Resumen
Along with the Internet's emergence as a valuable world resource, a debate has developed over how to ensure it continues to function despite its rapid scaling, technical innovation, and intense commercial competition. If its governance depends on a decision-making process ensuring its parts work together and move forward in the same direction. The Internet is a complex self-organizing system influenced by market mechanisms, government agencies, businesses, associations, and various allocative and standards-setting organizations. Some of these mechanisms and bodies date to the Internet's predecessor, the ARPANET, a U.S. Department of Defense research network. But, today, the Internet's commercialization and globalization are forcing changes in how governance decisions are made and who makes them. The U.S. government has funded much of the research required to develop the Internet's technology. The Internet requires considerable coordination among the thousands of Internet service providers.