The internet takeover thread

[Okeefenokee]

Simply not credible: The extraordinary verdict against the body that hopes to run the internet

In an extraordinary judgment, the organization that hopes to take over running the top level of the internet later this year has been slammed by an independent review as at best incompetent and at worst deliberately mendacious.

The decision [PDF] by ICANN's Independent Review Panel (IRP) over the organization's decision to refuse "community" status for three applications covering business suffixes has exposed a level of double-dealing that many suspected occurred in the non-profit organization but has been difficult to prove.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/0 ... nst_icann/

[SuburbanFarmer]

I heard interviews years ago from people talking about this being on the way. Back then it just sounded crazy.

Yeah. I mean, I still want to believe that it's impossible, but...

[Okeefenokee]

Internet handover is go-go-go! ICANN to take IANA from US govt

ICANN, unsurprisingly, decided it should take over the contract. A process was put in place to pull it out of the organization should anything go drastically wrong in future – but was so weighed down that it will almost certainly never happen.

ICANN also fought and largely succeeded in preventing the internet community from introducing far-reaching changes to the organization that would make it more accountable, settling instead for a series of last-resort measures that could see the board fired or the budget halted.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/3 ... _go_go_go/

[Zlaxer]

AGs file suit in last-ditch bid to stop hand-off of internet control

Republican attorneys general are making a last-ditch bid to block the Obama administration from ceding U.S. oversight of the internet’s domain name system, filing suit in federal court ahead of an imminent deadline for the hand-off.

The AGs from Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Nevada asked a judge late Wednesday to step in and stop the transition to an international oversight body, after GOP lawmakers failed to stall the move as part of a short-term spending bill.

“Trusting authoritarian regimes to ensure the continued freedom of the internet is lunacy,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. “The president does not have the authority to simply give away America’s pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09 ... ntrol.html

Relax - DNS is one of the easiest things we could duplicate and avoid the UN if we had to.


You could run your own DNS system and list any sites you want for anyone who wants to use your system. IP space allocation is what you need to be concerned over....or real time packet inspection / filtering by back bone entities.

[Zlaxer]

ICANN has power bc people agree to use its DNS heirarchy as the “authorative” dns....dont like ICANN set up a competing heirarchy.

[Okeefenokee]

Men's rights activists: Symantec branded us a 'hate group'

A men's issues website has cried foul after it was apparently classified as a "hate" site by Symantec.

Surfers visiting A Voice for Men (AVoiceForMen.com) were confronted by a message stating that it is a "known hate site" blocking from going any further by web-filtering technology in Symantec. A Voice for Men angrily denounced the move, which it ascribed to settings built into Symantec's Norton Internet Security software.

The men's rights movement, of which A Voice for Men is a part, is a reaction against social changes brought about by feminism. The group bills itself as "masculine counter-theory in the age of misandry".

The movement rejects criticism that it a reactionary force seeking to restore centuries of patriarchy.

All of this is clearly not agreeable fodder for many women but to label the site as a "hate site" seems a little over the top.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/1 ... blacklist/

[SuburbanFarmer]

AGs file suit in last-ditch bid to stop hand-off of internet control

Republican attorneys general are making a last-ditch bid to block the Obama administration from ceding U.S. oversight of the internet’s domain name system, filing suit in federal court ahead of an imminent deadline for the hand-off.

The AGs from Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Nevada asked a judge late Wednesday to step in and stop the transition to an international oversight body, after GOP lawmakers failed to stall the move as part of a short-term spending bill.

“Trusting authoritarian regimes to ensure the continued freedom of the internet is lunacy,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. “The president does not have the authority to simply give away America’s pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09 ... ntrol.html

Relax - DNS is one of the easiest things we could duplicate and avoid the UN if we had to.


You could run your own DNS system and list any sites you want for anyone who wants to use your system. IP space allocation is what you need to be concerned over....or real time packet inspection / filtering by back bone entities.

Yeah, people that understand it, aren't concerned about DNS at all.

If they can take explicit control of the 'surface web', it's a very small step to declare all other sites illegal, or make them inaccessible, with packet filtering - even mandatory router updates/firmware..

[Zlaxer]

Relax - DNS is one of the easiest things we could duplicate and avoid the UN if we had to.


You could run your own DNS system and list any sites you want for anyone who wants to use your system. IP space allocation is what you need to be concerned over....or real time packet inspection / filtering by back bone entities.

....declare all other sites illegal, or make them inaccessible, with packet filtering - even mandatory router updates/firmware..

Thats what im worried about.

[pineapplemike]

THERE IS A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND

[Ph64]