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Thoughts on How an Alt DNS Federation Gets Established |
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Aug 30, 2010 - by kidmercury
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If you haven't been following this blog, you should read the following posts first to get up to speed:
Thinking Out Loud About Alt DNS Roots and New Political Systems
Cybersecurity, and Why Alt DNS Roots are Needed
So the question then becomes how do these Alt DNS roots get established in the first place? And how do the wireless ISPs that connect to them get built? And how do people connect to these wireless ISPs? And how is the governance policy for these alt DNS roots established?
Lots of questions, and answering them only leads to more questions. Fear not, though, for as the path gets embarked upon, and after a neverending process of trial and error -- i.e. constant iteration -- everything will fall into place, as is customary.
In my opinion, though, the starting point for this journey should be the creation of niche communities/economies -- i.e. the business plan that saves the world. This is where I think timing is ripe -- i.e. niche communities powered by social currencies are growing in popularity -- and also where profit margins can be very high and operating costs very low.
This is important, because money will be needed to support an alt DNS system, to get social influence, and to build a new infrastructure.
A federation of these niche communities can then invest in ISPs and an alt DNS system. They will have the incentive to do so, as these communities will be powered by social currencies, which will compete with currencies issued by nation-states. Nation-states will of course try to legislate against social currencies, as they are already doing. A federation of niche social currencies will make this harder to enforce, though enforcement via the domain system (ICANN) as well as ISPs is an option, and one I expect to be used.
A federation of niche communities thus has an incentive to invest in a system of wireless ISPs and an alt DNS roots. Doing so will also allow them to establish their own intellectual property rights policies, as nation-states already try to use ISPs as copyright cops.
Niche communities with engaged users embracing social currencies also is a nice distribution outlet for getting customers to use these virtual ISPs.
In this way, the Internet can be taken out of the hands of the governments of nation-states, and put in the hands of a new government, one that can be created to serve the new paradigm of civilization: networked societies, rather than nation-states.
In the beginning, and likely until a critical mass is built (i.e. Facebook size, 500 million users, but of niche communities), the alt DNS stuff should be very low key, and should exist only as an emergency precaution. For instance, all these niche communities can be hosted on the ICANN controlled dot com, and connected to normally, but with a mirrored version on the alt DNS tld (so there would be kidmercuryblog.com, but everything here would get mirrored to kidmercuryblog.nwo, in case the government strikes down and shuts off the web by shutting down the domain system (controlled by ICANN). If it does, you need to connect to your wireless ISP that can connect you to kidmercuryblog.nwo).
I have a feeling that this also sets the stage for the net neutrality issue to be resolved in a better manner. The current situation cannot be resolved properly because it will just end up being controlled by the corporations that lobby have bought government anyway (in the case of net neutrality, that would be Google and Verizon). Although I'm sure there are spectrum issues, or something like that, that I don't know enough about, and a solution on that front needs to be understood.
So that's an update on what I'm thinking. The vision is definitely getting closer. I need to do a bit more research on spectrum stuff and how wireless ISPs connect to users and to alt DNS roots -- not sure about that stuff. That's probably what my next post will be about.
Of course it's all a bit pointless as I literally do not know of anyone other than myself who is interested in working on these issues, lol. But I enjoy sharing my perspectives, perhaps someone will find them of use at some point down the road.
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