(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The newly named CEO and president of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.icann.org) has refuted claims the organization is trying to evade US oversight, according to a report by ComputerWorld.
Rod Beckstrom, who was named CEO and president of ICANN on Friday, said at the Sydney ICANN meeting that while he does not hold a “fixed form opinion” on the issue, he believes that an “optimistic” solution will be reached.
The comments are in response to last month’s incident where European Union society commissioner Viviane Reding recommended US President Barack Obama to sever the country’s ties with ICANN.
The world’s regional Internet registries also second this motion last week when it called for ICANN and the US Department of Commerce to end their collaboration agreement.
The RIRs, which controls IP address allocation within geographic regions, released a joint statement stating that the US government should forfeit its control of the Internet.
Since its formation in 1998, ICANN has regulated the Internet Domain Name System with the US Department of Commerce under a joint project agreement/memorandum of understanding agreement.
Reding, as well as many others, have criticized the JPA, arguing that it gives the US oversight of ICANN and have called for the deal to be discontinued when it ends on September 30, 2009.
ICANN board chairman Peter Dengate Thrush told ComputerWorld that Reding’s idea of creating a group of 12 nations to oversee ICANN will not work.
“The JPA makes no difference to oversight,” Thrush told ComputerWorld. “We need accountabilty from the community, ISPs and the media, not from some outside aloof business or governments.”
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