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Does Internet governance need another player?

A ranking member of the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which currently has no real voice in the oversight of the Internet, thinks so. In a Q&A with CNET News, the director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, Houlin Zhao, says that the ITU would be complementary to the existing organizations currently involved in policy making for the Internet such as ICANN, IETF, and W3C. Perhaps a better question - Is adding another Internet regulatory organization preferable to merging some of the existing ones?

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