January 15, 2004

Will the UN Run the Internet?

Will the United Nations one day govern the Internet? Let's pray not, but here are three interesting items published recent days at the Free2Innovate.net blog discussing how necessary Internet innovation is being hampered by the existing regulatory structure - and how that's encouraging the forces who want to strip the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers of its authority over certain Internet technical standards and hand governance of the Internet to a United Nations agency. Here are the links:

First item: ICANN's Go-Slow Approach Fuels Global Critics

Second item: Are Standards-Setting Bodies Too Slow to Stop Spam?

Third item: ICANN: Sowing Seeds of Its Own Opposition?