Socraweb

For the first time in the history, ICANN an ombudsman will appoint to treat complaints of internet users. The organization, responsibly for an important part of the internet structure, hopes with that the many criticism on its working what to play checkers in.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is commit were appointed an American that by the American government round to manage the domain structure and the Internet Protocol-mechanism. And of their branches is the managing of the DNS-root, the hoofdserver that webaddresssen as www.socraweb.be translates in the relevant IP-address. Someone else important task of the ICANN is work thinking the on the future of the internet, among many through after about new top-level Domains (TLD).

But the ICANN stoops for years under heavy criticism on its working. Many internet users were not to be spoken about the flaw at participation and the flaw at transparantie by the organization. That was among many the case by the - according to some arbitraire - selection of seven new TLD in 2000. The ICANN will tinted be also too American-, rings the from some corners.

Weirdly enough layman the ICANN a were hatred-love proportion to have with internet users developed. As the organization wanted to indicate to let members of the board on a particular point via an online election (so-called Ate-large directors), After that at the same time on foot of war to stand with the cherry verse governments people. Shortly after the ICANN led the draft of chosen members of the board off.

The dissatisfaction culminated end 2003 in a remarkable proposal the management of the internet about to syphons to the United Nations. Before that proposal were not less than 200 land to find.

The new ombudsman becomes the Canadian Frank Fowlie, a former diplomat by the V. N. He will have and see to divide an own desk about the ICANN-facilities in Navy Rey and Brussels. Its most important task is act on independent manner with conflicts between members of the ICANN-community and the organization.

The appointment of Fowlie comes there single weeks after an article of professor Ethan Katsch of it Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution At the university of Massachusetts. The academic noticed then on that the ICANN for two year ago obliged became an ombudsman on to put.