[KLUG Advocacy] Re: [KLUG Members] Should the United Nations run the Internet?

[Robert G. Brown]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:06:13 -0500, bill <bill@billtron.com> wrote:

>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104413,00.html

One of many articles on this topic.

This is one of those things which sounds good in principle and is likely to
happen at some point in the future. I suspect that ITU itself may not have
the technical expertise to do this now.

A constructive process to go to ITU-administered Internet oversight could be
executed over a 3-5 year period, IMO.

For those readers who have some philosopical objection to this transition, I
need merely point out that the radio spectrum has been under general ITU ad-
ministration since the 1950's, as have other forms of international communi-
cation. The USA was the first signatory to the agreements that formed the ITU,
and it has been enthusuastically supported by every US governemnt since. While
ther have been some cases of adminstration of the EM spectrum that some would
consider objectionable, readers will find this to be in questions of national 
juristiction, and is attributable to the FCC (in the USA).

There is general consesnsus, even among proponents of ITU administration, that
it is difficult to see how the transition could be done in a very near term.

							Regards,
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