{"id":12922,"date":"2014-03-20T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T01:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=12922"},"modified":"2014-03-21T09:49:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T22:49:44","slug":"governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Governing the Net: America stirs the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12923\" title=\"Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf and Paul Mockapetris during a panel discussion at ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires.  The announcement by the US Department of Commerce that it intends to transfer the last of its official responsibilities for the DNS to ICANN will surely form a large part of the debate at the upcoming ICANN 49 in Singapore on 23 March.\" alt=\"Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf and Paul Mockapetris during a panel discussion at ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires.  The announcement by the US Department of Commerce that it intends to transfer the last of its official responsibilities for the DNS to ICANN will surely form a large part of the debate at the upcoming ICANN 49 in Singapore on 23 March.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN-205x136.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN-332x221.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lost in the Friday news dump was a surprise announcement from the US Department of Commerce (DOC) that will have a catalytic impact on an already energised Internet governance debate. DOC agency, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntia.doc.gov\/press-release\/2014\/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> its intention to transition the last of its official responsibilities over the Internet\u2019s Domain Name System (DNS) to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Although this move has officially been in the works since 1997, this hand over will cede the final, if largely symbolic, element of American internet management. This piece is the first in \u2018Governing the Net\u2019, a blog series that will explore the dynamics that have shaped the Internet governance debate and understand how it might progress.<\/p>\n<p>The US was instrumental in developing the foundational structures through which the modern Internet has developed, leaving it with a lasting legacy role in ICANN. The relationship with the US government provided crucial legitimacy to ICANN in its early days. This link has become increasingly symbolic; the contract between DOC and ICANN has seen the latter function with incredible autonomy, with the US having no official statutory role in the daily operations or governance of ICANN. Despite this, the Internet governance debate has been distorted by the rhetoric of states seeking to alter existing mechanisms. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/internet\/india-to-push-for-freeing-internet-from-us-control\/article5434095.ece\" target=\"_blank\">December<\/a> an Indian government internal note stated that the \u2018control of the Internet was in the hands of the US government\u2019, in February the <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_IP-14-142_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">European Commission<\/a> called for a transition away from the \u2018US-centric\u2019 model, and China and Russia have long questioned American \u2018hegemony\u2019 in Internet governance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 14 March announcement requests that ICANN develop a proposal to transition the NTIA role in the coordination of the DNS. The DNS lies at the heart of the Internet. Just as the Dewey Decimal System classifies a library collection to facilitate access to a book, so does the DNS enable your request to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\">aspistrategist.ru<\/a> by consulting a master list of web addresses to link your browser to the server on which this website sits. The highest part of the DNS hierarchy is the root zone file which handles the top-level domains\u2014such as .com, .net and .org\u2014and is managed through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function. In 1997, this function was shifted to ICANN and began to operate under a contract with DOC, which performed a largely procedural role, administering the contract and any changes to the authoritative root zone file. It\u2019s these limited residual authorities that will shift under this transition plan.<\/p>\n<p>The guiding principles for the proposal are relatively open-ended. It must: \u2018support and enhance the multi-stakeholder model; maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS; meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and partners of the IANA services; and, maintain the openness of the Internet\u2019. This broad guidance actually reinforces US confidence in, and commitment to, the existing ICANN system. It\u2019s likely there will be little substantive change to the existing governance structure under the proposal, with ICANN CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/tech\/governments-getting-out-internet-business\" target=\"_blank\">Fadi Chehad\u00e9 stating<\/a> that \u2018there will no new organisation or an organisation to replace the role of the United States.\u2019 Moreover, directing ICANN to develop the proposal has allowed the US to set the terms of the debate moving forward, undercutting critics of the multi-stakeholder governance model.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of this announcement will be seen as soon as 23 March, when <a href=\"http:\/\/singapore49.icann.