{"id":5173,"date":"2007-01-13T18:09:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T18:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/itu-complements-fcc.html"},"modified":"2007-01-13T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T18:09:37","slug":"itu-complements-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/itu-complements-fcc.html","title":{"rendered":"ITU Complements FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/content\/archives\/03\/12\/17\/fcc.gif\" \/>I thought it was interesting to read the director-general of the International Telecommunication Union, Hamadoun Toure said the agency would be just one of many organizations involved in shaping the Internet&#8217;s development.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n&quot;It is not my intention to take over the governance of the Internet,&quot; Toure told reporters in Geneva at his first press conference. &quot;There is no one single issue that can be dealt with by one organization alone.&quot;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">He said the ITU would work with other agencies such as the quasi-independent Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, which manages the day-to-day flow of data across the Internet from its Marina del Rey, Calif., headquarters and oversees key rules that govern how computers communicate.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">He further praised the U.S. Federal Communications Commission as a model regulatory body, saying the FCC was &quot;one of our very dynamic members &#8230; with a very positive attitude&quot; toward solving technical issues.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I was pretty impressed to hear a member of the ITU\/UN backing the FCC with such a nice complement. It is so unusual to hear anyone in the UN complementing anything the US does these past years. It seems like the world is happiest when bashing &ndash; not supporting the US and its policies.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">It is a real positive to get a complement like this and Commissioner Kevin Martin and the rest of the FCC should be proud to get such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/01\/12\/2243403.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">nice comments<\/font><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it was interesting to read the director-general of the International Telecommunication Union, Hamadoun Toure said the agency would be just one of many organizations involved in shaping the Internet&#8217;s development. &quot;It is not my intention to take over the governance of the Internet,&quot; Toure told reporters in Geneva at his first press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}