‘However, the actual answer is that the US Internet network may become independent, and all nations may seek to do the same.’
That is a possibility.
But the US gave ICANN legal authority to regulate the TLDs.
The first step would be to re-legislate that authority. That won’t happen until January.
The second step is to navigate the international law minefield. ICANN will sign contracts with foreign powers and still boast the legal power to regulate ALL TLDs.
To re-legislate ICANN’s international power could trigger a cassis belli — a ‘reason to fight’ with honor.
Trump could change it with an executive order. This whole situation isn’t a treaty, so he has authority to change it at will. In fact, no ISP has to actually follow it anyway. They are free to create a new network.
Paul Rosenzweig
His articles in Heritage have been published all the way back to 1977. He’s one of those wicked-smart kind of guys who Wikipedia frequently mentions ,and yet the last time I looked there was no Wikipedia page that covered his bio. [Do they fear his intellectual firepower that much?]
He’s been deep in Homeland Security and Cyber-Security for a long time.
Relevant to this hearing, he authored and produced:
Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging America and Changing the World.
Two video lecture series from The Great Courses, Thinking About Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare and The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You.
He is also a co-editor of two other relevant books:
1. Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security.
2. National Security Law in the News: A Guide for Journalists, Scholars, and Policymakers.
[Coming up ... some of his testimony]