Declaring Independence in Cyberspace

How and why the US government gave up its control of ICANN, the global coordinator of internet names, numbers, and protocols—and what the geopolitical consequences were. In 1997 the United States decided that the Internet should be governed not by governments but by something called the “global Internet community.” In Declaring Independence in Cyberspace , Milton Mueller tells the story of why it took 20 years of organizational and geopolitical struggle to make that happen. ICANN (Internet Corpo