing the Asylum of Allakhazam.com since it's the closest thing I have to a news site and came across this:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1589967,00.html

A small excerpt from it to tease your minds:

The linky thing above said:
A battle has erupted over who governs the internet, with America demanding to maintain a key role in the network it helped create and other countries demanding more control.

The European commission is warning that if a deal cannot be reached at a meeting in Tunisia next month the internet will split apart.
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Could you imagine if things can't be resolved? Suddenly all the worlds countries splitting off and only your own countries webpages could be explored?

Suffice to say FFXI would be a bit difficult to play if certain countries were completely cut off because of their respective governments, and let's not go into the scary world we would live in if only the Japanese could play FFXI.

Thoughts, comments?
 
I don't think thats gonna happen. But I could be wrong.

The people that would lose the most would be the people that are doing the threatening.

They should be more diplomatic. Actually I'd think all the software companies might be happy about this, lol. Less pirating.

Could you imagine those countries being cut off from the U.S. ?

Kinda arrogant to look at it like that but............ I don't see that happening.

Personally I'd care more about getting cut off from china and japan, for my bussiness anyway.

Being connected to the EU has done nothing for me personally that I'm aware of. The reason they wanna do this is because of all the child porn bull shit over there that they can't handle.

Might be a good reason to cut the EU off anyway till they get that straightened out.
 
1 more thing.

Why fix something thats not broke? The internet is standardized, why add more complexity to it? This is like either having just one strong OS called windows, or 200 differnt OS's all with their own problems and idiosyncrises.
 
According to the article it is the Europeans doing the threatening, not the US. However, there are implications beyond this. If the US just blows off Europe or an agreement isn't reached, other countries may follow Europe's lead, which may very well cause problems with the internet.
 
America and Japan are good allies, so I can't see them seperating anytime soon. China & India depend on us commerce too much so they wouldn't split either. Even if we did brush EU off, the only ones who would consider making their own internet would be EU and Arabs (but I doubt Arabs could do it). If the EU wants to isolate itself from the rest of the world's internet, they can have at it. Wouldn't last long.
 
The fact that people still use "Teh" jeopardizes the collective online intelligence.
 
Carth said:
The fact that people still use "Teh" jeopardizes the collective online intelligence.
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Shut teh f up :!:
 
The collective intelligence of anyone on the internet was already long in jeopardy before I made this thread, so shut it Carth ;D
 
Lecan said:
The collective intelligence of anyone on the internet was already long in jeopardy before I made this thread, so shut it Carth ;D
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Good thing I don't have collective intelligence.
 
I'm probably blessedly ignorant of the real details of what's actually at stake, but it sounds like the problem, once again, is ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Every story involving them I've read for like the last 3 years has been negative regarding the way they operate things. A lot of highly trained people have gone on record to say that ICANN is really not handling things well. Again, I don't know enough about the details, but it seems like reforming ICANN or even replacing them would be more the issue than shifting the responsibility for top-level decision-making to a global body.

For example, if you look at a US-based website, the domain suffix is .com or .net or something. However, for other sites that might be based outside the US, you end up with the designation of what country they're from in that suffix. Like .co.uk or .co.jp. Basically, it becomes a hierarchical thing that is a bigger pain in the ass for people that don't live in the US. I might be oversimplifying, but I think the CNN article is also guilty of the same. It's not an issue of placing controls on content that will satisfy every UN member, it's an issue of organization and structure. I imagine some places that are more restrictive about what their citizens can read about online would want content controls in place, but that would be far less likely to be the major issue at hand.

If anyone is more knowledgeable about the way ICANN operates or about some of the details of this debate, it would be interesting to hear about.
 
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