[governance] IPW - ICANN CEO Wants To Shift “Centre Of Gravity” Away From US

[Riaz K Tayob]

    ICANN CEO Wants To Shift “Centre Of Gravity” Away From US

Published on 9 April 2013 @ 1:20 am

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Intellectual Property Watch

By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/

In an effort to improve internationalisation, the Internet Corporation 
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will open hubs in Singapore and 
Istanbul, to serve the Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa 
respectively. ICANN’s headquarters in Los Angeles will become the hub 
serving the Americas.

The hubs shall share responsibilities for all aspects of ICANN work, CEO 
Fadi Chehade said at the 46th ICANN meeting 
<http://beijing46.icann.org/> in Beijing.

ICANN leadership would work from the new hubs, and he himself would 
rotate for a year. In order to shift ICANN’s “centre of gravity” away 
from the United States, ICANN also will establish local ICANN engagement 
centres, with the first such centre to be established in Beijing. Not 
going to China would lead ICANN to lose some of its legitimacy, Chehade 
said.

Observers interpreted the move partly as a reaction to the tensions in 
the international community over internet governance, and applauded the 
Chehade’s promotion for the multi-stakeholder model. Yet at the meeting 
unfolding in Beijing, Chehade´s practical support for that model was 
questioned by stakeholders pointing to the last-minute and poorly 
consulted additions to the much-debated application process for new 
generic top-level domains (TLDs) under ICANN.

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