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]
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]
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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…
