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- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"The internet was increasingly being shaped by companies and organisations at the "edges" and not by government, public sector bodies and regulators, he said. "
He makes it sound like a bad thing. - Whitey04, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13This article is a bit off. It considers the internet to be a single entity. It isn't. The only thing that is truely regulated is IP adresses / protocol.
China could create their own DNS system that accepts non-latin characters. It could use a different software protocol than the current system. And they could still be on the net! They would only break from the internet if every routing connection were also broken so NO data could pass in our out of china.
The chineese computers would just resove their DNS addresses differently. - osgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Can we get the spamming internet separated from the non-spamming internet, please?
- buyer687, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9That's because he's a leading UN Member.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Damn... I too envision a future where the tubes just wont fit together anymore because someone came along and made tubes of differing sizes and shapes-- it's a scary, sobering thought. We must protect the tubes.
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Riiiight, there's no porn in china.
- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7FTA "The types of uses for the internet in India and China are very different from western countries - they are not commerce or media; they are essentially public service applications."
Just means porn hasn't gotten there yet. - DiggityDugged, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7don't like the sounds of this, even if it actually has little to do with America and more of a convenience for Asia. Can you image a war being fought over the internet in 30 years from now?
- Screwy1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I don't have a link handy, but there was an interesting article claiming that China plans on announcing their prototype of an IP6 based internet at the 2008 olympics, and will be running the olympics on it.
- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@bob042
well maybe they consider porn a "public service application" - KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4All the Viagra in the world couldn't remedy the UN's impotence.
- CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6If Net Neutrality is screwed, then you can bet the internet will cease to grow all together.
- jsusanka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you bet it is - the telecommunications companies want it tiered and want you to pay more for everything.
just like the nfl is doing nfl network games this year on their network the telecomms want a pay per view internet.
corporations want to get reaching in your pocket any way they can. - leopardhunter, on 02/18/2009, -0/+2Does this mean one day I will get no spam from Asia?
- dstz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well at some point Internet will be an tool and asset of some war.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Or get different sizes horses to run down them.
Perhaps arrange something with the jockeys! - realyst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There are a few things that can minimize this
1) Gigabit ethernet standards have allowed true mesh networking to exist in larger and larger clusters. As a result, no small chunk of computers are responsible for the whole damn thing like the current Internet structure is.
2) IPv6 removes the need for regulated IP addresses, although you may still want to keep an database somewhere to minimize duplicates, but with 6 sextrillion possible addresses, it's probably easier just to get the damn machine to request the IP again.
3) Wireless Gigabit mesh networks are still some ways off, but would wrestle control of a global infrastructure from telcos and gov't as any PC connected contributes to it. No extra infrastructure would be required(key word, -required-)
4) Worst case scenario, should this happen before any aformentioned solution is practical, start your own damn DNS system under the current system and distribute it around. Eventually one or few will grow beyond the rest and Internet Mark 2 will be born. - Brak710101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yea...
No.
The internet will never be a battleground for a war. At somepoint, you can just pull the plug and keep what ever your worried about safe. - Crowforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As long as I have acess to japan the rest of the world can go screw itself.
- calidor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1really interesting article. But wouldn't that separation be very negative to China in terms of commerce, education, research, etc..
- Burritovision, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you may recognize that this will not happen.
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15 years from now we'll be hearing of new technology that will be enhancing the internet.
- Olney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These guys are pretty much Late.
IDN (International Domain Names) already exist.
Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic native domains.
It wasn't used before because IE6 wasn't IDN friendly, but IE7 which is, will be out this month.
Biggest site in English about these domains:
http://www.idnforums.com
These are the kind of domains examples:
http://グラビアアイドル.com (Japanese Gravia Idols)
http://日本語.jp (Japanese.jp: Japan Domain registrar)
Hopefully you guys are more new school than these guys. - fenris6644, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1China seems to be doing a pretty good job of creating their own Internet already. "Great Firewall" anyone?
- mcnasby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, according to the advertisement I saw about net neutrality yesterday - "the big internet content providers want you to pay more money for their services, so you should say NO to net neutrality." I take it AT&T (yeah, that's right - you deserve to be disgraced with those threatening capital letters) was backing the ad, or something. Too bad the telecomm companies leave out that whole thing about tiering the internet.
- Whitey04, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Look. Yes there are secrets to be had on the internet, but not everything. We don't keep our plans for nuclear bombs on computers connected to the internet. Very simple: no connection, no hacker, no way.
This is why the military has a separate intranet with a secured network of independent physical connections. - KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Clearly you haven't been paying attention to the growth of private enterprise over the last couple of centuries.
- Iczer21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting article. I think they are missing the reason that the Internet will Balkenize though. Not because of different cultures, or technical issues, but due to governments censoring/restricting content. From the US trying (and miserably failing) to regulate on-line gambling, to China restricting the search engines, governments will eventually try to control the net for those in their countries.
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