[/quote][quote]By CHARLES HUTZLER Associated Press Writer The Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama pointedly nudged China on Monday to stop censoring Internet access, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House and suggesting Beijing need not fear a little criticism.
Is this the same Obama who wants the federal government to take control of the internet and who is denying access to the White House by Fox News Channel?
"... The Obama administration's battle against Fox News has been two-pronged: members of the administration have characterized Fox News as not a legitimate news network while also regularly denying the network interviews with key figures. When Obama did the Sunday morning talk show rounds, for instance, he skipped out on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.
"This White House has demonstrated our willingness to exclude Fox News from newsmaking interviews, but yesterday we did not," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the day after Garrett interviewed "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg. ,,,"
obama seems to have no problem what so ever, to praise other countries. And shadow is correct.....obama continues to give the impression to the rest of the world, that we are a nasty country and the rest of the world is 'ok'. It is 'us' that he refuses to defend. "Us, who have spilled our blood on foreign solders to rescue them from oppression. It was and still is 'us' who buys the sh!t from these other countries so they can have a thriving economy while we go down the tubes. (and obama isn't the only pres. to share that sin)
And how ironic, that obama talks about and uncensored society, when it was him and his administration who tried to ban FOX news. It was the rest of the left wing media who actually stood up for FOX and freedom of the press. It is obama and his administration who wants to reinstate the fairness doctrine.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Lawmakers worry about losing Internet influence in new deal By Kim Hart - 09/30/09 05:15 AM ET The U.S. will lose influence over the Internet due to a new agreement expected to take effect Wednesday.
The deal, which appears to give foreign governments more say in how the global network is run, has come under criticism from lobbyists for U.S. business and lawmakers who want to preserve U.S. oversight over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
For the past 10 years, the United States has delegated its authority over the Internet to ICANN, a nonprofit organization that has shared oversight with the Commerce Department of the Internet’s underlying technology, most notably the system that allocates domain names and Web addresses.
China and Russia, among other countries, have argued this gives the U.S. too much control over the worldwide network increasingly dominated by global users.
The new arrangement sets up four oversight panels, run by representatives from foreign governments, that will review ICANN’s affairs, according to sources familiar with the deal.
The panels will review competition among typical domains, such as .com, .biz and .net, as well as the security of the network and the handling of customer data.
They’ll also review the transparency and accountability of ICANN, which is the only panel on which the U.S. will have a permanent seat.
The deal allows ICANN to be more autonomous at a crucial time for the management of the Internet. ICANN next year plans to introduce new domain names that would allow companies and individuals to create their own suffixes — such as .food, .wine and .eco. The new domains would likely cost around $100,000 each.
The organization will also allow domain names in other languages and non-Latin characters, so that entire Web addresses can be written in Arabic or Japanese.
Currently, the system only allows for 280 country domains, such as .uk for Britain and .ca for Canada.
Companies are protesting plans to expand domain names, fearing they will have to defensively buy hundreds of Web addresses to avoid so-called cyber-squatters.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and companies including Dell, Nike and Marriott have shown similar resistance. Some lawmakers have urged ICANN to back off of the plan until it addresses trademark risks.
In a hearing last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) criticized ICANN for not resolving the complaints. But it is unclear how much weight Congress will have in the direction of the plan, which is already moving forward.
Congress directed ICANN to work out agreements with firms that register domain names and companies that want to protect their brands.
For example, Amazon.com fears it could have to buy .amazon or .books to protect its brand; otherwise, someone else could buy that domain and then force the company to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire it.
Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, a coalition of e-commerce companies, said expanding the number of domain names could cause fraud and consumer confusion.
“From the private-sector standpoint, businesses that spend a trillion dollars building out the Internet have growing concerns for ICANN’s push for more [domains] without adequate protection,” he said. “We’re really dismayed by ICANN’s internal restructuring that has diminished the voting power of the e-commerce companies that contribute to the Web economy.”
ICANN Chief Operating Officer Doug Brent told the committee that new domain holders will be required to comply with stringent rules and that it would not be “unbridled expansion.” He acknowledged, though, that the organization has more work to do before embarking on the plan.
Last week, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, which has 19 corporate members, asked the government to conduct a full audit of ICANN. The group argues that ICANN has not properly vetted the security and legal risks of its plan.
Firms that register new Web addresses make more than $2 billion a year in address-renewal fees, and adding hundreds of new domains would add to that revenue. Companies like GoDaddy.com, eNom and Network Solutions say the plan to add more domain names will lead to more competition among registry firms and will address consumer demand.
Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) in May called for a new agreement that improves ICANN’s accountability to both consumers and Internet stakeholders.
In the House, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.) urged the Commerce Department to remain involved in the management of ICANN.
“The Internet has become an indispensable tool for worldwide commerce and communication,” the congressmen said in a letter last month. “Its success depends upon … dependable and transparent management by ICANN.”
Brian Cute, vice president of registry Afilias, said the biggest issue is to make sure ICANN is accountable and transparent. “To the extent that any follow-on arrangement promotes that, we think it’s a good thing,” he said.
Commerce still will have a role in Internet oversight.
Under a separate contract, the Commerce Department has conferred on ICANN the management of the master files of the domain name system, the core “root” files governing the Internet.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Internet will run out of IP addresses by 2010, warns Vint Cerf The "father of the internet" has warned that the web is running out of addresses and users need to act now to change to a new system.
By Jessica Salter Published: 7:05AM BST 25 Sep 2008
Vint Cerf, the man who helped invent the system and one of the world's leading computer scientists, said that the web does not have enough unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other.
He said that when the internet protocol (IP) addresses do run out, the connectivity of the internet will be damaged and some computers will not be able to go online.
"This is like the internet running out of telephone numbers and with no new numbers, you can't have more subscribers," he said
Preparations had to be made now, he said, to switch addresses to a new system.
When the internet was founded in 1977 there were 4.2 billion addresses available under the internet protocol version four (IPv4) system.
Each of the IPv4 addresses has a series of 32 binary numbers, but with the rapid expansion of broadband across the world, it is estimated that these addresses will run out by 2010.
A new system called IPv6 has been ready for a decade and is already used in Japan to connect thousands of earthquake sensors through a computer system that sends automatic alerts to television programmes and turns traffic lights red.
IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long and so provide a possible 340 trillion, trillion, trillion address space.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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