Abstract

The development of the Internet raises numerous political questions, challenging the State sovereignty or the liberty of citizen, as for example with the well-known case of domain names management, currently controlled by the USA. The European Union tries to save three fundamental principles, the Internet interoperability, accessibility and neutrality, key principles of an agreement on the network governance that would respect the democratic principles.
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Bernard Benhamou, Associate Professor on the Information Society at the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) of Paris, has been in the French Delegation at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Laurent Sorbier has been technical advisor in charge of the Information Society for Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. He is Associate Professor at the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) of Paris and teaches at Paris I and Paris VIII Universities.