"In the worst case there’s a danger you could see a splintering of the internet. Some countries..."

“In the worst case there’s a danger you could see a splintering of the internet. Some countries including Russia already restrict which sites can be accessed, but if people start going off and doing their own things in term of naming conventions and net addresses you could end up with different parts of the internet being unable to send traffic to each other. It would be the online equivalent of not being able to make a telephone call from one nation to another.”

- Prof. Alan Woodward on proposals for new UN information and communications treaty (via BBC News - Google attacks UN’s internet treaty conference)