Aug
20
2008
20
2008
IPW Article: USA wants to Maintain Control over ICANN
As previously reported here on DomainNews, for years there has been a back and forth on the issue of privatisation and internationalisation of the DNS core resource management, also known as ICANN. The topic nearly led to a failure of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) because of demands by governments from the Arab world, Asia and Europe to end the privileged oversight role held by the United States.
In an interesting article posted by Monika Ermert (http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1185) for Intellectual Property Watch website today, she states that the United States has no intention of giving up control over ICANN, the Internet’s Domain Name System.
