The United States to the European Union sent a letter to the threat: Global Internet facing risk segmentation

Beijing on November 15th news, according to foreign media reports, there are representatives from more than and 170 countries gathered in Tunisia, on whether the United States should continue to monopolize the global Internet management rights of fierce debate, but because of serious differences between the parties to negotiate.

U.S. representative to the EU negotiator said the United States insisted on maintaining the current control of the global Internet technology and management. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Commerce Minister Carlos - (Carlos Gutierrez) in a letter to the EU, called on the EU to abandon the proposal to require international forces involved in global Internet management. The letter said: "we call on the EU to reconsider the previous attitude and position, and work with us to bring the efficiency of the information society to the people of the world."

EU diplomat, who declined to be named, said that the United States has no shortage of letters threat means.

United Nations International Telecommunications Union Robert - Shaw (Robert), said: due to the serious differences between the parties, the global Internet may thus become fragmented." He said, from the current discussion, looking for a relatively "democracy" international solution once prevailed, there are representatives of global Internet should be divided into a plurality of network, and by an international coordination mechanism to "glue".

Late Monday, the chairman of the Organizing Committee of the talks, from Finland Janice - Carle Collins (Janis Karklins) urged the government negotiators to discuss a new proposal, and strive to the end of this three year debate on Wednesday before the opening of global information society summit, the proposal is expected to finalize the global Internet Management rights to bear who.

The global Internet technology management at present in the United States by the California international Internet domain name and address allocation mechanism (ICANN) for the agency, in addition to the distribution and management of national domain name, domain name is also responsible for creating some technology. ICANN was founded in 1998, the rise of the Internet era, although the agency has maintained a relatively independent and non-profit, its members are some of the most liberal elite network technology, and has 30 representatives of a government team, but the United States still plays a leading role, because ICANN itself is part of the United States Department of commerce.

The new bill Carle Collins said that the domain name a country by their own management, other countries have no right to participate. The current management mechanism of opponents argued that the United States is likely to cut a domain split from the Internet to the political or economic reasons, some of the major developing countries including Iran, called for the establishment of an institution affiliated to the United Nations on the regulation of ICANN. The European Union has proposed that a purely technical intergovernmental agency instead of the U.S. government to manage ICANN, which does not necessarily belong to the United nations. British chief representative Nicholas - (Nicholas Thorne) that this is a relative compromise proposal. (