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICANN 49<\/a> meets in Singapore. The first of three meetings in 2014, this forum will mark the beginning of the conversation on how the transition will take place. The announcement represents a seismic shift in the larger debate. How this shift will change the Internet governance landscape, the potential US reasoning behind this move, and the road forward are just some of the topics that the \u2018Governing the Net\u2019 blog series will explore over the coming weeks. See you next Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kl\u00e9e Aiken is an analyst and David Lang is an intern in ASPI&#8217;s International Cyber Policy Centre. Image courtesy of Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/icann\/\" target=\"_blank\">icannphotos<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in the Friday news dump was a surprise announcement from the US Department of Commerce (DOC) that will have a catalytic impact on an already energised Internet governance debate. DOC agency, the National Telecommunications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":12923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[531],"tags":[391,95,737,738,736,731],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber-security-2","tag-cyber","tag-cyber-security","tag-dns","tag-iana","tag-icann","tag-internet-governance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Governing the Net: America stirs the debate | The Strategist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governing the Net: America stirs the debate | The Strategist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lost in the Friday news dump was a surprise announcement from the US Department of Commerce (DOC) that will have a catalytic impact on an already energised Internet governance debate. DOC agency, the National Telecommunications ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Strategist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ASPI.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-03-20T01:56:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-03-20T22:49:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"426\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kl\u00e9e Aiken\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ASPI_org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ASPI_org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kl\u00e9e Aiken\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/\",\"name\":\"The Strategist\",\"description\":\"ASPI&#039;s analysis and commentary site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":426,\"caption\":\"Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf and Paul Mockapetris during a panel discussion at ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires. The announcement by the US Department of Commerce that it intends to transfer the last of its official responsibilities for the DNS to ICANN will surely form a large part of the debate at the upcoming ICANN 49 in Singapore on 23 March.\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/\",\"name\":\"Governing the Net: America stirs the debate | The Strategist\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-20T01:56:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-03-20T22:49:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#\/schema\/person\/0b2cf82af9c5ffa5a44b13daf90f3f9f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Governing the Net: America stirs the debate\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#\/schema\/person\/0b2cf82af9c5ffa5a44b13daf90f3f9f\",\"name\":\"Kl\u00e9e Aiken\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f5557396a24a919df3f7396c9b60a7e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f5557396a24a919df3f7396c9b60a7e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kl\u00e9e Aiken\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/author\/klee-aiken\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Governing the Net: America stirs the debate | The Strategist","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Governing the Net: America stirs the debate | The Strategist","og_description":"Lost in the Friday news dump was a surprise announcement from the US Department of Commerce (DOC) that will have a catalytic impact on an already energised Internet governance debate. DOC agency, the National Telecommunications ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/","og_site_name":"The Strategist","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ASPI.org","article_published_time":"2014-03-20T01:56:16+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-03-20T22:49:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":426,"url":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kl\u00e9e Aiken","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ASPI_org","twitter_site":"@ASPI_org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kl\u00e9e Aiken","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/","name":"The Strategist","description":"ASPI&#039;s analysis and commentary site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ICANN.jpg","width":640,"height":426,"caption":"Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf and Paul Mockapetris during a panel discussion at ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires. The announcement by the US Department of Commerce that it intends to transfer the last of its official responsibilities for the DNS to ICANN will surely form a large part of the debate at the upcoming ICANN 49 in Singapore on 23 March."},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/","url":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/","name":"Governing the Net: America stirs the debate | The Strategist","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2014-03-20T01:56:16+00:00","dateModified":"2014-03-20T22:49:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#\/schema\/person\/0b2cf82af9c5ffa5a44b13daf90f3f9f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/governing-the-net-america-stirs-the-debate\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Governing the Net: America stirs the debate"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#\/schema\/person\/0b2cf82af9c5ffa5a44b13daf90f3f9f","name":"Kl\u00e9e Aiken","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f5557396a24a919df3f7396c9b60a7e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f5557396a24a919df3f7396c9b60a7e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kl\u00e9e Aiken"},"url":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/author\/klee-aiken\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12955,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions\/12955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}