Dear All I had circulated the below elsewhere but i forgot to send it here, thought it may be of relevance. thanks I wrote this commentary piece in the Economic and Political Weekly of India on ICANN's oversight transition. *Internet Governance: Is the Internet Really Free of US Control?* "The recent decision of the United States government to cede its control over the internet’s naming and addressing system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a US-based international non-profit body, is heralded as a significant step towards the globalisation of internet’s core infrastructure. But with ICANN having no special jurisdictional immunity and subject to the whims of the judicial and legislative branches of the US government as well as many of its executive agencies, the decision seems more symbolic than meaningful." http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/42/web-exclusives/internet-governance.html <http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/42/web-exclusives/internet-governance.html> parminder