NTIA’s transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority...

NTIA’s transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and ICANN’s accountability review received the support of the Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms, in its final report (http://bit.ly/RUMkGB) released Tuesday. The panel was chaired by Toomas Ilves, president of Estonia, and included ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade and Vint Cerf, Google chief Internet evangelist (CD Nov 19 p17). The panel supports “broad multistakeholder alliances” and “urgently needed sustainable funding and resource models” to develop Internet governance access and growth, it said. The panel also endorsed the principles in the multistakeholder document (http://bit.ly/1nLhMBC) produced at Internet governance conference NETmundial in Sao Paulo, Brazil (CD April 28 p13).