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From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:06:40 -0500



I asked for some information on a comment that the recent ITU meetings had adopted some treaties ... which give it a 
foot into the internet I asked a friend and 

Dave,

The ITU (still) doesn't make much available.  I'm trying to
get all of them myself.

You can check out their summary at:

http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press/releases/1998/98-30.html

and look at the various briefings at:

http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press/PP98/Daily/index.html


You need to talk to people who were there from
the government - who describe it as a "debacle"
for the Internet and US views.


_____________________________________________________________________
David Farber         
The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems
University of Pennsylvania 
Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber     


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