[159514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: De-funding the ITU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sun Jan 13 01:50:15 2013
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <8C48B86A895913448548E6D15DA7553B74917C@xmb-rcd-x09.cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:49:59 -0800
To: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 12, 2013, at 9:04 PM, "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com> wrote:
> ITU-D and ITU-R do a lot of good work.
Care to try to cite an example? R we can't pull out of because NRO =
needs its slots. I'm not sure that constitutes "good work." It's minor =
ledger-keeping, and that's why it's excluded from the petition.
> Shutting down the ITU would be in effect discarding the baby with the =
bathwater.
You're being awfully naive, Fred. It's a 147-year-old, $180M/year baby =
with a serious corruption problem, that wants to shut the Internet down =
so that it can go back to doing things the way it was before we all =
showed up. I expect you think you're being sophisticated and taking a =
nuanced view or some such, but you aren't. Note that the _entire_ =
congress disagrees with you. Not a single vote in favor of the ITU in =
S. Con. Res. 50 or H. Con. Res. 127. And if you think that any of the =
Internet agrees with you, you should take a look at Reddit sometime.
-Bill
