Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

[Mike Tancsa]

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