In just over fifteen years, the internet has become the vehicle
for and instrument that sustains the new social model we know
of as the “information society”. The internet is a service based
on a system of telecommunication networks of a different nature,
with various models of exploitation and under different
legal jurisdictions. To show the complexity of internet governance,
a view is presented from three perspectives: technical,
economic and social. The combination of the economic aspect
with the social leads to the need to find a balance in order to
integrate the “open service” (natural network) nature of the
internet, with good quality service provided in the supporting
telecom networks. The article proposes a distribution of a
network’s capacity that allows the aforementioned integration,
and the need for an independent international body to manage
internet governance.Postprint (published version
