Plan For UN to Run Internet ‘Will Be Shelved’

An attempt by developing countries to put management of the Internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be shelved at next month’s world information summit in Geneva…

Poorer nations are growing dissatisfied with the workings of ICANN…The critics argue that the internet is a public resource that should be managed by national governments and, at an international level, by an intergovernmental body such as the International Telecommunications Union, the UN agency that is organising the information summit.

However, the US and the European Commission are staunchly defending the ICANN model, which is based on minimal regulation and commercial principles.

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