Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN | reply to imrf
Re: Who Cares
If they had 50 years of the US doing jack shit, do you think that Hussein and his govt wouldn't be making weapons? |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | reply to mgbaker
What you forget is the ITU predates the UN by a couple of decades. It set the standards before the UN started to muck things up. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
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said by TKJunkMail  :And it takes them years to forge an agreement on anything. Yes, the telephones work, but they have had 50 years to get it right. That organization moves too slow to manage something like the ever changing internet. Actually, under current rules, it takes as little as 6 months to finish a standard. The ITU-T director has said recently he's gotten comments from people in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), that they happen too fast. I know folks here will be appalled, but alot of IETF standard depend on ITU documents (the horror! The sky is falling! the sky is falling!). They'd probably also wouldn't believe that more Americans work on ITU committees than any other country. |
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Roop
join:2003-11-15
Ottawa, ON
 ·Cybersurf Corporat..
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said by theeinstein :If they don't like our position they don't have to participate in the internet! I think a technical term for this would be "we have them by the Balls"!! =) you're a typical american. how much fun will the internet be when it stop at the us boarders?
your government has you by the balls and they have blinded you to that truth. as long as your goverment controls all media, there is only one truth, theirs.
twat. |
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theeinstein
Premium
join:2003-07-31
Fernandina Beach, FL
| What freaking planet are you from.. Rogers as your provider I am going to assume Canaduh ?
I am a typical American. We have freedoms that men and women have earned! We stand for what we believe and don't ask other countries what they think or feel before we do something. Get used to it. By the way if the internet stopped at the US boarders The content would still be plentiful so don't kid yourself! |
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stufried
Premium
join:2003-10-13
 ·Verizon BroadbandA..
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I'd hate to see two internets, but there will be so many gateways between the two that everyone will still get the information. It will just give us one more hack to work on. Moreover, all the major providers will probably feed their sites to both networks.
It will, however, give cybersquatters the opportunity of a lifetime. |
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theeinstein
Premium
join:2003-07-31
Fernandina Beach, FL | very true I would hate it also. But I do very much agree with ICANN and the Govt's position on the issue.. |
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ricep5
Premium
join:2000-08-07
Jacksonville, FL | reply to mgbaker
I can reach websites in Uzbekistan today w/o the ITU being involved, so what value would they bring now? |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
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said by PDXPLT :Hmmm... So the ITU's 170-year track record of developing telecom standards is a "disaster"? Who do you think is responsible for the fact that you can pick up just about any phone in the world, punch in a few numbers, and reach just about any other phone? You should try to learn at least a little about the issue your talking about, before commenting on it. ... I'd think the ITU did a non-cruddy job if I could just "punch in a few numbers". Instead, I have to carry a long list of "country codes", a separate list of "international dial out codes" and various notes about when to pause, when to speed things up by hitting "#", etc.
Aside from problems involving the UN's tremendous desire to control something they could turn into a cash cow to fund corruption now that "oil for food" is past, I don't want to have to remember that to reach websites in part of the former Yugoslavia I have to type "gttp://" because folks in that region are offended that "http" used to stand for "Hail To Tito's Papa" or some other such "politically correct" cr@p that the UN so excels at.
(Also, for future clarity, you might explore the difference between "your" and "you're".)
calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
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said by Azio :
... The UN can't run anything without turning it into a disaster.
Give us one example that is not military or Iraqi in nature. Sudan?
Unicef?
UN HQ personnel management?
Bosnia? (Oh, sorry, that WAS military--at least it became so by the time Clinton had to bail out the UN, though it started as "aid".)
BTW, the Internet began as a military communications protocol for command and control messages. So wouldn't that disqualify it from the list of "non-military" things you think the UN might be capable of managing without FUBARing?
calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
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Storm72
join:2003-07-03
Bourbonnais, IL
clubs: | reply to Roop
And here I thought the CBC staff was locked out. Silly me, I guess the sheep need to be fed their state and Liberal Party approved propaganda somehow. |
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