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really the history of icann started with it started with the internet with the clinton administration there was work to create icann as a private nonprofit institutions and to coordinate globally for the planet. and in that regard we have done this job very well. and it is working very well to ensure they have the and see at the table and businesses and government sitting on committees, a civil society, academics all sitting on an equal footing.
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>> host: are there any competitors? >> it cannot be performed by more than one player. if more than one entity then by beecher it is not one. at the heart of the debris in the system is the system and very few people appreciate that in order to resolve that is what makes it work for the entire planet. all these are resolved with you type a website need you go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go to every time all the time. >> host: how are you funded? >> have very small fee that
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does come to icann that adds up north of $90 million per year. >> where are you based? >> good question. icann home has been on situlas for a long time but taking the concept of the headquarters office it is the try quarter due we operate the core functions from three cities on the planet losses angeles and singapore and install. and to coordinate the support that is called the stakeholder relationships with the schmidts systems to ensure that any stakeholder
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gets gobbled up service at the time of day in a unified structured way. >> host: how did you get the job? >> guest: was put in the list of applicants. someone suggested i would do well. so my entire career was leveraged on the permission innovation to create companies and value. i was starting another company with my game was put in then i went in front of a number 80 committee and they went through applicants had that was a finalist.
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i read very humbled and honored of the choice. >> host: joining us to discuss some policies is eric from "politico". >> it is an exciting time for a icann right now so can you speak a little we are you are in the process and what is about to happen to the internet? >> guest: icann needs to provide competition and choice for consumers when they interact and you'd participate so the naming of the old sites in the internet. so eight years ago the community got together to
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decide how would we do that? now they have top-level domains. then there are the generic top-level of course, those people below about.com end to.org but there are 24. so why don't we provide more choice and competition in that market? and and that is what happened. the process was long end complicated now we're literally at the cusp of adding top-level the beans -- domain. and to ensure stability
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because we need to be stable and to be available for the consumers. see kumbaya new top-level domains with their communities in the city's soul new york city has adopt nyse. women dash and communities also have their own because i belong to a minority of communities to be in cyberspace is also important. so for them to express their identity. we opened in the major way
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the top-level domain that was spelled in arabic script stick and there will be over 1,000 coming into the internet will that be a shock for some consumers? you have played a huge role in and what is the role going forward to educate consumers? that they exist and they can safely navigate? >> icann will have a role in a decade to support to have
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more people to apply we operate in the public interest with safety to understand the choices we have it is more and more difficult on the existing top level domains kelso want to note those that engage in the campaign but there also engaged to have that opportunity if it is made more possible from either program.
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>> host: what about new york to get nyc. >> every applicant pays the same fees sometimes we give them support but in general they pay $185,000 as the set up fee. that is about right because the cost to insure the applicants because they become registries and people can buy them. like nyc so they need to serve these people have is their communities storer businesses we want to ensure that these the registry is stable to make sure if they
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are operated in the way to insure the stability of the consumer and there are many steps for each of these applications that had confusingly similar stirrings or competition and that is the reason i am hoping that i do think it was a barrier for some and we would like to see the earnings from this hopefully lead to a lower fee e. >> host: how many generic top-level deeds do you see? >> i do is see the potential for thousands not because i have specific knowledge of that but my sense is as that
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space opens, you can have as many as you want it becomes an expression of a certain type of service on the internet and as it grows naturally just the number of uses is growing as we speak. that we will see many more. it is not a guarantee therefore it is important because it has all kinds of common things and to how then how that will serve in
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that space and what that represents so it is not after icann to make sure it is always available and six your and open. >> but there has been a concern so you don't have to register your david the untold numbers. c doug have to remember book or show. will they have to do that? is it cost and hassle for those big brains? >> and with those businesses
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and many of my own. i am deeply appreciative. i understand that. but rather than be defensive and operate it that the space that would be costly but also ease the. we are encouraging trademark owners with a portfolio of spaces. to a understand what is cutting -- cubby with wisdom and also to have done a
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remarkable job for protections and his introduce the first global trademark or you can do that and you could have a top-level done made in the plan that and its people. to be informed to assure that trademarks get marked spitzer but it is important for the trademark owners but there is also of the opportunity to be a big prayer and older and i asked when we were discussing what
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did you try to do with your brand? why did you pay $185,000? so i encouraged him to talk to the business development people and those said to be leveraged. i heard some business plans and there are some good ideas to leverage that new space. >> host: but there are some controversial ones. >> so said the freedom that we cherished comes with
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expressions that we may not agree with but the openness and freedom as long as it is not against any laws or policies. san this comes with any medium. >> i will shift gears a little bit especially over the last year with the internet players is it offered out of rebuke to speak where uc icann role and how those revelations change the conversation.
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of balance and secure edges like those that were established based on checks and balances. two her me how they move forward and from where it is today that is called governments and networks that does not have the essentials core. in a way that is effective in a legitimate and dynamic because the internet changes everyday to address specific
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issues anabatic is central to the debate of how we cover the internet in the future. >>. >> does that lose control? >> no. that seems to be what has controlled over the internet. with that stewardship that these functions are the world functions it was very clear in a matter of time operationally and institution the to have the legitimacy over of global organization that the
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function n will be passed on to icann the will to stakeholder account. so the control over the internet is in the hands of the stakeholders. but they have a stewardship and those core functions are buying the stake holders. and as i mentioned recently that it is time for the west to consider this to reject is to be passed to the stakeholders grey peak the
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en to intentional lies these functions as badges is in place to achieve what it had been issued from the beginning. >> and those governments networks what d.c. as icann rolled in the future? >> first of all, icann should not be changed. to coordinate the names according to the policy to stay focused.
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and how does that fit into my definition? and it happens with those to come together to define how these policies are set to what we're supposed to do and the public interest. and it should not expand its scope. >> can we begin these conversations on the global stage. what do you hope to accomplish? >> brazil will be one of many milestones next year. in the multi stakeholder.
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the conference in brazil the future of maltase takeovers and government is the name of the conference. time for governments and businesses in a technical organizations to come together. and how should they look like? and the principles san how the mitt -- manage them. and then describes the principles that define how these eve of. because at the heart of any metric with the un, ruined -- and common principles.
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year in in 2012 a conference call that was organized by the u.n. agency. and it was the very difficult moment. and they didn't know how to address issues. in a rare degree take this issue? and where do we take them? we did not have a mechanism to the multistate colder and now we can no longer simply say it has been over a year and this is what we hope to achieve. >> host: we are the - -
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