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Internet Governance Coalition quoted in New York Times article: “At U.N., China Tries to Influence Fight Over Internet Control”
Over the last six months, United Nations diplomats have negotiated over the text of a document set to define the policies and frameworks of how the Internet is governed in the future, and who has a role in the process.The final version presented on Wednesday before the General Assembly contains a word that civil society…
Internet Governance Coalition Ambassador 2012 Testimony before House Committee on Energy and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
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…
Internet Governance Coalition Statement on ICANN Board’s Vote to Approve IANA Transition Plan
Below is a statement from the Internet Governance Coalition (IGC) on the ICANN Board’s vote today in Marrakech, Morocco to approve the plan to transition IANA stewardship from the United States Government to the global Internet community. IGC members include 21st Century Fox, AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, Facebook, GoDaddy, Google, Juniper, Microsoft, NCTA, Time Warner…
Internet Governance Coalition mentioned in joint statement on IANA Stewardship Transition
Yesterday, the Board of Directors the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), approved the multistakeholder community’s proposal for transitioning oversight of the Internet’s addressing system from the US government to the global multistakeholder community. The Board approval follo wed approvals from ICANN’s chartering organizations. I want to congratulate the community for their tireless…
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]