The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

[Milton L Mueller]

>From IGP blog: 
"Now, for sure, you can discard all that talk about a "UN takeover of the Internet." The only things the UN knows how to take over are its own obscure departments."
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/12/12/4702148.html 

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From: NCSG-NCUC [NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Jorge Amodio [jmamodio at GMAIL.COM]
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Subject: Re: [NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Andrew A. Adams <aaa at meiji.ac.jp> wrote:
> This is very worrying. I would expect the whole of NCSG to support signing up
> to the ISOC letter. Also, this is probably worth raising with the ICANN staff
> and Board, I would think.

Unfortunately the UN, better said, some member states, have been
pushing for long time to get a much firm grip and "ownership" on
Internet Governance related issues, by increasing the involvement of
ITU or creating a similar organization under the UN umbrella to assume
"control" of Internet governance, regulations, and administration of
common resources.