[governance] AUDIO: State of the Net 2013 WCIT Panel

[michael gurstein]

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http://www.netcaucus.org/conference/2013/wcit.shtml

No Rest for the WCIT*: Charting An Affirmative Plan to Safeguarding Internet
Freedom!
Tuesday, January 22 2013

AUDIO : http://www.netcaucus.org/audio/2013/20130122sotn-wcit.mp3

Panelists:
- Fiona Alexander, Associate Administrator, Office of International Affairs,
National Telecommunications & Information Administration
(NTIA)
- Colin Crowell, Head of Global Public Policy, Twitter 
- Jamie Hedlund, Vice President, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN)
- Andrew McLaughlin, Chairman of the Board, Access
- Thomas O'Toole, Managing Editor, Electronic Commerce & Law Report,
Bloomberg BNA - Moderator

It remains to be seen whether Internet stakeholders have prevented the UN
from seizing control of the Internet at last month's ITU World Conference on
International Telecommunications (WCIT). Regardless, for weary negotiators
it appears that the battle to keep the Internet free will be protracted.
There will ne no rest in the foreseeable future.

On December 13, 2012 FCC Commissioner McDowell direly predicted that while
many of the "anti-freedom" WCIT proposals were turned back "the worst is yet
to come." More than ever Congress must become a more involved stakeholder.
Any substantive changes to the ITU treaty governing the Internet hopefully
would need to be ratified by the U.S. Senate. But threats to Internet
freedom could come from a variety of vectors. A panel of experts will
outline the long-term prospects for the Internet freedom fight and how
Congress can play a more consistent and constructive role.


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