The Most Important Meeting You've Never Heard of

An anonymous reader writes "In December the nations of the world will gather in Dubai for the UN-convened World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT – pronounced 'wicket'). The topic of the meeting is nothing less than the regulation of the Internet. Under the auspices of the International Telecommunications Union the governments of the world will review the international treaty known as the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR). The last review of the ITR was in 1988 when the Internet was just aborning. The remarkable and reshaping growth of the Internet provides the excuse for the new review. What's really afoot, however, is an effort by some nations to rebalance the Internet in their favor by reinstituting telecom regulatory concepts from the last century." At least it's being held in a hotbed of unfettered online communication.

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Re:Is there any GOOD news from Dubai?

[gsgriffin]

I hope there is a repost of this after the conference and with accurate, actual agreements and understandings that come out of this meeting. It has been vogue to take any international meeting and assume that the US is trying to get rich off the poor and silence the world and and control everyone. If you lived here, you'd see how wrong you are, but from where you sit, I can understand how you and your friends bantering over a beer might come to that conclusion. There always has to been someone on top that is the target and the concluded cause of all your problems.