The battle for the soul of the internet

Elliot Noss, the CEO of Tucows, writes an interestingeditorial highlighting the current battle over Internetgovernance. Noss is strongly in the ICANN camp, arguing thatif the U.N. and the ITU were successful in gaining control,it is not difficult to envision a Balkanization of theInternet as whole portions of the Internet decide they didnot want to rely on the U.N. and the ITU for their singleauthoritative root.