<DIV>FYI<BR><BR><B><I>CBC News Online <nwonline@toronto.cbc.ca></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:01:42 UT<BR>From: CBC News Online <NWONLINE@TORONTO.CBC.CA><BR><BR>____________________________________________________<BR>RICH, POOR DISCUSS INTERNET AT WORLD SUMMIT<BR>WebPosted Wed Dec 10 10:50:23 2003<BR><BR>Geneva---Disputes between industrialized and developing countries over<BR>control of the internet threaten to steal the spotlight at a UN summit<BR>aimed at expanding access to information technology.<BR><BR>Countries including China, South Africa, India and Brazil want control of<BR>internet addresses and domain names transferred to an international<BR>group, possibly under the United Nations.<BR><BR>The U.S. government chose to give oversight of the internet's addressing<BR>system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers<BR>(ICANN), a body that answers to the U.S. Commerce Department.<BR><BR>A UN official warned that countr
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start implementing conflicting<BR>internet policies or even set up their own internal networks if their<BR>concerns aren't heard.<BR><BR>Hans Klein, chairman of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility,<BR>said countries are worried that a change in U.S. government policy could<BR>affect another country's presence on the web.<BR><BR>For instance, Washington could decide to remove the domain names of<BR>countries thought to be sponsors of terrorism, essentially cutting them<BR>off from the internet, Klein said.<BR><BR>Senegal has called for a fund to finance technology projects in poorer<BR>countries. The U.S., Japan and the European Union are skeptical of<BR>such a fund, but delegates said countries that want to start such a<BR>fund can do so.<BR><BR>Some countries, especially China, are pushing for approval of non-English<BR>domain names.<BR><BR>The World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva continues Wednesday<BR>and Thursday. The World Wide Web was invented
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years ago at a nuclear<BR>research lab in the Swiss city.<BR><BR>Copyright (C) 2003 CBC. All rights reserved.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><DIV>
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