[Governance] RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Civil Society Priorities Document

[Veni Markovski]

>But this week, all this is besides the point. It's not the issue.  We are 
>here reacting to an effort by some governments to take control of Internet 
>naming and addressing.  They believe they should have sovereign rights not 
>only to TLDs but to IP address allocation and to control of the root 
>server system (read the working documents and contributions.) Other 
>governments want to see these functions become the responsibility of an 
>"inter-governmental organization." It is quite clear that the organization 
>they are thinking of is the ITU.

Actually, I believe, some of them said also that "domain names should be 
matter of governmental property" or something like that.

v.