2012 Hearing Video : International Proposals to Regulate the Internet
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Thank you for the opportunity for me to speak with you today about the recent World Conference on International Telecommunications (“WCIT”). My name is David A. Gross and I had the great honor of serving in the Department of State as the United States Coordinator… [more]
Below is a statement from the Internet Governance Coalition (IGC) on the ICANN Board’s vote today in Marrakech, Morocco to approve the plan to transition IANA stewardship from the United States Government to the global Internet community. IGC members include 21st Century Fox, AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, Facebook, GoDaddy, Google, Juniper, Microsoft, NCTA, Time Warner…
During the past month, more has been written about December’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), hosted by the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Dubai, than about any previous international telecoms treaty conference. And for good reason. Despite the fact that the nominal focus of the conference was to bring up-to-date a 1988…
During the past few years, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been a battleground where governments promote rival visions of how the Internet should be governed. Although there has been a recent cease-fire as Internet governance debates have focused more on the role of ICANN, those skirmishes may soon restart at the ITU. Indeed, Internet-related…
After reviewing the National Telecommunications & Information Administration’s plan to transition stewardship of the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which oversees domain naming conventions, from the U.S. to a multistakeholder, the Internet Governance Coalition says it will be “good for America, good for American business, good for the Internet and good for the world…” [more]