Guinness Soft Drink
Random tid bit.
A friend of mine went to Africa a while ago and brought me back an odd, but cool souvenir. It’s a soft drink made by Guinness called Malta. Here is what it looks like:
While this may sound like something you may want to try, he said it is a “very acquired taste” [...]
Published: May 9th, 2008Category: Miscellanea
So the question I keep asking myself is, what does this mean for Internet governance? Up until now, the US has dominated Internet governance, and for good reason (we started it provide most of the infrastructure, and our large population of online users). But with China now bigger than us, and with their growth potential still huge, how long will the US retain control of the governing bodies?
Wow, that’s a good question. I’d never though about that. I am curious what you mean by infrastructure and governance though. You mean like the main DNS servers? or the main trunks? I must admit I am not up to date on how the internet is governed. :-/
From what I know the internet’s main selling point was its ability to keep functioning without parts of it active - all the packet routing / rerouting stuff. I think it was a DARPA project to maintain communications during a nuke attack. My point being that if you unplugged the USA from the whole internet, wouldn’t it still keep working? (just not for us) In other words, and sorry for my lack of knowledge, what control do we have over it (aside from our local policies)?
It doesn’t matter because they don’t have much money!