Interesting.....? oh wait a minute..does it mean.....a bit of control or influence from ITU? After all, who constitutes ITU? Isn't it the same constituents of the entire society? Yes - In that case ICANN is not going to and should not be affected unless one calls for PDP on this....<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 August 2012 12:10, SM <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sm@resistor.net" target="_blank">sm@resistor.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Adamou,<div class="im"><br>
At 01:49 09-08-2012, Adamou Nacer wrote:<br>
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The US president signed an executive order on July 6 that autorizes him to take control off all national medias, including Internet. I didn't read the executive order myself, but my source (see [2] in french) give some ideas on what can be operationnally an "Internet control":<br>
- control of ISP and content providers like google or facebook to name a few,<br>
- control of root servers (as far as I know, 3/4 of root servers are hosted in US) and the master root server.<br>
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Thanks for the explanation.<div class="im"><br>
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It means to push for "ITU to take Internet governance away from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and other organizations" and to change "International Telecommunication Regulations" to regulate Internet instead of its "open, consensus-based, multistakeholder model for standards setting and Internet policy development" [3].<br>
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The press release from ISOC mentions that:<br>
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"The Board noted that the success of the Internet has been driven by open,<br>
consensus-based standards processes embodied in organizations such as the<br>
Internet Engineering Task Force"<br>
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There is no mention of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in it. The only reference to names and numbers would be "Adversely impact Internet naming, numbering, and addressing". The press release does not provide any further details.<div class="im">
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I don't agree with these new proposals. But Internet is US-centric and I feel this is an issue of the same nature to what is propoed. So I asked two questions:<br>
- is there an African common position on this discussion?<br>
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The countries from Africa which have sent comments about the ITRs are Egypt and Ivory Coast. There has been some open discussion about the proposed changes in the European region. I haven't seen any comments about an African common position.<br>
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Regards,<br>
-sm <br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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