UN Proposel to overthrow internet shot down

[ThirdMarioBro]

I don't have the details yet, but the UN has been kicked over and will not persue taking control of the internet. The US will retain control, the DNS system will be left alone, and the web will reamin a global network. No one is going to attempt a break off. Some kind of agreement was met, but the point is it will be left alone and things will remain as they are and continue growing on those grounds. I'll look for the official press stuff.


Take a sigh of relief people.

*Phew*

[Duke]

I hate the UN so I'm glad they didn't steal the internet.

[愛]

This never worried me, anyway, so it's all good. Big relief, though.

[BartAllen]

this is definitly good news. I wasnt really worried about it though.

[Spitfire]

This was a stupid idea to begin with. They could never pull this off without pissing off the world.

[damnhooligan]

I've yet to hear details about whether or not this proposition failed, but here's a wonderful article by Kofi Annan called "The UN wants to control the Internet!" originally published in the Washington Post on November 5th.

Highlights include:

Originally Posted by Kofi Annan

One mistaken notion, heard with troubling frequency, was that the United Nations wants to “take over”, police, or otherwise control the Internet. Nothing could be further from the truth. Far from plotting its capture, the UN wants only to ensure its global reach. That effort was at the heart of the Tunis summit.

Originally Posted by Kofi Annan

The US deserves our thanks for having developed the Internet and making it available to the world. For historical reasons, the US has the ultimate authority over some of its core resources and many say this authority should be shared with the international community. The US, which has exercised its oversight responsibilities fairly and honourably, itself recognises that other governments have legitimate public policy and sovereignty concerns, and that efforts to make the governance arrangements more international should continue. The need for change is not a reflection on the past or even the present; rather, it is a reflection of the future, when Internet growth will be most dramatic in developing countries.

So if this proposition has been voted down, I'd hardly say you've seen the last of wanting to globalize the governance of the Internet. It's going to have to happen eventually.

[Kid Icarus]

However, the way the UN wanted to do it, according to the first press release, was to make seperate internets that couldn't talk to eachother. Which, being obvious here, is crap.

[IceFlash78]

well that's good to hear... but still... I didn't think the proposal was realisitic, or that it was ever going to happen. But I think globalization of internet as implied in DH's excerpts is actually a good idea.