UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

Ross1 · February 22, 2005, 1:53pm

No government will ever have the internet's best intrest in mind when they talk about controlling it. Luckily government control has been kept some what to a minimum so far but it's growing rapidly and this is another attempt for a government body to "control" the internet.

I wonder what new rules will be put in place if the ITU gets control?

I also wonder if the ITU can really take control. What if the U.N. says the ITU should run the TLD's and ICANN says no?

On Mon Feb 21 18:15:00 PST 2005, Joel Jaeggli <joelja @darkwing.uoregon.edu=""> wrote:</joelja>

> When I hear Robert Mugabe talk about internet governance I don't really
> get the impression that he has the interests of the people of Zimbabwe at
> heart.
>
> joelja
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dave Crocker wrote:
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>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:45:12 -0500, Scott W Brim wrote:
>>> > I'm intrigued at the failure to distinguish between the web and
>>> >
>>> > email, given that spam is a messaging phenomenon, not a publishing
>>> > phenomenon.
>>> >
>>> It's actually a failure to distinguish the web from the Internet
>>
>> i was probably too cryptic. yes, they are using the term 'web' to mean 'the internet'.
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>> the problem is that professional writing needs to be careful, and a failure at such a basic level as using web to apply to email does not bode well for the utility of the article...
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>> d/
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Owen_DeLong · February 22, 2005, 6:53pm

What if the UN says ITU should run the TLDs, ICANN says yes, and, a
significant portion of the operational internet says no?

Owen

Deepak_Jain · February 22, 2005, 7:39pm

ICANN won't say yes. Now that a new fee for TLD operators goes to ICANN, they won't want to give it up. Simple non-profit business practices. If ITU operates it, they would keep the existing fees and then add a few others. I think we've already seen the bottom in terms of fees to operate a registry. Even as everything to do the job gets cheaper, the fees to kick upstairs will probably keep going up.

To keep this on-topic, I think that the operational internet won't have much to say as long as the control is managed/moved seamlessly and no unusually draconian policies are put _into practice_. I'm positive there are already some pretty draconian polices on the books, but because they haven't become operational issues yet, no one worries about them.

DJ

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