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11/18/2007
Who controls Internet ?
The main actors of Internet regulation are mainly american :
- ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) : manage the distribution and use of the adress (Dns adresses (http:// ...) and IP adresses) : the adressing system.
- Iana (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) : controls numbers for protocols, the Country Code Top Level Domains for US (.edu, .mil) and maintains the IP Address allotments.
- Verisign : private amercian company in charge of the technical management of the whole infrastructure service
...then into ICANN, several organisations to highlight :
- ASO (Address Supporting Organization) : responsible for reviewing and developing recommendations on IP address policy ..working in collaboration with the RIR (Regional Internet Registries).
- ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) : responsible for the IP adresses in North America
- RIPE NCC (Network Coordination Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in Europe
- APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in Asia
- LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean Information Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in South America
- ccNSO (Country Code Name Supporting Organization) : for national domain names (.fr, .it, ..) with the ccTLD Registries
- gNSO (Generic Name Supporting Organization) : for global domain names (.com, .net…) with the gTLD Registries
- Registrars : accredited domain names sellers
- RSSAC (Root Server System Advisory Committee)
Technical Engineering and Management
- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) : normalisation multimedia languages like html
- ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) : normalisation telecommunication norms
- ITU (International Telecommunications Union) : United nations Agency
- IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force : architecture and technical recommandations for the internet
Internet Society representation
- ISOC (Internet Society)
- ALAC (At-Large Advisory Council) : elected members to represent internet users
source - http://kmlabs.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/05/16/who-controls-internet.html
- ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) : manage the distribution and use of the adress (Dns adresses (http:// ...) and IP adresses) : the adressing system.
- Iana (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) : controls numbers for protocols, the Country Code Top Level Domains for US (.edu, .mil) and maintains the IP Address allotments.
- Verisign : private amercian company in charge of the technical management of the whole infrastructure service
...then into ICANN, several organisations to highlight :
- ASO (Address Supporting Organization) : responsible for reviewing and developing recommendations on IP address policy ..working in collaboration with the RIR (Regional Internet Registries).
- ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) : responsible for the IP adresses in North America
- RIPE NCC (Network Coordination Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in Europe
- APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in Asia
- LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean Information Centre) : responsible for the IP adresses in South America
- ccNSO (Country Code Name Supporting Organization) : for national domain names (.fr, .it, ..) with the ccTLD Registries
- gNSO (Generic Name Supporting Organization) : for global domain names (.com, .net…) with the gTLD Registries
- Registrars : accredited domain names sellers
- RSSAC (Root Server System Advisory Committee)
Technical Engineering and Management
- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) : normalisation multimedia languages like html
- ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) : normalisation telecommunication norms
- ITU (International Telecommunications Union) : United nations Agency
- IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force : architecture and technical recommandations for the internet
Internet Society representation
- ISOC (Internet Society)
- ALAC (At-Large Advisory Council) : elected members to represent internet users
source - http://kmlabs.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/05/16/who-controls-internet.html
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