[governance] What would this mean for the Internet Governance and ICANN?

[Fouad Bajwa]

Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:03:48 +0200
From: Soenke Zehle
Subject: Mueller, Securitization of ICANN
To: incom-l

ICANN gets "securitized"

by Milton Mueller on Thu 02 Apr 2009 12:58 PM EDT

<http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/4/2/4141451.html>
<http://cdt.org/security/CYBERSEC4.pdf>

This is no April Fool's joke: here is a bill that is almost a
caricature of what the rest of the world fears about U.S. control of
the Internet DNS root and ICANN. Legislation unveiled today by Senate
Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller and Sen. Olympia Snowe,
R-Maine, would require a Presidentially appointed cybersecurity
advisory panel to ensure that national security would not be
compromised before approving the renewal or modification of the
contract between the U.S. government and the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers. According to a summary of the bill, it
would "make sure that ICANN does not succumb to foreign pressure" to
end its relationship with the U.S. government.

ICANN is only one part of a comprehensive and authoritarian approach
to cybersecurity. According to the Center for Democracy and
Technology, "The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would...give the President
unfettered power to shut down Internet traffic in emergencies or
disconnect any critical infrastructure system or network on national
security grounds."

Read the proposed Cybersecurity Act of 2009.

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