This divergence was starkly apparent in 2012, at a conference convened in Dubai by the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Though the meeting was ostensibly about updating telephony regulations, the underlying issue was the ITU’s role in Internet governance.
联合国国际电信联盟（ITU）在迪拜召开的会议毫不掩饰地体现了这种分歧。虽然会议的表面议题是更新电话章程，但国际电信联盟在互联网治理中的作用才是根本性问题。