Kurup, Patrick,
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Patrick Okui wrote:
> On Friday 14 October 2005 12:42, Hari Kurup wrote:
> > If things were controlled by the ITU, perhaps there would be more
> > fairness.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. In my understanding you can on a country
level approximate ITU to the country government. The implications of ITU
controlling things are rather more far reaching I would think. We'd
probably have to pay to get a copy of say the HTTP specification (try
looking for an ITU telecom standard and you'll be requested for credit
card information) and all other annoying little things that have made
telelephony systems the "black box" that they are (of course to the
benefit of those in business and those collecting taxes from those in
business).
It's only after a brief training period in a Telecom company that I got to
know that there are hundreds of [rather complex] telephony standards - the
only difference with the Internet standards being that you need to have
hundreds of dollars to *see* those standards and thousands of dollars to
*develop* something based on those standards.
Who knows, if ITU (governments + telecom companies) had known the Internet
would be this big, we'd probably be paying for Internet access on a
per-minute basis or something similar to how telephony works.
> If I don't sound too optimistic of the proposed form of Internet
> governance it's because I'm not so sure I want to send my request
> for IP address space to the Ministry of Information (or whatever)
> ... fill forms in triplicate and probably bribe a few persons along
> the way - the current process is painfull enough thank you.
You could say that again :-D
> As always that's all IMHO[3] and I've probably misunderstood some of the
> concepts involved - and forgive me if I don't have that much faith in our
> political governments.
Well, me too I guess.
Regards,
Gerald.
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