Needs a 100% category. If you don't have it physically present, you don't own it.

I am uncomfortable with any attempt to block communication. We the People have a constitutional right to freedom of assembly. And to my thinking the ability to "shut off the Internet" is an attempt to block that right of assembly. Likewise the right to freedom of the press. Shutting off the Internet in today's society is no less than walking into a newspaper and turning off the presses by government order and putting people under house arrest to prevent them from assembling.

This is my concern. The fact the US government is even discussing this matter should be of great concern.

I am looking for the geek solution. On a technical basis, how do we the geek community keep the right to assembly and the freedom of the press. Many people are totally dependent on their ISP for communication. Shut that down and phone and television are gone as well. There is a serious matter of constitutional law here.

Will it become necessary to create a gray net? A net under the net and not in control of ICANN or the major service providers. Fall back to phone modems and the BBS system if necessary. The Internet has killed the old FIDO net. It has been reduced to another appendage of the web. However peer to peer networking still works, while it is slower that WAN, it does function.

My concern is that the US government has by its actions proven exactly zero respect for the rights of the Bill of Rights. I believe the geek community needs to be proactive in solutions to having the Internet shut down.

Hurricane Name list. I don't think anyone suggested it.