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Re: Story: "Next battle over Net ramps up worldwide"

2012-01-19 13:53:22
And don't assume that just because ISOC is on the case that this
situation is covered. It's a real threat and every ITU Secretary-General
since 1999* has been trying to grab these powers, supported by more
or less authoritarian governments.

*The last S-G who was not trying this was Pekke Tarjanne, who was largely
responsible for telecom liberalisation at the international level. He left
office in January 1999.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 2012-01-20 06:01, Eliot Lear wrote:
What this story refers to is the World Conference on International
Telecommunications.

DID YOU KNOW?

... that the Internet currently runs through a loophole in these
international regulations that were last amended in the 1980s?

... that there are some countries who would like to exert more control
over what protocols run on the Internet?

If you didn't know, perhaps you might want to engage with ISOC to learn
more about this.  Check out http://www.internetsociety.org/regulation.

Eliot

On 1/19/12 5:04 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
For those who haven't seen it, here:

  Next battle over Net ramps up worldwide
  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71625.html

is an interesting story, one which is also fairly accurate (often not true
of major media stories about the Internet).

     Noel
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