Governing the Internet Report Released

An anonymous reader writes "After the speculation on earlier this week, the Working Group of Internet Governance (aka the United Nations attempt to govern the Internet) has just released their much anticipated report. News coverage and a helpful summary point to the four options on the table and the likely outcome in the months leading up to a final conference in Tunisia in November."

Option #4

[lord_paladine]

Option #4 - Start from scratch by creating a World Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers as well as a Global Internet Policy Council.

W.I.C.A.N.N?

I always knew it tooks a certain amount of magic to make the internet run smoothly.

Let me guess

[Official Bastard]

Its full of porn.

LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

I couldn't bother to read the report as I know it will never fly. After all, who's going to accept Tunisia as the center of the internet. LOL

In any case, IF the europeans where to branch off with their "own internet" it would only last until it became inconvenient for the USA. At that point the US would declare that the internet should be free and it would "liberate" it from the europeans.

Re:Already prepared to take over?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because, as we all know, those are the only countries outside the U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

Re:Screw the UN

[Anonymous Coward]

To understand that, you have to get into the mind set of your average US citizen. Here's my simple three step plan for doing this:

1) Think of all the time you spent learning about the rest of the world outside your country of origin: geography lessons, watching or reading news coverage, research or even actually visiting the countries involved. Add all that time together.
2) Now imagine that instead of doing all those things, you spent that time in McDonald's stuffing your face with supersize portions of fat and sugar.
3) Success. You can now think like an American.

What Happened to Separation of Church and State?

[Anonymous Coward]

Start from scratch by creating a World Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers as well as a Global Internet Policy Council.

WICANN? It's a conspiracy. The witches are always trying to push their sway into the international realm, and now the Internet! This must be stopped!!

Re:Already prepared to take over?

[donscarletti]

Here's a better analogy: a rich country was using a nice network with well bred routers. They were going about, transferring data, maintaining the network. The rest of the world says "wow, thats nice. I like that." Then as time goes on the world attaches their networks to it and it all works very nicely as a single giant network owned by many people but run by the country. Then the rich country lets one of its appointed custodians do stupid things, like redirecting all non-existing .com to a dumb search page. So the UN says "hey, why don't you let us look after your network as well as everyone else's because more people trust us?. The country replies that it wouldn't like that at all. So the UN meets to decide on a course of action, and of cause inevitably they will still be deciding on a course of action because the UN can't really agree on anything properly.