I forgot to reference an (ironic) article that Reuters posted back in July 2004 entitled "U.N. Internet Policy Off Course, Pioneer Says"... The only reference I can find of it at the moment is: http://www.undp.org.vn/mlist/ksdvn/072004/post42.htm which is culled from the United Nations Development Programme, Knowledge Systems in Development (Viet Nam) mailing list. - ferg [snip] 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." http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-02-21T171326Z_01_N21644703_RTRIDST_0_NET-TECH-UN-DC.XML - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net