<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>As Parminder says, "comments are welcome" <br><br>--srs</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Dave Farber" <<a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 15 October 2016 at 4:04:26 PM IST<br><b>To:</b> "ip" <<a href="mailto:ip@listbox.com">ip@listbox.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[IP] Is the Internet Really Free of US Control?</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>parminder</b> <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>><br>Date: Saturday, October 15, 2016<br>Subject: [Internet Policy] Is the Internet Really Free of US Control?<br>To: "<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>><br><br><br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><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.</font></p><p></p><h1 style="font-weight:normal"><b><font size="+2" style="font-size:14pt">Internet Governance: Is 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><p><a href="http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/42/web-exclusives/internet-governance.html" target="_blank">http://www.epw.in/journal/<wbr>2016/42/web-exclusives/<wbr>internet-governance.html</a></p>
Comments are welcome.<br>
parminder
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