Editor's Pick: Internet Players Wrestle with Proposals to Prevent Capture

Internet Players Wrestle with Proposals to Prevent Capture

John K. Higgins Jun 24, 2015 12:23 PM PT

Shareholder- or member-based accountability systems are routine for most organizations, "but this is definitely new for ICANN, where only the U.S. government has held ICANN accountable through its power to withdraw the NTIA-ICANN contract," said NetChoice's Steve DelBianco. "Once the U.S. lets go of the ICANN contract for the Internet Assigned Names Authority, the community needs a new way to make its powers enforceable in the face of resistance by ICANN's board." [More...]

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