[governance] Could the U.S. shut down the internet?

[Fouad Bajwa]

The question remains, in case of any country or website not complying
to what the US approves, will face a shutdown?

What happens in the event that:

1. A torrent domain is shutdown by the US under ACTA but other
countries have no issue with it? Where and how does this consultation
between these countries occur? ICANN? IGF? another international body
for internet governance? enhanced cooperation? How?

2. Wikileaks remains a prime example..........did all other countries
also authorize shut down of that domain?

3. Country level enforcements are possible and thats what happened in
the case of Egypt but the article is a good discussion to what may
happen the other way around and as the case with the followers of the
Wikileaks Twitter that are being subpoenaed by the US investigators
http://mashable.com/2011/01/08/twitter-subpoenaed-by-u-s-government-for-wikileaks-accounts/.

The question is who and what is needed to kill the Internet and what
do we actually mean by killing the Internet, as a whole or in parts?

--- Foo

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:06 PM, JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:
> At 23:51 03/02/2011, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>>
>> The real issue is not singularity of a DNS root but, rather, consistency
>> of DNS query results.
>
> Actually, it is the singularity of the DNS log that represents a key
> intelligence and power source.
> jfc
>
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