<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Paul Vixie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@redbarn.org" target="_blank">paul@redbarn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i am quoted here saying "this is all just foolishness and sabre rattling, and won't happen" or words to that effect.<br>
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<a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/could-russia-really-build-its-own-alternate-internet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech<wbr>-talk/telecom/internet/could-<wbr>russia-really-build-its-own-<wbr>alternate-internet</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have been warning something of the sort will happen for years. Not that that gets us anywhere.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The concentration of power in ICANN is something US citizens seem to have no difficulty with. I understand why folk who are not US citizens might have a difficulty with it and I don't think the recent changes addressed the actual concerns.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">What I care about is people having control over their own communications and the current infrastructure does not give that to me. Facilities like DNSSEC and DPRIV could do that in principle but we don't have the right package yet.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div></div></div></div>