Members of the European Union want to build a world-governing body for the Internet, but the United States and Germany has said it would not agree to such a proposal, primarily because a regulated
Internet would severely slow the pace of innovation. Apparently, the United Nations has sent a report outlining a multinational approach to Internet governance, which was embraced by EU members, with
the exception of Germany. Government officials on both sides of the issue will discuss the U.N. report on Sunday, before the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis next week. Among the
topics up for consideration there are a reorganization of the day-to-day handling of domain names, which is currently handled by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers, a California-based nonprofit whose contract expires next summer. A French official said he expects the talks to end a stalemate.
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