The World Summit in pictures

The Net governance agreement was reached largely thanks to the remarkable abilities of committee chair, Masood Khan of Pakistan (right). However, it still left the United States and ICANN in charge of the Internet, and ruined yet again the ITU's efforts to take over the Net. ITU secretary-general Yoshio Utsumi (left) then appeared to ignore the entire agreement when he told a closing press conference that the ITU was in the best position to take over the Internet in five years' time.