A council working group of the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) on the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS) has proposed some requirements for improvement of the existing Internet,
as alternative to having an all-inclusive innovative internet, reports ITRealms.
A joint contribution made to the group by Saudi Arabia and
Syria available to ITRealms stated
that the proposals apply to a new, alternate internet to support development of
the technology, protocols, and governance required for a new, alternate
internet optimized for international applications and for WSIS principles,
including innovation, competition, and investment.
To prepare guidelines, the group said, from the perspective
of Internet-related public policy issues, regarding those characteristics require
a new, alternate internet.
And to leverage on the experience and expertise of the ITU
and to recommend that the ITU leads the coordination effort on development
activities of a new, alternate internet.
In addition, ITRealms reports that instructing the
ITU Secretariat to study those activities already underway in support of a new,
alternate internet, both within and exterior to the ITU, and provide a summary
of those activities.
Further, ITRealms
gathered from the working group position is to establish a coordinated effort
among ITU-T, ITU-D, and relevant UN organizations regarding international
agreements and treaties required for a new, alternate internet optimized for
international applications.
Experts argued that the memo from the group dated 2009 may
have been overtaken by events although its important to revisit consistently
the issue of alternative internet.
Ayo Omidele/GEE
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