ADIOS AMIGOS ! !

[Pete44ru]

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FWIW, Oct 1, 2016 is D-Day: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ameri ... le/2599521


The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed.

The department will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote on Tuesday, barring what he called "any significant impediment."

The move means the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which is responsible for interpreting numerical addresses on the Web to a readable language, will move from U.S. control to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a multistakeholder body based in Los Angeles that includes countries such as China and Russia.

Critics of the move, most prominently Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, have pointed out the agency could be used by totalitarian governments to shut down the Web around the globe, either in whole or in part.



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[wecsoger]

I have something to say about this but

a: my full range of expression would not even be appropriate among my old military friends

and

b: my comments, were I to utter them may be considered legally actionable and/or warrant a visit from some or 'nother gov't agency

This is beyond stupid.

Oh, by the way, I am more than familiar with the internet, networking and have been involved in the field since the mid-eighties. I have gone from a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem to currently administering/troubleshooting/repairing/installing/upgrading a nationwide Cisco voice/data network

It will take awhile, but it will be a disaster.

I shall return to biting my tongue.

[Old Ironsights]

They can pry my WiFi Scanner/Hacker from my cold, dead hands... (or dig the interface out of my skull, whichever comes first...)

[Grizz]

wescoger,

do you suppose it might lead to more private networks, provincial, local communities, with IPs that don't run on any of the 'official' routers? they exist, they just need a different addressing scheme.

do you suppose that it could be possible to take it back in the future?

I agree with you, it's terminal stupidity . . ,

[pshort]

Howdy,
I think we are all gonna need private servers in our basements..... Just sayn' ....
Seems to be legal enough...

Paul

[AJMD429]

Ham radio could fill the niche with their 'packet' and repeater technologies....

[Grizz]

Ham radio could fill the niche with their 'packet' and repeater technologies....

you can't legally code or encrypt ham comms. and if I do it, I'm a sitting duck.

BTW, the whole internet thingy grew in part out of those technologies

[jeepnik]

Maybe they should do it like the Olympics (yea, cuz that's working so well) and pass it to another country every four years.

[JohndeFresno]

Oh, boy. Looking forward to spending hours on Google to learn the expanded Great Conversations:
The Wisdom of Mao
Great Inventions of Mother Russia that the West Claimed For Their Own
Saul Alinsky's Complete Works
YouTube lectures on Why Capitalism is BAD
...and other stuff that will supplant our decadent, harmful websites on Christianity, Firearms, Hunting, Captialism and Independent Thinking!

[Pete44ru]

Oh, boy. Looking forward to spending hours on Google to learn the expanded Great Conversations:'

The Wisdom of Mao
Great Inventions of Mother Russia that the West Claimed For Their Own
Saul Alinsky's Complete Works
YouTube lectures on Why Capitalism is BAD

...and other stuff that will supplant our decadent, harmful websites on Christianity, Firearms, Hunting, Captialism and Independent Thinking!

Please don't forget to add the chronicles of Alfred E. Neuman .......................





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[David]

I have something to say about this but

a: my full range of expression would not even be appropriate among my old military friends

and

b: my comments, were I to utter them may be considered legally actionable and/or warrant a visit from some or 'nother gov't agency

This is beyond stupid.

Oh, by the way, I am more than familiar with the internet, networking and have been involved in the field since the mid-eighties. I have gone from a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem to currently administering/troubleshooting/repairing/installing/upgrading a nationwide Cisco voice/data network

It will take awhile, but it will be a disaster.

I shall return to biting my tongue.

You didn't have one of those push in the phone handle in the cups 120 baud modems

[wecsoger]

...and a TRS-80 model 100.

You young kids, git off my lawn!

[Old Ironsights]

...and a TRS-80 model 100.

You young kids, git off my lawn!

Bugger. I pitted a TRS-80 100 against an Apple II in Chess about 37 years ago...

The Apple Lost. (Go SARGON Chess!)

The boys at Cheyenne Mountain spiked the 1200bps modem on my NEC2000 powered, no hard drive, Z181 laptop when I was diddling around inside a "secure" phone link (patched into by my wire dogs at Ft. Carson) from the tech-ops area of my Nuke Van....

Still have the unit. Replaced the modem (yaay circuit isolation) and it worked for another 20 years. (batteries/charging circuit are now 100% toast)

[Lefty Dude]

I am in the process of getting my Ham license. My technician test is Sept 5 . With all the repeaters out there, and now Echolink, (computer/Radio interface). I will be prepared for what ever.

Are we better off now than before the Inter-net ??????

[Old Ironsights]

By the time we need to use AlterNet BBS's, HAM licensing will be moot.

Just learn the tech and acquire the hardware. The end of the .gov will take care of the rest.

[J Buck]

Well, if the end is coming, it's kind of a relief for me. No more trying to decide if I want to waste my time on the internet or go fishing. Can I get rid of my cable too?