[governance] news on the ITU/ICANN/internet governance debate

[David Goldstein]

Hi all

I've mentioned it here before, but I compile a twice
weekly internet news service that includes a quite
comprehensive coverage of news and information on
internet governance, along with domain names,
censorship, legal and security issues and so on.

Below are most of the stories from 10 October on the
current debate about whether ICANN, the ITU or someone
else should control the DNS along with some stories
from the Guardian today.

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individuals it's always free.

Cheers
David

13 OCTOBER

EU says internet could fall apart
A battle has erupted over who governs the internet,
with America demanding to maintain a key role in the
network it helped create and other countries demanding
more control.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1589902,00.html

Where countries stand

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1589904,00.html

Net power struggle nears climax
US administration coming under worldwide pressure over
the net. It is seen as arrogant and determined to
remain the sheriff of the world wide web, regardless
of whatever the rest of the world may think.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4327928.stm

10 OCTOBER

Breaking America's grip on the net
After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be
forced to relinquish control of the internet to a
coalition of governments

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1585288,00.html

America rules OK (sub req'd or see the print version)
WHY should America control the internet? A growing
number of governments are asking this apparently
reasonable question. At a diplomatic meeting last week
in Geneva, the European Union unexpectedly dropped its
support for the current arrangement, and sided with
America's critics. America could now find itself
isolated as negotiations over future regulation of the
internet continue.

http://economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4488644

Gulliver's travails: The battle to control the
internet (sub req'd or see the print version)
SINCE the internet was created in the 1960s as a
military-research project, America has co-ordinated
the underlying infrastructure. But other countries are
increasingly concerned that a single nation enjoys
such power, and want to place the internet in the
hands of an inter-governmental organisation—something
America says might hobble the network.

http://economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4492875

Documents on Internet Governance from Prepcom-3
Links to documents from WSIS Prepcom-3 (19-30
September 2005) Sub-Committee A, which dealt with the
topic of Internet Governance, can be found on the WSIS
website. The key documents from Prepcom-3 are
available at:

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Documents+On+Internet+Governance+From+Prepcom3.aspx

Presentation: Update on ITU and WSIS Activities
Related to Spam and Cybersecurity
Update on ITU and WSIS Activities Related to Spam and
Cybersecurity (PDF) presented at OECD Spam Task Force
Meeting, Paris, France on 3 October 2005, Robert Shaw,
ITU Strategy and Policy Unit

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Presentation+Update+On+ITU+And+WSIS+Activities+Related+To+Spam+And+Cybersecurity.aspx

Africa and Internet Control at World Summit
As US rejects calls to relinquish control of Internet,
Tayo Ajakaye gives a peep at what to expect in Tunis
next month.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200510060574.html

WSIS: Road to Tunis paved with questions
With just six weeks to go before the second phase of
the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in
Tunis, a number of key issues remain unresolved,
including the highly debated questions of Internet
governance and civil society participation.

http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/119928/1/1893

A War Over The Internet? Doubt It.
>From the way the Guardian's Kieren McCarthy described
last week's European Union sucker punch to United
States ambassadors, a tiff that began over the who
should control Internet's root servers, you'd think
that World War III was about to break out next month
in Tunisia.

http://webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20051006AWarOverTheInternetDoubtit.html

African Civil Society Caucus contributions related to
the WSIS Prepcom 3
Contributions available on the World Summit on the
Information Society website.

http://www.cipaco.org/article.php3?id_article=356&lang=en

Telkos kritisieren Icann-Vorstoß der EU
Die großen europäischen Telekommunikationsunternehmen
kritisieren einen Vorstoß der Europäischen Union, den
politischen Einfluss der USA auf das Internet zu
verringern (siehe auch "Streit um Mitbestimmung im
Internet hält an"). Sie befürchten eine zunehmende
Bürokratisierung des Webs.

http://www.computerwoche.de/index.cfm?pageid=254&type=detail&artid=82030
 http://www.computerwelt.at/detailArticle.asp?a=97621

EEUU rechaza la propuesta europea para cambiar el
regulador de Internet
La propuesta de la Unión Europea para crear un nuevo
organismo regulador para Internet se ha encontrado con
el rechazo frontal de parte del congreso
estadounidense.
 http://www.idg.es/computerworld/noticia.asp?id=43570

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