It may be an interesting academic study to nail down "What is the Internet" ?

Does The.Internet require TCP.IP and IANA.INC ?

Who owns the SneakerNET?

If you walk into StarBucks with your 2 TerraByte USB Drive and they pump it with FREE Videos while you sip your latte; then you take your videos home and play them via your DLNA HD TV; Is that the Internet ?

Who owns the SneakerNET?

NewNOG at NANOG is Imploding

Self-Destruction 101

Beware!! They are developing their "Funding Model"

Keep your eye on those IPv4 .SWAMP /8s

Note they are worried about having too much surplus
cash in their non-profit. They must not have discovered
the "Reserve Fund" ploy.

$50,000,000+ in the ICANN Reserve? For what?

ISOC ?
ARIN ?
NANOG ?

IETF being Locked-Down Before China Visit

People are discovering how ISOC and IETF insiders
use their personal info and business intelligence
and trade secrets for their gain ?

Privacy ? What privacy ?

Ethics ? not what the E in IETF stands for

IETF Geeks are Clueless about privacy

Headed to .EU to "Practice" for China
Oblivious to DNA samples, cell phone bugs, GPS following, dossiers

Maybe some Columbian Cavity Searches will wake them up?

Confirmed! Rod is the Patsy the Fall Guy

He winds up in California for six years, and is shown "studying" various human potential movements: Naked Hot Tub Encounter Sessions, in Santa Rosa; Primal Arm-Wrestling, in Sacramento; the Beyond Jogging Movement, in Stockton; Higher Essence Colonic Irrigation Therapy, in Monterey; and The Whole Man Movement, in Auburn. In 1980, Django is shown entering Fort Bragg, with long braided hair and a third eye painted on his forehead.

Paul Twomey distances himself from ICANN no mention on CV

http://www.icmi.com.au/Speaker/Technology_Future/Dr_Paul_Twomey

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_60523.shtml

Taking Over ? or Back ? the Internet

ONE: Buy Congress
TWO: Mobilize an Army of Lobbyists
THREE: Spread Astroturf [ICANN Verisign]
FOUR: Demonize the Public Interest

Tiny Island thinks they own .TV ?
as they sink into the ocean and Verisign thumbs nose

http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=54541

Expect .TV prices to go up, way up

Expect .TV prices to go up, way up

http://Managed.DNS is the new High Ground.

Several companies will be rolling out turn-key solutions.
A client like ABC.TV may have to pay $5,000 per year
to have their .TV asset managed. That would inclusion in
ALL of the major DNS Platforms, that consumers use.

The ICANN CEO is right, .NET is a dead TLD.
.ORG is too confusing.

Expect .TV prices to go up, way up (.FCC is happy)

Being an ICANN Registrar is StooPid.

The new Managed,DNS software selects the /biggest/cheapest
Registrar which is the only one left.

http://Managed.DNS is the new High Ground.

Managed.DNS << 11 letters an IPv6 address - no DNS

ICANN has Feds shut down domains that vary from ISOC Party Line

The newly formed U.S. Cyber Command is supposed to centralize and focus the military's ability to wage war over the Internet, but so far it's basically famous for brainteasers. The command's fancy logo contains a super-secret code in its inner gold ring: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a

ICANN continues to sign-up countries that do not exist

.SI next ?
SI.EDU

Are ICANN employees traveling on Diplomatic Passports?

Diplomatic passport

Issued to diplomats for work-related travel, and to accompanying dependents. Although most diplomats with diplomatic immunity carry diplomatic passports, having a diplomatic passport is not the equivalent of having diplomatic immunity. A grant of diplomatic status, a privilege of which is diplomatic immunity, has to come from the government of the country in relation to which diplomatic status is claimed.

FCC plans to .AUCTION valuable IP Address Spectrum
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/107577-public-safety-alliance-says-fcc-white-paper-built-on-conjecture

Jaw-Dropping - ICANN Executive (in Twitter Tweet) does not know that CALIFORNIA is on the WEST Coast of the US.

More Jaw-Dropping News

ARIN does not even know who uses the IP Address Space
they claim to manage.

One might assume that ARIN (and ICANN) can reclaim
space each year when people do not pay. Since they
DO NOT PAY anything, there is no interchange to reclaim
space.

Bogus claims of being Out of Address Space are based
on poor IANA management and lack of knowledge.

What do 150+ people DO at ICANN every day ?

Why is the ICANN non-profit CEO paid a million dollars a year ?

@FCC Susan Crawford Distances From ICANN

Fascinating, seems difficult to find anyone who is/was responsible
or accountable for what ICANN has done (or not done).

The FCC takes the high-ground and does not even consider ICANN exists. The FCC has the long history, not ICANN. The FCC gets to have a clean sheet start with the Internet, burying years of IANA and ICANN.

Reading the tea leaves, the "High Ground" is the Good Karma Road

1. Start by pretending ICANN does not exist and never did

2. FCC starts with the User Experience and not ICANN

3. Isolate ISOC IETF ICANN by simply not inviting them

4. Build IT and they will come - [they] being [the good people, the people you want]

Classic HARVARD

Esther Dyson's alma mater was instrumental in shaping ICANN
via those hallowed halls of The Berkman Center.

NOW that ICANN is dead, The Berkman Center wants to do the
Autopsy on the remains. They also want to be paid.

J Zittrain, now co-opted by the ISOC, is one of the players.

One goal is of course to keep all eyes away from the .ORG RE-BID and the PIR and Afilias finances, offshore in Ireland and Switzerland.

http://bit.ly/9DYGug [pdf]

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's president said Tuesday his nation will sell its massive reserves of [TLDS] diamonds despite not receiving authorization from the world's [domain] diamond control body [ICANN].

A defiant President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday told lawmakers diamond [domain] sales have "huge potential" to revive the shattered economy. He said Zimbabwe can account for one-fourth of the world's diamond supply.

The Kimberley Process diamond [domain] certification scheme [DNSSEC] has not authorized international sales amid allegations of killings, human rights violations and corruption in the massive diamond fields discovered in eastern Zimbabwe in 2006.

.JOBS Summary
http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/msg00255.html

1. Yet another example of why Sponsored TLDs with Artificial (Concocted) Charters fail.
2. No mention of Steve.JOBS or Blow.JOBS or Joe.JOBS
3. No mention of a RE-BID because of "New?" Charter
4. Numerous replays of the same tired "Community" Mantra and claims of "innovations". Innovations? with ASCII strings ? Sheesh

ICANN and their Cult Followers are really into this deep

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
(Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776)