[WSIS CS-Plenary] Political Oversight of ICANN: A Briefing for the WSIS Summit

[Milton Mueller]

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Political Oversight of ICANN
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The Internet Governance Project releases a new paper clarifying the
controversies around "oversight" of ICANN. 

 http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/Political-Oversight.pdf 

We explain why WSIS must separate discussion of governments' role in
setting policy for all Internet issues from discussion of the narrower
problem of ICANN's oversight. 

An analysis of the contractual instruments used by the U.S. to
supervise ICANN shows how the problem of U.S. unilateral oversight can
be addressed in a way that is both politically feasible and avoids
threatening the stability or freedom of the Internet.

The paper can be downloaded here:
http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/Political-Oversight.pdf 

www.internetgovernance.org