The U.N. Running the Internet?

Hmmm. Vinton Cerf thinks that might be a bad idea.

Yahoo! News - U.N. Internet Policy Off Course, Pioneer Says

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) - The United Nations (news - web sites) is veering off-track in its discussions on whether government officials should set Internet policy, a founding father of the network said on Wednesday.

Instead, governments should join together to fight electronic crime globally and develop best practices to encourage the growth of Internet commerce, said Vinton Cerf, who helped invent the Internet's early architecture.

Give him five stars for diplomacy. I would have said "Kofi running Al Gore's Internet? No Way!!" What a nightmare scenario.

Posted by jk at July 21, 2004 09:20 AM