Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 14th Nov 2005 18:50 UTC
If a certain US senator and a certain EU commissioner are to be believed, the internet is five days away from total collapse as governments are finally forced into a corner and told to agree on a framework for future Internet governance. Both are wrong, but there is a very real risk that an enormous political argument resulting in lifelong ill-will centred around the internet could developed unchecked at the WSIS Summit. The fact that it hasn’t already is effectively down to one man: Mr Khan. He was chosen as chair of Sub-Committee A during the WSIS process, and his remit includes all the most difficult and contentious elements - not just internet governance but also how the world will deal with issues such as spam and cybercrime.
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2005-11-15
Yes they are , the EU is more then one country , the US is #1 in corruption , all by itself , they have to be #1 at everything ...
state sources please. Where is the world corruption ranking list. Sounds like someone has a case of ADS (American Derangement Syndrome), where everything stated about the US must be bad, regardless of actual facts. Like Europe is benevelont huh? They are just better at corruption than we are since they have had 1000 years to perfect it. You can add that to the raping and plundering of the world for there own uses...must get tiring doing it for that long.
"Actually for an Organization who's first mandate is no more war , I think since we havent had a World War in 60 years , there pretty good at there job.
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Not at all, the turn thier back on resolutions they pass, turn thier back on Rwanda and Somilia, still haven't solved the Bosnia-Serbia and Chenchya crises even though they're in thier own back yard...so no...they haven't done a good job.
"**The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions.**
What your government is trying could be compared as hijacking the Red Cross because they have Red Cross center in the US ... You just making yourself look like laughing stock from anyone who as two bits of senses. "
you're a moron, they still answer to the Dept. of Commerce.
"No Idea , ask your government , it dont make snese to me this days , same thing happened with Lenovo ( china company who bought IBM desktop division ) , congress said , hey its US we must stop china from taking our technology , guess what genius , they've been making IBM computer there for almost 15 years now ... "
the concern was for the server market not as much the PC market. Believe everything you read in the media, well you shouldn't, as a former govt. emplpoyee I know the real story.
"Nope , its not yet considered a communication mean , legally that is , hence it does not offer the same level of protection to all users , last time I looked all communication are reglemented by the UN , they've been doing them for years , you did not knew that I guess , there also the illegal stuff that get closed by ISP , but the pedophile just change ISP when found , etc ... etc ...
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and your beloved UN will do what against the pedophiles and scum out there? I'll give you a hint...nothing.
"Yes because the US as nothing to do with it , but there trying to imply they do , its funny as hell , but its getting ridiculous now ... so stop that , please."
we have the root servers here...you don't... that is something you don't have. Besides if it were such a big deal...then why are the Euros, Chinese and others whining. If the US has nothing to do with it than leave it be...oh wait can't have that because it's in the US. We all know if it's against the US it must be good.