IP: Cato on ICANN (7/23)

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

"Who Rules the Root? ICANN, Domain Names, and the Battle over Internet
Governance"

Cato Institute BOOK FORUM
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
11:00 a.m. (Luncheon to follow)
The Cato Institute / 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Featuring:
Milton Mueller, Author, Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming
of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002)

with comments by:

Ira C. Magaziner (invited), SJS Advisors
Michael M. Roberts, The Darwin Group
Harold Feld, Media Access Project.

    Critics of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) 
claim that it's an unaccountable global regulatory regime that is using its
control of the domain name "root" to regulate the Internet. ICANN
supporters respond by noting that the young organization is striving to
achieve international consensus on a complicated set of issues and that no
better system currently exists. In his new book, Syracuse University
professor Milton Mueller argues that sweeping changes and a fresh start are
needed. ICANN experts will be on hand to provide additional perspectives
and comment on Mueller's conclusions.

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