"To understand the importance of a UN World Summit, one has to remember that they are held rarely; only when there is an issue of large societal impacts, such as women's rights in 1945, or global climate changes more recently. These summits typically involve themes that are well known and accepted by some, but not by all, and themes that have become ripe for all governments to take action together. The Internet is, today, such an issue..." -- see also: [RMS & TBL] How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web