[80286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott W Brim)
Thu Apr 28 07:07:21 2005
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:06:48 -0400
From: Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org>
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>,
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>,
Nanog Mailing list <nanog@merit.edu>
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On 4/28/2005 05:00, Alex Bligh allegedly wrote:
> I think Bill is actually correct. ITU is a treaty organization. Only
> members of the UN (i.e. countries). ITU-T (and ITU-R, ITU-D) are sector
> organizations that telcos can join (AIUI the difference having arisen
> when a meaningful difference arose between telco and state monopoly).
> However, given the entire organization is run by the ITU, it's fair
> to say it is essentially a governmental organization run with some
> private sector involvement. Whereas ...
An ITU publication says the majority of ITU members, including member
states and sector members, are now vendors.
