@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!
Listers,
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:29 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@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
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