Boston Globe: "Don't give UN control over Internet"
An editorial in The Boston Globe by Hiawatha Bray begins:
It seems that governments around the world have found another reason to despise the United States This time it's the Internet -- specifically, the Internet's ''root servers," a critical network of computers that makes everything else work. America invented and built the root server system, and still manages it. But now the whole world depends on it, and wants a say in how it's run.
Sounds fair -- but not to the Bush administration, which has flatly stated that the root servers are ours, and we're keeping 'em.
Some see the US position as another example of arrogant unilateralism, but I'm down with Dubya on this one.
To understand why, you need only consider that the international talks over the future of the root server network, to be held next month in Tunisia, are sponsored by the United Nations. That's right -- there's a plan afoot to put critical Internet infrastructure under the control of the UN -- the same outfit that has given us the Iraq oil-for-food scandal and a child prostitution ring in Congo. It's hard to see why an agency so steeped in corruption should be given oversight of the computers that serve as the Internet's chief traffic cops.
posted by Fergie @ 10/17/2005 07:55:00 AM
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