The US Department of Commerce announced on March 14, 2014 its decision to deliver in 2015 thegovernment of the Internet to the governments of UN member countries, a request that has been made at least 11 years ago. THE International Names and Numbers Management Committee applauded the decision and stated that the technique community is ripe to take on the role of leader. At the moment, nothing will change in the management of the Internet.
The issue that has been discussed for years at international conferences on the Internet - especially when it was conducted in countries that have even been characterized "Enemies of the Internet", like Tunisia in 2013 - was the infamous "governance" of the Internet, or rather, the removal of the United States' authority over the computers that underpin the entire Internet and placing it in the hands of a committee of UN member governments. The administration of the name and number association system, the maintenance of the address register and other powers have remained since 1998 in the hands of the non-profit ICANN committee - which was under the US Department of Commerce - opposed by many governments of the member countries of the United Nations . These countries requested the formation of an independent commission in which members of governments will participate under the supervision of the UN. The role of ICANN is considered purely technical and the assignment of this role to an American company is explained historically (the precursor of the Internet, ARPAnet, started there ). However, many governments and users felt that this should now change, to avoid extreme phenomena such as an entire country being cut off from the Internet due to confusion in system rendering of names and numbers (e.g. blocking addresses with her national suffix or removing her "name" from the directory so that she is impossible to locate, i.e. she could effectively "throw her out"). However, the United States has not done so, nor has it threatened to do so. On the face of it, Internet endings may appear to be useless weapons of policy. In 2003 ICANN had backed down on an already contentious issue, evidence to the contrary. The commission had then decided not to introduce .xxx endings for pornographic websites after protests within the US and backlash from the (then) Bush administration. The event damaged ICANN's image as independent and reminded observers everywhere that ICANN is an American company.
