[bestbits] Fwd: Is the Internet Really Free of US Control?

[Marianne Franklin]

Dear Parminder

Thanks for sending over this piece in a growing literature on ICANN and 
it future.

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 
https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaLiberties/pranesh-prakash/jurisdiction-taboo-topic-at-icann. 


best

MF


On 15/10/2016 15:48, parminder wrote:
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> Subject: 	Is the Internet Really Free of US Control?
> Date: 	Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:11:26 +0530
> From: 	parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
> To: 	governance at lists.igcaucus.org <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, 
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> Hi All
>
> 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.
>
>
>   *Internet Governance: Is the Internet Really Free of US Control?*
>
> "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."
>
> http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/42/web-exclusives/internet-governance.html
>
> Comments are welcome.
> parminder
>
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