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WTPF-13 Backgrounders

The ITU Secretariat has developed a number of Background Briefs on key issues that are expected to be discussed at WTPF.  If you have any questions about the documents below please contact pressinfo@itu.int 

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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• Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)
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  The benefits of establishing an IXP depend on amount of traffic and costs of intra- IXP network connections.
  
  
• IPv4 and IPv6 issues backgrounder-wtpf-13-ipv4-ipv6-en.pdf
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  As a finite resource, the depletion of IPv4 addresses has been a concern since the late 1980s, when the Internet started to experience dramatic growth.
  
  
• Supporting Multi-stakeholderism in Internet Governance backgrounder-wtpf-13-internet-governance-en.pdf
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  Civil society has also played an important role on Internet matters, especially at community level, and should continue to play such a role.
  
  
• The Enhanced Cooperation Process
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  One of the key outcomes of the World Summit on the Information
  Society (WSIS) was the establishment of the Internet Governance Forum
  (IGF) and a process for enhanced cooperation on governance issues.
  
  
• Broadband
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  Broadband can be viewed both through a technical lens (as a set of advanced networking technologies) or as a driving force for far-reaching and disruptive transformation, revitalizing the delivery of existing services and enabling the birth of innovative new services.
  
  

Strategic Dialogue

• WTPF Strategic Dialogue: Building our Broadband Future
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  The debate will focus around a shared future ‘built on broadband’, the importance and challenges of investing in new highspeed
  infrastructure, and the changing nature of broadband policy and regulation.
  
  
• Session One: Building out Broadband
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  Broadband is now a critical infrastructure in any modern economy, as vitally important as water, transport or energy networks.
  
  
• Session Two: Broadband Driving Development
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  For many people, better access to information could make a real and significant life-changing difference.