[opendtv] Re: Europe lobbies to wrest Internet control from U.S.
- From: "Stephen W. Long" <longsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:16:49 -0400
We've heard this same stuff about GPS. At SMPTE meetings I ran, got grief
from some junior members of delegations griping about the USA owning the
GPS system. My response back to them was - fine, if you don't like it,
build your own.
Maybe we should send all of the European countries a bill for all of the
times we have bailed them out.
At 11:45 AM 10/3/2005 -0400, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>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
>
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>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.
>
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