Another View of the New ICANN-DoC Agreement by Milton Mueller
Milton Mueller writes on the Internet Governance website, linked from this CircleID article (but inaccessible at the time of writing) of the new MoU between ICANN and the DoC, that the new agreement “is a cosmetic response to the comments received by NTIA during its Notice of Inquiry in July 2006” with the object seeming “to be to strengthen the public’s perception that ICANN is relatively independent”. Milton writes that the relationship is “fundamentally unchanged” and notes that “In one important respect, the JPA has actually increased direct US intervention”.
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