Who Will Control the Internet?

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Who Will Control the Internet?

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Who Will Control the Internet?

Kenneth Neil Cukier

From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005

 

 

 

Summary: Foreign governments want control of the Internet transferred

from an American NGO to an international institution. Washington has

responded with a Monroe Doctrine for our times, setting the stage for

further controversy.

 

KENNETH NEIL CUKIER covers technology and regulatory issues for The

Economist.

 

 

Of Related Interest

 

 

Topics:

Science and Technology

U.S. Policy and Politics

International Organizations

 

 

WASHINGTON BATTLES THE WORLD

 

As historic documents go, the statement issued by the U.S. Department

of Commerce on June 30 was low-key even by American standards of

informality. No flowery language, no fountain-penned signatures, no

Great Seal of the United States -- only 331 words on a single page.

But the simplicity of the presentation belied the importance of the

content, which was Washington's attempt to settle a crucial problem of

twenty-first-century global governance: Who controls the Internet?

 

 

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