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Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocationITU v/s ICANN

  • From: Alex Bligh
  • Date: Thu Apr 28 05:04:58 2005



--On 28 April 2005 10:47 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:

This is no longer true (for several years). Corporations ("Sector
members") can now join (ITU is the only UN organization which does
that). See
http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=SEC

I think Bill is actually correct. ITU is a treaty organization. Only
members of the UN (i.e. countries). ITU-T (and ITU-R, ITU-D) are sector
organizations that telcos can join (AIUI the difference having arisen
when a meaningful difference arose between telco and state monopoly).
However, given the entire organization is run by the ITU, it's fair
to say it is essentially a governmental organization run with some
private sector involvement. Whereas ...


So, like ICANN, governements and big corporations are represented at
the ITU. Like ICANN, ordinary users are excluded.

... ICANN is billed as a private sector organization with government
involvement.

Obviously the extent of the involvement of the private sector (and
non-commercial sectors), and the extent to which one likes the ICANN
model are all up for extensive debate, preferably on somewhere other
than this mailing list.

Alex