L’ Icann , l’organismo americano che si occupa della gestione di Internet e dei suoi domini, si sgancia dalle autorità americane e diventa più indipendente.
Creato in 1998 in California, the ' Icann ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) has worked to date on the basis of an agreement with the U.S. authorities for telecommunications and information technology, an official from the department U.S. Trade : the agreement but due today, and for this reason the two parties agreed on a new text called "Declaration of Commitment ', which accords greater weight to the international committee of government supervision, of which the U.S. belong with the other authority. The
European Commission has welcomed the U.S. decision to make the governance of the Internet more independent, more democratic and more international. Viviane Reding, responsible for Information Society and Media, said it welcomed the fact that the body responsible for managing Internet domain , become more open and will be forced to account for its decisions to the billions of Internet users around the world.
Brussels had called on several occasions since 2005 that the essential resources and global governance of the Internet would be reformed in order to guarantee freedom of expression and the continuity of operations online.
"I welcome the decision of American authorities to reorient the functioning of ICANN in order to adapt its role is essential in the governance of the Internet, the realities of the twenty-first century and an increasingly global network," said Reding , adding: "Internet users around the world can expect that the decisions of ICANN on domain names and addresses on the Internet are more independent and take into account the interests of all."
Reding has ensured that the EU Commission has the "firm intention to complete the reform by working with national authorities, businesses and civil society ', ha aggiunto il
commissario, garantendo che «la Commissione seguirà ugualmente da vicino l’effetto dei lavori dell’Icann sulla concorrenza».
Oltre a decidere quali nomi aggiungere alla lista dei domini più importanti come .com, .net e .org, gestisce il sistema degli indirizzi web (dns) che assicura la connessione e la navigazione dei pc.
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