UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

Fri Feb 25 01:41:16 UTC 2005

yOn Thu, 24 Feb 2005, William Warren wrote:

>
> If the UN wants control of the INET WE invented.  Let them build their own.

I think people get confused about who the stake holders in internet 
operation/governance really are... certainly ICANN allways was when I was 
actively observing it.

The stake holders with the most to lose are ordinary enduser consumers of 
interenet services. They just want to get their work / entertainment / 
communication done, and to the extent that technocrats, bureaucrats , 
crimnals , extremely greedy businesses , and rogue governments setup 
barriers that impede them from doing that they lose.

> Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>> 
>> My favorite quote(s) from this very brief article:
>> 
>> "Right now, the most recognizable Internet governance
>> body is a California-based non-profit company, the
>> International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>> (ICANN)."
>> 
>> "But developing countries want an international body,
>> such as the U.N.'s International Telecommunication
>> Union (ITU), to have control over governance -- from
>> distributing Web site domains to fighting spam."
>> 
>> http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-02-21T171326Z_01_N21644703_RTRIDST_0_NET-TECH-UN-DC.XML
>> 
>> - ferg
>> 
>> --
>> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>>  fergdawg at netzero.net or
>>  fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
>> 
>
>

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