[privacy] US told lots of things, some of which is to keep its hands off the net

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/15/ntia_inquiry_results/

The United States government has been told to end its oversight role
of the internet during its own consultation exercise over the future
of net governance.

<and now for the funny part>

In the end, the NTIA was swamped with emails and took a week after the
deadline had ended to post all the comments received. Just over half
of the 632 comments finally received (discounting multiple emails)
were not relevant to the inquiry itself, with 153 concerning
themselves with the hot political issue of net neutrality in the US at
the moment, and a further 174 making broad and often unhelpful
comments along the lines of "keep the net free!" and "let the internet
the way it is".

However, of the remaining 305 comments, nearly two-thirds (197)
explicitly stated that the US government should review its own
position as ultimate head of the net (with a further nine saying so as
a secondary point), compared to 26 that supported its role (and four
supporting it as a secondary point). There were a variety of
suggestions over how the USG could transition its role to a new body
but a broad consensus was reached that it should not be a United
Nations body but one outside of existing organisations, capable of
moving faster with greater flexibility.
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