<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://2863/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Is there some context as to why this 3 month old PDO opinion piece popped up again today on Dave's list?<div><br></div><div>It's as wrong now as it was then.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Nov 25, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Lee W McKnight <<a href="mailto:lmcknigh@syr.edu">lmcknigh@syr.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div ocsi="0" fpstyle="1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">FYI<br><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; "><hr tabindex="-1"><div id="divRpF980058" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dave Farber [<a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:27 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ip<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online<br></font><br></div><div></div><div><a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html" target="_blank">http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html</a><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">(<a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/" target="_blank">People's Daily Online</a>)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">11:10, August 18, 2012 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">The Internet has become one of the most important resources in the world in just a few decades, but the governance mechanism for such an important international resource is still dominated by a private sector organization and a single country.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The U.S. government said in a statement on July 1, 2005 that its Commerce Department would continue to support the work of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and indefinitely retain oversight of the Internet’s 13 root servers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>This indicated the U.S. decision to retain ultimate control over the global Internet, which enabled it to unilaterally close the Internet of another country. A suddenly paralyzed Internet would definitely cause huge social and economic losses to the country.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>More and more countries are beginning to question the U.S. control over the world’s Internet as the international resource should be managed and supervised by all countries together. However, the United States has conducted a pre-emptive strike, and refused to give up control over the Internet in the name of protecting the resource. The refusal reflects its hegemonic mentality and double standards.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The United States controls and owns all cyberspaces in the world, and other countries can only lease Internet addresses and domain names from the United States, leading to the U.S. hegemonic monopoly over the world’s Internet. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">snip</div></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td><font color="#333333" size="1" style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; "><a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now" title="Go to archives for ip" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">Archives</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/8923115-8446eb07" title="RSS feed for ip" border="0" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 51); "><img src="https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpg" border="0"></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>|<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8923115&id_secret=8923115-86ed04cc" title="" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">Modify</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Your Subscription |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=8923115&id_secret=8923115-e899f1f0&post_id=20121124102905:978D3D38-364B-11E2-BB44-B774DAA6D097" title="" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">Unsubscribe Now</a></font></td><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="http://www.listbox.com" target="_blank" style="border-bottom-style: none; "><img src="https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.png" title="Powered by Listbox" border="0"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>