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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…
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The Internet Governance Coalition is pleased to testify on the important developments in the process to transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community, commenced by NTIA more than two years ago. The transition package, including the accountability proposals, created by the global Internet community is an important milestone for the multistakeholder…
Internet Governance Coalition quoted in MultiChannel article-“IGC Backs Domain Name Hand-Off”
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]