At 01:18 28/11/2008, Yassin Mshana wrote:
Internet is an International Network.Period. (maybe and unless we link upwith other planets!?
Dear Yassin, This is not a technical definition. It is a fact.
This decentralisation/ decetralization or whatever it may be called - is not and will not be for the benefit of the global community (or will it be?)
Decentralisation is the IETF doctrine and core value (RFC 3935). The problem we face today is this an outdated concept. Hence the constaints imposed on the people of the world (be essence there is not such a thing as the "global community": this is the mankind).
For once the world has discovered something common for all - what is the problem?
May will you want to consider the IETF, ICANN, ITU, GAC, IGF, ISOC, etc. to list the problems this discovery leads to.
Is it because everybody might/will benefit from it? Yes/No (no 3rd choice in this). One wonders why so much noise is made on this issue. It is like one wanting to change the (+, -, / and x) in Arithmetic/ Mathematics.
I am afraid this is exactly where reticular (networked) thinking leads to. When mankind changes its way of thinking one names this a paradigm change. This is what networking and resulting systemic helps understanding, something we first observed with Reletivity, Quantic theories, Big Bang, etc. you can also relate to the fact that there are five times more people on earth with more needs and longer life duration.
There is a need to have a diplomatic way to approach this issue - not purely technical approach.
Unfortunately, politics have learned to be suspicous about technicians from the early cybernetic experoence (mid 1900) and tend to consider the governance of the "Information Society" while forgeting the technical soil that virtuality implies. This is why we have to be very carefull at not sawing the branch we are sitting on. jfc