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Internet Technical Governance: more and more crucial stakes

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Internet Technical Governance: more and more crucial stakes

With the increasing use of IP technologies in the electronic communication networks and services, Internet Technical Governance deals with issues that are more and more crucial.

The stakes, initially focused on addressing, are now growing on naming issues.

The issues that were originally mostly technical now involve marketing, communication, brand, and legal dimensions.
Orange France Telecom Group supports the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) model, which is built as a private multi-stakeholders body. This model is better adapted to the dynamics and specificities of the Internet than other options based purely on top-down intergovernmental models.

Significant results have been achieved by ICANN in different domains such as the management of addressing resources including IPv6, liberalization of domain names and introduction of “new gTLDS”, or the role and involvement of governments.

This model needs however to be improved in fields such as internationalization of the structure. In Orange’s view, the Affirmation of Commitments, an agreement signed in 2009 between the US Department of Commerce (DoC) and ICANN, provides an appropriate framework to discuss and implement some of these improvements as well as to preserve the bottom-up and multi-stakeholder nature of the model.

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last update: 01 March 2013