If ICANN remains stubborn about its scoping gambit, it could threaten the legitimacy as well as the practical success of the whole transition. There is a legitimate debate to be had about whether the transition is best accomplished by keeping IANA in ICANN or moving it somewhere else. We need to have that discussion. The …
US Commerce Department’s decision to ease its governance over the Internet and open it up to other countries will be the subject of much debate in Brazil starting Wednesday. Government representatives from around the world are heading to Sao Paulo for Net Mundial, a two-day meeting to discuss how the future of Internet governance will …
It was a very reactionary decision from Brazil to organise this meeting,…..But I don’t think anything new or creative or different is going to come out. A meeting to determine how the internet should be governed gets under way in Sao Paulo, Brazil later. The country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, organised the two-day NetMundial event following …
//CGCS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Ben Wagner discusses the upcoming NETMundial conference in Brazil and questions whether ‘global forums’ actually impact the wider geopolitics of the internet. With the coming ‘Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance’ NETmundial conference in Brazil, the debate on internet governance is heating up again. Less than two years …
Apr 02 2014 Thune, Rubio Demand Answers from Administration on Internet Transition Washington, D.C. U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and 33 of their Senate Republican colleagues today sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), seeking clarification regarding the recent …
Three Republican Congressmen have introduced a bill that would prevent the US government giving away from oversight of the DNS root zone. In the press release Rokita and Colleagues Seek Review of Obama Plan to Relinquish U.S. Oversight of the Internet. Read the entire Rep. Todd Rokita Press release below Rokita and Colleagues Seek Review …
It was all talk in Singapore. But with the US withdrawing from ICANN, the body that governs the Internet, in 2015, doubt is rife. The world’s digital community may not get a new “world stewardship” model in time. It was hardly a surprise. People had been calling for it for ages. But when the US …
Researchers at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University have released an innovative proposal to resolve the 15-year controversy over the United States government’s special relationship to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Researchers at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University have released an innovative proposal to resolve …