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

Thu Apr 28 11:06:48 UTC 2005

On 4/28/2005 05:00, Alex Bligh allegedly wrote:
> I think Bill is actually correct. ITU is a treaty organization. Only
> members of the UN (i.e. countries). ITU-T (and ITU-R, ITU-D) are sector
> organizations that telcos can join (AIUI the difference having arisen
> when a meaningful difference arose between telco and state monopoly).
> However, given the entire organization is run by the ITU, it's fair
> to say it is essentially a governmental organization run with some
> private sector involvement. Whereas ...

An ITU publication says the majority of ITU members, including member
states and sector members, are now vendors.