US set to hand over Domain Naming System to ICANNMore by circumstance than intention, the US has always had ultimate say over how the DNS is controlled - but not for much longer, the BBC r...
ET By Invite - Time for netizens to say yes, ICANNThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN.org) is the entity that keeps the internet secure, stable and interoperable.
POKE ME: The Internet can’t end up being governed only by American lawsGovernments, other than American, have little control over Icann, even as it governs the cyberspace on most aspects of policies that are so...
Developing economies will contribute the next billion internet users, says Ravi Shankar PrasadRavi Shankar Prasad has called for a open, plural and inclusive Internet and said that it should not become a monopoly of a few.
Internet should be governed by ICANN model with focus on security: Ravi Shankar PrasadReiterating India's support to multi-stakeholder model for governing Internet, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said there should be fo...
India for multi-stakeholder approach to govern InternetIndia has proposed that Internet should be managed through multi-stakeholder approach and the governments should have "supreme right and co...
Telecom department warns of threat to communications infrastructureAnother major worry, it feels, is the fact that Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) is US-based, and hence bound by U...
Internet authority to move away from the US by 2015The US department of commerce announced that it would transfer IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder community.
US plans to give up its control over Internet's domain name systemThe US govt sought to convene global stakeholders to develop a proposal to transition away from US government oversight of the Internet's d...
Concerned NSCS insists on multilateral net governanceThe DNS is the equivalent of an internet phone book, which translates computer hostnames into numerical internet protocol.
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