How to Regulate Internet

In a recent Bibliography on self-regulation on the Internet, a report prepared for the OECD1 stated : « while there is a broad consensus that self regulation of the Internet is critical to its future growth, there is little consensus about how to achieve and to implement a self-regulatory régime ». Self-regulation is a word and a myth : the concept is presented as an adequate solution due to the disintegration of traditional sovereignty paradigms (J. Reidenberg, 1996) on which the traditional regulatory powers given to constitutional State authority was founded. This phenomenon must be analysed in its context. Overtime, the functioning of the traditional constitutional bodies has been deeply modified to face the new challenges which have steamed from the development of the cyberspace and finally, we have to point out the important role of technical choices in order to rule