[84978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Sep 29 17:26:22 2005
In-Reply-To: <17212.22489.179127.349119@roam.psg.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:25:51 -0700
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>
>> Saudi Arabia, Iran, Northern Nigeria, and China are not likely to
>> have the same liberal views as, say, the Netherlands or Denmark.
>> Saudi Arabia and China, like some other nations, extensively filter
>> their Internet connection and have created government agencies to
>> protect their society from web sites that officials view as immoral.
>>
>
> and in the united states, we're madly hiring new fbi agents
> to protect our society from web sites our officials view as
> immoral.
I should have made my comment more specific: what is the problem with
single namespace without ccTLDs and without per-country exceptions?
Assuming that we can reach consensus on namespace administration (a
process that should only take another decade or so ;-), it would
seem that operating within that consensus would be in the best
interests of all.
Per-country exceptions just creates more Balkanization of the
Internet, which hardly seems beneficial.
Tony
