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@cisco.com> wrote:
On Jan 12, 2013, at 8:17 PM, John Levine <johnl@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