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Title : Accession to the ITRs Considered Harmful
Author(s) : A. M. Rutkowski
Filename : draft-rutkowski-itr-accession-harmful-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2013-07-15
Abstract:
One of the treaties maintained by the International Telecommunication
Union is the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs), whose
purpose historically has been to create international service
uniformity and a global monopoly cartel for provisioning legacy
international telecommunication services. Nations such as the U.S.
and Canada have typically neither signed them nor accepted their
provisions. The 1988 version of the ITRs was similar in purpose and
effect, but failed in its objectives because the mandated OSI
services and ITU-T standards were unsuccessful in the marketplace. In
addition, most of the world's Nation-States moved away from monopoly
government-run telecom provisioning to competitive market models.
This also resulted in a substantial decline of the ITU itself as an
intergovernmental home for monopoly Nation-State providers.
Given this institutional decline and the vestigial opposition of some
ITU Members to this provisioning paradigm shift, efforts were begun a
decade ago by some ITU participants and officials to imbue the ITU
with a vast expansion of its scope and jurisdiction and impose new
regulatory controls through revisions to the moribund ITRs. Most
progressive national Administrations opposed these efforts. The
conflict played out in Dec 2012 in Dubai at a global treaty conference
known as the WCIT.
Only 89 of the ITU 193 member nations signed the resulting treaty
instrument at Dubai - largely those without significant national
communication infrastructure, or those favoring strong regulatory
regimes for Internet use. The result was an embarrassing
miscalculation for those seeking these changes. It bifurcated the
treaty basis for the ITU. This document analyses the many adverse
effects of the resulting treaty, and identifies problems that may
arise for those states acceding to the treaty. It concludes by noting
how the Internet community, including citizens of non-signatory
countries, benefit from the rejection of this broken treaty
instrument.
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