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Internet Governance Coalition Testimony Before U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Education
The Internet Governance Coalition welcomed the opportunity to participate actively in the IANA functions transition process commenced by NTIA last year, and NTIA’s affirmation that any transitional proposal must support and address the following four principles… [more]
Internet Governance Coalition mentioned in Reuters article – “U.S. plan to relinquish Internet domain control moves forward”
A years-long Obama administration push to cede oversight of the nonprofit in charge of the Internet’s technical management to the global community moved ahead on Thursday, as officials said the plan’s was on track to be implemented before the U.S. presidential election in November. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, submitted…
Internet Governance Coalition Ambassador 2012 Testimony before House Committee on Energy and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
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…
U.S. Senate Committee Hearing on “Preserving the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance”
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will convene a hearing on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, entitled “Preserving the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance.” As the U.S. government considers relinquishing control over certain aspects of Internet governance to the private sector, concerns remain that the loss of…
Internet Governance in Transition: The ITU as a Battleground for Rival Visions
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…