President Obama’s administration has reiterated calls for increased accountability at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).<\/p>\n
Government officials claim that changes are needed to ensure that the process of overseeing Internet use and the distribution of Web addresses and top level domain names is more transparent.<\/p>\n
Larry Strickling, a U.S. Commerce Department assistant secretary, said that ICANN needs to fully explain any decisions it makes so they can be easily understood by Web users.<\/p>\n
He also called on the corporation to listen more to national governments.<\/p>\n
Strickling, who runs the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said: “We still have work to do to make the reality of ICANN meet the vision.”<\/p>\n
“Whether the ICANN board and management have the discipline and willpower to embrace and implement these recommendations in a serious and meaningful way [is open to debate],” he concluded.<\/p>\n
The U.S. government has been calling for a veto over the creation of new top level domain names so it can block any controversial Web address suffixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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