I’m generally very much in favor of internationalizing governance structures, but the entire time I was reading this interview with Houlin Zhao I kept picturing him as a James Bond villain.

Perhaps the problem is that he kept talking about the need to regulate without giving any clear idea to what good would come of it. (Bureaucracy reducing spam? Please.) And perhaps the other problem is that the groups he seeks to augment — ICANN, IETF, W3C — are successful largely because of their light touch. One doesn’t get the same feeling from ITU. (Via Slashdot.)