November 24 2003 -
Will December make or break the Internet? -
By Kieren McCarthy, The Register, There are always
defining moments in anything’s lifetime and the
Internet is no exception. A meeting in Geneva on 10-12
December promises to be one of them - to define what
is, what was and what shall become of the global
electronic medium known as the Internet. The World
Summit on the Information Society, organized by the
International Telecommunications Union, will see the
heads of over 60 governments get together, discuss and
hopefully agree on where we go from here. It’s been a
very long time coming. In fact, it is a year or two
late, with the result that the topics to be covered
have outgrown the meeting. It doesn’t help that there
are several topics of great import but huge
controversy. The chief among these is Internet
governance. In short: who gets to run the Internet?
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