United States Will Stand Firm On ICANN’s Authority.
by Danielle Belopotosky,
Technology Daily PM Edition,
Sept 8, 2005. [subscription required]

The Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) issued a report in August that called for dismantling or modifying ICANN. The report serves as the groundwork for an action plan on Internet governance that will be delivered at the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) November meeting in Tunis, Tunisia….

“The U.S. position is that no new organization should be created” as a result of the summit, said Dick Baird of the State Department…

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