Internet tug-o-war
America's Future Foundation
by Tim Lee
11/06/05
On the one side is the United States government, which created the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California non-profit, to manage the Internet's address infrastructure. On the other side is the UN, and one of its agencies, the International Telecommunications Union, which is holding a World Summit on the Information Society next week to discuss the future of Internet governance. Many developing countries, including China, India, and Brazil, want ICANN's powers placed in the hands of an international body such as the United Nations. The European Union traditionally supported the existing arrangement, but recently it has signalled that it, too, would like to strip the United States of its current authority. So far, most of the debate has been focused on who should be 'in charge of' the Internet...
http://www.affbrainwash.com/archives/020501.php
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Tim Lee
11/06/05
On the one side is the United States government, which created the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California non-profit, to manage the Internet's address infrastructure. On the other side is the UN, and one of its agencies, the International Telecommunications Union, which is holding a World Summit on the Information Society next week to discuss the future of Internet governance. Many developing countries, including China, India, and Brazil, want ICANN's powers placed in the hands of an international body such as the United Nations. The European Union traditionally supported the existing arrangement, but recently it has signalled that it, too, would like to strip the United States of its current authority. So far, most of the debate has been focused on who should be 'in charge of' the Internet...
http://www.affbrainwash.com/archives/020501.php
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Nov, 00:11
