Even if there were no ITU we'd have to invent one, to paraphrase Voltaire's quip about God. There'd have to be some organization to negotiate and oversee international settlements and other, similar, regulations. And it would probably end up being about the same because who'd be involved but about the same people and organizations (particularly the PTTs et al)? If you sincerely wanted to get rid of the ITU or pieces thereof the only way would be to form some alternative organization, perhaps with different policy and process rules, and use it to supplant them. Actually, no matter how you got rid of the ITU that's what you'd end up with because much of what they do would happen somehow, but without a real plan probably by even worse means like shadowy inter-PTT organizations arising without any accountability or transparency. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*