Update: UN panel fails to agree on how to govern Internet
A Reuters newswire article by Irwin Arieff, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
A group set up by the United Nations to come up with a global plan for managing the Internet said on Thursday that it has been unable to agree on who should do the job or how it should be done.
The Working Group on Internet Governance instead came up with four rival models for overseeing the Web and sorting out technical and public policy questions.
In a report to be submitted to the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in November, the group also proposed creation of a permanent forum to carry on the debate.
To understand the problem, "you must recognize that the Internet was set up largely by academicians for limited use, but has grown beyond anyone's wildest expectations, with nearly one billion users today," Markus Kummer, the working group's executive coordinator, said in a telephone interview.
Update: An AP newswire article entitled "U.N. Panel Presents 4 Internet Options" also available here.
posted by Fergie @ 7/14/2005 03:45:00 PM
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