Farcical drama: Moves to give UN net control
Simon Hayes writes in Australian IT:
Plans by the UN to take control of the internet have descended into high farce, with delegates at a meeting in Geneva tabling nine different proposals but failing to reach agreement.
The meeting - in preparation for a summit in Tunis in November - was disrupted after Chinese and Brazilian delegates started banging on the table to signal their objections to a speaker representing corporate interests.
Business leaders were gagged from speaking at many of the summit's committees, with delegates from developing nations insisting only government representatives be allowed to speak.
The meeting has pitched the European Union and countries such as China, Iran, Venezuela and Russia against the US, with the EU bloc calling for internet governance - currently the responsibility of ICANN under the authority of the US Department of Commerce - to be handed over to the UN's International Telecommunications Union.
Supporting the US are Australia, the UK and Latin American countries such as Argentina, Chile and Peru.
posted by Fergie @ 10/10/2005 09:23:00 AM
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