Today, Monday April 9 2018 at 9am EDT (13:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast R Street Institute‘s panel Does the UN Want to Take Over the Internet? which was held at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington DC on March 30 2018. The ITU’s Plenipotentiary Conference this fall will bring the spotlight back to Internet governance. How will the ITU affect American interests in the future? How do the IANA transition and recent ICANN decisions influence the diplomatic landscape? Panelists: Milton Mueller: Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy; Director Internet Governance Project; Fiona Alexander: Associate Administrator of Office of International Affairs, National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Larry Strickling: Executive Director, Collaborative Gove. Moderator: Joe Kane, R Street Institute.
From my point of view, I don’t believe the UN wants to take over the internet.
And indeed, the way is another.
It wants to ensure that the Internet is broad, secure and integrated because freedom of communication embodies human rights and increases wealth.
Freedom of communication guarantees a globalized world and that is the solution to reduce poverty.
And it will not happen without internet broad access.
But a concern for ITU has been the monopoly.
No country can have internet monopoly
So I see that dual root for DNS should always be a reason for surveillance.
IF ICANN has the Internet in hand this is correct because the principles within ICANN are in the same sense as the United Nations and there is a collective conscience to the detriment of monopolizing powers.
There is no competition between UN, ICANN and ITU , but there is cooperation.
Governance is done through cooperation and this achieves humanitarian ends without being an obstacle to corporate profits.
On October 26 2016 the Internet Governance Project at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Public Policy presented The Self Governing Internet – Celebrating the IANA transition and ICANN reforms in Atlanta. Special honoree will Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling, receiving recognition for his persistent and principled commitment to putting “the global multistakeholder community” in charge of IANA and ICANN. The event also featured remarks on the long term implications of the transition by a panel of experts, including Internet Architecture Board Chair Andrew Sullivan, Georgia Tech professors Milton Mueller and Peter Swire, the Internet Society’s Senior Policy Advisor Konstantinos Komaitis, and Verisign’s Vice President for public policy and government Keith Drazek. An edited version of the event will be webcast at 7pm today on the Internet Society Livestream Channel. Twitter: @igpalert https://twitter.com/IGPAlert.
Ronald Baione-Doda
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The Self Governing Internet: Complete with no updated whistleblower process, at least until June 2017. At that time the process will still be an internally reviewed phone call-in process, just more trustworthy than the phone call-in process is now… wait, so if the process isn’t 100% trustworthy now… and the new process won’t be ready for 9 more months…
What effective whistleblower process has any kind of review by those within the same entity? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the term “whistleblower”. Why wait 9 months to have that process completed in the first place? Why not have the whistleblower process ready on day 1 (Oct 1)?
I’ve requested answers to these questions from those in government at at ICANN who should know the answers, I was provided the links above as their response, but that’s it, there is zero ability on behalf of the multistakeholder community to answer any of the questions you see in this comment. If the U.S. media was acting as the 4th estate maybe they could access their unique investigative abilities and verify the process.
On Thursday July 14 2016 the USA Internet Governance Forum (IGF-USA)will be held in Washington DC. Thought leaders from civil society, industry, academia, and government will meet in a multistakeholder effort to illuminate issues and cultivate constructive discussions about the future of the Internet. Speakers include: Catherine A. Novelli – Under Secretary of State & Senior Coordinator for International Information Technology Diplomacy; Lawrence E. Strickling – Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda – U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State; Lee Rainie – Director of Internet, Science and Technology Research, Pew Research Center; and David Farber, Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies and Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. The entire event, including three breakout tracks, will be webcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channels and Facebook Live. There will be live captions available.
On Thursday May 14 and Friday May 15 2015 the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs(SIPA) and the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) presented the Conference on Internet Governance and Cyber-Security at Columbia University in NYC. Over 40 speakers – including Vint Cerf, Kathy Brown, Fadi Chehadé, Larry Strickling, David Gross, Leslie Daigle, Rebecca Mackinnon, Konstantinos Komaitis,Michael Nelson, and Laura DeNardis, discussed the most pressing policy issues in the worlds of internet governance and cyber-security including privacy, security, innovation, international trade and cross border data flows, data protectionism, human rights, freedom of expression and more. The conference was webcast live via a joint effort of the Internet Society and the SIPA IT Department. Video is below.
On Tuesday January 27 2015 the Internet Education Foundation(IEF) will host the 2015 State of the Net Conference at the Newseum in Washington DC. Among the many listed speakers are US CTO Megan Smith, FTC Chair Edith Ramirez, Assistant AG Leslie Caldwell, WH Director of Cybersecurity Ari Schwartz, Congressman Bob Goodlatte, the NTIA’s Larry Strickling, ICANN’s Theresa Swinehart, the NCUC’s Milton Mueller, ISOC’s Sally Wentworth, CDT’s Nuala O’Connor, the FCC’s Gigi Sohn, and her former PK colleague Harold Feld. As the 114th Congress kicks off, attendees include some 300 congressional staff and other policymakers. The Internet Society is sponsoring and providing the live webcast, which is priced at $99.
As a followup the NetMundial meeting in Brazil in April 2014 the World Economic Forum has initiated the NETmundial Initiative
for Internet Governance Cooperation & Development. Today Thursday 28 August 2014 they are holding the Initial Scoping Meeting in Geneva with leaders from government, business, civil society and academia. Participants include Kathryn Brown of the Internet Society, Fadi Chehadé of ICANN, Tim Berners Lee of WWWF, Hamadoun Touré of the ITU, and Lawrence Strickling of the NTIA. It is being webcast live the WEF Livestream Channel.
On Wednesday April 2 2014, at 10.30am EDT, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing Ensuring the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet in Washington DC. The topic under discussion was the proposed transfer of the IANA stewardship from the United States to the global Internet community. Witnesses were Larry Strickling of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Fadi Chehade of ICANN, former Ambassador David Gross, Steve DelBianco of NetChoice, and Carolina Rossini of the OTI. Video is below
How will NTIA collect and assess proposals? Has a process been determined? Is there a timeline in place for a decision?
Does transition of the IANA functions out of NTIA have implications for national security?
How will NTIA ensure that any transition is smooth and does not affect the daily functioning of the Internet?
What will be the result if NTIA does not receive a proposal that satisfies the criteria it set forth? Does NTIA plan to exercise the automatic option for renewal on the IANA contract if a satisfactory proposal is not received?
What sort of multi-stakeholder community would be the ideal replacement for NTIA’s role in the IANA functions?
What safeguards will be in place to prevent a future change that would allow for governments to seize control?
What oversight role should Congress play to ensure a successful outcome.
What will be the practical impact of this transition on Internet users and businesses that utilize the Internet for commerce?
What will be the practical impact of this transition on Internet users and businesses that utilize the Internet for commerce?
Is it not too soon to give up a strategic asset such as this and hand over control to another country or entity controlled by a country hostile to the United States and freedom. I see far reaching issues for national security. This process may have been in the works for some time; however, it is short sighted and NOT a viable option. We should not be taking this action, regardless of what the “rest of the world” says.
On Friday April 4 2014 at 11am EDT the Hudson Institute will host a discussion The Future of Internet Governance in Washington DC. The topic will be the IANA transition. Speakers include Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé, former FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell, and Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda, who is the U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. The event will be webcast live.
Today, Wednesday January 2 2019, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC), in the eighth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights we feature Larry Strickling, Executive Director of the Internet Society’s Collaborative Governance Project, launching the Canadian Multistakeholder Process to Enhance IoT Security on April 4 2018 by asking “What is a Multistakeholder Process?” In true multistakeholder fashion, Larry sources the crowd for the answer.
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