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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. Re:Be prepared... by Kenja · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one welcome the all your bases jokes.

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  2. ITU needs to work by bigjnsa500 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Before you start building network infrastructure in developing countries, lets get the countries to feed their starving first.

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  3. Re:ITU needs to work - homeless/starving by HermanZA · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    As the USA has such a large population, it probably has more homeless and starving people than most other countries, so maybe you should feed them first...

  4. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    In Soviet Russia, all our bases belong to you!

    /got nothing

    Wait a minute...this isn't Fark!