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EU Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet
An anonymous reader writes "Today, the European Parliament passed a resolution that condemns the upcoming attempt from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to assert control over the Internet, and instructed its 27 Member States to act accordingly. This follows an attempt from the ITU to assert itself as the governing body and control the Internet. From the article: 'The resolution, which was passed with a large majority, included Members of European Parliament (MEPs) from all major party groups, and the Pirate Party’s Amelia Andersdotter had been playing a central role in its drafting, together with MEPs Marietje Schaake and Judith Sargentini from the Netherlands, Sabine Verheyen and Petra Kammerevert from Germany, Ivailo Kalfin from Bulgaria, and Catherine Trautmann from France.'"
Despite all the failing and shortcomings, mother Europe still delivers.
we had Andersdotters here in India. Young politicians here are 40+, most are 60+ who can't understand tech if their lives depended on it. hence the facebook-post-arrests seen recently.
I'm pretty sure that having the EU tell you "STFU and leave it to the yanks" is one of the harsher put-downs that a multinational treaty organization can suffer...
But as with all things of this nature, I can't help but wonder where the catch is - sensible sounding legislation always comes back to bite us doesn't it?
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The anti-innovation, anti-competition strategy of the telcos must be stopped. The only thing as dysfunctional was the old USSR planned-economy model.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Today, the European Parliament passed a resolution that condemns the upcoming attempt from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to assert control over the Internet, and instructed its 27 Member States to act accordingly
The EU Parliament can instruct whatever it likes but it has no power over the member states. It might as well instruct all other world governments to agree as well, instruct the ITU to change track and instruct the weather to improve.
The most an instruction from the EU parliament to nationals governments can achieve is to raise enough outrage from nationalists that they take the opposite stand. In practice though nobody's likely to do more than roll their eyes at them.
Seriously, between the shittiness that is our national government and the shittiness that is the European Commission (fairly well demonstrated by having put my countryman Barroso in "charge"), the European Parliament seems like the only sane institution around here.
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Despite the US still being conservative compared to the progessive world, it is definetly far more liberal than nations such as Saudi Arabia where everyone citizen has to belong to the state sanctioned religion and women barely get by with showing their faces in public. Sure the current situation isn't ideal, but the ITU's solution is far worse.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
regulation from America. It leaves the countries themselves to regulate it which is open and free. That's all they're saying
good thing. But we have to keep knocking these douches out as they keep coming back like one of those psychopathic children in a fight that doesn't know he's beaten..
"sensible sounding legislation always comes back to bite us doesn't it?"
it just appears that way. The same people that want som d-bag international telco to control everything will be the same people that abuse the shit out of the internet spreading terrorism so that people eventually ask for the international telco company to take over. Unless we start killing/exiling these muppets if/when they want to raise the stakes
When I saw the list of names, I was positively surprised about the high number of women protecting our civil freedoms.
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I have a naive and maybe stoopid question : If ITU wants to grab the authority that IANA has now, how the hell are they going to enforce it ?
Root servers are not going to magically change overnight, and people in the US and Europe are certainly not going to switch to whatever the ITU decides, just because the ITU decides.
It would be nice for the ITU to remember that the Internet works because everybody agrees with it. If people start to disagree, it will only lead to a split in the internet, and I'm pretty sure the ITU fork will not be the winner, given the history of the slug.
it was this whore who allows the dutch railway to not count routes it didn't want in their performance figures, allowed them to not count a canceled train as a delay and conduct their own customer satisfaction surveys were they can drop low results as being unrepresentative.
She is a VVD whore who sells voters to big business everytime she gets the chance. Just that sometimes her true masters interests seem to coincide by accident with those of the average man. But when she was a minister she was a disaster and the railways are still a mess thanks to her policies.
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We need to put a stop to this nonsense.
The only TLDs we need are country codes. ICANN should have just given control of these to their respective countries and left their root server list uncluttered.
Country governments can use the .gov.* and .mil.* for themselves, give state/province name and abbreviations to their respective local entities, and lease anything else --for a hefty multi-million per year fee-- to commercial registrars (ie: Verisign). The registrars of major high-level-domains (HLDs) would presumably lease their names from several different countries' TLDs.
When it's time for Slashdot to pay the rent, it goes to directly to Verisign's dotORG department and register the "slashdot.org.us" domain. Since Verisign would likely own the org.?? domain for most, if not all, country TLDs they might offer a multi country discount (but really, this is Verisign we're talking about...)
So if Amazon wants to be their own TLD... they'd have to buy an island and declare state sovereignty. But if they'll settle for being their own HLD, they could go to one or more country TLD operators, pay their steep lease rates, and then do whatever they want with the *.amazon.?? name. The .us .eu .uk and .au operators probably wouldn't have any issue with it; but .br might reject their application.
There, problem solved.
America is keeping control over the Internet. We are never going to relinquish it. There is nothing anyone can do about it.
You are perfectly free to build your own Internet anytime you want.
As a taxpaying American, I would gladly give over the control of the internet, if the acquiring country(ies) would reimburse us for past monies spent, and assune what it costs annually. We currently owe $17 trillion to other nations, and many of those countries we give financial aid to. Then we can bitch about it's operating problems. Takers?