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ITU Meeting May Decide Governance of the Net

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battle-of-the-acronyms dept.

NickFitz writes "The Register has an article on the forthcoming World Summit on the Information Society, organised by the International Telecommunications Union. It seems that the United States, Europe and English-speaking partners are happy to let ICANN carry on running the show, while developing nations would prefer control to be handed over to the ITU. As the second stage of the process isn't due until November 2005, it could be some time before we see any changes."

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  1. Here's hoping by Oopsz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe if we turn over the internet to an international organization, some of the americo-centricism will drop. Hey, maybe the american government will be forced to .gov.us, to match all the other countries in the world!

    (yeah, and maybe pigs will fly)