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==Paradigms:==
==Paradigms:==
Although the internet is decentralized and hard to control, the infrastructure that ICANN manages represents the few levers that governments have to impose control should they choose to do so. Also at stake is money: registering domain names generates about $1 billion annually and assigning new domains—think .web or .sex—is a power over very lucrative assets. The uncomfortable reality for most countries is that US control of the internet's domain name system and its spread through the private sector has contributed most to the development of the internet. US officials say they “fully support” the UN process. But the country's conspicuous absence from the Working Group on Internet Governance gives it leeway to distance itself from recommendations, or discredit it.  
FTA bewteen Korea and US will accellerate trade. I don't know exactly the effects of FTA on Wibro.


==Timing:==
==Timing:==

Revision as of 16:36, 19 July 2006

Description:

Free Trade Agreement, also known as preferential trade agreement, between two or more states. Involves the parties granting tariff preference to each other's suppliers, along with other benefits in areas such as government procurement and non-tariff measures.

Enablers:

Who get merit with free trade between Korea and US. Shipbuilding. Semiconductors. LCD. Cars. etc.

Inhibitors:

Who has demerit with FTA between Korea and US. Especially Agriculture. Medical services. Education. etc.

Paradigms:

FTA bewteen Korea and US will accellerate trade. I don't know exactly the effects of FTA on Wibro.

Timing:

1998: ICANN formed

Nov. 23, 2004: First meeting of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance

Nov. 2005: UN Working Group on Internet Governance’s report due

2006: ICANN expected to become completely independent of US government

Web Resources:

UN Press Release on the Working Group on Internet Governance http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/pi1620.doc.htm

World v Web: Controlling the Internet from the Economist http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3407424&subjectID=348963&emailauth=%2527%2528%2540%252E7%255EM%2527ASP%2520%2520%250A

ICANN (Internet Corporate for Assigned Names and Numbers) http://www.icann.org/

World Summit on the Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis/

Swiss Fudge: Internet Governance from the Economist http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=S%27%298%24%24RQ%27%21%20%40%23%5C%0A

Time for UN Intervention?: Internet Regulation from the Economist http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=2177567

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