EU and U.S. at Loggerheads over Governance of Internet

Geneva -- The EU has set the stage for a major showdown with the
U.S. after insisting the Internet be overseen by a UN body composed of
government representatives and the private sector. As it is, Internet
governance is the sole province of the U.S. Earlier this week in Geneva,
the EU pitched the idea of wresting U.S. control over the Internet --
particularly the management of its addressing systems and traffic
routing -- at the last preparatory meeting before November's pivotal
World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia. The U.S.,
however, has flatly rejected the idea. "We will not agree to the UN
taking over the management of the Internet," said Ambassador David
Gross, coordinator for international communications and information
policy at the U.S. State Department. "Some countries want that … we
think that's unacceptable."
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