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The issue actually isnt about what's wrong with the functioning of the internet or with corruption in various organizations, because corruption per-se is a world-wide phenomena. It starts at an individual level, and is therefore present everywhere, and in every nation. Some are stylishly corrupt (bureaucrats), some are confidently corrupt(big shot businessmen) and some others are corrupt with the head hanging down(typically the lower middle class). So, the corruption argument that I see in this thread is baseless.
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Actually, it is all about corruption. Would you hand your business over to a manager convicted on larceny charges? Would you hand it over to the managment of someone convicted on money laundering charges during his work with his last company? I'd sure hope not.
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The language issues are also irrelevant, because even the most universally popular language, namely english, is not limited to a country. With broadband connectivity becoming cheaper and cheaper, financial considerations are also fast becoming a non-issue.
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My point about the majority of the traffic being English was taken out of context. It was simply a response to a single statement.
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This is not to say that the UN is/was a good alternative, but that's not the central issue either.
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This seems to be the biggest problem with this entire issue and what annoys me the most. We seem to have so many calling for these nameservers to come under control of a world body yet no one can actually explain what the world body would consist of or offer a real solution. There are a few who have spoken about vague guidelines but nothing concrete.
There are many questions about such a body that would need to be answered first...
1) Who would be on this council?
2) How would power be shared?
3) Would human rights violators and censorship governments be on it?
4) What rules would govern this body?
5) Who is the body subject to?
6) ...
The questions go on and on. We have all of these politically motivated bodies who made these demands. It's pretty obvious that this entire move was nothing more than a political attempt to get America to give up control of these nameservers. They were hoping that we'd just say sure we'll give up control and let everyone else take over without any sort of plan of what we're going to do.
11-18-2005, 06:01 PM
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