International Proposals to Regulate the Internet (updated witness list)

International Proposals to Regulate the Internet
Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
House Commerce Committee
Thursday, May 31, 2012

The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will hold a hearing on “International Proposals to Regulate the Internet.” December 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, the subcommittee will discuss the potential consequences of recent proposals by the international community to regulate the Internet. The subcommittee will also examine the current “multi-stakeholder” model of Internet governance, which has helped foster technological, economic, and social change across the globe.

Witness List

Panel I

Ambassador Philip Verveer
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and
U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy

Commissioner Robert McDowell
Federal Communications Commission

Panel II

Ambassador David A. Gross
Former U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy
U.S. Department of State
On Behalf of the World Conference on International Telecommunications Ad Hoc Working Group

Ms. Sally Shipman Wentworth
Senior Manager, Public Policy
Internet Society

Mr. Vinton Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
Google