U.N. to control use of Internet?

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Tuesday, February 22, 2005

 

 

 

 

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER

U.N. to control use of Internet?

Developing countries want global body to govern cyberspace

 

 

Posted: February 22, 2005

1:00 a.m. Eastern

 

 

 

 

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Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global

system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations.

The committee, which was set up in December 2003, is laying the groundwork for

the U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society where a final

decision on the control of the Net will be determined, stated a Reuters report.

The summit will take place in Tunis in November.

 

The panel is considering such problems as cyber-crime and e-mail spam.

ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, currently

is the most recognizable Internet governing body, but developing countries want

a U.N. agency, such as the International Telecommunication Union, to have

control over domain names and other issues.

" There is an issue that is out there and that needs to be resolved, " Nitin

Desai, chairman of the panel and special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi

Annan, told Reuters.

Incorporated in 1998, ICANN oversees management of the Internet's addressing

system, which matches numerical addresses to website addresses. Critics claim

ICANN is subject to U.S. political influence.

According to the report, developing countries see the International

Telecommunication Union, a 138-year-old trade body that among other things

established country code rules for international telephone calls, as better able

to deal with Internet governance.

At the first World Summit on the Information Society in 2003, French Prime

Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called for international rules to govern the Net.

" The information society offers new opportunities, but like all new

technological revolutions it also brings uncertainty, " Raffarin said. " It calls

on us to establish international rules, which citizens can rely on. "

At the time, China was leading efforts to globalize Internet control. Beijing

allows its own citizens online access, but only with government surveillance.

China was joined in its efforts by representatives of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam and

South Africa.

 

 

 

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