[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 122 (Monday, June 27, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 36998]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-12668]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5098]


United States International Telecommunication Advisory Committee; 
Request for Comments on the Working Group on Internet Governance Report

    The Department of State announces a request for comments on the 
report of the Working Group on Internet Governance, which is scheduled 
to be released to the public on July 18, 2005. The UN Working Group on 
Internet Governance (WGIG), created by Phase 1 of the WSIS, was tasked 
``to investigate and make proposals for action, as appropriate, on the 
governance of Internet by 2005.'' The text of the report will be 
available at http://www.wgig.org or on the Department of State's World 
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Web site at http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cip/wsis2005.
    The Department of State will be accepting comments from the public 
on the WGIG report through August 1, 2005. Comments should be sent to 
Sally Shipman, International Communications and Information Policy, at 
[email protected].
    In addition, according to the decision of PrepCom II, all 
governments and other stakeholders are invited to submit written 
comments and proposals on the issue of Internet governance to the WSIS 
Executive Secretariat (to [email protected]) by August 15. 
Thereafter, a compilation of these contributions will be forwarded to 
the WSIS PrepCom III, together with the report of the WGIG.

    Dated: June 20, 2005.
Anne Jillson,
Foreign Affairs Officer, International Communications and Information 
Policy, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 05-12668 Filed 6-24-05; 8:45 am]
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