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Internet Governance Coalition’s Senate Commerce Committee Testimony on Developments to Transition Internet Domain Names

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 model of Internet governance and for the Internet as a whole.  The progress that has been made regarding these issues is the result of more than two years of hard  work by many people and organizations, demonstrating that even complex and difficult Internet-related issues can be resolved successfully through bottom-
up, community- driven processes… [more]

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