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Originally Posted by Rubber Duck
When I mean World Wide Web, I mean it in the narrow sense of the www. protocol which is currently nearly everyone's default.
You are correct in as much as countries can orchestrate the moving away from this protocol within their own boundaries.
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The "www protocol" is known as HTTP. HTTP and your web browser functions just fine in DNS roots other than ICANN's, no changes required.
Absolutely nothing needs to be changed on an end-user's computer to continue to access websites should their ISP or country switch to a DNS root other than ICANN's. It really is just as simple as the ISP changing the IP addresses of the root DNS servers which they consult. We are talking about something that only involves editing a 12 line text file at the ISP's DNS resolver service.
Of course, this is the simplistic and totalitarian approach. There are other approaches in between, i.e. what China is doing with it's "split root".
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