Our Internet Ecosystem
They share common values for the open development of the Internet.
Hereâs what Internet Ecosystem means in this context. The rapid and continued development and adoption of Internet technologies can be attributed to the involvement of:
A broad range of actors
Open, transparent, and collaborative processes
The uses of products and infrastructure with dispersed ownership and control.
Organizations that make up the Internet Ecosystem include:
Technologists, engineers, architects, creatives, and organizations, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force and the World Wide Web Consortium, who help coordinate and implement open standards.
Global and local organizations that manage resources for global addressing capabilities. Among them are the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, including its operation of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority function, Regional Internet Registries, and Domain Name Registries and R
Key Takeaways
Because digital currencies allow for high-value transactions outside of the traditional U.S. banking system, OFAC has rigorously investigated whether digital currency service businesses may be facilitating transactions that are prohibited under various sanctions programs.
Recent settlements have shown that OFAC will take into account whether digital currency services businesses have OFAC compliance programs in place that are routinely reviewed and, as appropriate, updated to take advantage of new technological developments.
The action against BitPay demonstrates OFAC’s expectation that businesses will screen all information available to them to ensure that they are not facilitating transactions with sanctioned persons, even where such persons might not be the business’s direct customer.
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Finding the best way to get from Point A to Point B is easy if you’re drawing a straight line on a piece of paper, but when Point A is your computer and Point B is a website halfway around the world, things get a bit trickier.
In the latter case, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol used by the global internet, is used to find the best path by weighing the latest network conditions based on reachability and routing information. BGP manages how data packets get delivered between the large networks that make up the internet and makes it possible for the internet as we know it to operate efficiently.
The dispute over the ownership of Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Archipelago involves a complex array of legal, human rights, security and geopolitical issues. The United Kingdom wants to retain the islands it calls the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). Mauritius wants to see the islands ceded to it. The United States wants to keep its military base. And many of the Chagossian diaspora who were forcibly removed decades ago want to return.
This multi-sided dispute has now been further complicated by arguments over ownership of the territory’s internet domain – “.io”. It seems that digital players may be increasingly caught up in geopolitics.
Tangled Webs: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, the Internet Giveaway, and the Wild, Wild West of Information
by Steven Neill
The use of lies and deception, or as the new term coming into vogue; fake news, has been a standard tool of the trade for over a century by the government and their willing and/or unwilling stooges in the main stream media. (1) A few examples include Newspaper owners William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, with the unspoken blessings of US President, William McKinley, spreading lies to stir up the masses enough to start a war with Spain. (2) This allowed McKinley to start an American empire by taking over the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico at the close of the 19