China wants the internet changed radically. But the UNITED states and Europe fear that China is more intent on control.
China has together with, among others, the telecommunications company Huawei has proposed the united nations, to the way the internet works on the radically must be changed.
among other things, make it possible with the brand new technologies using holograms and running in self-driving cars.
But several western countries to sound the alarm. They fear that China is trying to build a completely new authoritarian architecture of the internet. It writes the newspaper the Financial Times.
Huawei, the state companies of China Unicom and China Telecom as well as China’s ministry of industry and information technology have jointly proposed a new standard. They call it “New IP”.
It has they are presented with the ITU. It is the UN’s organization for the information technologies. The ITU is working for common standards in the field of data – and telecommunications.
the UNITED states, Sweden and the Uk are among the countries of the west, where the proposal has been met with concern.
A delegate to the ITU says that there are two competing visions: One of a free and opened internet without the governments influence, and “saw a much more controlled and regulated by governments.”
Among the countries that support the new standard, Russia and Saudi Arabia. It says western delegates.
the Financial Times have seen a billedforedrag from Huawei. Here referred to the current infrastructure on the network is known as TCP/IP, as “unstable” and “extremely inadequate”.
China will with its proposal to take “the brunt of the responsibility for a top-down design of the future network”, it says.
But a paper is the way to Nato, from a british security firm, Oxford Information Labs. It says that “New IP” will be able to provide “fine grained control” with the internet’s foundation, according to the Financial Times.
– It will lead to more centralized control from above of the internet, and potentially also its users with the implications it may have for the safety and human rights, called it in the paper.
Huawei and the other chinese developers will try to get the standard with the “New IP” was adopted at a major ITU conference in India in november, writes the newspaper.
the ITU is headed today by a chinese teleingeniør, Houlin Zhao.
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