Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN

Thu Apr 28 08:47:56 UTC 2005

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:52:04PM +0000,
 bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com> wrote 
 a message of 49 lines which said:

> the only entities that can be members are nations/governments.

This is no longer true (for several years). Corporations ("Sector
members") can now join (ITU is the only UN organization which does
that). See
http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=SEC

So, like ICANN, governements and big corporations are represented at
the ITU. Like ICANN, ordinary users are excluded.