1、 International Telecommunication Union ITU-T TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION SECTOR OF ITU WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION ASSEMBLY Johannesburg, 21-30 October 2008 Resolution 69 Non-discriminatory access and use of Internet resources FOREWORD The International Telecommunication Union (ITU
2、) is the United Nations specialized agency in the field of telecommunications, information and communication technologies (ICTs). The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is a permanent organ of ITU. ITU-T is responsible for studying technical, operating and tariff questions and issu
3、ing Recommendations on them with a view to standardizing telecommunications on a worldwide basis. The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which meets every four years, establishes the topics for study by the ITU-T study groups which, in turn, produce Recommendations on these top
4、ics. ITU 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written permission of ITU. WTSA-08 Resolution 69 1 RESOLUTION 69 Non-discriminatory access and use of Internet resources (Johannesburg, 2008) The World Telecommunication Stand
5、ardization Assembly (Johannesburg, 2008), considering that one of the purposes of ITU laid down in Article 1 of the ITU Constitution is “to maintain and extend international cooperation among all its Member States for the improvement and rational use of telecommunications of all kinds“, considering
6、further approved documents of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005, in its Declaration of Principles, especially 11, 19, 20, 21 and 49 thereof, noting that 48 of the WSIS Declaration of Principles recognized that: “The Internet has evolved into a global faci
7、lity available to the public and its governance should constitute a core issue of the Information Society agenda. The international management of the Internet should be multilateral, transparent and democratic, with the full involvement of governments, the private sector, civil society and internati
8、onal organizations. It should ensure an equitable distribution of resources, facilitate access for all and ensure a stable and secure functioning of the Internet, taking into account multilingualism“, recognizing a) that the second phase of WSIS (Tunis, November 2005) identified ITU as the possible
9、moderator/facilitator for the following WSIS Action Lines from the Plan of Action: C2 (Information and communication infrastructure) and C5 (Building confidence and security in use of the ICTs); b) that the Plenipotentiary Conference (Antalya, 2006) entrusted the ITU Telecommunication Standardizatio
10、n Sector (ITU-T) with a range of activities aimed at implementing the WSIS (Tunis, 2005) outcomes, a number of those activities having to do with Internet-related issues; c) Resolution 102 (Rev. Antalya, 2006) of the Plenipotentiary Conference on ITUs role with regard to international public policy
11、issues pertaining to the Internet and the management of Internet resources, including domain names and addresses; d) that management of the registration and allocation of Internet domain names and addresses must fully reflect the geographical nature of the Internet, taking into account an equitable
12、balance of interests of all stakeholders, taking into account a) that ITU-T is dealing with technical and policy issues related to IP-based networks, including the Internet and next-generation networks; b) that a number of the resolutions of this assembly deal with Internet-related issues, 2 WTSA-08
13、 Resolution 69 resolves to invite Member States 1 to refrain from taking any unilateral and/or discriminatory actions that could impede another Member State from accessing public Internet sites, within the spirit of Article 1 of the Constitution and the WSIS principles; 2 to report to the Director o
14、f the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau on any incident referred to in 1 above, instructs the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau 1 to integrate and analyse the information on incidents reported from Member States; 2 to report this information to Member States, through an appropriate mechanism, invites Member States and Sector Members to submit contributions to the ITU-T study groups that contribute to the prevention and avoidance of such practices.
