While the GDPR backs the right of people to "be forgotten" online, it raises the question of whether to shield personally identifying information about website owners listed in a Whois directory created by
ICANN for transparency.
As we pointed out in a recent online article, "
ICANN's Board of Directors is overseen by the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) that includes members from 111 countries, including many communist, 'former' communist, Islamist, socialist, and authoritarian regimes notorious for currently censoring and policing the Internet and punishing netizens for politically incorrect and religious expression.
"Ultimately, the transfer of IANA to
ICANN is more of a formality than a real change of policy.
Until recently, the internet and
ICANN were under the oversight and protection of the US Government.
As
ICANN and other aspects of internet governance have grown more robust and organized, there has been a push to remove the Department of Commerce from its oversight role, provided there are assurances that internet governance will remain organized and structured in a way that manages risk to a reasonable degree.
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ICANN is pleased to augment the number of L-Root instances in India.
(14) However,
ICANN has set up post-delegation dispute resolution procedures (PDDRP) to provide avenues for those harmed by a new gTLD registry operator's conduct to seek relief.
But the domains aren't property and don't belong to the countries they point to,
ICANN said.
Contents Background and History
ICANN Basics Issues in the 113th Congress
ICANN's Relationship with the U.S.
The problem of assigning internet numbers, he continued, is that
ICANN's statutes are governed by California law.