Reforming Internet Governance offers several perspectives on the interaction between technologists and politicians, and on the task of achieving an appropriate balance among the interests of the various stakeholders.

According to Frank March, a New Zealand member of the WGIG secretariat, the group had to reconcile the interests of similar sectors and find a way of giving all an appropriate voice. In this, it may have provided a miniature model of the way future governance of the internet might work.

'A number of commentators have described the WGIG process as indeed providing a model for openness and transparency, and the involvement of all stakeholders,' March writes.

A chapter of the report is devoted to international internet connection costs and the tension between would-be regulators and those who trust market forces. ISPs in countries remote from internet backbones tend, under a free-market system, to pay a disproportionately high cost for their international circuits.

The WSIS process has suggested a number of approaches to reducing this inequity, from targeted aid funding, to the development of higher-capacity regional backbones.