IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

Mon Apr 23 21:04:17 UTC 2007

At 04:52 PM 4/23/2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

>I do not want any particular gov't (US or otherwise) to be "in
>charge" of the Internet any more than the next person.  And good
>thing too, because it simply cannot happen, political pipe-dreams not
>withstanding.
>
>But what has that got to do with the DHS promoting an idea to sign IP
>space allocations and/or annoucements?  The idea in-and-of-itself
>doesn't sound wholly unreasonable.  (I am not advocating this, just
>saying the idea shouldn't be rejected without consideration simply
>because the DHS said it.)

The question is who would do the signing and revocations. Whoever 
does that would indeed have a great amount of control over the 
internet.  A single government agency should not have that sort of 
power to make a (for lack of better term), "no surf list" of IP space...

         ---Mike 