Another Bad UN Idea That Won't Go Away
From Yahoo News:Typically, only heads of state and titans of industry get an audience on the 38th floor of the marble-and-glass tower housing the United Nations.
So when the president of a California nonprofit corporation with an unwieldy name — the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — met Friday with Secretary-General Kofi Annan, it signaled the group's importance in a computer-driven world.
ICANN oversees the Domain Name System — such as ".com," ".net" and ".org" — that allows computers to find each other in cyberspace. It is sanctioned by the United States government, which funded the Internet's early development.
Some countries and activists argue that ICANN is too close to the United States and want the United Nations to take a greater role in regulating the Internet.
"The United Nations would be a good platform for that, because it has legitimacy. The countries are all represented," said Izzeldin Mohamed Osman, a computer science professor from the Sudan University of Science and Technology.
Matt's Chat
"Legitimacy"? At what? Creating and sustaining disasters? UN control of the internet would be the surest, fastest way to destroy it. Plus, I don't think the UN is capable of keeping the internet secure. They don't understand conventional warfare (Kosovo, Somalia, etc., et.c, etc.) what makes ANYBODY have any confidence they would understand informatioal or cyber warfare?Mark's Remarks
Oh,this is a great idea...the same idiots who didn't regulate the Oil for Food debacle in charge of the internet? I really do not think so....The UN has shown they are a miserable failure at keeping things secure whether it be via peace actions (Kosovo, Somalia, etc.), global weapons proliferation (Iran, North Korea, Iraq)....this organization is a miserable failure, yes, A MISERABLE FAILURE, at every attempt to secure and defend it takes up...why would we want to give it control of the internet?
