Groups Debate U.N. Control of Internet

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United Nations member states this weekend headed off a showdown over who should control the Internet, agreeing to study the issue and reopen it in 2005.

[blockquote]"Essentially this amounts to saying: Look, let's see what the problem is, rather than [suggest] any solution," said Nitin Desai, the special adviser to the secretary general at the summit. "It's a complex issue. I'm glad that nobody's jumped to any quick conclusions on it."[/blockquote]
[link=http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=U&start=7&q=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47327-2003Dec8.html&e=747]The full report[/link] - Submitted by KingFish

Linc

The Wasington Post ost gives me an error, and then wanted me to sign up.

Washington Times article

//edit: Yeah, legislate the internet through the UN and see how that works out Can you imagine? The UN is worse than (the US) Congress in getting stuff done and they want to run a technology that you can't talk fast enough to keep up with? I guess I understand wanting better access to ICANN (even though I don't know wth they mean by that) but why would a country with less computers than Prince Edward Island have an equal say as the US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, the EU, etc. who have built the infrastructure of the internet? For that matter, why is the government getting involved at all? For once, maybe the US has the right idea. Sure, study it, but then decide to leave it the hell alone.

Spinner

Link Fixed.

KingFish

I think this is where the article originally came from that I submitted.

KingFish

Thrax

Nobody needs to own the internet kthx.