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October 14, 2005
EU: "Give us Power or we Will Break the Internet"
The European Commission attempts highway robbery, while they remain convinced of the righteousness of their position: 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.The European commission is warning that if a deal cannot be reached at a meeting in Tunisia next month the internet will split apart.
At issue is the role of the US government in overseeing the internet's address structure, called the domain name system (DNS), which enables communication between the world's computers. It is managed by the California-based, not-for-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) under contract to the US department of commerce.
A meeting of officials in Geneva last month was meant to formulate a way of sharing internet governance which politicians could unveil at the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis on November 16-18. A European Union plan that goes a long way to meeting the demands of developing countries to make the governance more open collapsed in the face of US opposition.
What a bunch of spiteful children. The United States creates a tool that benefits everybody (or at least everybody interested in the free flow of information), and the European Commission decides it would rather break it apart than let those who have:
a) Created the darned thing.
b) Governed it remarkably well.
continue to administer their creation.
And the worse thing is, dear readers, that the European Commissioners threatening such action have convinced themselves they are doing this for "the World's poor", instead of doing it for themselves.
Regardless, the United States should call their bluff: if you really want it, start operating your own internet, and if you steal our stuff we will either retaliate or learn to live with our loss. But at the end of the day: No control for bureaucrats.
P.S. And what goes for the EU goes for our "Saudi Friends" and our "Pakistani Allies"; start operating your own internet already and stop whinning.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at October 14, 2005 8:55 AM
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