January 18, 2007

From the ‘Trust But Verify, and Be Vigilant’ Department

Filed under: Business Moves, Taxes & Government — TBlumer @ 6:04 am

From Top Tech News (HT LGF):

U.N. Telecom Not Eying Internet Control

January 15, 2007 12:01PM

“It is not my intention to take over the governance of the Internet,” Hamadoun Toure, director-general of the International Telecommunication Union, told reporters in Geneva at his first press conference. “There is no one single issue that can be dealt with by one organization alone.”

Good — His opinion isn’t universally shared, as was demonstrated at a UN-sponsored conference in Tunisia in November 2005, but it appears that sanity has the upper hand for now.

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