"A new website entitled The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was [sic] just been launched. The site is clearly under construction but what its appearance reveals plainly is that the push to wrest Internet governance away from its US authorities may today have moved a step closer.

The site notes that the new IGF has convened a preliminary meeting on 16-17 February at the UN HQ in Geneva. Invitations to that meeting were sent out on 11 January. The man behind a 'highly commended report' on Internet governance, Nitin Desai, has been asked to head IGF discussions. The function of this meeting, according to its agenda, is the formulation of its own aims and objectives. The first formal meeting of the IGF proper, under the terms agreed in Tunis in 2005, is due to take place in the Autumn of 2006. "

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