On August 7, the day when the United States launched its “Net Net” program, the Internet Society (ISOC) issued a statement for the first time.
ISOC expressed deep disappointment in the statement; ISOC believes that the US government’s actions violated the original intention of the Internet, violated the Internet’s global interconnected, open, and decentralized nature, and violated the fairness and universality of the technical architecture.
ISOC pointed out that if this initiative spreads further, the ability of the Internet to bring more extensive cooperation and mutual benefit, global coverage and economic growth to mankind will be seriously threatened.
The following is the original translation:
Statement of the International Internet Society (ISOC) on the US “Net Net” Project
We are very disappointed. The United States is a country that funded the early development of the Internet, but it is now considering a series of policies that will fragment the Internet. A more worrying trend is that the government directly intervenes in the Internet in an attempt to win political scores in the short term, regardless of the long-term damage it causes. The “net net” plan is part of this trend.
The Internet is a globally interconnected network, which is embodied in that the networks are connected to each other based on the principle of spontaneity and there is no central authority. It is this architecture that made the Internet. The US “Net Net” plan announced today challenges the core of this architecture.
Only the “Clean Carrier” and “Clean Cable” plans will force a large amount of network traffic into third-party countries, extend the distance that data must traverse, increase the potential for monitoring and manipulation of network traffic, and increase the Internet The risk of interruption has generally increased the cost of Internet access for everyone.
A government decides how to connect to each other out of political considerations rather than technical considerations, which goes against the original idea of the Internet. These interventions will greatly affect the mobility, resilience and adaptability of the Internet.
If this measure spreads further, the ability of the Internet to bring more extensive cooperation and mutual benefit, global coverage and economic growth to mankind will be seriously threatened.
Such a policy will only increase the global momentum towards the “Splinternet”-a fragmented network, not the Internet that we have built over the past 40 years and is now more needed than ever.
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