ICC response to Notice of Inquiry re ICANN
Publication date : 08/06/2009
Members of ICC’s Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms (EBITT) and its Task Force on Internet and Telecoms Infrastructure and Services (ITIS) are pleased to submit this response to the NTIA Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the assessment of the transition of the technical coordination and management of the Internet’s domain name and addressing system. ICC provided input to the previous NOI on the mid-term review of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the US Department of Commerce (dated 6 February 2008).
ICC’s EBITT Commission is composed of hundreds of companies and business associations from all sectors including, business users, service providers, hardware and software developers, communications operators, mobile operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and registry/registrars. With national committees and groups in 130 countries, ICC’s members span the globe and are involved in all of ICANN’s business related constituencies. Given the composition of the ICC’s membership from all sectors and geographic regions, ICC is uniquely placed to provide a truly global business perspective at this important juncture.
ICC has consistently supported and continues to support ICANN’s private sector- led multistakeholder model. This model is essential to a well-functioning and global Internet community and is vital for the furtherance of ICC’s goals of promoting competition and opening markets. ICC members are also members of ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization’s (GNSO) constituencies, or participants in ICANN meetings and deliberations. Virtually all ICC members are directly or indirectly affected by ICANN’s work, and the security, stability and consistent functioning of the domain name system is of high priority to them.