World Summit on the Information Society Preparatory Committee yet to decide on Internet Governance issues.


The United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union, ITU,
has reported that Internet governance was the main focus of the two week Committee meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The UN would like to take up the Internet Governance which lies with the US now. The U.S. now manages the internet via the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, overseen by the Commerce Department.

The ITU Press Release has reported “The third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom-3) of the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) closed its doors at 21:00 tonight after a gruelling two weeks of day and night sessions that saw agreement on large sections of the Summit text, some major developments in the international community’s approach to Internet governance, but ultimately disappointing progress on a raft of contentious issues”.

Ambassador Masood Khan (Pakistan) was the Chairman of The Sub Committee (A) Internet governance.

According to the press release the Key achievements during PrepCom-3:

“Starting from scratch, around 80% of Chapter 3 of the WSIS outcome document was drafted and agreed

Ground-breaking consensus on the need for a coordinated international approach to spam, e-commerce, cybercrime, international Internet connectivity charges, multilingualism, and ICT capacity-building, for which no international treaties yet exist”.

The points which have not been agreed upon yet and has to be decided before the next World Summit include:

“Management of critical Internet resources (IP names and addresses and root zone file system)
The governance function
The proposed creation of a forum”.

To read the whole text of PrepCom-3 click here.

To read the proposal presented to the committee click here.

For information about the next World Summit in November click here.

 

 

 

 

 

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