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2005-03-30 International-UN-NGOs

Houlin Zhao - Director of the ITU wants the UN to regulate the Internet...

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Posted by 3dc 2005-03-30 12:16:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The UN can have my broadband connection when they pry it from my cold, dead network card.

Posted by Jonathan 2005-03-30 6:52:15 AM|| 2005-03-30 6:52:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 What, again? There must be quiet, level-eight-on-the-Richter-scale rumblings in Chinese society for the oligarchy to continue making this demand. Or else they anticipate such rumblings in the future, and are acting prophylactically.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-30 7:10:36 AM|| 2005-03-30 7:10:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The ITU is as effective as any tranzi burachary (why can I never spell that word) in implementing standards as anyone who has tried to take a modem or telephone from one country to another can attest to, i.e if the ITU were in control there is no way the Internet would exist.

Posted by phil_b 2005-03-30 7:18:19 AM|| 2005-03-30 7:18:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What, is he nutz?

Zhao should check them chink networks if he wants to talk about spam, f00ktard! The most of open relays are there.

As for the rest of his 'ideas', ditto Jonathan.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-30 7:52:23 AM|| 2005-03-30 7:52:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Why would we accept the diktats of a Red Chinese komissar over our creation, development, and use of the Internet?

Is there any UN agency that doesn't deserve to be abolished?

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-03-30 8:12:17 AM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2005-03-30 8:12:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Kalle - Um, short answer or long answer? Lol! ;-)

Posted by .com 2005-03-30 8:16:39 AM|| 2005-03-30 8:16:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Houlin "Howlin'" Zhao - barking at the moon and just as effective. The internet isn't yours to even think about, a**hole.

Posted by Spot 2005-03-30 9:08:23 AM|| 2005-03-30 9:08:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Information is power. The Chinese understand that.

Posted by mojo 2005-03-30 10:09:44 AM|| 2005-03-30 10:09:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 RB-ers : Since my day-job is in Telecomm, I am well aware of the ITU

director of the ITUâs Telecommunication Standardization Bureau...

The Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
.....maintains the ITU-T Website, diffuses and provides information on the activities of the Sector including the schedule of meetings, TSB Circulars, Collective Letters, and all working documents
.....provides and updates the List of ITU-T Recommendations, the ITU-T Work Programme Database, the ITU-T Patent Statements Database, and the ITU-T Terms and Definitions Database (SANCHO)
.....provides and updates any other database as requested by the various study groups
.....centralizes and provides information on Alternative Calling Procedures - Call back
.....provides country code number assignment for telephone, data and other services
(i.e.) assigns 44 for Britian, 49 for Germany, and 1 for the US, Canada, and the Caribbean....
.....acts as Registrar for Universal International Freephone Numbers (UIFN)
.....provides technical information on international telecommunications and collaborates closely with the ITU Radiocommunication Sector and with the ITU Telecommunication Development Sector for matters of interest to developing countries
.....provides administrative and operational information through the ITU Operational Bulletin
.....ensures the editing of Recommendations and other texts approved by ITU-T, coordinates the editing publication and posting of the Recommendations

Usually populated by meddlesome bureaucrats from the various agencies in various countries... We probably send some odd FCC alumni...

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-30 10:39:36 AM|| 2005-03-30 10:39:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 ITU ... provides country code number... pounds sand...

Posted by SR71 2005-03-30 10:56:07 AM|| 2005-03-30 10:56:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 IMHO the chinese are worried about losing their stranglehold on information control, and they are..... The UN sees a world-tax on the internet as the ultimate feathering of their nest. These should both be beaten like red-headed step children when they try and encroach on the net

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-30 11:05:34 AM|| 2005-03-30 11:05:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 We'll see what Al ("Inventor of the Internet") Gore has to say about that!

Posted by radrh8r 2005-03-30 1:44:17 PM|| 2005-03-30 1:44:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I have a better idea: Why not let NK and Iran regulate the Net?

Posted by Glereper Craviter7929 2005-03-30 5:33:21 PM|| 2005-03-30 5:33:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Glereper -

I don't want all my Google restaurant searches to yield places where you get lamb kabobs, and empty rice bowls...

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-30 6:40:11 PM|| 2005-03-30 6:40:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 LOL BigE

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-30 7:19:59 PM|| 2005-03-30 7:19:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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