State of The Internet 2015 at the Newseum, Washington DC on January 25 2015. www.stateofthenet.org/ PANEL: Internet Functions in Transition: Is The US — and The World — Ready? Last spring the Department of Commerce announced that it would relinquish its last vestige of control over the technical functions of the Internet. The U.S. government said it would irretrievably transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community and asked ICANN to develop a plan for that transition. Despite the fact that this transition has long been advertised by Commerce, it shocked many policymakers in Washington. Perhaps the shock was due to the finality of transition or perhaps it represented an epiphany that the Internet was indeed critical to our nation’s goals in the areas of commerce, communications, and democracy. Regardless, the impending transition has generated a surprising amount of debate. Our panel will discuss the IANA transition and whether the U.S. and the world is ready for it. INTRODUCTION: The Honorable Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) U.S. Department of Commerce. PANEL: Steve DelBianco Executive Director, NetChoice; Andrea Glorioso, Counselor, Digital Agenda & ICT, EU Delegation to the US; Milton Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies; Theresa Swinehart, Sr. Advisor To The President On Strategy, ICANN. Moderator: Roger Cochetti Principal, RJC Associates BIOS sched.co/2Ee9 EVENT HOST: Internet Education Foundation - www.neted.org/ SPONSORS stateofthenet2015.sched.org/directory/sponsors WEBCAST SPONSOR / PROVIDER Internet Society - internetsociety.org ADDITIONAL VIDEO New Media Mill LLC - newmediamill.com/

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