Gore Backs ICANN On Eve Of Hearing

On the eve of a congressional hearing to examine the future of the government's relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, former-Vice President Al Gore has joined with Vint Cerf in acknowledging the success of the group's multi-stakeholder, bottom up governance. Gore led an interagency panel 12 years ago that was charged with coordinating the US government's electronic commerce strategy, which led to the creation of ICANN.