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2012-05-28 11:44:45
Congressional Hearing  this week 
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/229653-house-to-examine-plan-to-let-un-regulate-internet
  about ITU meeting in Dubai in December

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House to examine plan for United Nations to regulate the Internet
House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the 
United Nations more control over the Internet.

The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, 
and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) more 
control over the governance of the Internet.


It’s an unpopular idea with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress, 
and officials with the Obama administration have also criticized it. 

“We're quite concerned,” Larry Strickling, the head of the Commerce 
Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said 
in an interview with The Hill earlier this year.

He said the measure would expose the Internet to “top-down regulation where 
it's really the governments that are at the table, but the rest of the 
stakeholders aren't.”

At a hearing earlier this month, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also criticized the 
proposal. He said China and Russia are "not exactly bastions of Internet 
freedom."

"Any place that bans certain terms from search should not be a leader in 
international Internet regulatory frameworks," he said, adding that he will 
keep a close eye on the process.

Yet the proposal could come up for a vote at a UN conference in Dubai in 
December.



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George T. Willingmyre, P.E.
President, GTW Associates
Spencerville, MD USA 20868
301.421.4138
www.gtwassociates.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Levine" <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com>
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Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Long discussion about IETF on the Internet Governance 
Caucusmailing list


In article 
<CAHBU6iui0_n_=3p85msgdcswC3jOhL5F0HcByCMip04FvUon7Q(_at_)mail(_dot_)gmail(_dot_)com>
 you write:
Who are these people? -T

Based on what I've seem on the IGF list, people with an extraordinary
amount of free time.

R's,
John