[governance] Re: "[...] to seize Iran's Internet licenses & domain name assets"

JFC Morfin jefsey at jefsey.com
Mon Jun 30 08:56:09 EDT 2014 

At 04:09 29/06/2014, Abdul Jaleel Shittu wrote:
>Who is wagging cyber war against who? The big Boss has 
>unquestionable right to do anything as he likes. This development is 
>not a good omen to the aspiration Internet Governance, this 
>judgement is justifying the moves by some countries to have 
>alternative www, where mutual respects prevail.

Dear Abdul,

The fundamental scientific issue for 125 years (since 21 Jan 1889 
Norwegian award to Henri Poincaré for his non-demonstration of the 
n-body problem) is the replacement of the Newtonian paradigm. We are 
therefore engaged in a mental change of the magnitude of the 
Copernician revolution. The problem is the problem of "locality". You 
probably heard about the EPR experimentation and teleportation. Some 
information travel faster than photons. Causes may seem to precede 
their effect. This problem now becomes the core of the Internet issue 
as it entangles with what is known as the technological singularity 
(not that machines will replace human, but that humans cannot stay 
human without machines: last time we known a singularity was with 
Socrates/Plato/Aristotle when they switched human behaviour from 
feelings (sophism) to logic (syllogism) - to day we are switching 
from dialectic logic to monolectic/cybernetics+polylectics/agorics 
and we needed the digital renormalization to scale, being limited by 
our brain relational capacity [Dunbar number 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number]).

You know that Claude Shanon has introduced entropy in information 
theory through the communications concept. We have the same knind of 
thinking to accomplish to introduce now negentropy through the 
intellition concept. Communications are data transported at the speed 
of the light. Intellition are data that are already here because they 
make sense.

This architectonic (comprehending how things are) development 
dramatically enlarges the spectrum of possibilities in architectural 
(designing how some things should be) design. The internet 
architecture is documented in IEN 48 
(http://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien48.txt). Over the years working on 
it helped people to better take advantage from its architectonics (it 
has even become a scientific discipline using the internet as a 
test-bed). It has become quite intricated with intelligent and stupid things.

More and more, understanding the internet, net-neutrality, 
net-economy, the internet governance, etc. is like understanding 
physics, relativity, quantum-physic, energy, etc. because this is the 
***same*** thing : information/communication/intellition. The 
confusion is the same: you have the technicians/scientifics, the 
politicians and the lawyers. The lawyers are people who apply the 
law, that the politicians enforce, that the technicians impose to all 
through popular machines, that science tries to discover.

Things would be easier and go faster the other way round, but this is 
the way the world does the things: along the money's increasing flow 
against the common sense's one.

Lawyers are talking about a legal unique authoritative root. 
Politicials are protecting an US unique authoritative root. 
Technicians have developed a technology to support billions of unique 
authoritative roots. Scientists know that unique authoritative roots 
are  neither legalized, neither built, but observed and massaged by 
each user for his/her own home use. The king is naked. But since he 
is the king he can lie and say otherwise.

The .ir issue is a legal joke which alarms and makes lawyers, 
possibly politicians, sqawking. It only shows that lawyers did not 
even designed their contractual network to protect the world from 
this kind of technical absurdity due to a legal/political lack of 
consideration. We did not trust the politicians, we know now why we 
can distrust the lawyers. Why would I waste time and money with an 
unfinished system, at guessing, worrying and developping contingency 
plans due to such nasty attacks with unforeseable results and delays.

Who can we then trust?

Not the technicians anymore. They explained it last year (IEEE, ISOC, 
IAB, IERF, W3C): they themselves trust the maket's economics, i.e. 
the mechants (however they do not say how): this is the RFC 6852 
about the "modern normative paradigm". The acknowledgment of the 
"local/global" problem at the RFC process level.

This is why "moves by some countries to have alternative www, where 
mutual respects prevail" is the way out. Not only at country, region, 
language, city, village, trade, etc but at individual level. This is 
what the WSIS has unanimously wished: a people centered digitality. 
Don't worry. There is a unique authoritative sky, but it is not 
decided by the (SOS) Scientific Observatory System. Believe me: you 
do not need ICANN to know where the stars are ....

jfc







>..................................................
>Abdul Jaleel Kehinde Shittu (PhD) (MIEEE)
>Senior Lecturer
>Public Enterprise Computing (PEC)
>School of Computing
>College of Arts and Sciences
>University Utara Malaysia
>06010 Sintok
>Kedah
>Malaysia
>
>Office: +6049285095
>Fax: Â  Â  +6049285067
>Mobile: +60123052075
>
><mailto:abdulJaleel.K.Shittu at ieee.org>abdulJaleel.K.Shittu at ieee.orgÂ
><mailto:omomeji at ais.org>omomeji at ais.org
><mailto:shittua at acm.org>shittua at acm.org
>
>http://www.flipsnack.com/FAC55B5C5A8/fukiofi3
>
><https://www.hetl.org/academic-articles/ict-impact-assessment-model-an-extension-of-the-cipp-and-kirkpatrick-models/>https://www.hetl.org/academic-articles/ict-impact-assessment-model-an-extension-of-the-cipp-and-kirkpatrick-models/
>
>Â
>Â http://about.me/abduljaleelshittu.
>"It is one attitude, not one aptitude, that determines one 
>altitude in life".
>Â
>"In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence 
>of a great dream, pettiness prevails."
>Â
>
>
>On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Norbert Bollow 
><<mailto:nb at bollow.ch>nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>Am Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:18:07 +0200
>schrieb Stephane Bortzmeyer 
><<mailto:bortzmeyer at internatif.org>bortzmeyer at internatif.org>:
> > There have been, apparently, a judgment (transferring the .ir, no
> > less...), in the USA:
> >
> > 
> <http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-us-terror-victims-now-own-irans-internet/>http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-us-terror-victims-now-own-irans-internet/
>Is the judgment itself available online?
>I find the article not overly illuminating, it IMO seems to be based to
>a too large extent on speculations of people who evidently don't know
>what they're talking about in relation to the Internet. Not that the
>judgment itself is necessarily better in that regard, but court
>judgments are a serious matter regardless of the correctness of the
>underlying assumptions.
>Greetings,
>Norbert
>
>____________________________________________________________
>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>Â  Â  Â <mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>To be removed from the list, visit:
>Â  Â  Â 
><http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing>http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>For all other list information and functions, see:
>Â  Â  Â 
><http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance>http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance 
>
>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>Â  Â  Â <http://www.igcaucus.org/>http://www.igcaucus.org/
>Translate this email: 
><http://translate.google.com/translate_t>http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>
>
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message-footer.txt"
>
>____________________________________________________________
>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>      governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>To be removed from the list, visit:
>      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>
>For all other list information and functions, see:
>      http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>      http://www.igcaucus.org/
>
>Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20140630/755a4bab/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t

More information about the Governance mailing list