UN Should Stop Doom Mongering or ….?

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Doom mongering by the UN over the Internet. Or is it valid?

Who exactly are the stakeholders who are said to be concerned about what the Internet will be in 5 years time?

Warning over ‘broken up’ internet
By Darren Waters
Technology editor, BBC News website

China has one of the biggest online populations The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned.

Nitin Desai, chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), set up by the UN, warned that concerns over the net’s future could lead to separation.

“People are concerned about whether the system we have now will also work five years from now,” he said.

Mr Desai was speaking at a conference in London to discuss the net.

The conference was organised by Nominet, the UK body in charge of domain names ending .uk, ahead of the first-ever Internet Governance Forum, a global gathering of stakeholders in Athens later this month.

Read the rest of Disai’s monologue here