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On onsdag, dec 3, 2003, at 04:12 Europe/Stockholm, Franck Martin wrote:
ITU is worried like hell, because the Internet is a process that
escapes the Telcos. The telcos in most of our world are in fact
governments and governments/ITU are saying dealing with country names
is a thing of national sovereignty. What they most of the time fail to
see, is that most registry are willing to hand it over to the
governments provided they DO understand the issues, and not use DNS to
empower telcos in more exclusive licencing power.
ITU has been also misleading countries by making them think that DNS
issues will be solved at ITU meetings. I have been telling countries
that they must attend ICANN meetings and no other one. When this
happens, US corporations will have less power over ICANN and things
will be better.
I agree and realize this. However, the let's take that argument out in
the open and not hide it behind "national security". The countries I
have worked with, do have national disaster plans that can handle a IP
network completely cut off from the rest of the world. But those plans
are made together with the industry, as today you can not have this
type of planning without co-operation of the large, world wide
companies. Even if the governments own and control many of the telcos
of the world, the operation of the sub-sea cables that transport the
traffic is mostly run by organizations they have no control over.
Best regards,
- - kurtis -
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