U.S. leadership is key in the transition of...
U.S. leadership is key in the transition of Internet domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community, House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., told President Barack Obama in a letter Friday. “Such a transition can be successful provided…
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that there are built-in mechanisms for transparency and accountability and a commitment by ICANN [Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers] to resist any expansion of the role governments or intergovernmental organizations may play in ICANN’s own deliberations,” Eshoo said (http://1.usa.gov/1vUyN04). “NTIA must work with ICANN to ensure that the transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the multistakeholder community will not take place until ICANN has fully embraced the principles of openness, security, stability, and resiliency -- principles that have guided the management of the Internet since its inception.” It’s “prudent” to include “a governance structure within ICANN that separates policy-making from the implementation of policy decisions as well as from the adjudication of disputes,” Eshoo said. IANA is expected to be a topic at ICANN’s conference this week. (See separate report above in this issue.)