US Cedes Control ICANN, Internet

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US Cedes Control ICANN, Internet
posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Sep 2009 18:03 UTC

Since the early days of the internet, it has fallen under control of ICANN, which in turn was bound by an agreement with the US Department of Commerce. As the internet grew bigger and more pervasive, intentional calls for severing the ties between ICANN and the US government grew stronger. Today, the US has ceded control over ICANN.

Instead of the United States government being the sole nation, there will now a be a system of global oversight, where the US is one of many nations overseeing the process which governs the internet and ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

"ICANN is accountable to the world and that's as it should be, since ICANN is a global international organization," Paul Levins, executive officer and vice president of corporate affairs at ICANN, told InternetNews.com, "But don't get me wrong, this is not Independence Day. We've been independent since we've been born, since 1998, when we were established as a non-profit organization."

Under the previous agreement, ICANN was subject to yearly reviews by the Department of Commerce. From now on, a body of nations will review ICANN's operations every three years. The US will be but one party in this multinational process.

more at: http://www.osnews.com/story/22262/US_Cedes_Control_ICANN_Internet

[Recursion]

1. A day that has been a long time coming

But I still remember IANA: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2468.html