2012 Hearing Video : International Proposals to Regulate the Internet
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In the United States, there has long been a bipartisan consensus supporting decentralized, multistakeholder mechanisms associated with Internet governance. This approach has been essential to the extraordinary success of the Internet as well as to counter the many international attempts during the past decade or so for centralized government imposed “top down” control over…
Below is a statement from the Internet Governance Coalition on the transition of IANA from the U.S. government to the global internet community, set for 12:01 ET tomorrow. Coalition members include 21st Century Fox, AT&T, CISCO, Comcast, Disney, Facebook, GoDaddy, Google, Juniper, Microsoft, NCTA, Time Warner Cable, Telefonica, Verizon. “The transition of IANA from the U.S….
Over the last six months, United Nations diplomats have negotiated over the text of a document set to define the policies and frameworks of how the Internet is governed in the future, and who has a role in the process.The final version presented on Wednesday before the General Assembly contains a word that civil society…