“Ensuring the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet” was the title of a hearing held on April 2, 2014, by the Communications and Technology subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Here are the witnesses and links to their prepared testimony, plus news coverage and full video:
The Honorable Larry Strickling
- Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- Witness Testimony
Mr. Fadi Chehadé
- President and CEO
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Witness Testimony
The Honorable David A. Gross
- Partner
- Wiley Rein, LLP
- Witness Testimony
Mr. Steve DelBianco
- Executive Director
- NetChoice
- Witness Testimony
Ms. Carolina Rossini
- Project Director, Latin American Resource Center
- Internet Governance and Human Rights Program
- New American Foundation
- Witness Testimony
News coverage of the hearing includes:
- “Obama official faces critics of plan to cede Internet oversight” by The Hill
- “Cutting ICANN cord to NTIA benefits U.S. interests, says Strickling” by FierceGovernment IT
- “Republicans Fear Obama Will Let Russia Seize Internet Power,” by Nextgov
- “Opponents Circle Web-Oversight Plan” by The Wall Street Journal
- “What House lawmakers still don’t get about control of the Internet,” the Washington Post.
- “US plan to end ICANN oversight could lead to ‘Net censorship, lawmakers say,” by NetworkWorld.
- “GOP pursues questions about Obama administration’s ICANN transition plan” by SiliconBeat.
- “House Republicans Question U.S. Plan to Give Up Internet Control” by Bloomberg Businessweek.
The full two and one half hour video of the hearing is below.
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