Scott Granneman, 2005-10-13
ICANN and the U.S. government reach center stage next month in Tunisia, as the future of IP address assignments and U.S. control of the root DNS turns into a hotbed of debate.
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ICANN on center stage
2005-10-14
Matt Bowler
Matt Bowler
"the Bush administration has chosen to act alone over and over again, in both war and peace"??
Your reasoning is almost as bad as your politics. 35 Countries joined the United States in teaching Iraq and the UN what "serious consequences" are. A lesson Kofi's spineless, corrupt bureaucrats wer...
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Your reasoning is almost as bad as your politics. 35 Countries joined the United States in teaching Iraq and the UN what "serious consequences" are. A lesson Kofi's spineless, corrupt bureaucrats wer...
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ICANN on center stage
2005-10-17
Theuns
Theuns
Right now, there are a number of alternate DNS roots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
A DNS server can use whatever tree it is configured with to resolve addresses - modifying a server to use multiple trees isn't a big deal. Conflict resolution is a bit more interesting, but ,...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
A DNS server can use whatever tree it is configured with to resolve addresses - modifying a server to use multiple trees isn't a big deal. Conflict resolution is a bit more interesting, but ,...
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ICANN on center stage
2005-10-17
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
The development of the Internet was led by Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts http://www.ziplink.net/~lroberts/ while he was working for the U.S. government at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris and Jon Postel are credited with inventing/creating the Domain Name Sys...
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Re: ICANN on center stage
2005-10-19
Mick Hintz
Mick Hintz
Amen! It's essentially our toy, and we let everyone else play with it. But if you don't like our rules or the way we manage what is essentially our creation, then we may just take our toy and go home. If they want to use our network, then they are going to have to play by our rules....
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ICANN on center stage
2005-10-18
Daryl Shockey (1 replies)
Daryl Shockey (1 replies)
I find myself getting more and more annoyed at the way Scott Granneman rails against all things corporate (Microsoft, EBay, Cisco, etc.), praises all things open-source (pretty much without exception) and has now decided to move into the political arena lecturing us all on the "self-evident" shortco...
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Re: ICANN on center stage
2005-10-18
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Daryl,
Comments aren't moderated over the weekend or during holidays, and so in these cases it can take up to several days for your comment to appear.
We have a pretty liberal moderation policy at SecurityFocus. Comments are screened for profanity and personal attacks against the author, but o...
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Comments aren't moderated over the weekend or during holidays, and so in these cases it can take up to several days for your comment to appear.
We have a pretty liberal moderation policy at SecurityFocus. Comments are screened for profanity and personal attacks against the author, but o...
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ICANN on center stage
2005-10-18
Anonymous
Anonymous
Letting the UN or EU control the internet would be distasterous to freedom of speech and the freedom and future of the internet.
The UN appoints African leaders guilty of genocide and ethnic clensing to such roles as "UN Human Rights Group". They appoint Iranians to the council of atomic energy. ...
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The UN appoints African leaders guilty of genocide and ethnic clensing to such roles as "UN Human Rights Group". They appoint Iranians to the council of atomic energy. ...
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internet addressing and root server ownership
2005-10-27
K-sPecial (1 replies)
K-sPecial (1 replies)
There is a very obvious and meaningful answer to this.
The US should stay in control of the DNS servers and IP addressing, hands down. But why? Not only because it was the US government that created ARPA (which in turn, created the internet), because I could see a switch if for some reason we we...
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The US should stay in control of the DNS servers and IP addressing, hands down. But why? Not only because it was the US government that created ARPA (which in turn, created the internet), because I could see a switch if for some reason we we...
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Okay, I'm with you that China, Myanmar or Saudi Arabia a...
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