Re:Judge: Bomb victims can't seize Iran's domain name as com...
by kevinskii on Thursday November 13, 2014 @01:15PM
(#8603029)
I agree that this should be under the control of an international organization, but the UN is unlikely to be an impartial or intelligent arbiter.
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Re:Judge: Bomb victims can't seize Iran's domain name as com...
by northernmonkey on Thursday November 13, 2014 @03:28PM
(#8603836)
The UN is broadly as impartial and 'intelligent' as its voting members, which is kinda by design. The happy reality is that the UN is successful at most of the almost unimaginably diverse myriad of thing it's has to do. It seems to me to be a great choice for the role.
Re:Judge: Bomb victims can't seize Iran's domain name as com...
by mayanksinghal on Thursday November 13, 2014 @04:06PM
(#8604098)
> voting members
Except 5, other countries don't have a permanent say in the system. The 5 can veto any resolution. The sad reality is that UN has been successful on various issues (while still failing on very many) despite being an utterly undemocratic establishment and that is constantly being used as an excuse to continue with the current system.
Re:Judge: Bomb victims can't seize Iran's domain name as com...
by gdy on Saturday November 15, 2014 @03:34PM
(#8612578)
Five is the number of permanent members of the UN Security Concil which has nothing to do with things like managing internet.
Re:Judge: Bomb victims can't seize Iran's domain name as com...
by AlyssaRowan on Thursday November 13, 2014 @01:21PM
(#8603064)
Some kind of iana.int, perhaps?
It's really an unresolved question at the moment.