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Internet Governance Coalition Supports the Nomination of David Redl for NTIA Administrator
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2017 Internet Governance Coalition Supports the Nomination of David Redl for NTIA Administrator WASHINGTON— President Trump yesterday nominated David Redl to be the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information within the United States Department of Commerce and Administrator of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA). The NTIA is the Executive Branch…
Internet Governance Coalition quoted in Circle ID article: 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…
Internet Governance Coalition Bloomberg op-ed : “Walking the Talk: The Role of U.S. Leadership in the Wake of WCIT”
During the past month, more has been written about December’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), hosted by the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Dubai, than about any previous international telecoms treaty conference. And for good reason. Despite the fact that the nominal focus of the conference was to bring up-to-date a 1988…
Internet Governance Coalition mentioned in Washington Examiner article- “Internet board approves U.S. plan to cede Internet Control”
The board responsible for Internet governance on Thursday approved a plan to transition another component of the net away from the United States. In a vote held in Marrakesh, Morocco, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted to finalize the last proposal necessary to assume control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, or…
Internet Governance Coalition quoted in Broadcasting and Cable article: “ICANN Approves Domain Name Hand-Off Plan”
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved its plan to transition stewardship of the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which oversees domain naming conventions, from the U.S. to a multistakeholder model. The contract extension expires in September 2016, and ICANN said it expected the plan to be implemented by then… [more]