Dean said: >There are, though, good reasons to have some government controls on >telecom. Whether these controls are too excessive or too lax is not up to >ICANN or the ITU. I can think of cases were some good has come of it. >E911, for example. Radio, TV, cellphone allocations. Ham Radio licences. >If license-free wireless operation weren't restricted in power, few people >would be able to use 802.11 because one company would be broadcasting at >hundreds of watts, etc. Well, you know both charters and constitutions can be revised with consent. Of course, you're right, some brokerage and allocation is necessary. Italy had a UHF Don't care policy for low power TV and it turned out to be probably not in the public interest. Still the essence of all this is content versus communications. The general idea surely of the ITU came about exactly in the context of limited frequencies and power, etc. So, fine. Coordination of this is reasonable. Internet needs *far* less of this thinking then any previous globally built system. The reason is, mostly you have 65535 ways to do most anything... minimum and some odd hundreds of millions of places/machines/people to do it. If Internet didn't exist in its present form and work... ITU types would make dire predictions over how without regulation it simply wouldn't work independent of content. The argument would be framed as a common sense technological issue. The variant of it is "unless the real adults take over... sooner of later (FILL_IN_THE_BLANK) will hyjack it", trust us! (FILL_IN_THE_BLANK) is Pornographers | Spammers | Terrorists | Microsoft | Mumbo_Jumbo | etc. I'm trying to seek in my little gray matter even one benefit of having the ITU do anything with the DNS. I mean, maybe somebody can point out a URL of something with an upside to it whatsoever. In January, some obscure protocol is going to link Internet *IN GENERAL REALLY* to two orbiters around Mars to talk to little buggies which hopefully will land and work. So this thinking, so far has not only worked here quite well, but even seems to be usable off planet. Am I missing something? Regsards, Dan I hope this isn't too far afield of ietf stuffola. I'm kinda of worried about that, (but no too worried to click on SEND)