but... this has been covered in the news too... at least the wgig for wsis has been covered. it is interesting. but it is unclear what you mean by 'running the internet'. if you mean icann, which is the only bit that really is tied to the u.s. government, though tenuously... I hardly think that human readable domain names, which is pretty much all they do, is 'running the internet'.... even if, for instance one claims that icann is running the internet, under the ausipices of the u.s. commerce, you would still be hard pressed to say it is a u.s. organization, or non-representative of international interests(granted though, only certain types of interests are represented well) if you mean ietf, iab, irtf, isoc, w3c... well those are all open organizations with solid international credentials. now do any of those organizations really run the internet? or govern it? each does in some way, to some extent, but none does it entirely, nor do the whole of them govern it entirely. most of the internet is governed by the endpoints, and those that profit from them, which is why censorship is important, because it shows precisely that fact, that countries can govern the internet as well. On Apr 20, 2005, at 5:18 AM, Danny Butt wrote:
I think the main thing is that it's a much more "interesting" Internet geopolitics story for a U.S. business magazine (and research mailing list ;) than e.g. the discussions in Geneva right now on how the rest of the world might get some decent representation in running the Internet.
http://www.internetgovernance.org/ http://www.wgig.org/
Cheers,
Danny
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On 4/20/05 10:19 AM, "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
umm, if you really want to know. that study entailed last week congressional testimony, which was probably the origin of the article. it also had a press release or two. opennet is utoronto, harvard, and cambridge more or less. if you want specific info, I can provide contacts as appropriate. On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Ellis Godard wrote:
Since that conclusion should surprise no one, what else did the study find? Surely it involved more than observing and stating the obvious.
-eg
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