Alan Davidson
ABSTRACT
ICANN was created 3 years ago as a unique experiment in Internet self-governance. Could a private, non-government, global organization coordinate critical Internet naming and numbering functions in a legitimate way? Increasingly, critics complain that ICANN has not fulfilled it's promise. This panel debate will examine whether ICANN's vision of bottom-up global self-governance for the Internet is a myth or a reality.
Index Terms
- ICANN in Year 3
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