Editing ICANN (section)

===Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (2013)===
During October 2013, [[Fadi Chehadé]], former president and CEO of ICANN, met with Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia. Upon Chehadé's invitation, the two announced that Brazil would host an international summit on Internet governance during April 2014.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmFAMJNx94 "Entrevista com Fadi Chehadé: Brasil sediará encontro mundial de governança da internet em 2014"], Palácio do Planalto, October 9, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2014.</ref> The announcement came after the [[2013 global surveillance disclosures|2013 disclosures of mass surveillance]] by the U.S. government, and Rousseff's speech at the opening session of the 2013 United Nations General Assembly, where she strongly criticized the American surveillance program as a "breach of international law". The "[[Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance]] (NET mundial)" will include representatives of government, industry, civil society, and academia.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} At the [[Internet Governance Forum#IGF VIII — Bali, Indonesia 2013|IGF VIII meeting in Bali in October 2013]] a commenter noted that Brazil intends the meeting to be a "[[Summit (meeting)|summit]]" in the sense that it will be high level with decision-making authority.<ref name="IGF2013-Summary">[http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/Chair%27s%20Summary%20IGF%202013%20Final.Nov1v1.pdf "Chair's Summary"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423201746/http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/Chair%27s%20Summary%20IGF%202013%20Final.Nov1v1.pdf |date=April 23, 2022 }}, Eighth Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Bali, Indonesia, October 22–25, 2013. Retrieved November 5, 2013.</ref> The organizers of the "NET mundial" meeting have decided that an online forum called "/1net", set up by the I* group, will be a major conduit of non-governmental input into the three committees preparing for the meeting in April.<ref name="booting" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 27, 2014 |title=CENTR: Internet Governance in 2013 and What's Coming Up in 2014 |work=CircleID |url=http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140127_centr_internet_governance_in_2013_and_whats_coming_up_in_2014/ |access-date=February 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Paul Wilson |date=November 29, 2013 |title=What Is "1net" to Me |work=CircleID blog |url=http://www.circleid.com/posts/2013112_what_is_1net_to_me/ |access-date=February 11, 2014}}</ref>

The [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]] that had joined critics of ICANN during 2011<ref name="TWP 2011-03-01">{{Cite news |last=Shapira |first=Ian |date=March 1, 2011 |title=Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees Internet |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022803719.html |access-date=September 20, 2014 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> announced in March 2014 that they intended to transition away from oversight of the IANA functions contract. The current contract that the [[Commerce Department|United States Department of Commerce]] has with ICANN expired in 2015, in its place the NTIA will transition oversight of the IANA functions to the 'global multistakeholder community'.<ref name="NTIA-IANA-Transition">{{Cite web |title=NTIA Announces Intent to Transition Key Internet Domain Name Functions |url=http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions |access-date=October 25, 2014 |website=NTIA }}</ref>