Nobody buys bandwidth from US. If you host a server on your own machine and pay your ISP enough you have set up a high bandwidth website.
Really? I doubt you have ever had even a personal weblog! What you're saying is laughable. Do you know what bandwidth means?
I'm not an expert in the field of computer science or radio communications and bandwidth is technically used for different concepts in signal processing and other fields, but just like orbits around the earth that have regulations and each country has its own share of the available registered orbits around the earth in GEO, the same regulations exist in the internet. Inside every country, the ISPs have to register a range of frequency for themselves and that is regulated by the telecommunication organization in the country. In a larger scale, when you want to have a share of the internet you must buy it and there are international regulations for that that I'm not fully aware of.
Ok. The BIIG internet or intranet you are saying needs nothing. Iran has everything it needs inside its own territory; routers, dns servers, fibre etc., They just need to cut off their cross-country cables. Internet in any country is not dependent on connectivity with the USA(Unless you want to spring up a gem like how Linus Torvalds stole Unix code). So the so-called beeeg project you mentioned is really a small action that takes political will. One might wonder why Iran's government did not do that yet. Well the reason is simple- They need the (real, outside) internet and people will revolt if internet is cut off. I repeat almost all good universities own their email servers in the exact sense that you would consider as ownership. I am not a techie like you, but even I can tell this much is true about the internet.
So you think to make up a big network you only need to have routers, a bunch of fibers extended across the country and that's it? Really?
Iran doesn't want to cut off the internet, it wants to create a parallel network inside the country beside the internet. Do you understand the difference now?
In all countries internet is somehow related to the USA. Let me explain it to you this way, forget about data centers. When you type an address in your browser, you type English alphabets and numbers with a suffix like .com, but I hope you know that such a thing is completely nonsense and meaningless in a network. In the internet (or even in a LAN) each server/client has a given address which is called IP (internet protocol), that's where the concept of a domain comes from. To make things easier and to make it possible for ordinary users to get connected to a server/client in a network, you could give a system in the network a name like defence.pk, then when you refer to that server/client this given name is translated into its IP, in fact simple words, I'm explaining to you what a Domain Name Server does. Now, there are regulations and international companies that register domains. I don't mean the resellers like godaddy that have been accredited by ICANN or other giant companies, but I mean a company like ICANN itself. Here is a good introduction to what ICANN does:
ICANN is responsible for the coordination of the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers and, in particular, ensuring its stable and secure operation.[2] This work includes coordination of the Internet Protocol address spaces (IPv4 and IPv6) and assignment of address blocks to regional Internet registries, for maintaining registries of Internet protocol identifiers, and for the management of the top-level domain name space (DNS root zone), which includes the operation of root nameservers. Most visibly, much of its work has concerned the DNS policy development for internationalization of the DNS system and introduction of new generic top-level domains (TLDs). The actual technical maintenance work of maintenance of the central Internet address pools and DNS root registries ICANN performs pursuant to the "IANA function" contract.
Before the establishment of ICANN, the Government of the United States controlled the domain name system of the Internet.[5]
The original mandate for ICANN came from the United States government, spanning the presidential administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. On January 30, 1998, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, issued for comment, "A Proposal to Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses." The proposed rule making, or "Green Paper", was published in the Federal Register on February 20, 1998, providing opportunity for public comment. NTIA received more than 650 comments as of March 23, 1998, when the comment period closed.
Even today, when you want to buy bandwidth or register a .com/.net/.org/etc domain you are in someway buying it from the USA. The USA has dominance over the internet in many ways, from giant private companies that impose regulations on the internet and have so much power over it to smaller countries that are called data centers and are still way bigger than what you could imagine.
Unless you are saying that Iran is on a project to replace the Internet as in the whole protocols like tcp and dns. The last such project I know was funded by some pretty
big shot guys in academia and after five years
see where they are. I don't think Iran can do that.
No one is going to replace TCP. It seems you're totally lost I think. Let me explain it this way to you, suppose you're setting up a LAN (Local Area Network) for your home, you're certainly using TCP/IP but as long as your LAN is not connected to the internet it's isolated from it. got it? If you've ever set up a simple LAN, you know that it's not really that easy. Now suppose such a thing must be done in a much larger scale something like a MAN or you might even call it a WAN. Iran isn't going to invent new protocols and replace TCP/IP for example, that's possible but unnecessary, but Iran is going to create a safe network which is isolated from the internet. This guarantees the safety of the important data that is transmitted inside Iran's national network in many ways.
The national internet thing is big hoax being perpetrated on uninformed Iranians. I hope I am wrong and there will be a new and better Internet but I am not naive.
It's not a hoax, It's what already taking place.
Seriously dude, where did you get that from?
Everyone knows it, I wonder how you don't know it.
I guess these two quotes prove my point:
Unix quickly grew and became widely adopted by academic institutions and businesses. In 1984, AT&T divested itself of Bell Labs. Free of the legal glitch requiring free licensing, Bell Labs began selling Unix as a proprietary product.
Linus Benedict Torvalds (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈliːn.ɵs ˈtuːr.valds] ( listen); born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish American[2][5] software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel.
Linus Torvalds successfully cracked Unix codes and wrote his own kernel for a new OS which is now called Linux. Does it make sense now?
Oh! I forgot to answer the
best part of your post:
I repeat almost all good universities own their email servers in the exact sense that you would consider as ownership.
You can repeat it as many as you want, but what you call it mail server ownership is very different than what I call it mail server ownership. I explain this point again to clarify things up.
It's really not so hard to create a mail server, all you need to do is to register a domain like Arian.com (It's not available though
) and then you'll need a space to host your files on it, in this case you'll need enough space to host the emails of the members on it. It's really easy to build a mail server now, just write an application that co-operates with Cpanel, Cpanel (even very old versions of Cpanel) has this feature that the owner of any host on the server can create as many mail accounts as it wants (it could be restricted by the owner of the server though) by just clicking on some buttons. You could build emails like
admin@arian.com and many other. You could even start a mail server that gives your users email addresses like [user]@arian.com, but that's not really a mail server because all of your emails are hosted on a bigger server or even if you have a dedicated server, still the admins of the data center have access to your emails. Do you see what I mean? And we're now only talking about physical access, we're not talking about the security of the data which is sent/received in the network, etc. I hope it's clearer now.
Now go and create one indigenous one if you can (and I'm sure you will never be able to do anything of the sort).
