The WSIS, backed by the UN and its International Telecommunications Union, said this week that it will hold the workshop February 26 and 27 at the ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
The meeting will discuss the WSIS Declaration of Principle and, primarily, the Plan of Action that called for an independent group of experts to figure out if and how international governments should formally get involved in internet policymaking.
Under earlier drafts of the Plan, internet governance was roughly defined to include the powers of ICANN, the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
ICANN, which also runs IANA, has responsibility for assigned IP addresses and top-level internet domains to countries and private organizations around the world. The California-based organization comes in for frequent criticism for being too US-centric.
Almost 200 global government delegates met in Geneva in December to approve the two WSIS documents. They will meet again in Tunisia next year to further develop the agreements. The internet governance group is tasked with reporting before that meeting.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
