Tuesday, October 9, 2012

If Internet Governance Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: U.S.


Miles, Tom. "If Internet Governance Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: U.S." Reuters, October 8, 2012.

From the article: "The best solution to improving oversight of the Internet may be to do nothing at all, a senior U.S. official said on Monday while briefing reporters on a conference in December that could decide to consolidate control within a U.N. body.

Kramer said any work done at the conference should ultimately benefit citizens, consumers and society at large.

"We need to avoid suffocating the Internet space through well-meaning but overly prescriptive proposals that would seek to control content or seek to mandate routing and payment practices. That would send the Internet back to a circuit switch era that is actually passing in history," he said." Read more