And one important fact, is that IETF issues standards which do not contain patents... but ITU does!Hi - How would replacing ICANN (or the IETF) with the ITU make things any less unilateral? As I see it, all that it would accomplish is that it would give governments and corporations a more direct voice in matters, at the expense of individual technical contributors. Randy
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