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ICANN, US Government Affirm Private Sector Lead in Domain Name Governanc
Statement: The US government today agreed to loosen the sway it has long held over the Internet Corporation...
9/30/2009
ICANN, US Government Affirm Private Sector Lead in Domain Name Governance
Statement: The US government today agreed to loosen the sway it has long held over the Internet Corporation...
9/30/2009
Narrow Mission, Consensus-Based Processes Critical to ICANN's Future
Statement: CDT today laid out its most detailed roadmap yet for the transition to full independence of the...
6/8/2009
Plan for ICANN's Future Urgently Needed
Statement: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the private, non-profit steward of...
1/28/2008
Free Flow of Information Should Be At Core of Internet Governance
Statement: At the close of the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro this week, CDT joined other free...
11/16/2007

Policy Posts deliver in-depth analysis of current issues affecting the Internet. These documents are a leading resource for policy makers, the press, industry representatives, students, and others interested in legal and policy issues affecting the Internet.

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CDT Urges Lawmakers to Return to Core Internet Principles As a new Congress begins work, CDT is urging Capitol lawmakers to take a step back from the... 1/31/2007
ICANN Seeks Input on Improving Transparency and Accountability Last month, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) asked the Internet... 11/17/2006
Internet Governance Debate Poses Unique Global Challenges As the Internet becomes increasingly essential to politics, commerce and daily life, the debate... 7/19/2006
European Nations Push for More Government Control Over Internet Advocates for the open, lightly governed Internet were shocked last month when the European Union... 10/19/2005
CDT Calls For Accountability in Domain Names Management 8/1/2003

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Independence and Accountability: The Future of ICANN
Brief: Comments of the Center for Democracy & Technology submitted to The National Telecommunications...
6/8/2009
CDT Comments to NTIA regarding The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination and Management of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System: Midterm Review of the Joint Project Agreement
Brief: CDT strongly supports the goal of a fully independent ICANN, and we applaud the steps ICANN has...
1/25/2008
Waht Does "Governance" Mean? What are "Critical Internet Resources"?
Brief: CDT Comments for the Second Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil It is the purpose...
11/14/2007
Assessing ICANN report: "Assessing ICANN: Towards Civil Society Metrics for Measuring ICANN" [pdf]
Paper: Assessing ICANN report: "Assessing ICANN: Towards Civil Society Metrics for Measuring ICANN...
7/31/2003

Featured Blog Posts

On February 24, Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, gave a speech to The Media Institute in which he said: “Given all the human actors involved in the Internet with all their competing... Continued »
It's getting to be decision time for the future of ICANN--the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers--and the Obama Administration is going to have to get up to speed quickly. Since its creation in 1998, ICANN has managed the Internet'... Continued »
The inaugural Internet Governance Forum closed last Thursday in Athens, Greece after 4 days of panel discussions and workshops that attracted over 1,000 government officials, business representatives, and non-governmental organizations from around... Continued »
For now at least, it looks like the legal dispute between Illinois-based e-mail marketer 360 Insight LLC and London-based anti-spam group Spamhaus won't set a dangerous precedent for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN... Continued »