[governance] IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding on November 4

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Dear Ronald,

As I never fail to remind people whenever the comment "the US invented the
Internet" sentence is uttered in such a context, what we call "the Internet"
today is more the World Wide Web than the actual infrastructure of IP
networks.

If the Internet and its protocols were indeed invented by people in the
context of a DARPA research contract, the Web was invented in Europe, by a
British citizen. And if a Frenchman says it, ...it may be true :-)

The Internet as an infrastructure and all applications built upon it are
probably the most successful distributed collaborative effort in the history
of mankind. The origin is important to explain path dependency, but is only
an element in the general current landscape.

Best

B.


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:48 AM, <KovenRonald at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 10/23/11 6:33:12 PM, pouzin at well.com writes:
>
>
> What international agreement allows the USG to make unilateral decisions on
> the management of a common good ?
>
>
> †he US didn't arrogate such a right to itself. It invented the Internet
> and gave it to the international community.
>
> Most of the alternatives proposed to the present system involve giving
> control to intergovernmental bodies in which authoritarian governments have
> heavy influence. The present system is admittedly unsatisfactory from a
> theoretical standpoint, but the US has in practice refrained from exercising
> control, with only a couple relatively minor exceptions. It seems unlikely
> that China or Russia, or even France, amongst the UN Security Council
> permanent members, would have exercised that much self-restraint.
>
> Pending invention of a system that is both theoretically equitable and free
> in practice, the present setup seems to be a matter of leaving well enough
> alone.
>
> Rony Koven, World Press Freedom Committee
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