U.N. Not to be Trusted With the Internet

News flash from Geneva: The United States is not interested in giving up its job as principal overseer of the Internet and handing the responsibility over to the United Nations.

We learn from a story filed from Switzerland that Internet governance has been the job of the U.S. since it "created the original system and funded much of its early development."

But then we are informed that "developing countries have been frustrated that Western countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations to share a limited supply."

Reportedly, the State Department's David Gross has told the rest of the world to forget about a U.N. takeover.

Let's see if I've got this straight.

Keep the Internet under the control of the U.S., which has given the world almost all of the technological advancements that people on this planet take for granted.

Or, turn it over to an organization that gave us the oil-for-food scandal?

The choice couldn't be more clear.

By Glenn J. Kalinoski, Executive Editor, Customer Inter@ction Solutions

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Comments to U.N. Not to be Trusted With the Internet

1. RE: U.N. Not to be Trusted With the Internet
   Auke Kok :
   September 30, 2005 4:26 PM

   Your disrespect and ignorance are appalling - the U.S. might have given the world a lot of technological advancement but by no means "nearly all".

   You are upsetting a fair discussion with mudthrowing arguments and should shut up or come with some well-based arguments instead.

   This is a disgraceful and tasteless blog, and you have lowered yourself beyond the point where people should become interested in your blog.

1. RE: U.N. Not to be Trusted With the Internet
   Adamopolis :
   October 1, 2005 9:50 AM

   In fact America has contributed very little to the worlds technological advancement, for a country of their size and economical power their inventiveness is astonishingly low.

   The computer, Television, the World wide web, penicillin, first airplane, the jet engine, radar - these were all invented in Britain for example. look in an encyclopedia for a list of significant inventions and very few are american.

   As the last post said, this is just basic ignorance and arrogance.

   Adam

   Sweden.