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As part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process, a proposal has been made that could dramatically affect the way Internet number resources are distributed and managed.
On 21 October 2004, the Director of ITU-TSB published a memorandum, "ITU and Internet Governance" for public comment. This memorandum includes a proposal to create a new IPv6 address space distribution process, based solely on national authorities. This could have a serious impact on Internet operators and the global Internet community at large.
The Number Resource Organization (NRO), on behalf of the Regional Internet Registries, has prepared a public response to the ITU memorandum detailing the flaws of the proposal and the negative impact it would have on Internet operations.
A summary of this response is available at:
http://www.nro.net/documents/nro18.html
The full response is available at:
http://www.nro.net/documents/nro17.html
The original ITU memorandum is available at:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/itut-wsis/files/zhao-netgov01.doc
An updated version of this document is available at:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/itut-wsis/files/zhao-netgov02.doc |
