EBENE, Mauritius, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Number Resource Organization (NRO), formed by the world's five Regional
Internet Registries(1), today expresses its support to end the
collaboration agreement between the Internet Corporation of Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the US Department of Commerce. The NRO
also makes recommendations for the management of the Domain Name System
(DNS) to ensure its future stability.
The DNS is currently managed by ICANN and the US Department of
Commerce under an agreement set to expire on 30 September 2009. The NRO
recommends that stability, competition, bottom-up coordination and
representation remain the guiding principles for the governance of
ICANN after this agreement expires.
Adiel Akplogan, NRO Chairman, comments: "The continuing development
of the Internet is due to the well-established principles of bottom-up
industry self-regulation. An industry-driven, multi-stakeholder
approach is more flexible than government-based processes, and as a
result able to adapt rapidly to meet the changing needs of the Internet
and its users.
"We believe that the principles that have guided the management of
the DNS until now will enable the growth and development of the
Internet in the future too, and advise that US Government involvement
in ICANN is no longer necessary."
Industry-wide collaboration between the technical community,
supporting organisations, national governments and law enforcement
agencies helps ensure an open and transparent policy development
process and management of Internet number resources. This approach, as
implemented in the ICANN framework, promotes access, diversity,
openness and security as well as community-based management of critical
Internet resources.
The NRO calls on the US Government to end its collaboration
agreement with ICANN on its 30 September 2009 expiry date, and to
consider the NRO's comments when deciding on how to transition the
technical coordination and management of the DNS.
References
(1) AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE NCC
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