This book provides a good introduction to the legal climate for the development of the internet. The author urges for sensible legislation to regulate the internet and argues that there is a coming "tipping point" where legal pressures are tipping in balance of control.

This books was written in 2001. It would be interesting to read in hindsight whether the tipping point Biegel argued was coming has occurred, or how much of it he was able to predict.

Representatives of over 100 countries agreed to leave the supervision of domain names (ICANN) unchanged. It also agreed to create a new international forum to give governments a voice in internet policy issues.

The new Internet Governance Forum would convene under the United Nations secretary Kofi Annan. What kinds of issues has this forum discussed? What is the organizational structure of it?