Fwd: Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers (We invented it and Now Obama Wants to Let Foreign Powers Control It!)

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>Fwd: Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers (We invented it

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>Dr Leonard Coldwell <dr.leonardcoldwell

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>Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign

>Powers (We invented it and Now Obama Wants to Let Foreign Powers Control It!)

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>>Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers

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>>Sunday, 31 Jan 2010 06:41 PM

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>>By: Bradley A. Blakeman

>>Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest

>>minds and the investment of U.S. taxpayer

>>dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today.

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>>Now, the Obama administration has moved quietly

>>to cede control of the Web from the United States to foreign powers.

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>>Some background: The Internet came into being

>>because of the genius work of Americans

>>Dr.Robert E. Kahn and Dr. Vinton G. Cerf. These

>>men, while working for the Department of

>>Defense in the Defense Advanced Research

>>Projects Agency in the early 1970s, conceived,

>>designed, and implemented the idea of " open-architecture networking. "

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>>This breakthrough in connectivity and

>>networking was the birth of the Internet.

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>>These two gentlemen had the vision and the

>>brainpower to create a worldwide computer

>>Internet communications network that forever

>>changed the world and how we communicate in it.

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>>They discovered that providing a person with a

>>unique identifier (TCP/IP)that was able to be

>>recognized and interact through a network of

>>servers would allow users to communicate with others.

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>>The servers woulduse a series of giant

>>receivers to recognize the identifier and

>>connect networks to networks, passing on

>>information from computer to computer in a

>>seamless real-time exchange of information.

>>This new process of communication became know

>>as the " information super highway, " aka, the Internet.

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>>Now for the bad news: In an effort to show the

>>world how inclusive, sharing, cooperative, and

>>international America can be, the Obama

>>administration set off on a plan to surrender

>>control and key management of the Internet by

>>the U.S. Department of Commerce and its agents.

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>>The key to the control America has over the

>>Internet is through the management of the

>>Domain Name System (DNS) and the giant servers that service the Internet.

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>>Domain names are managed through an entity

>>named IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers

>>Authority. The IANA, which operates on behalf

>>of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is

>>responsible for the global coordination of the

>>DNS, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.

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>>In short, without an IP Address or other

>>essential Internet protocols, a person or

>>entity would not have access to the Internet.

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>>For years, the international community has been pressuring the United States

>>to surrender its control and management of the

>>Internet. They want an international body such

>>as the United Nations or even the International

>>Telecommunications Union, (an entity that

>>coordinates international telephone

>>communications), to manage all aspects of the

>>Internet in behalf of all nations.

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>>The argument advanced for those seeking

>>international control of the Internet is that

>>the Internet has become such a powerful,

>>pervasive, and a dependent form of

>>international communications, that it would be

>>dangerous and inequitable for any one nation to control and manage it.

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>>Just this past spring, within months of Obama's

>>taking office, his administration, through the

>>Department of Commerce, agreed to relinquish

>>some control over IANA and their governance.

>>The Obama administration has agreed to give

>>greater representation to foreign companies and countries on IANA.

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>>This amounts to one small step for

>>internationalism and one giant leap for

>>surrendering America's control over an

>>invention we have every right and responsibility to control and manage.

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>>It is in America's economic and national

>>security interests not to relinquish any

>>control. We are responsible for the control,

>>operation, and functionality of one of the

>>modern world's greatest inventions and most powerful communications network.

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>>What better country to protect the Internet than the United States?

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>>We invented it, and we paid for the research and implementation that made it

>>possible. We are the freest, most tolerant nation on earth, we believe in the

>>fundamental right of free speech, and we

>>practice a free market of commerce and ideas.

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>>America has always been against censorship and

>>has shared its invention with the world without

>>fee or unreasonable or arbitrary restriction.

>>The user fee to operate on the Internet is not

>>one paid to the U.S. government; a consumer

>>pays it to private Internet companies, who

>>provide access to the Internet through servers for their rs.

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>>Look no further than China's recent move against Google to censor the

>>Internet, and you can envision what can happen when other nations less free

>>than the United States seek to control the

>>Internet beyond even their own borders.

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>>America needs to wake up. If we lose control over the management of the

>>Internet, we have given away one of our nation's greatest assets with nothing

>>in return to show for it.

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>>The Obama administration's actions will set in

>>motion a slow and complete takeover of the

>>Internet by the United Nations or some other

>>equally U.S.-hostile and unfriendly

>>international body. And once it is gone, it will be gone forever.

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>>The surrender of the Internet will spell

>>disaster for our nation, financially, as well

>>as for safety, security and our standing as a

>>great power that values freedom and the free exchange of ideas and

information.

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>>As far as I am concerned, America is still the last best hope for a more

>>peaceful and prosperous world and our president should not be looking for

>>ways to weaken us. Rather, his job is to work

>>to strengthen us and protect our nation's

>>greatest asset our people's creativity and ingenuity.

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>>Bradley A. Blakeman, who was a deputy assistant

>>to President George W. Bush from 2001-2004,

>>teaches public policy and politics and

>>international affairs at Georgetown University.

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