SR#1210 – 6 Days Until Internet D-Day? Obama Relinquishes Control & Oversight -IANA -ICANN

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Visit our website now: http://www.billstill.com - considered by informed insiders’ as THE ultimate resource for fixing the National Debt problem and surviving Economic or Financial Collapse/Crash and attaining the unvarnished truth about Washington and today’s United States Political Climate. Good morning, I’m still reporting on SR 1210 – 6 Days Until Internet D-Day? http:// www.billstill.com/ 018:15 – Sept. 24, 2016 Good morning, I’m still reporting on Internet uncertainty. Control over core aspects of the Internet will transfer from US government control over to a non-profit that is becoming increasingly internationalized is just 6 days - Friday night at midnight. Here is the general issue, it’s deep in the Internet weeds, but here’s my best shot at making sense of this for you as concisely as possible. At issue is who maintains control over the root zone – the area where the internet’s most basic functions occur – called the IANA functions – the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Currently, the central controlling authority for this IANA function is ICANN – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - the non-profit in question, headquartered in Los Angeles. ICANN has a very international Board of Directors headed by Chairman, Steve Crocker – an American. But Crocker’s term expires next year. However, there has never been any hint of unfair bias in ICANN’s activities in the past. The current situation is that the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunication and Information Administration - or NTIA – provides general oversight over ICANN’s governance of this IANA function – just a double-check over what they do and how they do it. The big issue here is that at the stroke of midnight that oversight will end and ICANN becomes the big boss. And once this oversight function is given away, some say, there is no going back. Now for normal, everyday functions – no problem. However, the issue is what happens in a cyber war? Even if the US military has its own secure internet dedicated to military operations, U.S. national security depends heavily on commercial U.S. companies and their ability to do business efficiently. The argument then is - on one side - those who sincerely believe that we built it, we should maintain control of it. On the other side, however, there are those who point to NSA abuse of cyber, as well as the lack of respect for the US Constitution that President Obama displays on a daily basis. What if powerful, malevolent forces take over the U.S. government? – ahem - Obama. Or, imagine if the junior senator from Alberta, Canada ascended to this nation’s highest office – which he still fully intends to do? And what if, once in power, he appointed George Soros as Secretary of State? How would those of us who love freedom and go by the decentralization-of- power standard as the best way to keep Big Brother at bay – how would we feel about Cruz controlling the controllers? Not so much, eh? This is not an impossible scenario, either. I mean, there are still around 40% of the people in this country who would vote for Hillary Clinton for God’s sake – the most corrupt politician in U.S. history! So, at some point we may wish someone else had a bigger say in how Internet functions were run. Simply put, those are the issues. I admit, that in this case, I can’t take a stand on either side. I hate to take a stand against Trump, because too many times where I’ve doubted his judgment, he’s been right and I’ve been wrong. So, I don’t have a final sentence for this report. You’ve got to make up your own minds. Bottom line is that this handover probably can’t be stopped. Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has put up an effective block so that Cruz cannot be the saving hero in this case, so there is probably nothing to be done – today. We’ll look at this again after the election and see just what can be done from that point – and – as they say in chess - make our next best move. Today, we have one very important and overriding issue that we all can very much effect for the good. This internet issue pales in comparative importance to devoting 100% of our energies to making America great again. I’m still reporting from Washington. Good Day. Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube Channel the “Still Report”, the quintessential report on the economy and Washington. Connect with Bill Still: https://www.facebook.com/BillStillOfficial https://twitter.com/billstill?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/user/bstill3/videos https://plus.google.com/u/0/109353617116072656672 Consider becoming a cherished sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3204630 https://youtu.be/GG1bVaulfJU