Posted on 02/21/2005 5:40:56 PM PST by mcar
GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N.-sponsored panel aims to settle a long-running tug of war for control of the Internet by July and propose solutions to problems such as cyber crime and email spam, panel leaders said on Monday. The panel, set up in December 2003, will lay groundwork for a final decision to be taken in Tunis in November at a U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, where global control of the world wide web may be decided.
Right now, the most recognizable Internet governance body is a California-based non-profit company, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
But developing countries want an international body, such as the U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to have control over governance -- from distributing Web site domains to fighting spam.
"There is an issue that is out there and that needs to be resolved," said Nitin Desai, chairman of working group and special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Incorporated in 1998, ICANN oversees management of the Internet's crucial addressing system which matches numerical addresses to familiar Web site addresses.
While its oversight has been confined to technical matters, critics say that it is subject to U.S. political influence.
The ITU, a 138-year-old trade body that among other things established country code rules for international telephone calls, is seen by developing countries as being better able to address their needs.
All countries want to counter spam -- unsolicited commercial messages that can flood email accounts by the hundreds and burden the web with unwanted traffic.
Internet control is not about internet control, it's about money.
Oh no, the UN can chew me. America developed the internet and we damn well should keep control of the names.
The U.N., ITU, or any allged 'international body' controlling the Internet?
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When you invent it, you make the rules.
Don't like it?
Start your own network and do whatever you like.
The concern that "it is subject to U.S. influence" should give some ideas as to their motivation.
-Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
First they want control, then they want to tax it.
What gave the UN authority over the Internet anyway?
Oh, yeah, lets give the UN control over the Internet. With a year, we'll all be back to 9.6 KBPS dial-up modems ('cause all connections must be equal), Bill Gates & the founders of Goggle will be on trial in the Hague for Crimes against Humanity, and Kofi's other children will be making fortunes.
They been proven dangerously unfit to handle the oil exports of only one country, so now while that investigation's being whitewashed and stymied they're arguing to control all of cyberspace, not to mention control the two-thirds of Earth's mass (Law of the Sea Treaty). They certainly do have cheek.
I'll be happy to handle the spam all by myself. I will cede nothing to the UN, the most corrupt, disgusting organization the world has had the misfortune to experience.
Wait until the UN faces an onslaught of thousands of p*ssed-off hackers and skilled users. All your servers are belong to us.
Giving the UN control over any portion of the internet would be a disaster. Never.
H.R. 1146 will withdraw the USA from the United Nations’ madhouse/cesspool.
Go to: http://www.getusout.org/un/index.html . Then go lobby at http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm . Email President Bush at president@whitehouse.gov . White House comment line is 202-456-1111.
The United Nations is a corrupt disgrace and it is time for the USA to WITHDRAW from and defund the United Nations. Please tell your senators, congressmen and everyone you know to support H.R. 1146 which would WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations, prohibit US funds going to the UN and prohibit US troops serving under UN command. H.R 1146 is the American Sovereignty Restoration Act.
The whole mission of the UN is to take power, money and national sovereignty from the USA. Thus the United States must withdraw from and defund the UN, a worthless organization, and if we go, if we are lucky, the whole thing will implode.
If you like the way the UN handled the Oil For Food program you will love the way they handle the internet.
Reminds me of how the Chinese forced Taiwan.com to be re-directed to China.com: China.com
From Newsmax
I meant to say that it's not even about Spam. That’s a pretense issue. The UN doesn’t have the power to decide anything… It will go nowhere. The UN only has the power when we yield it. How can they talk about a final decision; it’s not their decision to make.
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