>Date: 20 Apr 2000 16:33:41 -0000 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Report on CPSR Panel on Internet Governance > >Update on CPSR-organized panel >"Internet Governance and Domain Name Management." > >At a recent conference in Paris, France, CPSR's Hans Klein chaired a panel >to discuss the significance of the new ICANN corporation. > >Panel participants were: >- Andrew McLaughlin, ICANN >- Milton Mueller, Syracuse University >- Marc Holitscher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology >- Wolfgang Kleinw=E4chter, Medienstadt Leipzig >- Hans Klein, CPSR and Georgia Tech > >Following their presentations, panel participants engaged in a lively >debate over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers >(ICANN), focusing on such questions as: > What does ICANN do? > What is ICANN's role, if any, in governance? > Does ICANN promote competition? > Is ICANN a kind of public utility? > Has civil society been able to participate? > >Conference papers are available from their authors: > >1. "The Reform of the Domain Name System and the Role of Civil Society" by >Marc Holitscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >2. "ICANN and Internet Governance: Leveraging Technical Coordination to >Extend State and Market Institutions into Cyberspace" by Hans Klein ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >3. Overview of ICANN by Andrew McLaughlin, available at >http://www.icann.org, "About ICANN" > >4. Mueller, Milton, "ICANN and Internet Governance: Sorting Through the >Debris of 'Self-regulation'" Info, Vol. 1, No. 6, December 1999. Abstract >located at http://www.camfordpublishing.com/info/contents/i_j_006.htm > >The panel description is located at: >http://www.tiesweb.org/divers/workshop/pannels.html#panel3 > >CPSR's DNS page is located at: >http://www.cpsr.org/dns/ > >This panel was part of the "Is the Internet Civil Society's Best Friend? A >Transatlantic Perspective." >The full TIES Workshop programme is available at: >http://www.tiesweb.org/divers/workshop/programme.html > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
