UN Fails to Agree on Internet Governance (what a shock)
Its as though the UN has become a satire of itself. In 2003, the UN's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) failed to reach an agreement on how the net should be run. As a result, they setup the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)to reach an agreement. Two years later, the WGIG has announced its total failure to reach an agreement.
Clearly, the UN should now setup a Working Group on the Working group on Internet Governance (WGWGIG). Perhaps WGWGIG could do what the UN does best, and write an angry letter to WGIG. After WGWGIG "issues" its angry letter, then perhaps we could have delegates from both WGIG and WGWGIG meet to "discuss tensions" in Luxemburg. After the WGIG/WGWGIG summit, they could announce a resolution, or "less angry letter."
After months of further talks, the WGWGIG and WGIG would announce the formation of the "Federation of Internet Governance Working Groups". The FIGWG would be the oversite body which now would oversee all future interaction between WGIG and WGWGIG, and would be comprised of 10 delegates elected from each group.
Then, with confidence, we could say "there is a UN body overseeing Internet Governence." Not that the body would accomplish anything, but then again, if I'm not mistaken, the UN is about talking, not action. So it seems like once we created the FIGWG, we'd have a UN success story.