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A UN Controlled Internet
March 2005
China's ambassador to the United Nations last
week lashed out against what it called the U.S.
"monopolization" of the internet, and urged the UN
to employ a "more rational and just" governance
system. The call to move Internet management away
from ICANN and into UN jurisdiction has grown
louder, a number of countries complaining ICANN
operates with an American bias.
Most of these countries want to see Internet
governance handled by the 138 year old
International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a
division of the UN. To aid that migration, the UN
recently established a new internet governance
group, dedicated toward dealing with spam,
cyber-security and other Internet-related issues.
At the first "World Summit on the Information
Society", ICANN president Paul Twomey wasn't
allowed to attend at least one of the meetings.
From outside he told journalists:
"At ICANN, anybody can attend meetings, appeal
decisions or go to ombudsmen, and here I am
outside a UN meeting room where diplomats most of
whom know little about the technical aspects are
deciding in a closed forum how 750 million people
should reach the Internet. I am not amused."
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