-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On onsdag, dec 3, 2003, at 04:12 Europe/Stockholm, Franck Martin wrote: > ITU is worried like hell, because the Internet is a process that > escapes the Telcos. The telcos in most of our world are in fact > governments and governments/ITU are saying dealing with country names > is a thing of national sovereignty. What they most of the time fail to > see, is that most registry are willing to hand it over to the > governments provided they DO understand the issues, and not use DNS to > empower telcos in more exclusive licencing power. > > ITU has been also misleading countries by making them think that DNS > issues will be solved at ITU meetings. I have been telling countries > that they must attend ICANN meetings and no other one. When this > happens, US corporations will have less power over ICANN and things > will be better. > I agree and realize this. However, the let's take that argument out in the open and not hide it behind "national security". The countries I have worked with, do have national disaster plans that can handle a IP network completely cut off from the rest of the world. But those plans are made together with the industry, as today you can not have this type of planning without co-operation of the large, world wide companies. Even if the governments own and control many of the telcos of the world, the operation of the sub-sea cables that transport the traffic is mostly run by organizations they have no control over. Best regards, - - kurtis - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBP82dC6arNKXTPFCVEQIqZQCcDd1ffRAvtfBjvUSJXfoaw1ilVkQAnRqH V/3ZsmgatgorFVGQYmDmXLcM =yrRB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----