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Posted by: Francois Stiglitz (Wednesday 19 October 2005, 4:14 PM)

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Well, I would agree that making the domain database (what they really mean by 'control of the Internet') an international effort is a good thing. But, the UN? C'mon, could you come up with a more dysfunctial bureaucracy? OK, besides the Bush administration...

Really, it's not going to serve anyone to simply toss control from one troop of baboons to another. At least in the current arrangement, we have someone to villify when we don't like it. Hand it to the UN, and we won't even have that.

If it is to be done right, the domain registry is going to need to first be recognized as an international resource that operates only be cooperation of its users and it technical operation is tantamount and governments simply need to cede the notion of "control" of it. We need a highly independent registrar that is chartered to operate outside the influence of international politics and business interests (if that's possible), something more along the lines of postal and telecommunications unions that manage international post and phone service...

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