[governance] SOPA or no SOPA

[Karl Auerbach]

On 12/10/2011 06:44 AM, parminder wrote:

> We need countervailing systems of political and democratic power for the
> global Internet.

You already have them.

With regard to DNS, any person, or group of persons, is free to set up
their own DNS roots, populate them with whatever top level domains
(TLD)s they like, provision their own DNS servers, and point their
computers at those servers.  And DNSSEC will still work.

As for IP addresses - this is a bit more expensive:  Anyone can
establish their own routing systems with their own links and routers and
using their own distinct IPv4 (or IPv6) address space.  Connectivity to
"the rest of the world" would be via application level gateways/proxies
- most modern protocols don't mind proxies or application level gateways.

Of course these may be exactly the same paths that those who wish to
exert increased control will chose to follow - it is an attractive path
to the forces of control because those proxies and application level
gateways represent points of control traffic - places to monitor, places
to limit, places to tax, places to block.

(Moreover, in these times of economic distress, this path also means
that existing investments in IPv4 equipment can remain in place and by
re-using the entire IPv4 address space as many times as one wants it
eliminates the IPv4 address exhaustion issue.)

What I am saying is that there are forces, from both sides of the
"liberty" equation, that are combining to push today's singular
end-to-end internet into an internet of internets.

	--karl--

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