[80283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Thu Apr 28 04:50:42 2005
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:47:56 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>,
Nanog Mailing list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050427205204.GN10712@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:52:04PM +0000,
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote
a message of 49 lines which said:
> the only entities that can be members are nations/governments.
This is no longer true (for several years). Corporations ("Sector
members") can now join (ITU is the only UN organization which does
that). See
http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=SEC
So, like ICANN, governements and big corporations are represented at
the ITU. Like ICANN, ordinary users are excluded.
