[governance] US House Bill to Affirm the Policy of the United States Regarding Internet Governance

[John Curran]

On Apr 12, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>> http://energycommerce.house.gov/markup/markup-bill-affirm-policy-united-states-regarding-internet-governance
>> ...
>> "It is the policy of the United States to promote a global Internet free from government control and to preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet."

This bill was just approved by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce; it it is now 
H.R. 1580, a bill to affirm the policy of the United States regarding Internet governance.
 <http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20130417/100723/BILLS-113pih-InternetFreedom.pdf>

The policy text has been changed to only the following:

    "It is the policy of the United States to preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder
     model that governs the Internet."

Given that it has bipartisan support, it is likely to move fairly quickly to adoption.  The actual net
effect of such a statement becoming official USG policy is subject to interpretation, but it would 
definitely make it difficult for the USG to back away from the "multistakeholder model" at any
point in the future.

FYI,
/John

Disclaimers: My views alone.  No congress critters were harmed in the production of this email.

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