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[ NNSquad ] Authoritarian regimes push for larger ITU role in DNS system
Authoritarian regimes push for larger ITU role in DNS system
http://t.co/Vq4dYVWi (ars technica)
"A copy of the proposal was released by the website WCITLeaks on
Saturday morning. It is labeled as a proposal made by Russia, the UAE,
China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan, and Egypt (though at least one
Twitter user denies that Egypt supports the document). The ITU
regulations were last revised in 1988, so this will be the first time
ITU rules formally apply to the Internet. The United States has been
pushing to limit ITU regulations to large telecommunications
incumbents like AT&T and British Telecom. In contrast, the new UAE
proposal would bring a broad range of entities, including website
operators like Google and Facebook, under the jurisdiction of ITU
regulations. The new proposal specifies that "member states have the
right to manage all naming, numbering, addressing and identification
resources used for international telecommunications/ICT services
within their territories." This seems to be a challenge to the
authority of ICANN and IANA, the quasi-private organizations that
currently oversee the allocation of domain names and IP addresses."
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