| credits: my.englishclub.com<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\nA landmark attempt to set global rules for overseeing the Internet threatened to fall apart on Friday as a rift pitting the United States and some Western countries against the rest of the world widened, participants in the talks said.<\/p>\n
A 12-day conference of the International Telecommunications Union, taking place in Dubai, is supposed to result in the adoption of a new international treaty governing trans-border communications, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n
But in a critical session at the midpoint of the conference on Friday, delegates refused to adopt a United States-Canadian proposal to limit the treaty\u2019s scope to traditional communications carriers and exclude Internet companies such as Google, the ITU said on its website.<\/p>\n
Further complicating the negotiations was what a US official at the talks called the \u201csurprise\u201d announcement of an accord among some Arab states, Russia and other countries to pursue treaty amendments that are expected to include Internet provisions unacceptable to the United States<\/p>\n
A still-secret draft of the coalition\u2019s proposals is to be introduced soon by the United Arab Emirates, the official said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look good,\u201d said a former US intelligence official tracking the talks for private technology clients.<\/p>\n
The emergence of the new coalition, whose members are generally seeking greater Internet censorship and surveillance, is likely to harden battle lines separating those countries from the United States and some allies in Western Europe.<\/p>\n
The United States and others objected to the introduction of complex new material midway through the conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of the indicators we have so far is it\u2019s something that could be a clear effort to extend the treaty to cover Net governance,\u201d said policy counsel Emma Llanso of the nonprofit Center for Democracy & Technology, which draws funding from Google and other US Internet companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is governments putting forward their visions of the future of the Internet, and if we see a large group of governments form that sees an Internet a lot more locked down and controlled, that\u2019s a big concern.\u201d<\/p>\n
The US ambassador to the conference said in an earlier interview that his country would not sign any agreement that dramatically increased government controls over the Internet.<\/p>\n
That would potentially isolate America and its allies from much of the world, and technology leaders fear that the rest of the globe would agree on actions such as identifying political dissidents who use the Internet and perhaps trying to alter the Net\u2019s architecture to permit more control.<\/p>\n
The 147-year-old ITU, which is now under the auspices of the United Nations, historically has set technology standards and established payment customs for international phone calls. But under Secretary-General Hamadoun Tour\u00e9, it has inched toward cyber-security and electronic content issues, arguing that Internet traffic goes over phone lines and is therefore within its purview.<\/p>\n
The ITU is considering other issues in its most extensive rewrite of the treaty in 15 years, including proposals that content providers shoulder the costs of transmission. But none is as controversial as the projected Internet controls.<\/p>\n
The Internet\u2019s infrastructure, while initially funded in part by the US government, is now largely in private hands. It has been subject to little government control, although many nations have attempted to regulate Internet communications in various ways.<\/p>\n
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