<DIV>As I mentioned in a previous message what do all of you think of the International Standards Organization regulating this and setting up some ISO standards ? </DIV>
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<DIV>Amali De Silva-Mitchell, Vice President, Vancouver Community Network, Canada<BR><BR><B><I>Veni Markovski <veni@veni.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; WIDTH: 100%"><BR>>While I don't wholeheartedly endorse the ITU as a replacement for ICANN, I <BR>>do welcome the competition between these two institutions. The most <BR>>promising scenario that I can see is Internet governance split between <BR>>ICANN and the ITU. That is quite feasible: ICANN could make global policy <BR>>for generic domains (e.g. dot-com), and the ITU can coordinate policy for <BR>>country code domains (e.g. dot-us). Users would have a choice between <BR>>which regime they favored.<BR><BR>With all the respect, I can not agree with that.<BR>Governments should not be allowed in anyway to have solely control over <BR>anything, related to Internet.<BR>I have lots of experience where the Bulgarian government tried to gain <BR>control over .bg TLDA, then on IP addresses and Internet names, then on <BR>content. I don't want to repeat those mistakes that th
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and I don't <BR>believe there's a strong civil society in other countries, as there was in <BR>mine, which managed to get rid of that. And, of course, the Bulgarian <BR>Supreme Administrative Court also helped.<BR><BR>Regarding what ICANN did last year, I am not aware of, would be happy to <BR>get more information from you, but also - as a director - would be <BR>interested rather than learning about bad experience from last year, to <BR>understand what are your proposals to change ICANN towards a better working <BR>organization with larger representation of users, etc.<BR><BR>>So back to our document: If our current language implicitly favors the <BR>>ITU, that seems appropriate. It is in the interest of civil society to <BR>>support ITU to the point where it might join ICANN in Internet governance.<BR><BR>so, I don't think anything supporting ITU is in the interest of the civil <BR>society or the users. If we are to replace one control with another, then <BR>we sh
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at having a better one. ITU is a worse one, for sure. <BR>Wherever inter-governmental is mentioned, that's bad.<BR><BR><BR>v.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ct mailing list<BR>Ct@wsis-cs.org<BR>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ct<BR>Civil Society Plenary: http://www.wsis-cs.org/<BR>Content & Themes Documents: <BR>http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/pub/bscw.cgi/0/42953798</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><DIV>
<P><STRONG>Amali De Silva</STRONG> <FONT size=1><EM>AAT(CMABC), BSc(Hons) Econ, PgDip Acc/Fin, MSc Int. Acc/Fin</EM></FONT></P>
<P>Tel: 604-736-9012 & Email: <A href="mailto:amalidesilva@yahoo.com">amalidesilva@yahoo.com</A></P>
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