The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government2013-10-15 09:46 by DanielaTags: Internet
Last week in Montevideo, Uruguay, a group of the Internet's governing organizations announced they were effectively turning their backs on the United States. Among those organisations were ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Society. A statement released by this group called for "accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing." That part of the statement constituted an explicit rejection of the US Commerce Department's unilateral oversight of ICANN through the IANA contract. It also indirectly attacks the US unilateral approach to the Affirmation of Commitments, the pact between the US and ICANN which provides for periodic reviews of its activities by the GAC and other members of the ICANN community. ICANN, a nonprofit established by the U.S., has never awarded a contract to manage the .com, .net, .cc, .tv and .name space to a company outside the United States — in fact, VeriSign of Virginia has always held the immensely economically valuable .com handle. The Public Interest Registry, also based in Virginia, manages the .org domain. Even before all the recent revelations of NSA misbehavior, the United States was already facing calls for a more "democratic" global system of Internet regulation that gave other countries more say in setting rules. Now, for the sake of a free Internet, it is important for Washington to move fast to restore a belief that America is a trustworthy Internet steward. Read more -here-
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