Congressional Hearing this week http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/229653-house-to-examine-plan-to-let-un-regulate-internet about ITU meeting in Dubai in December
clip House to examine plan for United Nations to regulate the Internet House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet. The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) more control over the governance of the Internet. It’s an unpopular idea with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress, and officials with the Obama administration have also criticized it. “We're quite concerned,” Larry Strickling, the head of the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said in an interview with The Hill earlier this year. He said the measure would expose the Internet to “top-down regulation where it's really the governments that are at the table, but the rest of the stakeholders aren't.” At a hearing earlier this month, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also criticized the proposal. He said China and Russia are "not exactly bastions of Internet freedom." "Any place that bans certain terms from search should not be a leader in international Internet regulatory frameworks," he said, adding that he will keep a close eye on the process. Yet the proposal could come up for a vote at a UN conference in Dubai in December. end clip George T. Willingmyre, P.E. President, GTW Associates Spencerville, MD USA 20868 301.421.4138 www.gtwassociates.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Levine" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 12:19 PM Subject: Re: Long discussion about IETF on the Internet Governance Caucusmailing list > In article > <CAHBU6iui0_n_=3p85msgdcswc3johl5f0hcbycmip04fvuo...@mail.gmail.com> you > write: >>Who are these people? -T > > Based on what I've seem on the IGF list, people with an extraordinary > amount of free time. > > R's, > John >
