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San Francisco Chronicle has published an interview with ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey in which he discusses the organization, its future, and the release of new top-level domains.

From the interview: "Our links with the United States government, which is the Joint Project Agreement with the Department of Commerce and the procurement contract for the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) functions, are still there. People still raise them. But I think we've got a pathway forward to show progress, although we're going to continue to have a close link with United States. We don't dispute that. So it's a balancing trick. I do suspect that for a couple of years in some parts of the world we became a proxy for U.S. foreign policy—and that has been noticeably different since the election."

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Audio: On The Record with Paul Twomey of ICANN

Read full story: SFGate

Related topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Top-Level Domains