The regulatory side of ITU-T is responsible for much of the damaging legacy Telecom attitude of revenue entitlement.
I think defunding that and seeing what is developed in its place might well be a good thing. Owen On Jan 12, 2013, at 9:04 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <f...@cisco.com> wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2013, at 8:17 PM, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > >> Please learn a little more about the ITU before doing so. There is >> more to the ITU than the dysfunctional ITU-T, and the political >> fallout from the US being seen as a big rich bully taking its wallet >> and going home is likely not worth the trivial amount of money >> involved. > > On that I would agree. ITU-D and ITU-R do a lot of good work. ITU-T does > reasonable work, for the most part, in regulatory matters, which neither the > IGF nor the IETF address. Frankly, if the ITU gets shut down, ITU-R, ITU-D, > and the regulatory component of ITU-T will have to be re-created to > accomplish those roles. Where we have travelled in circles with the ITU is in > conflicting technical standardization and in the desire of ITU-T staff to > take over certain functions from ICANN and the NRO. Shutting down the ITU > would be in effect discarding the baby with the bathwater. > > http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/pages/default.aspx > http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Pages/default.aspx