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."
- ferg
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