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Whois WSIS; Whois IGF: The New Consensus-Based Internet Governance

2006; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.954209

1556-5068

Justin Hurwitz,

Freedom of Expression and Defamation

The first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held in Athens from Oct 30-Nov 2, 2006. This meeting capped off nearly a decade of preparations and planning, organized through the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The ultimate result, the IGF, is a discussion body with no decision-making power and a mandate to do little more than publish its results. This article argues that despite this thin mandate - and perhaps because of it - the IGF and the process leading up to it mark a fundamental shift in Internet governance. For the first time, we are entering an era of truly International Internet governance.