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<p>Dear Parminder</p>
<p>Thanks for sending over this piece in a growing literature on
ICANN and it future. <br>
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<p>Just to note that Pranesh's less than celebratory analysis for
the ICANN transition has been published on the openDemocracy
series, Human Rights and the Internet, at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaLiberties/pranesh-prakash/jurisdiction-taboo-topic-at-icann">https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaLiberties/pranesh-prakash/jurisdiction-taboo-topic-at-icann</a>.
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<p>best <br>
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<p>MF</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/10/2016 15:48, parminder wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">Hi All</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">I wrote this commentary piece in the
Economic and Political Weekly of India on ICANN's oversight
transition. For such an important and multi-faceted event,
it is surprising that I have come across no article that is
other than absolutely celebratory about it, and catches
properly the different nuances that are involved. Such a
monochromatic discourse in the global IG space is not a good
indication. There is an especial lack of views from a
progressive and social justice perspective, and from the
geopolitical South, both of which I have tried to catch in
this brief article. <br>
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<h1 class="western" style="font-weight: normal"><b><font
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the Internet Really Free of US Control?</font></b></h1>
<p>"The recent decision of the United States government to cede
its control over the internet’s naming and addressing system
to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), a US-based international non-profit body, is heralded
as a significant step towards the globalisation of internet’s
core infrastructure. But with ICANN having no special
jurisdictional immunity and subject to the whims of the
judicial and legislative branches of the US government as well
as many of its executive agencies, the decision seems more
symbolic than meaningful."</p>
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Comments are welcome.<br>
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