The ITU is part of the UN. It is located in Geneva. See http://www.itu.int for information. >Weird stuff. I would think a far more logical >institution than the UN would be the ITU. Although >that would be highly controversial, since the IETF >and IANA have always considered themselves to be a >lot more efficient and successful than the ITU. > >I would be amazed if anyone really thinks this >proposal would benefit the Internet. > >Bert > >----------------------------------- >Europe lobbies to wrest Internet control from U.S. > >Peter Clarke >(10/03/2005 7:56 AM EDT) >URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D171202414 > >LONDON - The 25-nation European Union (EU) is moving >towards a showdown with the U.S. after insisting that >control of the Internet be passed from the U.S. to the >United Nations, according to reports. The U.S. has >always insisted that the Internet is of strategic >interest and would therefore remain under U.S. control >and reiterated that position last week, the reports >said. The debate is escalating ahead of November's >World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), due to >be held in Tunisia between November 16 and 18, where >the topic of Internet management is on the agenda. It >was raised last week in Geneva by the EU in a WSIS >preparatory meeting, according to a BBC online report. > >The EU proposed that the U.S. surrender control of the >management of the Internet's addressing systems and >traffic routing. However, the U.S. rejected the >proposal, the report said. > >"We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management >of the Internet," the BBC report quoted Ambassador David >Gross, coordinator for international communications and >information policy at the U.S. State Department, as >saying. "Some countries want that. We think that's >unacceptable," the report also quoted him as saying. > >At present any changes to the internet's core addressing >systems, the root zone files, managed by ICANN (Internet >Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), are approved >by the U.S. Commerce Department, the BBC report said. > >The United Nation's Working Group on Internet Governance >(WGIG) published its proposals for Internet reform in >September. > >All material on this site Copyright 2005 CMP Media LLC. >All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.