Stefaan G. Verhulst is Director of Internet Governance at the Markle Foundation in New York and research co-ordinator of the NAIS project. Previously he was Director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University (UK) from 1996. He has published widely in the areas of communications law and policy.

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The debate about governing the internet is intensifying. Does the new medium need new forms of representation, or simply an application of “real world” norms? If the former, how can the public interest be best secured? The net’s governing body, ICANN, is meeting this weekend to thrash out the issues. A representative of the Markle Foundation sets out the principles he, and other independent experts, believe should guide it.