Internet governance will be handed over to the international community. ICANN signed a new agreement with the US Department of Commerce
Today, ICANN, which coordinates and controls the domain name system on the Internet, has signed a new agreement with the US Department of Commerce regarding the management of the global Internet. It will come into force on October 1, 2009. Recall that today expired old agreement.
The document (“Affirmation of Commitments of the US Department of Commerce and ICANN”) confirms the previous commitments of the US government, in particular, the transfer of management of the DNS system to ICANN, as well as the commitments of ICANN to manage the Internet, which were contained in previous agreements between ICANN and the US government .
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As analysts expect, the agreement will make the Internet more international: it will create several supervisory boards with the participation of international representatives. The US government, as before, will have the right to tell ICANN what it should do, but these recommendations will not have legal force, notes Compulenta.
The new document is signed, unlike the old one, for an indefinite period. “The signing of the document for an indefinite period abolishes the previously existing system of periodic monitoring of the US government over the results of ICANN's activities,” said Weni Markovski, an official representative of ICANN in Russia, the CIS and Georgia, told Prime-Tass.
The new document increases the degree of internationalization of Internet governance, Markovski stressed. In particular, according to him, under a new agreement, ICANN is obliged to report at least once a year not only to the US government, but to all structures represented in ICANN - for example, to the State Representatives Advisory Committee (GAC), which now includes more than 80 countries (Russia is not included).
In addition, ICANN will now be monitored by a special audit committee, which every three years will prepare a full report on the implementation of ICANN's responsibilities for managing the Internet, said Markovski. - Commission members will be appointed by the ICANN president and the GAC chair.
The other day, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia at a meeting of the Council on the Use and Development of the Internet decided to increase its influence on ICANN and join the GAC. The decision was approved by the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Russia Igor Shchegolev. The question of a strong “Americanization” of the Internet has been discussed in the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media many times.
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The document (“Affirmation of Commitments of the US Department of Commerce and ICANN”) confirms the previous commitments of the US government, in particular, the transfer of management of the DNS system to ICANN, as well as the commitments of ICANN to manage the Internet, which were contained in previous agreements between ICANN and the US government .
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As analysts expect, the agreement will make the Internet more international: it will create several supervisory boards with the participation of international representatives. The US government, as before, will have the right to tell ICANN what it should do, but these recommendations will not have legal force, notes Compulenta.
The new document is signed, unlike the old one, for an indefinite period. “The signing of the document for an indefinite period abolishes the previously existing system of periodic monitoring of the US government over the results of ICANN's activities,” said Weni Markovski, an official representative of ICANN in Russia, the CIS and Georgia, told Prime-Tass.
The new document increases the degree of internationalization of Internet governance, Markovski stressed. In particular, according to him, under a new agreement, ICANN is obliged to report at least once a year not only to the US government, but to all structures represented in ICANN - for example, to the State Representatives Advisory Committee (GAC), which now includes more than 80 countries (Russia is not included).
In addition, ICANN will now be monitored by a special audit committee, which every three years will prepare a full report on the implementation of ICANN's responsibilities for managing the Internet, said Markovski. - Commission members will be appointed by the ICANN president and the GAC chair.
The other day, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia at a meeting of the Council on the Use and Development of the Internet decided to increase its influence on ICANN and join the GAC. The decision was approved by the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Russia Igor Shchegolev. The question of a strong “Americanization” of the Internet has been discussed in the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media many times.
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