AW: [governance] FW: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online

Mon Nov 26 07:24:45 EST 2012

Hi, 

here is a comment to the full article:

The two factual arguments which are used to substantiate the general politcal conclusion are wrong or at least not correct:

1. the ccTLD .iq case did not see any intervention from the USG. The problem was that three parties after Sadams departure claimed to have a right to get the delegation. Two competing ministeries and a rather dubious guy, living in the US. The ccTLD was redelegated finally after a letter of the prime minister arrived and declared the communication commission as the designated party.  http://www.iana.org/reports/2005/iq-report-05aug2005.pdf. I personally feel that it is absolutely irresponsible that a recognized newspaper as China Daily distributes false information of such a caliber around the globe. It is correct that China Daily - as all newspapers of the world - enjoy press freedom and the right to freedom of expression which includes also the right to distribute unchecked facts. But it is against all forms of journalistic ethics to manipulate the truth in such a way.

2. The argument with the 13 root servers (10 of them in the US) is also misleading in a time wehn there are more than 150 anycast servers active around the globe which consequently reduces the options for the USG to manipulate the Internet through its historically grown function to give final authorization to the publication of root zone files (including deletions) in the "hidden server". 2012 is not 2005 and there is no MoU and no JPA anymore. We have the AoC, a functioning GAC and a decentrloazed and multistakeholder the review process as an oversight mechanism for ICANN. Chinese government has expressed its support for the multistakeholder model in the recent high level GAC meeting in Toronto and CNNIC will host the 46th ICANN meeting in Bejing in April 2013 Again: Bad journalism, manipulative and misleading.      

Wolfgang

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Von: michael gurstein [mailto:gurstein at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Mo 26.11.2012 10:41
An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; 'David Conrad'
Betreff: RE: [governance] FW: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online

Dave,

Whether "wrong" or not, I guess the point was that it is well to keep in mind what the leadership of one quarter of the world's population and the world's second largest economy thinks about some rather significant Internet related issues. Probably also well to keep in mind that in the end (and whether we like it or not) a lot of the issues under discussion at the WCIT will be resolved on a political (national interest) basis rather than a technical one and that distinguishing between the two isn't always as clear cut as it might at first appear.

Best,

M

From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of David Conrad
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 1:23 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online

Is there some context as to why this 3 month old PDO opinion piece popped up again today on Dave's list?

It's as wrong now as it was then.

Regards,

-drc

On Nov 25, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:

FYI

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From: Dave Farber [dave at farber.net <mailto:dave at farber..net> ]
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:27 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html

(People's Daily Online <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/> )

11:10, August 18, 2012   

The Internet has become one of the most important resources in the world in just a few decades, but the governance mechanism for such an important international resource is still dominated by a private sector organization and a single country. 

The U.S. government said in a statement on July 1, 2005 that its Commerce Department would continue to support the work of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and indefinitely retain oversight of the Internet's 13 root servers. 

This indicated the U.S. decision to retain ultimate control over the global Internet, which enabled it to unilaterally close the Internet of another country. A suddenly paralyzed Internet would definitely cause huge social and economic losses to the country. 

More and more countries are beginning to question the U.S. control over the world's Internet as the international resource should be managed and supervised by all countries together. However, the United States has conducted a pre-emptive strike, and refused to give up control over the Internet in the name of protecting the resource. The refusal reflects its hegemonic mentality and double standards. 

The United States controls and owns all cyberspaces in the world, and other countries can only lease Internet addresses and domain names from the United States, leading to the U.S.. hegemonic monopoly over the world's Internet. 

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