Accountability missing in ICANN's new autonomy

Update: After this blog post went up, Paul Levins, ICANN's executive officer and vice president of corporate affairs, gave his response in Talkback. Do take a read.

Before introducing the next guest blogger for Tech Podium, I thought I'd help set the stage a little to explain why this issue is relevant to the underlying infrastructure that supports the World Wide Web today.

I've been closely following the debate over whether the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) should remain under the purview of the U.S. government or be handed over to an international entity.

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Tags: ICANN, Asia-Pacific, U.S. Government, domain name, TLD, Affirmation of Commitments, DNS, European Union, Internet, accountability

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