Carrie Ellen Sager. "Internet Governance: The Way It Works Now." Public Knowledge, June 14, 2012.
From the article: "There has been a lot of talk recently about the ITU getting involved with regulating
aspects of the Internet. But some of you may be wondering how
the Internet is governed now. If you don’t have multiple hours to devote to the
rabbit warren of Wikipedia articles on the subject, read on for a brief
explanation of the current organizations involved in Internet governance.
These organizations can be roughly divided into two major categories:
international technical standards organizations and governance organizations.
The technical standards organizations tend to deal with standards on a physical
level: how to make a computer chip, for example. The governance organizations
deal more with permissions and protocols: what are appropriate identifiers for
computers on a network, or how to write a webpage that all computers will
understand. But this is not a perfect rule, and there is significant overlap
between the two groups." Read more
