[governance] [liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a "Autonomous Internet" ?

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:

Parminder,
>
> Just to be superclear about this, you are either on the inter-net, or off.
> That's all that the root zone file signifies.
>

Oh really. That's a new definition of inter-net, as opposed to internet.

It is just the same as saying that you are either on the tele-phone system,
or off, depending on being listed in the tele-phone directory.

It would mean that unlisted numbers could not make or receive phone calls
!! That's news.

The internet is a set of interconnected autonomous nets carrying datagrams
from sending IP addresses to receiving IP addresses. At this level domain
names and root zones are totally irrelevant.

In addition, there are applications using the previous facility. They may
or may not use domain names instead of IP addresses. If they do, they call
some conversion tool for replacing domain names with IP addresses. One of
those tools is an application called DNS.

To convert domain names to IP addresses a DNS queries a database containing
domain names registered by users. This data base is composed of a set of
directories. Each directory has a name (TLD), e.g. com, net, org, de, pl,
uk, pirates, wa, etc.

Several organizations operate a DNS. Each one may use all or a subset of
TLDs. The TLD set used by a DNS is called a root, (i.e. a table of
contents).

ICANN, a self proclaimed monopoly, uses its own root, which is restricted
to TLDs registered with ICANN. Other organizations may use roots containing
different TLD subsets, or a root containing all TLDs (open root).

e.g. the following domain names cannot be reached with the ICANN root:

*gov.wa, sachsen.pirates, правителство.бг, wikipedia.ku,
tibetan-france.ti, gov.malta,
grep.geek, uyghurensemble.uu
*
What about NO DNS at all ?

Unless your mailer or ISP does not conform to RFC 2822, you can mail to:

*pouzin@[137.194.2.14]*

Being "off the inter-net" makes you free from ICANN, Verisign et al.

Cheers, Louis.
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