Many countries are looking for alternatives to a world where they are forced to use technology that is controlled in some way by the
Now, other countries are looking to compete with America’s ever-growing Internet dominance. For example,
These newer internets will differ from the one we use today because it will use suffixes different from the 264 that are approved by Icann which stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. You know these suffixes as .com, .org, .jp, etc. The central root basis for the Internet is what allows it to work so well as the single root which is replicated for security and redundancy reasons is necessary so that anyone can get to any website easily. In other words when you type in Tehrani.com the central root communicates rapidly with administrator of your domain such as VeriSign and returns an IP address which in turn connects you to this blog.
Recently there was controversy of the addition of a .xxx domain name as the
In response, the
Alternatives to Icann are also popping up in
Another example is UnifiedRoot in
Icann is responding to these threats by becoming more accommodating to foreign languages.
I wonder if this is the beginning of a slew of new internets being built, will we be able to easily use VoIP across these networks? In other words do we not only have to be concerned about having the same VoIP provider but now we also need to be on the same Internet?
This whole situation has the ability to confuse users and any confusion is bad. Furthermore, anything that makes it more difficult to communicate is not beneficial for the global population.
Here is a great article on this topic.