The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Montreal, 2000),

recognizing

the sovereign right of each State to regulate its telecommunication, as reflected in the Preamble to the Constitution,

noting

a) the rapid growth of Internet and Internet protocol-based international services;

b) that international Internet connections remain subject to commercial agreements between the parties concerned; and

c) that continuing technical and economic developments require ongoing studies in this area,

recommends

that administrations* involved in the provision of international Internet connections negotiate and agree to bilateral commercial arrangements enabling direct international Internet connections that take into account the possible need for compensation between them for the value of elements such as traffic flow, number of routes, geographical coverage and cost of international transmission amongst others.