[governance] an alternate Internet proposal from Syria and Saudi.....just leaked

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

It reminds me of that old story about a recipe for lion pie that starts off with "first, catch a lion"

In a practical implementation, for want of as the as yet unnamed better and newer technologies that this proposal blithely assumes will magically turn up to suit their needs, an "alternate internet" with nationalized governance and strict controls is more than likely to take the form of individual country's walled gardens, a model which the Saudis, Chinese etc are going to be very familiar and comfortable with.

Of course they could just resurrect x.400 for messaging and x.25 for packet switching. That would make several ITU-T people very happy, at the very least.

--srs (iPad)

> On 11-Jan-2014, at 1:16, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> http://files.wcitleaks.org/public/WG-WSIS-15-12.pdf
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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