[172559] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: short, two part question ICANN Vs. The World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Tue Jun 24 01:57:32 2014
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:55:07 -0600
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From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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>The question at hand is.. Do countries/businesses have to affiliate or
>utilize any of those services provided by ICANN other than the assignment
>of an IP address? =A0
No.
>And can you get away with LAN/CAN/MAN stand-alone systems [instead of util=
izing DNS-via-ICANN]??
Yes.
>Example:
>Is it legal to cut off those DNS systems and loop in backwards? =A0(instea=
d
>of bidirectional). =A0** =A0I don't want my city/schools/other systems hoo=
ked
>into the World Wide Web. // someone let me know when you get a chance.
Yes. Sounds like you want private (discontiguous) network space. There is=
no need to be a part of the internet if you don't want to be, but that des=
ire does not prevent you in any way from utilizing internet "technology" di=
scontiguously (ie, separate and apart from the Internet).
