[governance] FW: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online

[Lee W McKnight]

David,

I have not forwarded a (way too) long string of messages following on from Tony Rutkowski's; I suppose context is Farber's IP list has belatedly jumped all in to the bash ITU game; so far in fact that some of the old hands are asking folks to please calm down and remember the ITU can be useful at times.

As I and a few others have also noted on the IGC list.

I guess the bad news is, since a lot of tech journalists hang on Farber's list, is we can expect even more mainstream and social media hysteria over WCIT as we approach the End of Times... according to either the Mayan calendar, or the ITU's. ; )

Lee




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From: "David Conrad" <drc at virtualized.org>
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: [governance] FW: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online
Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 2:53 AM


Is there some context as to why this 3 month old PDO opinion piece popped up again today on Dave's list?

It's as wrong now as it was then.

Regards,
-drc

On Nov 25, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:

> FYI
> From: Dave Farber [dave at farber.net]
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:27 AM
> To: ip
> Subject: [IP] US must hand over Internet control to the world - People's Daily Online
>
> http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html
>
> (People's Daily Online)
> 11:10, August 18, 2012
>
> The Internet has become one of the most important resources in the world in just a few decades, but the governance mechanism for such an important international resource is still dominated by a private sector organization and a single country.
>
> The U.S. government said in a statement on July 1, 2005 that its Commerce Department would continue to support the work of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and indefinitely retain oversight of the Internet’s 13 root servers.
>
> This indicated the U.S. decision to retain ultimate control over the global Internet, which enabled it to unilaterally close the Internet of another country. A suddenly paralyzed Internet would definitely cause huge social and economic losses to the country.
>
> More and more countries are beginning to question the U.S. control over the world’s Internet as the international resource should be managed and supervised by all countries together. However, the United States has conducted a pre-emptive strike, and refused to give up control over the Internet in the name of protecting the resource. The refusal reflects its hegemonic mentality and double standards.
>
> The United States controls and owns all cyberspaces in the world, and other countries can only lease Internet addresses and domain names from the United States, leading to the U.S. hegemonic monopoly over the world’s Internet.
>
> snip
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