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ICANN founder challenges UN Internet regulation
Friday, 8 October 2004One of the founding members of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has attacked the United Nations approach to Internet regulation.
Esther Dyson claimed that individual Internet users are being excluded from a debate on the future governance of the Internet.
According to ZDNet, Ms Dyson told a debate in London that the UNs policies were causing concern in the global web community and argued that it was a mistake to seriously consider centralising the global regulation of the Internet.
"I feel the process is going off the rails," she told delegates at the event organised by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Internet Society UK.
"People who are self-appointed to represent other people are there, governments are there, the private sector is there, but the world at large isn't," she added.
The UN recently announced that its members had agreed that the internet was a global 'facility' whose management should be 'multilateral, transparent and democratic' and set up the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) to spend 12 months consulting and reporting on the way ahead.
Esther Dyson claimed that individual Internet users are being excluded from a debate on the future governance of the Internet.
According to ZDNet, Ms Dyson told a debate in London that the UNs policies were causing concern in the global web community and argued that it was a mistake to seriously consider centralising the global regulation of the Internet.
"I feel the process is going off the rails," she told delegates at the event organised by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Internet Society UK.
"People who are self-appointed to represent other people are there, governments are there, the private sector is there, but the world at large isn't," she added.
The UN recently announced that its members had agreed that the internet was a global 'facility' whose management should be 'multilateral, transparent and democratic' and set up the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) to spend 12 months consulting and reporting on the way ahead.