| Democracy vs. Consensus | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 05:30 PM | |||
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he Internet also runs based on consensus. The "governing entity" -- ICANN -- is nearly powerless. Every country agrees to use the same DNS, the same IP addressing systems (IPv6 is backward-compatible with IPv4), and the same economic model. The "threat" of WSIS is that the consensus may be broken leaving us, in time, with multiple Internets that don't communicate. | ||
| Complete article at Corante. | |||