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*Scotty Starnes
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7, 2011 at 5:30 PM | Tags: domain
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It's all about the government trying to keep the internet 'free' remember
(wink, wink). Pay no attention to the Obama regime that wants
'net-neutrality,' along with making it easier to wiretap the
internet<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/obama-administration-pushes-to-ease-wiretapping/>.
Ignore that Obama wants Americans to have internet
identification<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/obama-wants-internet-id-for-americans/>
.
Now this same regime that wants all the above also wants veto power over new
internet domain names. The internet is the next 'crisis' that will allow the
Obama regime to take over another industry.
CNet.com <http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20030809-281.html> reports:
*The Obama administration is quietly seeking the power for it and other
governments to veto future top-level domain names, a move that raises
questions about free expression, national sovereignty, and the role of
states in shaping the future of the Internet.*
At stake is who will have authority over the next wave of suffixes to
supplement the venerable .com, .org, and .net. At least 115 proposals are
expected this year, including .car, .health, .nyc, .movie, and .web, and the
application process could be finalized at a meeting in San Francisco next
month.
Some are likely to prove contentious among more conservative nations. Two
different groups--the dotGAY Initiative <http://www.dotgay.com/> and the .GAY
Alliance <http://www.dotgayalliance.com/>--already have announced they will
apply for the right to operate the .gay domain; additional controversial
proposals may surface in the next few months. And nobody has forgotten
the furor
over
.xxx<http://news.cnet.com/The-battle-over-triple-x/2010-1026_3-5176611.html>,
which has been in limbo for seven years after receiving an emphatic
thumbs-down <http://news.cnet.com/2100-1028_3-5833764.html> from the Bush
administration.
When asked whether it supports or opposes the creation of .gay and .xxx, an
official at the U.S. Commerce Department replied that "it is premature for
us to comment on those domain names." The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN <http://www.icann.org/>), a nonprofit based in
Marina del Rey, Calif., that has a
contract<http://www.icann.org/en/general/agreements.htm>with the U.S.
government to manage Internet addresses, is overseeing the
process of adding new domain suffixes.
A statement sent to CNET over the weekend from the Commerce Department's
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA, said
its proposed veto procedure "has merit as it diminishes the potential for
blocking of top level domain strings considered objectionable by
governments. This type of blocking harms the architecture of the DNS and
undermines the goal of universal resolvability (i.e., a single global
Internet that facilitates the free flow of goods and services and freedom of
expression)."
Another way of phrasing this argument, perhaps, is: If less liberal
governments adopt technical measures to prevent their citizens from
connecting to .gay and .xxx Web sites, and dozens of nations surely will,
that will lead to a more fragmented Internet.
In addition, giving governments more influence inside ICANN may reduce the
odds of an international revolt that would vest more Internet authority with
the not-exactly-business-friendly United
Nations<http://news.cnet.com/Will-the-U.N.-run-the-Internet/2010-1071_3-5780157.html>.
Last year, China and its allies
objected<http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2010/ecosoc6444.doc.htm>to
the fact that "unilateral control of critical Internet resources" had
been given to ICANN and suggested that the U.N. would be a better fit.
Submitting an application to create and operate a new domain suffix is
expected <http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/strategy-faq.htm> to cost
$185,000, ICANN says.
*The Obama administration is proposing
(PDF<http://blog.internetgovernance.org/pdf/USGmonstrosity.pdf>)
that domain approval procedures be changed to include a mandatory "review"
by an ICANN advisory panel comprised of representatives of roughly 100
nations*. The process is open-ended, saying that any government "may raise
an objection to a proposed (suffix) for any reason." Unless at least one
other nation disagrees, the proposed new domain name "shall" be rejected.
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