There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.