From the report: "At the upcoming International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai, to be
held from December 3-14, delegates will consider proposals to amend the
International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs,) binding rules that govern
telecommunications network practices around the world…. If any change needs to
be made at all in the ITRs with respect to the Internet, it should be limited
to creating a firewall between the authority of ITU and the operation of the
Internet. The Internet’s organic governance system has proved to be quite
effective, in no small part due to its close proximity to the Internet’s
technical standards and business practices.
Technologies that enable rapid
rates of change need the ability to adapt to changing conditions quickly; an
international treaty organization that convenes once every fifteen years does
not fit the bill. The ITU is facing obsolescence as we begin to retire the
telephone networks that have been its sole focus since the phase-out of the
telegraph, but this existential crisis does not justify a wholesale
restructuring of Internet governance." Read more
