Re: [irtf-discuss] [Internet Policy] Renew Your Commitment to the Internet ...

Richard Hill <rhill@hill-a.ch> Thu, 14 January 2021 19:32 UTC

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From: Richard Hill <rhill@hill-a.ch>
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While a debate on the COVID pandemic is outside the scope of this list, I feel obliged to make an observation regarding point (1) below.

I attach the excess mortality graph for Geneva, which is similar to that for Switzerland as a whole (and also for other countries). This shows the total number of deaths over time, without attributing the deaths to any particular cause.

So if it is not COVID that caused the deaths, then it must be something else which is also highly correlated with results of COVID tests.

Best,
Richard



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> 
> Dear Andrew,
> 
> i agree with you and your presentation in many points. Especially when
> it comes to the potentials of an InterNet. I focus my disagreement on 2
> issues:
> 
> 1) There is no Corona/Covid pandemic, only a plandemic, i.e. a staged
> Corona theater.
> 2) There is no InterNet on our planet, only TnterStar systems.
> 
> 
> to 1) Corona/Covid
> 
> This topic is simpler for this receiver circle. From the regional
> statistical data for all regions on our planet it is true that there was
> no over-mortality compared to the last years. But for this we cannot use
> absolute numbers, we have to look at the percentage per age group.
> 
> And there are no Sars-Cov-2 infections, because a Rt-PCR test cannot
> detect infection and infectivity. For that, any person with symptoms of
> disease must undergo a clinical examination.
> 
> Today there is no flu and influenza. All respiratory diseases today are
> declared as covid-19.
> 
> And we have no Covid deaths, because with very few exceptions in
> Germany, there are no autopsies worldwide that can prove an actual
> Sars-Cov-2 virus, if such a virus exists at all, and can justify it as
> the cause of death.
> 
> to 2) InterNet
> 
> The name Internet goes back to "Inter-connection of local Net-works".
> And there is no such thing, because there are no local networks either.
> Strictly speaking, each community, small or large, must build its own
> local and autonomous network, which then connects to its neighbors
> around it. If the communities do this, an InterNet can be created.
> 
> Furthermore, we must move away from the privatization of addresses and
> names. My proposal for this: 128 bit IP address (like IPv6), divided
> into 2 x 64 bit addresses for global and local. The global address rests
> on the GeoLocation of 2 x 32 bit angles from WCS84. The local address
> structure is insignificant in the global and must be understood only in
> the local network.
> 
> Accordingly, only ccTLDs are used in the DNS system and managed
> regionally.
> 
> The problems of your InterStar system are due to the private and
> governmental control and occupation of these systems and can only be
> solved if the communities generate a telecommunication in the form of a
> TnterNet themselves.
> 
> with many greetings, willi
> Asuncion, Paraguay
> 
> 
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> Am 14.01.2021 um 10:44 schrieb Andrew Sullivan, Internet Society:
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> Dear willi,
> 
> The beginning of a new calendar is often a time to start afresh, and to
> look forward with hope and anticipation. For many, this year is perhaps
> not quite so fresh. Many of us are living with various degrees of
> political uncertainty, historical injustices, or both. Many of us are
> still uncertain of the long-term economic effects of COVID-19. And
> almost all of us remain under the shadow of the pandemic itself, with
> anticipation of vaccination battling with anxiety from new variants and,
> in many places, indifferent management of the crisis.
> 
> Yet there is reason for us to look forward with hope, and to renew our
> commitment that the Internet is for everyone.
> 
> For perhaps 100,000 years, people have been using tools and symbols to
> extend our reach, expand our capabilities, and work together to make our
> societies better. The Internet is a profoundly human tool. It is made to
> let us communicate and collaborate. And it works! When the pandemic came
> and we were unable to be together in person we could still reach one
> another to work, to learn, and to express our love and frustration and
> loneliness.
> 
> The Internet made this possible. It did so without any central
> authority, and without needing involvement from people keen to invent
> ways to tell the Internet to do what it already does by design. This is
> the first lesson we, the Internet Society, must take from 2020. The
> Internet way of networking must be promoted and defended. It works. When
> we do things the Internet way, we put power and control in the hands of
> people and communities who can build what they need with remarkably
> modest resources. With such a clear example of the importance of the
> Internet, governments and societies around the world are having another
> look at it. Some of the things people propose would damage or splinter
> the Internet, or permanently undermine it. Other proposals will make the
> Internet better for everyone. The Internet Society must encourage
> proposals that promote the critical properties that give us the Internet
> and discourage proposals that work against those critical properties.
> There are people all over the world, private corporations and
> governments alike, who want the Internet to be turned into a
> centrally-controlled, tightly managed, but sterile service that would
> leave all humanity poorer. We, the Internet Society, advocate the true
> Internet instead.
> 
> The true Internet brings us to the second lesson from 2020. For too
> many, the promise the Internet offered was a false one because they had
> inadequate access or no access at all. This is unacceptable. We must
> continue our work until every single person who wants access to the
> Internet can have it. And it must be the open, globally-connected,
> secure, and trustworthy Internet — the one that does not stop at a
> country's border or provide access to only selected services. It must be
> the Internet that invites us to create new possibilities with it.
> 
> This is what we work for. For 2021 we have produced a plan of concrete,
> measurable actions we will take in the service of these aims. We will
> keep working to bring together the people and technology that are needed
> to give everyone the access they want. We will not stop our efforts to
> strengthen the Internet — through initiatives that support and enhance
> its open architecture, and that preserve the model on which it was
> built. We will redouble our efforts to do more with others, and to build
> up our community's strength, to bring to reality our vision that the
> Internet is for everyone. Join us at 13:00 UTC on 28 January, when we
> will come together as a community to explore this plan.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew Sullivan
> President & CEO
> Internet Society
> 
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