Could The Internet Be Broken Up Into Separate Networks One Day?

Can the current system we call the Internet potentiall come crashing down in five years?  There are concerns that the internet’s future is not so secure.

Nitin Desai, chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), set up by the UN, warned that concerns over the net’s future could lead to separation.

“People are concerned about whether the system we have now will also work five years from now,” he said.

Mr Desai was speaking at a conference in London to discuss the net.

The conference was organised by Nominet, the UK body in charge of domain names ending .uk, ahead of the first-ever Internet Governance Forum, a global gathering of stakeholders in Athens later this month.