Rod Beckstrom Named New ICANN CEO 26
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netczar writes "Former US cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom has been selected as the new ICANN president and CEO. The decision was publicly announced during ICANN's 35th meeting in Sydney, Australia on Friday. Beckstrom will be replacing Dr. Paul Twomey, who had been serving this position since March 2003 and announced his resignation earlier this year. Beckstrom recently made headlines for his sudden resignation from his post at NCSC, criticizing the lack of funding from the NSA and its move to try to 'rule over' the NCSC."
Reader darthcamaro notes a story which quotes Beckstrom as saying, "The system on [the] whole is healthy, but also strained, and part of the strains are natural and part of the democratic process. The process may be noisy, but a stable Internet is what has come out of ICANN. This is massively complex — wouldn't run well top-down. We would not reach the same balance of decisions to propagate through the network. All of us are humbled by the process. No one is in control, so everyone is in control."
Re:Stable? (Score:3, Informative)
The IANA (which is the technical devision of ICANN) assigns ip addresses to ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, LACNIC, and AfriNIC.
Those in turn assign IP addresses wsithin the assigned region. I believe the same system is used for handing out Autonomous System numbers.
Anyway, it is worth noting, that the IANA is the only technical part of ICANN. It publishes the DNS root zone file, as well as other information.
The rest of ICANN (the overwhelming majority of it) does little more than set policy for the domain name system, and in a horribly inefficient fashion.
It should be dissolved (corporate charter revoked), with two new organizations being formed under the umbrella of the Internet Society (ISOC).
ISOC already has the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and IESG (internet Engineering Steering Group), both under the oversight of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC).
A new organization named "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" (IANA) (being completely separate from the existing one, but performing the same tasks) should be formed, and be placed under the oversight of the IAOC.
The other new organization under the umbrella of the ISOC, would be the "Internet Naming Policy Commitee" (INPG). This would be a cut down version of the ICANN policy forming components. It is not clear to me if it should be under the oversight of the IAOC, or some other group.