[governance] USG on ICANN - no movement here

[Ian Peter]

John, McTim,

Briefly -

An ICANN MOU with UN has absolutely nothing to do with ITU and has no
similarity at all to a ITU takeover. 

Nor has it anything to do whatsoever with countries ganging up to get more
IP addresses. 



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com]
> Sent: 08 August 2008 16:04
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] USG on ICANN - no movement here
> 
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:31 AM, John Levine <icggov at johnlevine.com> wrote:
> > Hi.  I'm back.
> >
> >>Or what about an ICANN MOU with the UN as a first step? That appeals
> >>to me as something that might get traction at both ends and we could
> >>support.
> >
> > Hmmn.  How would that be different in practice from handing it to the
> > ITU?  I don't think the ITU is particularly evil, but I also don't
> > think that it would be likely to do a good job overseeing the
> > Internet.  The chances of something really bad happening would be much
> > higher, e.g., a bunch of small countries gang up and demand that each
> > country gets the same number of IP addresses, or something else that
> > has superficial political appeal but would be technically disastrous.
> 
> not to mention not physically possible, as countries don't "get" IP
> addresses, organisations do.
> 
> While it's true that these organisations might have offices in one
> country, they can, and do, use those IPs to number devices in many
> countries.
> 
> The understanding of this was missing in WSIS.
> 
> In general, I am in agreement with your sentiments.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> mctim.blogspot.com
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