US to fight ITU members for internet dominationReally, Russia, it's just better if we handle it2012-08-06 09:25 by Philip
The US has made it clear that it won't be letting control of the internet slip out of ICANN's hands anytime soon. Russia and China, along with other member nations of the UN body International Telecommunications Union (ITU), are calling for changes in the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) that would bring the internet under the international body's control. The World Conference on International Telecommunications, convened by the ITU, will be looking into the International Telecommunications Regulations, which is basically a treaty on telecoms. The ITU has said that the conference will review the rules and even think about changing them and has invited countries to make proposals. Russia suggests that some of the responsibility for handing out internet addresses should go to the ITU instead of all being under the control of US-based organisation Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The state department said that the US would "carefully monitor" proposals from other countries. "The US is concerned that proposals by some other governments could lead to greater regulatory burdens being placed on the international telecom sector or perhaps even extended to the internet sector - a result the US would oppose," the department said. Read more -here-
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drbaltazar - 2012-08-06 15:53
hahaha!usa think they can stop the world from deciding how they want www to function?keep smoking usa!usa can decide nation wide web but not world wide web!and if if by some scheme usa do make it!china and russia will just disconnect from www and adopt a new standard they ll come up with!(for simplocoty sake lets call it Zweb!)the rest of the world is not in?ask china if they care they got 1.3 billion potential customer ,so india would be in the same week!same for russia and same for africa(wich is now a strong allie to china)so nothing the www aliance can say will make russia and china move aside from maybe china and russia dev their own zweb instead of using www!who would lose in the long term?usa!because as strong as they think they are on the global scheme of thing usa and canada is just about 400 million not a third of china alone!and i agree with china and all their allies!NOT ONE COUNTRY SHOULD BE THE MASTER OF WWW or www should just plainely be ignored and adopt another world solution!wouldnt be hard for china to do since they are just beginning in the internet !
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