{"id":22301,"date":"2013-01-03T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T23:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T16:11:19","slug":"who-supported-the-itrs-at-wcit-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/who-supported-the-itrs-at-wcit-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Who supported the ITRs at WCIT-12"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Who<\/a>Byron Holland<\/a>, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA<\/a>) speculated what the results of WCIT-12 mean for the Internet<\/strong> in the article, “Observations on WCIT-12<\/a>.” Mr. Holland says the results of WCIT-12 will lead to a two-tiered Internet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

One tier consisting of the countries that supported the new ITRs<\/strong> and ratified the resulting agreement. He believes that these governments will use the United Nations<\/strong><\/a> agreement to limit and watch, if not censor, Internet traffic<\/strong> transiting across its borders.<\/p>\n

\"censor,<\/a>The CIRA<\/a> CEO states that governments that did not support the new ITR’s and the resulting treaty will continue to have access to the free and open Internet and all of its benefits<\/strong>. The governments that rejected the WCIT power grab<\/strong> are primarily in the developed world<\/a>.\u00a0 The rest of the world, primarily those that live in the developing world<\/a>, will have access to some lesser version of the Internet.<\/p>\n

There is a clear correlation between a state’s ranking in the Democracy Index<\/a> and how their place on the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) at the International Telecommunication Union<\/a>‘s (ITU) World Conference on Information Technology<\/a> (WCIT-12) according to the article. The following chart compares those countries that supported the ITRs with those that did not or deferred their vote until after consulting with their home country.<\/p>\n

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