From the way the Guardian's Kieren McCarthy described last week's European Union sucker punch to United States ambassadors, a tiff that began over the who should control Internet's root servers, you'd think

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Cheers David 13 OCTOBER EU says internet could fall apart A battle has erupted over who governs the internet, with America demanding to maintain a key role in the network it helped create and other countries demanding more control. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1589902,00.html Where countries stand http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1589904,00.html Net power struggle nears climax US administration coming under worldwide pressure over the net. It is seen as arrogant and determined to remain the sheriff of the world wide web, regardless of whatever the rest of the world may think. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4327928.stm 10 OCTOBER Breaking America's grip on the net After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1585288,00.html America rules OK (sub req'd or see the print version) WHY should America control the internet? A growing number of governments are asking this apparently reasonable question. At a diplomatic meeting last week in Geneva, the European Union unexpectedly dropped its support for the current arrangement, and sided with America's critics. America could now find itself isolated as negotiations over future regulation of the internet continue. http://economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4488644 Gulliver's travails: The battle to control the internet (sub req'd or see the print version) SINCE the internet was created in the 1960s as a military-research project, America has co-ordinated the underlying infrastructure. But other countries are increasingly concerned that a single nation enjoys such power, and want to place the internet in the hands of an inter-governmental organisation-something America says might hobble the network. http://economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4492875 Documents on Internet Governance from Prepcom-3 Links to documents from WSIS Prepcom-3 (19-30 September 2005) Sub-Committee A, which dealt with the topic of Internet Governance, can be found on the WSIS website. The key documents from Prepcom-3 are available at: http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Documents+On+Internet+Governance+From+Pre... Presentation: Update on ITU and WSIS Activities Related to Spam and Cybersecurity Update on ITU and WSIS Activities Related to Spam and Cybersecurity (PDF) presented at OECD Spam Task Force Meeting, Paris, France on 3 October 2005, Robert Shaw, ITU Strategy and Policy Unit http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Presentation+Update+On+ITU+And+WSIS+Activ... Africa and Internet Control at World Summit As US rejects calls to relinquish control of Internet, Tayo Ajakaye gives a peep at what to expect in Tunis next month. http://allafrica.com/stories/200510060574.html WSIS: Road to Tunis paved with questions With just six weeks to go before the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, a number of key issues remain unresolved, including the highly debated questions of Internet governance and civil society participation. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/119928/1/1893 A War Over The Internet? Doubt It. that World War III was about to break out next month in Tunisia. http://webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20051006AWarOverTheInternetD... African Civil Society Caucus contributions related to the WSIS Prepcom 3 Contributions available on the World Summit on the Information Society website. http://www.cipaco.org/article.php3?id_article=356&lang=en Telkos kritisieren Icann-Vorstoß der EU Die großen europäischen Telekommunikationsunternehmen kritisieren einen Vorstoß der Europäischen Union, den politischen Einfluss der USA auf das Internet zu verringern (siehe auch "Streit um Mitbestimmung im Internet hält an"). Sie befürchten eine zunehmende Bürokratisierung des Webs. http://www.computerwoche.de/index.cfm?pageid=254&type=detail&artid=82030 http://www.computerwelt.at/detailArticle.asp?a=97621 EEUU rechaza la propuesta europea para cambiar el regulador de Internet La propuesta de la Unión Europea para crear un nuevo organismo regulador para Internet se ha encontrado con el rechazo frontal de parte del congreso estadounidense. http://www.idg.es/computerworld/noticia.asp?id=43570 David Goldstein address: 4/3 Abbott Street COOGEE NSW 2034 AUSTRALIA email: Goldstein_David @yahoo.com.au phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9665 5773 - home Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.cpsr.org https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance