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Nov 2014
This paper discusses the implications of the US government's decision to give up control of key technical functions of the Internet in September 2015 by making the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) no longer accountable to Washington. More specifically, the authors ask: If ICANN is no longer accountable to the US government over the provision of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) services, who should ICANN be accountable to? And what form should that accountability take?
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| Author | Aaron Shull, Paul Twomey, Christopher S Yoo |
| Series | CIGI Papers |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publisher | Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) |
| Copyright | © 2014 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution — Non-commercial — No Derivatives License. |