[governance] ICANN to shut down internet for one hour

[linda misek-falkoff]

Thank you Stephane for sharing this information.  Here, I was travelling at
the time and did not notice if those in transit at "the moment" felt the
gap.  So this is indeed news, and interesting even after the fact to learn
that this decision could be made, and carried out, and by specific agencies
and instrumentalities, and all that (that) implies.  Is there an estimate of
how many communications paused? Perhaps there is or will be discussion of
the import, and the process.

With best wishes, LDMF.

Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
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On 4/2/08, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org> wrote:
>
> It seems that this important announcement, made yesterday, was not
> forwarded here. Since it has clear relevance with governance issues, I
> repost it here:
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39377525,00.htm
>
> --
>
> ICANN to shut down internet for one hour
>
> David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk
>
> Published: *01 Apr* 2008 10:27 BST
>
> The main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the
> internet will be powered down for one hour on Tuesday at 12pm, British
> Summer Time.
>
> ICANN, the body responsible for maintaining the registry of domain names
> and IP addresses, announced on Tuesday that it would effectively turn
> off the internet in order to gauge the ecological impact of such a move.
>
> The decision follows the success of the recently observed "Earth Hour",
> in which people around the globe turned off their lights for one hour in
> a gesture towards saving energy.
>
> Unlike Earth Hour, ICANN's "Web-Off Hour" will not operate on a rolling
> basis according to time-zone differences around the world. ICANN itself
> is based in California, and its decision to turn off the internet there
> at 4am means that the UK will be without access for one hour starting at
> noon, British Summer Time.
>
> The time of 4am was chosen in order to cause minimal disruption to the
> Californian economy, given the US's current financial downturn, but the
> impact on the rest of the world will have to be evaluated after the
> fact, said ICANN.
>
> "The earth has been around for billions of years, but the internet has
> only been in existence for decades," reasoned ICANN spokesperson Yu
> Haveena Lough on Monday. Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk, Lough pointed to the
> vast energy consumption of server farms and personal computers, and
> suggested that the total energy saved during Web-Off Hour might be
> equivalent to that saved by pulling almost 956,003 SUVs off the road for
> a year and three-quarters.
>
> ICANN's move is the latest in a string of "green IT" announcements made
> in recent years, as the technology industry strives to reduce its
> negative impact on global ecology.
>
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Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
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Brief Summary Vita/Resume: (to be provided by Internet Link).
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=aRjexWycjao

(03/14/08 The Day Before The NYC Crane Collapse Accident).
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