ICANN oversees the assignment of globally unique identifiers on the Internet governance, including domain names, Internet governance protocol addresses, application port numbers in the transport protocols, and many other parameters.
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The involvement of NTIA started in 1998 and was supposed to be temporal, but it wasn't until April 2014 in an ICANN meeting held in Brazil, partly heated after Snowden revelations, that this situation changed resulting in an important shift of control transitioning administrative duties of the DNS root zones from NTIA to the Internet governance Assigned Numbers Authority during a period that ended in September 2016.
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Since WSIS, the term "Internet governance" has been broadened beyond narrow technical concerns to include a wider range of Internet-related policy issues.
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Definition of Internet governance has been contested by differing groups across political and ideological lines.
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One of the more policy-relevant questions today is exactly whether the regulatory responses are appropriate to police the content delivered through the Internet governance: it includes important rules for the improvement of Internet governance safety and for dealing with threats such as cyber-bullying, copyright infringement, data protection and other illegal or disruptive activities.
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In 1992 the Internet governance Society was founded, with a mission to "assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet governance for the benefit of all people throughout the world".
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Since no general agreement existed even on the definition of what comprised Internet governance, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan initiated a Working Group on Internet Governance to clarify the issues and report before the second part of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis 2005.
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However, the Internet governance Society argues that a lack of strong encryption exposes internet users to even greater risks of cyber attacks, cybercrimes, adding that it overrides data protection laws.
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Position of the U S Department of Commerce as the controller of some aspects of the Internet gradually attracted criticism from those who felt that control should be more international.
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On 7 October 2013 the Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet governance Cooperation was released by the leaders of a number of organizations involved in coordinating the Internet governance's global technical infrastructure, loosely known as the "I*" group.
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The contract between ICANN and the U S Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration for performance of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, or IANA, functions, drew its roots from the earliest days of the Internet.
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Internet governance users saw no change or difference in their experience online as a result of what ICANN and others called the IANA Stewardship Transition.
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People involved in global Internet governance worked for nearly two years to develop two consensus-based proposals.
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Two weeks later, U S Senator Ted Cruz introduced the “Protecting Internet Freedom Act, ” a bill to prohibit NTIA from allowing the IANA functions contract to lapse unless authorized by Congress.
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Internet governance shutdowns refer to when state authorities deliberately shut down the internet.
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