[governance] Re: [igf_members] US Congrerss & JPA

[jefsey]

Dear Joe,
some more nationalistic bragging.

At 14:55 06/08/2009, Joe Baptista wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Carlos Afonso 
><<mailto:ca at rits.org.br>ca at rits.org.br> wrote:
>Yes, like the telephone is a Canadian invention and this is why 
>until today Canadians control the entire worldwide telephony 
>network... or the Scottish control the entire worldwide penicillin market. :)
>
>That is not what I said. Clearly the DNS and the Internet for that 
>matter is a U.S. invention. However the subject of control is an 
>architectural issue. In telecommunication control is a centralized 
>affair. On the Internet control is in the hands of the end users.

Actually it is not. Most of the parts (datagram, "network of 
network", etc. [Louis Pouzin], DNS ["11" distributed logic of 
telephone and servers directory service on Minitel, the root file of 
us in Saint-Cloud (http://intlnet.org/intlhist.htm)) of the Internet 
are of French origin. However, the rustic additions that do not work 
so well in them truely are U.S. additions :-) like ICANN. And this is 
what we try to "take care" of :-) right now with the Interplus 
architectural analysis and the Internet presentation layer support.

>However the lack control does not change the fact the U.S. through 
>ARPA and later DARPA build the Internet we have and use today.

Correct. Except that I would have phrased "the internet we have to 
use today". :-)

Cheers !
jfc

>Joe Baptista wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Avri Doria 
><<mailto:avri at psg.com>avri at psg.com> wrote:
>
>and what is going to happen around the world as US insists that the DNS is
>theirs, all theirs?
>
>
>Thats is a difficult statement. But it can be proven that when it comes to
>DNS the U.S. has played the lead role and it could easily be argued that the
>DNS is in fact a U.S. invention.
>
>cheers
>joe baptista
>
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