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Ottawa Citizen - October 4, 2007 - Officials grapple with ever-evolving Internet

Top executives and government officials from around the world met in Ottawa yesterday to grapple with the issues of an ever-growing, ever-shifting Internet.

From online piracy to questions of how to divide the advertising revenue bonanza, the bureaucrats and representatives of such Internet heavyweights as Amazon.com, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life and Google talked strategy -- even as they admitted that control of the Internet is constantly becoming more diffuse. "A lot has changed over the past 10 years," said Michael Binder, assistant deputy minister of spectrum, information technologies and telecommunications at Industry Canada. "People are now not only using the Internet more, but contributing to its development."