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

[michael gurstein]

Okay but can anyone point to an authoritative definition/description of what
exactly is meant by "the successful multistakeholder model that governs the
Internet" i.e. what exactly was the US Congress voting unanimously to
"preserve and advance".

 

M

 

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[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of John Curran
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:44 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] US House Bill to Affirm the Policy of the United
States Regarding Internet Governance

 

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-stat
es-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-Interne
tFreedom.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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