Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 20:00:59 -0500
From: Michael Novick <mnovick-AT-laedu.lalc.k12.ca.us>
Subject: AUT: Euro-Union sends in the Internet police


 EU sends in the Internet police
>
>     THE EU has called for an international charter to establish
>  worldwide standards for policing the Internet and the broadcasting
>  and multimedia industries (Clive Parker writes) .
>  
>     EU commissioner Martin Bangemann, speaking at the Telecom
>  Interactive 97 conference in Geneva, said: "We need to simplify the
>  current international regulatory framework and bring together
>  legislation on the provision of infrastructure, services, content,
>  and access to content via television, computer and telephone
>  networks."
>  
>     Bangemann, who is responsible for encouraging the development of
>  Europe's technology industries, caused controversy when he
>  suggested that an international super-regulator may be needed to
>  create and enforce such a charter.
>  
>     The EU hopes to initiate a debate on controlling the convergence
>  of broadcasting, networking and content-creation industries later
>  this year when it publishes a paper on the subject.
>  
>     The global nature of communications has meant that individual
>  countries have lost the ability to regulate the content of their
>  internal telecom networks and are largely unable to guarantee the
>  security of those networks. Bangemann declared: "I call upon
>  governments, regulators and the industry to work together to
>  establish a new global framework for communications for the next
>  millennium. The framework, which may be embodied in an
>  international charter, is necessary to ensure coherence and mutual
>  recognition at an international level."
>  
>     The charter, if established, will lay down a firm set of
>  principles to govern areas such as Internet and Web content,
>  network security, network encryption and data protection - but
>  would give governments the freedom to protect the individual laws,
>  habits and culture of their countries relating to the industry.
>  
>  (Copyright 1997)
>  
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>  {A4:TimesofLondon-0925.00341}    9/25/97
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