Tunisia: Showdown over internet heads to Tunis

They are five letters you have probably never heard of: Icann, acronym for the hitherto obscure Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a public-private, non-profit organisation based in the pleasant Los Angeles suburb of Marina del Rey, and operating under the very loose supervision of the United States Department of Commerce. But that obscurity is about to end, says this article in the United Kingdom's Independent newspaper, which explains the battle over internet governance set to take centre stage in Tunis at the World Summit on the Information Society.