Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN

On 4/28/2005 05:00, Alex Bligh allegedly wrote:

I think Bill is actually correct. ITU is a treaty organization. Only members of the UN (i.e. countries). ITU-T (and ITU-R, ITU-D) are sector organizations that telcos can join (AIUI the difference having arisen when a meaningful difference arose between telco and state monopoly). However, given the entire organization is run by the ITU, it's fair to say it is essentially a governmental organization run with some private sector involvement. Whereas ...

An ITU publication says the majority of ITU members, including member states and sector members, are now vendors.