[kictanet] Who Controls the Internet?

[Michael Bullut]

@McTim:

I beg to differ on your first point. Ten out of thirteen of the Internet's
root servers reside within the United States. If there's a global issue &
some countries differ with it on it's stand / viewpoint, what would the
U.S. from blocking traffic to those countries' websites?

Sent on the run,
Please excuse errors & ommissions!
On Oct 18, 2012 3:23 PM, "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Listers,
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:29 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > When I was in school, yes I did go to school, there was an unwritten rule
> > "finders keepers losers weepers", we seem to be applying all this rules
> in
> > trying to wrestle away the Internet from its real owners the USA
>
>
> There are no "real owners" of the Internet.   it's a de-centralised
> network of networks,
> all communicating using TCP/IP.
>
>
> , the ITU
> > meeting shall be the battle ground and bloody it will be worse than
> Muoroto
> > or Syokimau evictions.
>
> Hardly, it's a 10 day conference, which is a very short window in
> which to come to agreements.
>
> In addition, it's a treaty conference in which nation states can
> "opt-out" of provisions they don't agree with.
>
>
>
> >
> > If Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, LinkedIn, Yahoo and their elk (note
> all
> > are US based companies) decided to block all IP addresses beginning with
> > "41" will we still be able to say that we have Internet access?
>
> yes, but the likelihood of this happening is near as zero as it can
> possibly be.
>
> >
> > From Waudo's post it is clear where we fall, as the so called developing
> > countries, at the periphery of the battle field literally outside the
> > stadium hanging from a shaky tree branch.  The so called "tech giants"
> will
> > arrive fully armed, the Chinese will bring their numbers and the Russians
> > their nuclear, gas and diamond might, how will we arrive?
>
> It's a one-nation one vote kind of thing, so the KE vote is equal to
> the US vote.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
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