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Internet Structure in Dispute at WSIS |
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by Dave Berliner
Email: daveberliner (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!) |
12 Nov 2005
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The International Community seeks Dialogue with ICANN
The second phase of the World Summit on Information Society will take place in Tunis from November 16-18 2005. Many countries are seeking a dialogue with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is a private company created by the U.S. Department of Commerce to control all the names and numbers of websites throughout the world. |
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The U.S. State department has issued a release against any international authority on internet governance.
http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2005/Oct/25-499.html
The Wall Street Journal has also listed and posted articles warning about the dangers of allowing any kind of international oversight for internet communication.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB113133007519089738-lMyQjAxMDE1MzAxNzMwMzcwWj.html
These arguments, however, are inadequate at forming a dialogue with areas of the developing world that want access to the internet. This is one reason that the International Telecommunication Union, working with the United Nations, has organized the WSIS.
http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/index.html
The Internet Governance Project is currently seeking funding to deploy network infrastructure in all areas of the world and some are calling it the Roadmap to the internet.
http://www.internetgovernance.org/
Due to the globalizing strength of the internet, the Working Group on Internet Governance was created. It's intention is to develop a working definition of Internet Governance, identify the issues and develop an understanding of the responsibilities between governments.
http://www.wgig.org/
Anyone with a broadband connection to the internet who is interested in viewing the World Summit on the Information Society can receive a webcast at the site below. |
See also:
http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/webcast/index.asp
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Re: Internet Structure in Dispute at WSIS |
by sphinx
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13 Nov 2005
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For all my disagreement with a private company controlling the issueing of ip adddresses i still disagree with some kind of internet governance. I do not see how the issuing of ip addresses and numbers deters third world countries from developing internet infrastructure neither from a cost perspective nor technical perspective. Thus, those who think the internet is so important for communication in the globe and must be under the control of some international organization ignore the fact that most of these international organizations under enough pressure do fulfill the agenda of one or another powerful group of individuals. If these warriors of internet governance pretending to want to open possibility for communication around the world especially in the third world are serious, they should pass a global law or create a global organization on the issuing of radio and TV licenses which happen to have more porbablity to reach oppressed communities than the internet. That will be the equivalence of what they are trying to do with the internet with their global governing body. They should raise money and ensure the spread of radio than internet.
They should then make it a rule that the airwaves being a property of the community the private compaies should make payment which the should go to support community radios. There is the impression that this talk about third world internet access is more an excuse for an attempt at getting to controlled what is made available to the public on the internet. |
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Re: Internet Structure in Dispute at WSIS |
by Dave Berliner
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18 Nov 2005
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The availability of internet access is an issue of development that is continually handed over to private companies, while the public focuses on e-government or e-commerce. The debate over public IT development seems to be weather government should hand over all their resources to company A or company B. Radio is a very powerful medium of communication but internet bandwidth can operate on radio frequencies that are so miniscule that fighting over that bandwidth would only hinder public access.
With regard to the problem of one company controlling the addressing system, I believe that it will continue until that US corporation cannot afford it any longer. I also remember hearing on NPR that a recent non-funded legislation passed in the house that would require all universities to, in a sense, under-develop their access to the internet by routing all terminals so that they no longer have a WAN address. This would then require anyone operating a website at a university to purchase a static IP and register that with a DNS provider. |
