Zoe Baird's statement at the ICANN Annual Meeting

Offers an outline of ICANN's technical issues and Markle's initiatives. ICANN is a leading example of this kind of emerging new institution and the challenges they face. Handed the responsibility by the United States Government of managing the Internet’s core domain name system worldwide, ICANN has the difficult task of balancing important competing interests and brokering extremely hard decisions that can ultimately impact critical issues of free speech, free competition, and representation.