Why Global Internet Governance Matters

... want to fragment and “balkanize” the global Internet – a discourse largely passed on by U.S. Net giants. The Snowden affair nevertheless was not limited to state counter-reactions. In October, 2013 the leaders of a number of organizations ... ... infrastructure signed the “Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation” [8] , in favor of a globalization of ICANN and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions – the latter being a department of ICANN overseeing global ...