An update.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/29/business/net.php
EU and U.S. clash over control of Net
By Tom Wright International Herald Tribune
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2005
GENEVA The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one
of their sharpest public disagreements in months, after European
Union negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their
effective control of the Internet.
The European decision to back the rest of the world in demanding
the creation of a new international body to govern the Internet
clearly caught the Americans off balance and left them largely
isolated at talks designed to come up with a new way of
regulating the digital traffic of the 21st century.
"It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position,"
said David Gross, the State Department official in charge of
America's international communications policy. "The EU's
proposal seems to represent an historic shift in the regulatory
approach to the Internet from one that is based on private
sector leadership to a government, top-down control of the
Internet."
Delegates meeting in Geneva for the past two weeks had been
hoping to reach consensus for a draft document by Friday after
two years of debate. The talks on international digital issues,
called the World Summit on the Information Society and organized
by the United Nations, were scheduled to conclude in November at
a meeting in Tunisia. Instead, the talks have deadlocked, with
the United States fighting a solitary battle against countries
that want to see a global body take over supervision of the
Internet.
The United States lost its only ally late Wednesday when the EU
made a surprise proposal to create an intergovernmental body
that would set principles for running the Internet. Currently,
the U.S. Commerce Department approves changes to the Internet's
"root zone files," which are administered by the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, a
nonprofit organization based in Marina del Rey, California.
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