ITU getting serious about botnets [LWN.net]

ITU getting serious about botnets

Posted Nov 29, 2007 20:30 UTC (Thu) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)
In reply to: ITU getting serious about botnets by job
Parent article: ITU getting serious about botnets

On the contrary, I'm fairly well-informed about the working of the ITU and other standards bodies operating under the UN umbrella, and it's clear that non-UN standards bodies like the IETF do a far better job.

The fact that a few good things have come out of the UN is not sufficient to demonstrate that it is a net positive, nor that it is the best place to promote new initiatives such as anti-botnet measures.

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ITU getting serious about botnets

Posted Dec 13, 2007 13:43 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

The IETF works very differently because they do engineering and not political work. I'm not
sure IETF would do any better than ITU or similar organizations when doing things like
spectrum allocations, they are just as susceptible to policial deadlocks. But my guess is as
good as yours, we just don't have any data points that compares the two.

So I stand by my opinion that the original comment was in haste, uninformed, or both. A much
better comparison would be the ITU and IANA, but the latter is still a bit young for it to be
completely fair.