On Jan 12, 2013, at 9:04 PM, "Fred Baker (fred)" <f...@cisco.com> wrote:
> ITU-D and ITU-R do a lot of good work.
Care to try to cite an example? R we can't pull out of because NRO needs its
slots. I'm not sure that constitutes "good work." It's minor ledger-keeping,
and that's why it's excluded from the petition.
> Shutting down the ITU would be in effect discarding the baby with the
> bathwater.
You're being awfully naive, Fred. It's a 147-year-old, $180M/year baby with a
serious corruption problem, that wants to shut the Internet down so that it can
go back to doing things the way it was before we all showed up. I expect you
think you're being sophisticated and taking a nuanced view or some such, but
you aren't. Note that the _entire_ congress disagrees with you. Not a single
vote in favor of the ITU in S. Con. Res. 50 or H. Con. Res. 127. And if you
think that any of the Internet agrees with you, you should take a look at
Reddit sometime.
-Bill
