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ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet
Internet Ninja writes "The UN/ITU-organized World Summit on the Information Society currently happening in Geneva, and in attendance is Paul Twomey from ICANN, who has been ejected from a preparatory meeting, along with all other non-governmental observers. Obviously Twomey wasn't happy about that, saying: 'At ICANN, anybody can attend meetings, appeal decisions or go to ombudsmen. And here I am outside a UN meeting room where diplomats, most of whom know little about the technical aspects, are deciding in a closed forum how 750 million people should reach the Internet. I am not amused.'" We've previously reported on this meeting, which may help decide governance of the Internet, albeit in the longer-term.
If they make a decision you don't like, you ignore it.
from the kofi-and-elmo-presiding dept.
Personally, I'd prefer it if Elmo was presiding. Elmo makes more sense than all the diplomats put together.
better test. if they use windows, they fail.
Pot... Kettle.... "Black!"
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon
We need to pull another Iraq on the UN.
./er know more about how the internet is run and works than all the dipomats combined.
UN: "Hand over control of the internet to us (the un), and take it away from icann."
Bush (or whoever's president at the time) needs to say "Screw you. No."
We've done it before, no reason why we can't do it again. I'll bet that almost every
I don't remember where I read it, but MIT actually has more IP's than the whole of China...
That's nothing... I own my own class A! Anything in the 10's is mine...
someone that at least represents the people that they are going to 'govern'?? So send some middle school nerd with acne.
OK... You can have 10.0.0.0/8
I claim 127.0.0.0/8. If I ever feel the urge to talk to myself, I'm always listening right there.
Gary (-;
They're expecting some dictator in Gabon to die, and all his friends and family are there to make sure they'll be able get their CONFIDENTIAL emails out.
Darl Mcbride Sayes that He owns the UN and now plans to charge for the internet.
9. Nigeria 69
10. Gabon 66
You know those Nigerians are only there to find some people to help them move a substantial amount of money out of the country...
You know what?
we'll all be talking about this old network called "The Internet". We'll talk about how cool it was before the UN and an bunch of delegates came in and screwed it up. Historians will look back and trace why exactly the Internet fell. It will look something like this:
2005: Having survived the bad press, the RIAA and the MPAA split off into their own countries, gained admission to the UN, and outlawed the use of any digital music or video across a network.
2007: The world, angry at the U.S.A. for their 3rd war with Iraq, put sanctions on the U.S.'s use of the world wide web.
2008: After a year of web sanctions, the U.S. launches a military campaign on Malaysia since they had the most votes for the U.S. sanctions. This brings the number of current U.S. military campaigns to 10.
2010: The countries of RIA and MPA (remember, they dropped that last "A" back in 2005) successfully defeat the U.S. whose military was spread really thin due to their most recent war with England.
2012: The RIA, now the most powerful member of the U.N., indefinitely bans all world-wide Internet use since they are still complaining that artists are not getting paid for their work.
2014: The Open Source community, fresh off a victory against SCO, start building their own network called "Linet". It goes live with 30 million users connecting to it within the first 24 hours.
2015: "Linet" achieves self-awareness and launches an attack against the humans... the end.
"Oh dear, she's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot" -Prof. Farnsworth (Futurama)
Good one.
Serve Gonk.
Well, it's already been shown that one can do TCP/IP over bongo drums.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
The thought of the UN trying to 'govern' the internet gives me the shivers. The delegates obviously do not understand the internet is not a single 'thing', it isn't something they can control. Can you imagine the UN trying to enforce its 'powers' over U.S. based ISPs? And you know they would try just to justify the UN's slipping significance. Can you imagine a conglomerate of government departments/staff from a multitude of countries, with DMV-style attitudes, sub-par technical skills, and differing political agendas establishing policies over the internet? We'd probably end up having to submit hard copy HTTP requests in triplicate, plus a $15 processing fee, 2-4 weeks in advance, to visit /.
*gets out the tinfoil hat*
Just give Microsoft control. They'll know what to do!
...And Al Gore.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Actually, I thought my Tin Foil Hat would cloak me from the Black Helicopter dissident scanners..
The same UN that has Sudan, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Togo, Syria, Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam on its Commission on Human Rights.
Great, so we all have to vote Bush again, just so we can tell the UN to get bent when they try to screw over the Internet?
In his case that would be brain damage.
In principle they support the killing of anyone, anywhere, by anyone else.