[governance] Sense of the Senate Resolution

[Adam Peake]

Danny, hello.

At 8:24 AM -0700 10/19/05, Danny Younger wrote:
>October 17th, 2005 - Washington, D.C.— - Senator Norm
>Coleman today introduced a Sense of the Senate
>Resolution to protect the U.S.’s historic role in
>overseeing the operations of the Internet from an
>effort to transfer control over the unprecedented
>communications and informational medium to the U.N. A
>final report issued by the United Nations’ Working
>Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) this past July
>recommended that the U.N. assume global governance of
>the Internet.



I don't remember WGIG making that recommendation. 
It presented four models "for consideration" but 
made no recommendation about any. One of the four 
models suggested a new entity anchored in the UN, 
another suggested a new entity linked to the UN, 
the other two did not mention the UN.

Will be interesting if he holds hearings as suggested.

Adam



>Next month, a possible U.N. takeover of
>the Internet will be discussed at the UN-sponsored
>World Summit on the Information Society meeting in
>Tunisia.
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>“There is no rational justification for politicizing
>Internet governance within a U.N. framework,” said
>Coleman. “Nor is there a rational basis for the
>anti-U.S. resentment driving the proposal.
>Privatization, not politicization, is the Internet
>governance regime that must be fostered and protected.
>At the World Summit next month, the Internet is likely
>to face a grave threat. If we fail to respond
>appropriately, we risk the freedom and enterprise
>fostered by this informational marvel, and end up
>sacrificing access to information, privacy, and
>protection of intellectual property we have all
>depended on. This is not a risk I am prepared to take,
>which is why I initiated action to respond on a Senate
>level to this danger.”
>
>The rest of the press release may be read here:
>http://coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=764
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