O'Reilly's Andy Oram: "While ICANN has bumbled many tasks and exceeded its authority on others, its leaders have a sense of the fragility of the Internet ecology. The ITU, in contrast, is tromping all over the grounds just in the process of mapping it. I find it amusing that, in their search for a boogie man, they have ceded to ICANN far more authority than anyone else has." Bingo.
Well worth reading the whole article.
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Wednesday, December 10
Andy Oram on WSIS
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Bret Fausett
on Wed 10 Dec 2003 06:50 PM PST
Plans for UN Internet Agency
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Bret Fausett
on Wed 10 Dec 2003 06:46 PM PST
More from AllAfrica.com: "[D]eveloping nations believe...that the UN should set up a special agency to run the Internet. The US delegation, realizing that it was fighting a losing battle, tried to delay the discussions by deferring the issue until 2005 when the second phase of the summit is due to be held in Tunisia. However, UN Secretary General Koffi Annan announced a decision to set up a working group already that has been tasked with drawing up plans for a new UN agency to be approved in Tunis."
Plots and Counter-Plots
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Bret Fausett
on Wed 10 Dec 2003 06:31 PM PST
New Zealand's National Business Review: "The United Nations is staging a massive conference in Geneva this week, at which nearly 13,000 delegates -- including Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is normally unwelcome in Europe -- are plotting and counter-plotting about ways to take over the internet and have their way with it."
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