At a luxury hideaway in Morocco,two years of talks on Icann’s running of the internet finished with a deal to establish multiple global stakeholders in charge It’s early March in Marrakech, and a gleaming conurbation of hotels run in the kind of scarce equilibrium of slick organisation and genuine friendliness that Tyler Brûlé might dream approximately. Inside, or the people who run the internet’s naming and numbering systems have been meeting with some of the governments who would rather be doing the job themselves. Eventually they gash a deal,and then negotiators from countries mostly in the northern hemisphere staggered blinking into the sunlight and splayed like lizards around the azure swimming pools, almost too tired to drink. Almost.
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Source: theguardian.com