I personally think it is all, forgive the word, codswallop. "Codswallop" just happens to be the best thing I can think of. Forgive me if i am wrong here but is the internet not the birth-child of Russia, not the USA? I say this because was not the launch of Sputnik a big ‘screw you’ to America’?[citation needed]
So they then decided, “So what? We can make universities talk to each other without being in the same network area”, hence the internet.
Which then strikes a new query. If, say, just Americans alone create something so big, and have the power to shut it all down, then what happens to stuff like nominet and whome? I may point out I’ve got the name nic.uk, yet another network term we all need, our nic cards - lets just leave that pun, its geeky i know. The point is they cover all .co.uk domain names; if you, for example, register and put a domain name up that shows something untoward, nominet steps in and takes the domain off you, which suggests to me that other countries have a similar system in place.
At this moment in time we are supposed to believe that the internet will come to a halt due to the Americans saying that the computer says “No”. Here is what I believe. If i have a broadband connection, I have an IP address, if I pay a little more i can have a static IP address, and if I pay a tad more i can have a second IP address: I personally have 3 for my house this way and I know the websites I host work - if not i switch to my own IP addresses. (Is this right? Ed.)
Now, what is in place for Americans to stop people like me from running what i like? I was always taught that there are 7 layers to a network, let alone the internet. Surely if the UK has the strongest army in the world(Is this right? Ed.) why should we back down on this? The internet was made to be free; we have had free information way before Wikileaks, just look at Kevin Mitnick. If I thought the internet was in danger i would have alerted customers to the fact that we are now becoming a country obsessed with whether the internet is going to work. NTL work on a 15yr old network using ‘coax’ - trust me when i say we have a few more years yet.
Although this is just my opinion and does not affect others (apart from my spelling etc)