Confrontation over international Internet control avoided
The attempt by some countries to have the UN take control of administering the Internet has resulted in a postponement. I previously suggested that the way to deal with international proposals that you don’t like is to propose a committee to study the issue. After a lot of posturing and blanket refusals to consider the question of Internet control, Washington seems to have finally understood this obvious method of diplomacy. In the meeting in Tunisia that originally looked like becoming a nasty confrontation, the decision was, you got it, to refer it to a committee. Here’s an excerpt from Internet Week.
Although Pakistan and other countries sought a takeover of that system by an international body such as the United Nations, negotiators ultimately agreed, as time ran out, to a create an open-ended international forum for raising important Internet issues. The forum, however, would have no binding authority.
As Joe McKendrick at ZDNet comments, “When you’re trying to get rid of an issue, just give it to a committee.”
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