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11/10/2003
7:47:13 pm EST
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Plan For UN To Run Internet 'Will Be Shelved'
Author: Frances Williams Source: The Financial Times
Title: PLAN FOR UN TO RUN INTERNET 'WILL BE SHELVED'
An attempt by developing countries to put management of the internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be shelved at next month's world information summit in Geneva - but the issue is now firmly on the international agenda, summit sources say.
Poorer nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa, China and Saudi Arabia, as well as some richer ones, are growing dissatisfied with the workings of California-based Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the semi-private internet address regulator set up five years ago.
The critics argue that the internet is a public resource that should be managed by national governments and, at an international level, by an intergovernmental body such as the International Telecommunications Union, the UN agency that is organising the information summit.
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| Tecky Response | Nov 11th. at 12:57:36 pm EST |
by Stephen (Connecticut) - wc_xemail
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/11/10/2313229.shtml?tid=126&tid=153&tid=95&tid=99
The above link will take you to SlashDot which has a (somwhat) technical discussion on the issue. Basically ICAN does not control the internet, they control the use of domain names. The internet is not under anyones control as is a distributed set of resources which cooperate with each other and the resources are owned by various private and public institutions.
Stephen Find More info -- HERE
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| Cyberpace, Or ‘Net-War’ | Nov 11th. at 12:01:23 pm EST |
by Caoimhin Moonled (Kansas USA) - wc_xemail
I took a look at the PNOC document that Karyne linked to. The paragraph that talks about the internet is titled: "Cyberpace, or ‘Net-War’ " It seems that the first thing the government sees in a new idea like cyberspace is making it a form of warfare.
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| The Question Is, What Can We Do To Help Stop It? | Nov 11th. at 11:26:21 am EST |
by Brandon Withey (Washington State) - wc_xemail
I agree with most of you that the UN running the internet is a SERIOUSLY bad idea. I'm decidedly against any governmental agency having control of the 'net.
The question is, is anyone out there on our lovely little community savvy enough to know what process we can go through to help prevent this from happening and assist awareness in the web community that they're trying to do this?
I'm willing to offer what limited assistance I can to organize this activity, but I'll be honest in that I've no idea where to even begin.
vladimir_armbruster@hotmail.com
Brandon Withey
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| I Oppose | Nov 11th. at 9:53:27 am EST |
by Ares hearthfire (ny, ny) - wc_xemail - Web
I oppose any act by any governement or oganization to run the internet or control it. The organization was invented by people to be used by people accross the world for giving out information or a mode of entertainment for anything the people who own the sites damn well want.
I do not know who woke up one morning and decided governments suddenly had been given some power over this mode of communication, but i oppose any such act of governing.
I better stop now before i go into a rant. Maybe i will just take the space elevator in Dave Barry's article and leave the planet.
Ares
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| Better Than | Nov 11th. at 8:43:25 am EST |
by Karyne (Ohio) - wc_xemail
I would rather that the UN controlled the Internet than the U.S. (see link, scroll down - this documents states that we must place missles across the globe and in outer space, and gain control of the Internet in the quest for world domination) Find More info -- HERE
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| Never! | Nov 11th. at 5:01:45 am EST |
by Finrod (Canberra, australia.) - wc_xemail
UN control over the internet would be an absolute and unadulterated disaster. Fight against even the barest shadow of such a suggestion. No doubt every powermonger and dictator in the world would love to be able to restrict data coming to his/her people down the net. Support freedom. Keep the info flowing!
BB, Finrod.
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| Uh .. . | Nov 11th. at 3:55:37 am EST |
by KarEEna (Perth, Australia) - wc_xemail
Uh, yeah . . . I dont know about this one. I nice neutral international organisation would be good . .. . I'm a bit distrustful of this California based Icann thing. . .. . But then, I admit I dont know enough about the situation (and that article didnt really provide much) to make a firm decision. I'm leaning towards the idea that neither the current system nor any that have been proposed instead are particularly good, though. But, isn't that the case with most problems? :)
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| Heh | Nov 10th. at 9:51:49 pm EST |
by DrgnDancer (New Orleans) - wc_xemail - Web
I can see from these comments that most of you have never dealt with ICANN. You want to talk about evil and ineffcient bueracracies.... I dont pretend to know that the solution is to management of the Interet, but the current system sucks. Ask anybody who has to work with it regularly.
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| Hell No | Nov 10th. at 9:21:05 pm EST |
by Wytchone (LaPlace) - wc_xemail
Sorry I am a world member but to turn over something this powerful over to None-US hands?
Nope cant get behind it.
Wytch
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| Trying To Hammer Freedom... | Nov 10th. at 9:17:51 pm EST |
by Richard Brownbear (Bible Belt Buckle, North Carolina) - wc_xemail
No way this could work! The UN can't even run themselves!
The internet provides the greatest freedom of idea proliferaton and information exchange of any time in history. To try to regulate this would be scuicide to civilization. Can you imagine the hackers that would rebel and wreak havoc on the entire world?
Can you imagine the loss of personal freedom and privacy?
The net will not be housebroken because of a few whiney power-mongers...it is much more powerful than they could even hope to be.
Hack the Planet!!!!
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| Let The Free Market Continue To Rule! | Nov 10th. at 9:06:31 pm EST |
by Pan (USA) - wc_xemail
There is no way that letting government agencies run the Internet would be an improvement. The UN is an even more inefficient bureaucracy than the US government.
Let the free market continue to rule!
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| NO! | Nov 10th. at 7:54:30 pm EST |
by Talos D'Loristo (Halloween Town, Holiday haze) - wc_xemail
There's something about the internet that makes me twitch very uncomfortably when i think what would happen if it was ran soully by International goverments/corperate interests... It's bad enough as is quite frankly, just for the ammount of garbage you have to sift through to find anything of use, But even so, i see no Need to have any form of goverment digging their claws into it! This is all starting to get More and more Orwellian everyday...
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