[ga] ITU Head Foresees Internet Balkanization

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

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"The internet could look very different in a few years
time, with various countries splintering off into
their own locally managed internets, the head of the
International Telecommunications Union suggested on
Friday.

As the World Summit on the Information Society wound
down in Tunisia, ITU secretary-general Yoshio Utsumi
said that regionalization has started already and will
continue, and the internet will become a little bit
different network.

The internet is developing, Utsumi said at a press
conference at WSIS in Tunis. It may continue to be the
current internet or it may go into a very different
model -- the regional internets communicate with each
other.

Smiling and speaking in his usual diplomatic manner,
it was easy to overlook the fact that he seemed to be
describing a situation not greatly unlike the outcome
that some US-based commentators have described as the
nuclear option.

The internet need not be the so-called one internet
controlled by one center, so regionalization is
already getting started and I suspect in few years the
scenery of the internet will be a quite different one,
Utsumi said."

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