Re: [ga] [WSIS] Declaration from ICANN

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

> Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi of the Los Angeles-based Internet Corporation
> for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said two camps were forming
> over the wording of a key article to be adopted at the World Summit on
> the Information Society in December.
> 
> "Some governments are arguing that the management of things like IP
> (Internet protocol) addressing, global domain names, privacy should be
> done by an inter-governmental organization [...]

> "Then there are some governments who feel that the Internet should be
> managed by an international body," he told Reuters in an interview.

It is funny that he does not mention the third model, which is the one
presently implemented: an uni-governmental organization, accountable
only to one government and ignoring both its local users and the rest
of the world.