WGIG
The Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was established by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in accordance with the established during the 2003 Geneva phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The Asia Pacific region had seven representatives in WGIG. For more information on these representatives, see APNC news item, Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) formed (25 November 2004).
Discussion on Internet governance took place within the community in the interim period before the members of the WGIG were formally announced. For example:
- NRO comments on the WGIG panel, ICANN WSIS workshop, Cape Town (6 December 2004)
- Internet Governance: What are we talking about? (February 2004), Raul Echeberra, LACNIC
- Internet Governance: A Discussion Document (24 May 2004), UNDP
Contributions by APNIC, individually or as part of the NRO, to the WGIG process
WGIG 1, Geneva, 23- 25 November 2004
- Contribution by Paul Wilson, APNIC
WGIG 2, Geneva, 14-18 February 2005
- NRO Comments to WGIG on Draft Working Papers Identifying Issues for Internet Governance (response to working paper Administration of Internet names and IP addresses)
WGIG 3, Geneva, 18-20 April 2005
- NRO response to WGIG Paper on IP Numbers (response to Issues relating to the logical infrastructure of the Internet: IP Numbers [Cluster 1b])
- Two APNIC contributions:
WGIG 4, Geneva, 14-17 June 2005
- NRO contribution on ICANN as a technical coordination forum
- APNIC reformatted transcripts of the discussion on 14 June, where discussion about IP addressing took place:
WGIG recommendations
The Report of the Working Group on Internet Governancewas published in June 2005. At the 2005 Tunis Phase of WSIS, the WGIG launched a book containing essays by the WG's members, Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the Working Group on Internet Governance.