[governance] Uni.X to Uni.X .NETworking - Virtualization and Governance Reality

[Jim Fleming]

People who equate Internet governance with U.S. Government funded DARPA
insiders may
want to consider that there is another world of technology outside that
closed-minded group.
Not only is there another world of technology, there are many worlds and
some are virtual.

DNS is not an essential service to make Uni.X to Uni.X .NETworking
connections. DHT is
also not an essential service, but it is certainly more critical than DNS
and can replace DNS
with a more generalized solution. Are you aware DHT is running ?

IP address space has been a virtual space for a long time. Discussing where
so-called root-servers
are housed on planet .EARTH, in this day and age, seems out of touch with
reality. The reality
is that most of what you experience on the .NET is a result of
virtualization. As long as the
experience stays the same or improves and expands to offer what you want,
you will not likely
really care how that happens. It may be offered via virtualization.

Are you prepared to deal with the governance of virtual cyberspace ? virtual
money ? virtual DNS ?

Do you really think that ISPs and governments will continue to deliver the
"real Internet (tm)" when
they have the chance to deliver a virtual .NET ? Will you know if you are
switched over ? Do you
really care if the service experience is the same ? Will .KIDS be on one
virtual .NET and adults be
on a different .NET ?

For people in remote places with reduced bandwidth, are your governments
prepared to build
Virtual appearances in the major packet exchange points to keep you
connected ? What will
that cost ? As an example, will a virtual appearance for Australia be
constructed on the West
Coast of the U.S. making it appear as if Australia is less than 8 hops from
any node in North
America ?

http://www.planet-lab.org/

"VNET is the replacement for safe raw sockets. It supports the safe raw
sockets API, but also enables a greater degree of compatibility with
standard UNIX raw socket semantics, while maintaining IP isolation between
slices. It also supports the notion of proxy sockets for gaining access to
unused IP address space donated to PlanetLab."

"Several end-user services run continuously on PlanetLab, generating over
2TB of live network traffic and contacting over 1M unique IP addresses every
day."
http://www.xensource.com/
http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/virtualization/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/

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