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Dear all -

Below is a link to the Center for Democracy & Technology's new
report, "ICANN and Internet Governance: Getting Back to Basics."
We're releasing this today in the lead-up to the KL meeting.

http://www.cdt.org/dns/icann/20040713_cdt.pdf

The report argues that ICANN is straying from its original design as
a private-sector, bottom-up, consensus-based technical coordination
body. Unless it re-focuses on that model, it is likely to be
supplanted or radically altered by efforts to link its management of
core Internet functions with broader interests in "Internet
governance." Such a result could well threaten the revolutionary
decentralized characteristics that have been the hallmark of the
Internet's democratic promise.

Please feel free to direct any feedback or questions to myself or
Alan Davidson ([log in to unmask]). CDT Policy Fellow Susan Crawford will
also be attending the KL meeting.

Best,

Mike Steffen


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Mike Steffen
Policy Analyst
Center for Democracy and Technology
http://www.cdt.org/
202.637.9800 x115

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