IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

Mon Apr 23 21:05:13 UTC 2007

On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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...

Which is fine.

Besides, no gov't _can_ have the single authority.  You can always  
ignore what other people sign or do not sign.

That said, I completely agree the DHS shouldn't have even the modicum  
of power holding the keys would give it.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick