<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'>Hi Stephane,<br><br>Thanks for sharing. The article is not clear on which Tuesday this exercise is expected to take place; there is no date tied to the Tuesday. Do you have an idea? Is it next Tuesday or last Tuesday (yesterday)?<br><br>Cheers!<br>Kwasi<br><br><div><font class="sqq"><strong><font color="#007f40" face="system">..............................................................................................................................</font></strong></font></div> <div><font class="sqq"><strong><font color="#007f40" face="system">“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”</font></strong> - <font face="arial black"><font face="system">Rabbi Hillal</font></font></font></div> <div><font class="sqq"><font face="arial black"><font color="#007f40"
face="System"><strong>..............................................................................................................................</strong></font></font></font></div><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 2/4/08, Stephane Bortzmeyer <i><bortzmeyer@internatif.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@internatif.org><br>Subject: [governance] ICANN to shut down internet for one hour<br>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<br>Date: Wednesday, 2 April, 2008, 1:56 PM<br><br><pre>It seems that this important announcement, made yesterday, was not<br>forwarded here. Since it has clear relevance with governance issues, I<br>repost it here:<br><br>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39377525,00.htm<br><br>--<br><br>ICANN to shut down internet for one hour<br><br>David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk<br><br>Published: *01 Apr* 2008 10:27
BST<br><br>The main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the <br>internet will be powered down for one hour on Tuesday at 12pm, British <br>Summer Time.<br><br>ICANN, the body responsible for maintaining the registry of domain names <br>and IP addresses, announced on Tuesday that it would effectively turn <br>off the internet in order to gauge the ecological impact of such a move.<br><br>The decision follows the success of the recently observed "Earth<br>Hour", <br>in which people around the globe turned off their lights for one hour in <br>a gesture towards saving energy.<br><br>Unlike Earth Hour, ICANN's "Web-Off Hour" will not operate on a<br>rolling <br>basis according to time-zone differences around the world. ICANN itself <br>is based in California, and its decision to turn off the internet there <br>at 4am means that the UK will be without access for one hour starting at <br>noon, British Summer Time.<br><br>The time of 4am was
chosen in order to cause minimal disruption to the <br>Californian economy, given the US's current financial downturn, but the <br>impact on the rest of the world will have to be evaluated after the <br>fact, said ICANN.<br><br>"The earth has been around for billions of years, but the internet has <br>only been in existence for decades," reasoned ICANN spokesperson Yu <br>Haveena Lough on Monday. Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk, Lough pointed to the <br>vast energy consumption of server farms and personal computers, and <br>suggested that the total energy saved during Web-Off Hour might be <br>equivalent to that saved by pulling almost 956,003 SUVs off the road for <br>a year and three-quarters.<br><br>ICANN's move is the latest in a string of "green IT"<br>announcements made <br>in recent years, as the technology industry strives to reduce its <br>negative impact on global ecology.<br><br>----- End forwarded message
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