Declaring Independence in Cyberspace: Internet Self-Governance and the End of U.S. Control of Icann

by Milton L. Mueller

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 U.S. 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 stuggle to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262552582
• ISBN13: 9780262552585
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 264 Pages