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Milton MuellerMilton Mueller, professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in “U.S. to Give Up Control of the Internet's ‘Address Book’ After Years of Debate” by The Guardian.
Excerpt:
Milton Mueller, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy and a principal of the Internet Governance Project, said that the real story of the Iana transition is that it provides a great example of how to create a global governance model.
“The overall positive outcome is that we’re creating a global governance regime that matches the global scope of the internet and we can extract ourselves from all the existing arrangements that are related to nation states,” he said. “We don’t want to put it into the intergovernmental politics of the UN.”
For the full article, read here.
