<div class="gmail_quote"><p>Listers</p><p>Coming soon after our own local IGFs (Ke & EA), 
this article adds value to the very informative and pacesetting 
discussions we had. Please read on:-</p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19106420">http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19106420</a></p><p></p>
<p><b>The US has confirmed it would resist efforts to put the internet under the control of the United Nations.</b></p>
        <p><b>At present several non-profit US bodies oversee the net's technical specifications and domain name system. </b></p>
        <p><b>They operate at arms-length from the US government but officially under the remit of its Department of Commerce.</b></p>
        <p><b>There has been speculation that other nations will push for a change later this year, but they cannot force the US to comply.</b></p>
        <p><b>The US has set out its position in documents filed with the 
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) - the UN agency responsible
 for encouraging the development of communications technologies.</b></p>
        <p><b>The ITU is hosting a conference in December in Dubai to which
 representatives from 178 nations have been invited to review the 
International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR)....</b></p><p><b>...But the ITU has made it clear that any changes to the treaty must 
have unanimous support, and it would block members trying to put any 
matter to a vote.</b></p>
        <p><b>"We never vote because voting means winners and losers and 
you can't afford that," Dr Hamadoun Toure, the ITU's secretary-general 
told the BBC.</b></p>
  <div><b><span style="width:304px">The ITU conference will take place in Dubai from 3 to 12 December</span></b>
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      <p><b>"Whatever one single country does not accept will not pass."</b></p>
        <p><b>He acknowledged that some countries were unhappy with the way Icann had looked after the internet address system....</b></p><p><br></p>

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