De-funding the ITU

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Mon Jan 14 08:31:37 UTC 2013


The regulatory side of ITU-T is responsible for much of the damaging legacy Telecom attitude of revenue entitlement.

I think defunding that and seeing what is developed in its place might well be a good thing.

Owen

On Jan 12, 2013, at 9:04 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <fred at cisco.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 12, 2013, at 8:17 PM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> 
>> Please learn a little more about the ITU before doing so.  There is
>> more to the ITU than the dysfunctional ITU-T, and the political
>> fallout from the US being seen as a big rich bully taking its wallet
>> and going home is likely not worth the trivial amount of money
>> involved.
> 
> On that I would agree. ITU-D and ITU-R do a lot of good work. ITU-T does reasonable work, for the most part, in regulatory matters, which neither the IGF nor the IETF address. Frankly, if the ITU gets shut down, ITU-R, ITU-D, and the regulatory component of ITU-T will have to be re-created to accomplish those roles. Where we have travelled in circles with the ITU is in conflicting technical standardization and in the desire of ITU-T staff to take over certain functions from ICANN and the NRO. Shutting down the ITU would be in effect discarding the baby with the bathwater.
> 
> http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/pages/default.aspx
> http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Pages/default.aspx





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