[169790] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US to relinquish control of Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sat Mar 15 18:07:59 2014
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:07:33 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <dxQK1n00h1Una3W01xQLzE>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/15/2014 7:39 AM, Bob Evans wrote:
>> It's nice of the DoC to "relinquish" control, but I really don't see it
>> changing much other than quieting down some hype from countries that were
>> saying they were pissed at the US for "controlling" the Internet. And I
>> couldn't really see those countries doing anything about it unless the US
>> did something actually bad, which they wouldn't do IMHO.
>>
>> Was I being a pollyanna?
>
> Yep, way to optimistic. The world always wants the success of capitalism
> as long as they don't have to create the climate for it, they just want it
> handed to them. Once they have it they turn it back toward socialism and
> proceed to F%^$ it up. Gee, sound like the direction our system's been
> trying to go in for the last 6 years.
Or 101 years.
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