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New York (pte021/18.07.2005/13:04) - In direct opposition to last month's announcement from the Bush administration that it wouldn't relinquish control over the Internet to any other organisation, the UN released a report that challenges the US's supremacy.
The long-awaited report states that 'no single government should have a pre-eminent role in relation to international internet governance'. However no consensus was reached, and the UN could only put forward four possible options that would change Internet governance under UN control, one of them being to create a 'Global Internet Council'.
The arguments and discussions will be presented at a UN summit to be held in Tunisia in November this year.
The United Nations are attempting to establish who should run the Internet and how it can serve the world. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has long been an advocate of bringing the Internet to poorer nations.
Currently the US government has control of the Internet's 'root', the master file that lists the authorised top-level domains, however it has been indicated that it would hand over responsibility to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) http://www.icann.org , a non-profit organisation based in California.
The UN group put forward the following four options: continuing the current system, creating a world body that would address public policy issues in conjunction with Icann, creating a body that would address broader public policy issues, and to create three bodies - one for policy issues, one for oversight, and one for global coordination.
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