As ICANN and other organizations abandon the US government as a priority governing body, the shift towards global internet rulings has accelerated. Does this mark the end of American domination of the internet’s various governing bodies?
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Major Internet organizations announce break with US
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Published October 11, 2013
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In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all the major Internet organizations – ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society, all five of the regional Internet address registries – turned their back on the US government. With striking unanimity, the organizations that actually develop and administer Internet standards and resources initiated a break with 3 decades of U.S. dominance of Internet governance.
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