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OranjeWNF
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 Posted-27 Jul 2005: 12:10:59    
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Group Urges Splinter Internet for Turkey
Posted on Friday, July 08, 2005 - 04:22 PM
From: AP Wire
https://apnews.myway.com/article/20050707/D8B676QO0.html
A Turkish group seeking to improve communications technology is pushing the use of a splinter Internet network that might avoid control by the United States.
The Turkish Informatics Association's recommendation comes as the U.S. Commerce Department has announced it would indefinitely retain oversight of the Internet's main traffic-directing computers, known as root servers. A federation of independent root operators, The Public-Root, is trying to become an alternative network with 13 root servers in 10 countries, including Turkey.
The civil war of the internet begins.
U.S. to Retain Oversight of Web Traffic
Posted on Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 11:54 AM
From: AP Wire
https://apnews.myway.com/article/20050702/D8B2VMSO0.html
A unilateral decision by the United States to indefinitly retain oversight of the Internet's main traffic-directing computers prompted concerns Friday that the global telecommunications network could eventually splinter.
"This seems like an extension of American security in the aftermath of 9-11," said John Strand, a Denmark-based technology consultant. "People will ask: 'Do the Americans want to control the Internet?'"
Michael D. Gallagher, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Commerce Department, said in announcing the policy shift Thursday that it was a response to growing security threats and increased reliance on the Internet globally for communications and commerce.
While I love the US, I sometimes despise our ability to piss other countries off just because we want to play control freaks. I say it's time for the people's internet to emerge. The people of the internet should start up our own root servers and start getting people to use our services. All the stupid regulation that has been part of the internet bureaucracy has hampered and not helped the people of the internet.
Jul 6, 8:17 PM EDT
Group Urges Splinter Internet for Turkey
By SELCAN HACAOGLU
Associated Press Writer
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A Turkish group seeking to improve communications technology is pushing the use of a splinter Internet network that might avoid control by the United States.
The Turkish Informatics Association's recommendation comes as the U.S. Commerce Department has announced it would indefinitely retain oversight of the Internet's main traffic-directing computers, known as root servers.
A federation of independent root operators, The Public-Root, is trying to become an alternative network with 13 root servers in 10 countries, including Turkey.
The Turkish Informatics Association and Amsterdam-based Unified Identity Technology want to use that alternative network to offer Internet addresses that end in a company or individual name - such as "www.yourname" - without ".com" or a country code like ".tr" for Turkey.
Although the primary selling point is an easy-to-remember address, "the system could also lead the way to an independent network for countries concerned about increasing interference of the United States," said Turhan Mentes, the Turkish group's chairman.
Other alternative root systems exist but most computers are configured to use the official system, which the U.S. Commerce Department oversees through the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.
Alternatives offer more flexibility in creating new suffixes but run the risk of fracturing the Internet such that two users typing the same domain name could reach entirely different Web sites, depending on where they are.
"All the benefits of a global interoperable Internet could be brought into question," ICANN spokesman Kieran Baker said.
Turkey's Telecommunications Authority said any decision is unlikely for several weeks. Mustafa Alkan, a senior official of the Telecommunications Authority, stressed that Turkey was not seeking to avoid U.S. scrutiny but rather ways to expand the use of the Internet in Turkey.
He said an alternative system, for example, could support addresses entirely in Turkish; currently, all names must end in an English string.
SAMENVATTING:
The Public-Root, is trying to become an alternative network with 13 root servers in 10 countries.
Some countries have pressed to move oversight of the root servers to an international body such as the ITU, a United Nations group.
The Turkish Informatics Association and Amsterdam-based Unified Identity Technology
Nieuwe concurrenten van www zijn al:
www.New.net
New.net Inc. Sherman Oaks, CA USA
www.Walid.com
WALID, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI USA
EN GEVONDEN, DIT IS HET A'DAMS BEDRIJF:
https://unidt.com
Marty van Veluw, Amsterdam NL
Illian.Networks Gouda
EN HET NIEUWE INTERNET:
https://www.inaic.com/
The Internet Names Authorization & Information Center (INAIC)
1 Rockefeller Center New York, NY
https://www.public-root.com/
ROOT-SERVER AMSTERDAM!
https://www.public-root.com/a-root.htm
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Edited by - OranjeWNF on 27 Jul 2005 15:02:53
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