Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) is a private non-profit organization of U.S. law, established in California City Marina del Rey .
Task
ICANN decides on the basis of the management of top-level domains , and thus ICANN coordinates the technical aspects of the Internet, but without the right to set binding. ICANN was under 30 September 2009 the Department of Commerce (Department of Commerce) of the United States and thus the U.S. government . Since October 1, 2009 and replaces a joint “declaration of binding agreements” (Affirmation of commitment) the previous agreement (Joint Project Agreement, JPA), which representatives of governments and interested stakeholders should regularly assess whether the ICANN organization to fulfill its responsibilities in accordance with statutory .
ICANN is sometimes used as a sort of world government of the Internet means. The governments of the world are in the Governmental Advisory Committee ( Governmental Advisory Committee , GAC) represented the independent seat at the EU Commission in Brussels has one. As the headquarters of the organization even after 1 2009 in the U.S. remains October, network management organization is subject to the continuing American jurisprudence.
Formation
ICANN was in October 1998 a coalition of various interest groups (business, technology, science and users) founded by. Legally, it is in ICANN is a private foundation based in Marina del Rey, California. The ICANN is responsible for a number of technical requirements, previously of the IANA and various other groups were taken, focusing on.
Objects of the work of ICANN
In order for the Internet, certain names and addresses are globally unique. Therefore, ICANN coordinates:
- on the Address Supporting Organization and the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), the Internet domain name ( domain name system , especially the DNS root name server )
- the IP addresses ,
- in cooperation with the IETF protocol parameters and port addresses of the Internet protocol suite .
Organization
The Board of Directors of ICANN is composed of 21 members from around the world. 15 members have voting rights: to be a night Nominierungskommittee elected, two by the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), two of the country-code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO) and two of the Generic Name Supporting Organization (GNSO), which coincides CEO . Six non-voting members are nominated by advisory organizations. 2000 members, five representing the user base of a continent selected public, with the expiration of their time member of the 2003 public election, however, abolished.
Chairman of the board is Peter Dengate Thrush. President & CEO of ICANN since 2009 July is Rod Beckstrom, chief operating officer since September 2010 Akram Atallah. Board members were from Germany until 2003 Helmut Schink ( Siemens AG ) and the journalist Andy Mueller-Maguhn (Deputy Chairman of the Chaos Computer Club Berlin e. V.), the representative was elected as European. Another member from Germany until 2006 Hultzsch Hagen (a former board member of the German Telekom AG ). Karl Auerbach , the public representatives of the North American user base 2000 to 2003, sat down for more openness and transparency of ICANN for a. In 2002, he complained before a Superior Court in California successfully for access to the books.
Alternative root server
An alternative to the ICANN root servers to the OpenNIC Project is . To 31 December 2008 formed the Open Root Server Network (Ørsnes), which partially IPv6 was enabled, an alternative to the ICANN root servers
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