Problem description:
What does ICANN mean? What do you do?
Analysis:
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was established in June, 65438 +0998 65438+ 10. It is a non-profit international organization, attracting experts in business, technology and academic fields in the global network community. Responsible for the space allocation of Internet protocol (IP) addresses, the allocation of protocol identifiers, the management of generic top-level domain names (gTLD) and national and regional top-level domain names (ccTLD) systems, and the management of root server systems. These services were originally provided by the International Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other organizations under American contracts. Now, ICANN exercises the function of IANA. As a public-private partnership, ICANN is committed to maintaining the stability of Internet operation, promoting competition, broadly representing global Internet organizations, and formulating policies consistent with its mission through bottom-up and consensus-based procedures.
ICANN is responsible for coordinating and managing the technical elements of DNS to ensure universal resolvability and enable all Internet users to find effective addresses. It does this by supervising the allocation of unique technical identifiers and the authorization of top-level domain names such as "". Info ") in Internet operation. As for other Internet users' concerns, such as financial transaction rules, Internet content control, spontaneous commercial e-mail (spam) and data protection, it is beyond the scope of ICANN's technical coordination task.
Within the framework of ICANN, * * * and international treaty organizations maintain cooperative partnerships with enterprises, groups and experts committed to building and maintaining the Internet. The innovation and sustainable development of the Internet have brought new challenges to maintaining its stability. Members of ICANN cooperate with each other to solve problems directly related to ICANN's technical coordination tasks. In line with the principle of self-regulation as much as possible, ICANN may be a pioneer model of cooperation among all elements of the Internet community. ICANN is managed by an internationally diversified board of directors and is responsible for supervising the policy-making process. President ICANN manages the international staff working in three continents, thus ensuring ICANN to fulfill its obligations to the Internet community. In order to cope with the rapidly changing technical and economic situation, the three supporting organizations have formulated flexible and simple decision-making procedures. Advisory committees from individual user organizations and technical groups work with supporting organizations to formulate appropriate and effective policies. More than 80 people made close suggestions to the board of directors through the * * * Advisory Committee.
Organizational structure of ICANN
Board of Directors (Board of Directors)
* * * Advisory Committee (Government Advisory Committee)
Address supporting organization (address supporting organization)
Universal Name Supporting Organization (Universal Name Supporting Organization)
Country code name supporting organization
Investigator (Inspectorate)
President/CEO (President/CEO)
ICANN staff (ICANN staff)
At-Large Advisory Committee
Advisory Committee on Security and Stability
Root server system advisory Committee (root server system advisory Committee)
Technical liaison group (technical liaison group)
*(ICANN's board members include Australia, Brazil,
Bulgarians, Canadians, China, French, Germans, Ghanaians,
Japan, Kenya, North Korea/South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands,
Citizens of Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Britain and the United States. )
Recent achievements of ICANN include:
ICANN introduced the competitive mechanism of generic domain name (gTLD) registration, which reduced the domain name cost by 80% and saved consumers and enterprises more than $654.38+billion in domain name registration fees every year.
ICANN implements a unified domain name dispute resolution policy -UDRP, which has been used to resolve more than 5,000 domain name rights disputes. The goal of UDRP is to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Through coordination with relevant technical groups and stakeholders, ICANN adopted the Guidelines for the Use of internationalized domain names (IDN), paving the way for domain name registration in hundreds of languages.
ICANN's ongoing work
In 2000, ICANN introduced seven new generic top-level domains:. Aviation. Business. coop，。 Information, Museums. Names and. Dear. ICANN Association is currently exploring the possibility of adding more generic top-level domains.
In response to the association's concern about privacy and accessibility, ICANN is holding several seminars related to Whois, a public database for domain name registration.
With the adoption of the new IP address numbering protocol Ipv6, global network interoperability will continue to be the main task of ICANN.
Anyone interested in global Internet policy can join ICANN, because it is related to ICANN's technical coordination task. ICANN provides many online forums on its website, and its supporting organizations and advisory committees provide effective mailing lists for participants. In addition, ICANN holds many public meetings throughout the year. The most recent meetings were held in Bucharest, Montreal, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro and Accra.
For more information about supporting organizations and advisory committees, please check online:
Address support organization aso.icann
National code domain name support organization cso.icann
Gnso.icann, universal name support organization.
At-Large Advisory Committee alac.icann
* * * GAC. ICANN Advisory Committee
For more details, please visit icann.