When it Comes to Designing an International Internet Governance Model (As discussed at The World Summit on the Information Society) (Summary)

Abstract

The Internet is the linchpin of those technologies and its role, the intrinsically contradictory nature of its evolution, and other related crucial matters basically come to the question of who “controls and governs” the Internet. That question presently has no unequivocal answer, and the approaches and methods that could be followed and invoked in providing a reply are highly diverse. Internet trans-border nature – of its functioning objectively is linked particularly with the necessity to designing an International Internet Governance Model. This question is dealt with below.

Keywords

• internet
• internet governance
• cyberspace
• sovereignty
• architectural principles of the internet
• self-regulation