[78192] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Warren)
Thu Feb 24 17:03:56 2005
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:00:22 -0500
From: William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
In-reply-to: <20050221.103714.3787.137499@webmail22.lax.untd.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
If the UN wants control of the INET WE invented. Let them build
their own.
Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
> 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
>
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