[AfrICANN-discuss] Bill seeks to put internet kill switch in the US president's hand

[McTim]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Douglas Onyango <ondouglas at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Wonder if anyone else out there has seen this.
>
> http://www.thewestgeorgian.com/proposed-bill-grants-obama-control-of-internet-1.438014
> I haven't read themuch but from what i have seen this is a move that could
> jeopardize the rest of the operations in the world given the kind of power
> it seeks to vest in the president
>


Typical headline writers, making up spurious claims.

NO ONE can "control the Internet".


>
> I think this is one of the reasons the US oversight of ICANN shoud be
> rescinded after the current phase.
>
>
I think you are conflating administrative rootzone rubber stamping with
actual operations.  If the rootservers in the USA were shutdown, there would
still be many dozens of rootservers operating in other countries.



> I guess this also calls for us to build the capacity to have internet
> infrastructure that can work independ of any.......i mean any
> nation/continent et al
>


That's what we have now!

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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