ICANN is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. ICANN also operates the IANA the internet assigned numbers authority which is the global authority for DNS Root, IP addressing, and other internet protocol resources.
Yesterday the EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media said that this fall when the current contractual relationship with ICANN and the US Dept. of Commerce ends that ICANN should now report to a new G-12 Internet Governance group composed of representatives from all the major continents. There has been a speculation that ICANN will end up under the authority of the United Nations although the commissioner feels that decisions on Internet Governance should be more expedient and have a less formal international forum.
EU commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding view on ICANN.
Read public comments on the NITA website (The NITA is under the authority of the US Dept. of Commerce) about ICANN privatization from Feb. 2008 and the Midterm Review of the Joint Project between the NITA and ICANN
The JPA ( Joint Project Agreement ) between the NITA and ICANN
Recently there are those who believe that Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity Act would provide for an authoritarian control over Internet connectivity.
Internet Governance Project comments on Internet Authoritarian fears. which may be the reason the EU is calling for ICANN's G-12 Internet authority group.
Notice of Inquiry - Assessment of the Transition of Technical Coordination and Management of the Internet Domain Name and Addressing System. (NTIA) seeks comment regarding the upcoming expiration of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This agreement has been in existence since November 25, 1998, and is scheduled to expire on September 30, 2009.
Comments may be submitted electronically to: DNSTransition@ntia.doc.gov
Comments will be posted to NTIA's website at http://www.nitia.doc.gov/comments/2009/dnstransition
Why is DNS broken in Plan Language. ICANN explains why Domain Name System (DNS) is vulnerable to attack, and why that is important, without needing a computer science degree to understand it.
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