The funny thing is, if Internet would have been borderless (I mean the IP addresses were randomized, so that one could not determine from which country each user is) from the beginning. It would have become "a right", such as Internet neutrality...
Now it is impossible to get ICANN or any other party to accept the real anonymization of users, since corporations are monetizing on the knowledge where each user is located, and thus will go to worlds end to lobby that real anonymous users will never exist.
Shortly, in this matter, we have already lost an anonymity in internet, and can't claim it back.
This might turn out even worse when IPv6 networks will be released because each country could give identifying group of IP's for each citizen, so there will be no anonymity within borders after that either.
Anonymity should be de-facto, and identifying should be users to decide themselves, not enforced.
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Posted by Ciantic on Feb 24, 2010 seven am
Now it is impossible to get ICANN or any other party to accept the real anonymization of users, since corporations are monetizing on the knowledge where each user is located, and thus will go to worlds end to lobby that real anonymous users will never exist.
Shortly, in this matter, we have already lost an anonymity in internet, and can't claim it back.
This might turn out even worse when IPv6 networks will be released because each country could give identifying group of IP's for each citizen, so there will be no anonymity within borders after that either.
Anonymity should be de-facto, and identifying should be users to decide themselves, not enforced.