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[ NNSquad ] Reuters: Internet governance talks in jeopardy as Arab states, Russia ally 

Reuters: Internet governance talks in jeopardy as Arab states, Russia ally

http://j.mp/UMIOMu  (NDTV)

    "A landmark attempt to set global rules for overseeing the Internet
     threatened to fall apart on Friday as a rift pitting the United States
     and some Western countries against the rest of the world widened,
     participants in the talks said.  A 12-day conference of the
     International Telecommunications Union, taking place in Dubai, is
     supposed to result in the adoption of a new international treaty
     governing trans-border communications.  But in a critical session at
     the midpoint of the conference on Friday, delegates refused to adopt a
     U.S.-Canadian proposal to limit the treaty's scope to traditional
     communications carriers and exclude Internet companies such as Google,
     the ITU said on its website.  Further complicating the negotiations
     was what a U.S. official at the talks called the "surprise"
     announcement of an accord among some Arab states, Russia and other
     countries to pursue treaty amendments that are expected to include
     Internet provisions unacceptable to the United States."

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It appears that there were proposals not only for ITU to take over IP
address allocation, but also -- I'm told -- to take over the domain
name system.  And of course, the docs were *leaked* not *leased* as
per the previous subject line.  Though if the ITU got its way, we'd
probably be *leasing* the Internet from the ITU itself in significant
ways.
 
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
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