The United States will oppose attempts to create a “supranational regulatory body” for the Internet during a planned December 2012 meeting of the International Telecommunications Union, said Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Strickling spoke Jan. 11 at the Brookings Institution.

On the agenda for the United Nations agency’s planned conference in Dubai is a renegotiation of International Telecommunications Regulations, a 1988 treaty that governs international interoperability.

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