ITU Says It Would Be Ready To Run Internet

[Dave_Z]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...73007Z_01_WRI062957_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET.xml

The United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is ready to take over governance of the Internet from the United States., ITU head Yoshio Utsumi said on Friday.

The United States has clashed with the European Union and much of the rest of the world over the future of the Internet. It currently manages the global information system through a partnership with California-based company ICANN.

"We could do it if we were asked to," Utsumi told a news conference. The U.N. agency's experience in communications, its structure and its cooperation with private and public bodies made it best-placed to take on the role, he said.

Washington has made clear it would oppose any such move despite widespread demands for changes in the current system.

"We will not agree to the United Nations taking over management of the Internet," said David Gross, a U.S. State Department official attending a two-week conference preparing for a U.N. "Information Society Summit" in Tunisia in November.

This...is going to get ugly...

 

[muchacho]

I would prefer a cooperative model to run the Internet, instead of letting one country have part of the control of it.

 

[Ray]

i hate how they govern the internet.. its so stupid...

 

[faisj]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...73007Z_01_WRI062957_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET.xml



This...is going to get ugly...

hahaha I think it will become (remain) a partnership

 

[Zeeble]

I hate the idea of one single country having control, least of all the USA. And that is not because I am racists, or because of GWB, but mainly because the US has always used its positions of power as leverage to get what it wants.

As was said before, it should be controled by a cooperative.