The "OMG Apple and Google renamed Lake Ontario in their map apps" discussion is barking at the wrong tree, in my opinion. It's a childish presidential order from a bully. I mainly shrug. This is not a hill I care for and even less am willing to die on. Let's fight the cause, not the symptoms! #UnpopularOpinion I guess.
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What worries me far more is the future of DNS and domain names, which ultimately are under US control and with the Trump administration it is being used to force the deletion of domain names from DNS that the Trump administration doesn't like. See https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117200308433923512
Jan Wildeboer 😷
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.netPIR, the Public Interest Registry ("Based in Reston, Virginia, Public Interest Registry is a nonprofit organization created by the Internet Society to manage the .ORG domain."), seems to have put autistici.org on status serverHold and that is why you cannot resolve their name anymore. This is what can happen to your .org domain name when the Trump administration decides to add you to the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) list.
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@jwildeboer
Well, not since the China/Russia ITU power play that scared everyone enough to put IANA under ICANN/ISOC multistakeholder control instead of US Commerce Dept oversight. The "always has been" format kind of undermines itself here — DNS governance is actually *less* under single-government control than it was a decade ago, specifically because the threat of it going the other way forced the transition.
The real "always has been" is that naming infrastructure has always been political. It just used to be one government's politics.
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@jwp Yep, it's always politics and things have changed for the slightly better, but it is still far from an ideal or even good solution, in my personal opinion.