Tom Abate
Tom Abate covers the technology sector for GlobalPost. Abate has covered Silicon Valley as a newspaper reporter since 1992, but his experience with high-tech goes back to the mid-1980s when he...
ICANN reaches new governance agreement
The non-profit group that helps hold the internet together by overseeing the domain name system has faced the diplomatic problem of loosening, without severing, its ties to the United States.
In a previous dispatch GlobalPost explained how the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was renegotiating one of two agreements that created its unique role and structure a little over a decade ago as the U.S. was privatizing and internationalizing the network that it had begun as a military research project.
When ICANN announced a new governance agreement today it included a statement of support from Viviane Reding, the European Union commissioner for information society and media, who had been among those calling for a greater international involvement in the group's activities.
But the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders fears the new agreement could give other governments a bigger role in ICANN, something which it opposes.
So the controversy may continue.
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