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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"Becuase the UN is an inefficient organization that accomplishes nothing."
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.
"The EU is no less corrupt than the US."
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 ...
"So chaning over to the UN (read Europe)"
Actually the UN is an American idea ( Mostly CANADA this days do the Etats-Unians forget even there name so ... ).
"does nothing since al organizations are just as bad as each other. "
You have the delusionnal Idea that ICANN is a US entity , so does some people in your government :
http://www.icann.org/general/
**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.
"why go thourgh the hassle."
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 internet is fine how it is"
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 ...
"it works....leave it be."
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.
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2005-11-15
Becuase the UN is an inefficient organization that accomplishes nothing. The EU is no less corrupt than the US. So chaning over to the UN (read Europe) does nothing since al organizations are just as bad as each other. why go thourgh the hassle. The internet is fine how it is, it works....leave it be.