Posted on 03/29/2005 10:17:09 AM PST by minus_273
The International Telecommunication Union is one of the most venerable of bureaucracies. Created in 1865 to facilitate telegraph transmissions, its mandate has expanded to include radio and telephone communications.
The ITU, a United Nations agency, would like to change that. "The whole world is looking for a better solution for Internet governance, unwilling to maintain the current situation," Houlin Zhao, director of the ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, said last year. Zhao, a former government official in China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, has been in his current job since 1999.
Though Zhao is far too diplomatic to state it directly, the ITU's increasing interest in the Internet could presage a power struggle between ITU, ICANN, and perhaps even the U.S. government, which retains some oversight authority over ICANN and appears content with the current structure.
In a series of speeches over the last year, Zhao has suggested that the ITU could become involved in everything from security and spam to managing how Internet Protocol addresses are assigned. The ITU also is looking into some aspects of voice over Internet Protocol--VoIP--communications, another potential area for expansion.
"Countering spam is just one of many elements of protecting the Internet that include availability during emergencies and supporting public safety and law enforcement officials," Zhao wrote in December. Also, he wrote, the ITU "would take care of other work, such as work on Internet exchange points, Internet interconnection charging regimes, and methods to provide authenticated directories that meet national privacy regimes."
CNET News.com recently spoke with Zhao about the ITU's increased interest in the Internet and its involvement in a series of meetings that will conclude in November with a U.N. World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.
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They want control so they can tax it and fund all their left-wing wacko world causes.
NO FRICKIN WAY !!
and Kerry was planning on it.
and we'd better get rid of the UN before the next dem pres. gets elected
1. Taxation
2. Censorship
LOL!
Whole ball of wax
And from the folks who want to tax every last one of us on earth without our permission.
That's the plan. Slick Willie gets to be King of the UN, and Hill rules the White House. Together they rule the world. Not.
Forgot the "is" between UN and wanting. Shouldn't proofread on an empty stomach.
My apologies to those of you who are easily offended by poor grammar.
Bingo.
The leftists want to control the 13 root authoritative Domain Name Servers. We'd be making a big mistake to even let them take over management of only 1 such DNS server.
Just a thought....
I second your thoughts -- well said! Anything that has the letters "UN" attached should be suspect and avoided at all costs!
Incrementalism.
First, they'd use the propaganda of "to be fair" to try to get the rest. Then, maybe "equality for all servers". How about "unified?"
Instead of making them all free, to "make it fair", they'd dictate them all.
User Name? Uranium Nitride? ;^)
Here's a bunch of links on Hildebeast's comments about 'Internet Gatekeepers':
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hillary+clinton+internet+gatekeeper&btnG=Google+Search
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