It is the end of Internet governance by the United States – Begeek.fr

This is a small revolution in the world of the Internet, this is no longer the United States which are involved in the control of theIcann, the organization that manages, among other things, the allocation of domain names on the Internet. It is now independent. A change that will go unnoticed to users.

Icann is no longer under the control of the United States

Since 1998, it was the u.s. department of Commerce, which controlled the Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number). This organization is in charge of the administration of domain names such as .en or .com for example. It handles the directory of the web. It is him who is at the origin of the new domain names regionalized or personalized as the recent .paris or even .wine.

Washington had pledged to abandon the governance of the organization, it is now a reality, as the term of the contract that ties Icann with the us department of Commerce arrived at its term. Icann becomes an international entity, self-regulating, and non-profit. This change will have no consequence on the Internet provided one of the vice-presidents of Icann’s Christopher Mondini. The system of “multi-stakeholder” provides for safeguards in case of drift.

policies are concerned

Some policies americans see the passage of Icann in the bosom of private a bad eye. They expressed concern that States would be authoritarian to make the low hand on the Internet. Icann ” is not a democratic organization, “, utter and republican senator Ted Cruz. On his side, Jim DeMint, the president of the group of conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation, stated on Twitter than the president of the United States ” [wanted to] yield to the control of the United States on our Internet free and safe to foreign regimes that do not respect the freedom of expression “.

In France, it was Axelle Lemaire, the secretary of State to Digital, worried about this change by declaring in march that he would “the consequence of marginalizing the States in the decision-making process ” for the benefit of the private sector.

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