Internet unleashed: ICANN escape.THE U.S. Department of Commerce must love the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system , because it is setting it free. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number , the California-based nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. that assigns Internet domains, such as .corn, and country domains, such as .uk, is finally on its way to full privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned . The U.S. has consistently fought off attempts to hand control of the corporation over to the United Nations or some other international governmental body, winning the most recent struggle just months ago. Under the new agreement, ICANN will avoid government oversight altogether. Exactly when ICANN will depart is unclear, but it may be free in as few as 15 months. "It is not in the private sector's interests to have an inefficient Internet," says Paul Kane For other persons named Paul Kane, see Paul Kane (disambiguation). Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish-Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country. , chairman of the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries. The Internet, he adds, is "run by private networks interconnecting computers around the world" and deserves a chance to have a private life of its own. |
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