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[privacy] US told lots of things, some of which is to keep its hands off the net
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:00:30 -0400
from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/15/ntia_inquiry_results/ The United States government has been told to end its oversight role of the internet during its own consultation exercise over the future of net governance. <and now for the funny part> In the end, the NTIA was swamped with emails and took a week after the deadline had ended to post all the comments received. Just over half of the 632 comments finally received (discounting multiple emails) were not relevant to the inquiry itself, with 153 concerning themselves with the hot political issue of net neutrality in the US at the moment, and a further 174 making broad and often unhelpful comments along the lines of "keep the net free!" and "let the internet the way it is". However, of the remaining 305 comments, nearly two-thirds (197) explicitly stated that the US government should review its own position as ultimate head of the net (with a further nine saying so as a secondary point), compared to 26 that supported its role (and four supporting it as a secondary point). There were a variety of suggestions over how the USG could transition its role to a new body but a broad consensus was reached that it should not be a United Nations body but one outside of existing organisations, capable of moving faster with greater flexibility. _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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