What is ICANNs role?
ICANN’s mission is to protect and preserve the stability, integrity and utility on behalf of the global Internet community of the DNS and the authoritative root ICANN was established to manage. ICANN has no role to play with alternate roots so long as these and other analogous efforts do not create instabilities in the DNS or otherwise impair the stability of the authoritative root. But ICANN does have a role to play in educating and informing about threats to the Internet’s reliability and stability. ICANN is a consensus development body for the global Internet community, and its focus is the development of consensus policies relating to the single authoritative root and the DNS. These policies include those that allow the orderly introduction of new TLDs. There are those including operators of commercialized alternate roots who pursue unilateral actions outside the ICANN consensus-development process.
ICANN’s mission is to protect and preserve the stability, integrity and utility – on behalf of the global Internet community – of the DNS and the authoritative root ICANN was established to manage. ICANN has no role to play with alternate roots so long as these and other analogous efforts do not create instabilities in the DNS or otherwise impair the stability of the authoritative root. But ICANN does have a role to play in educating and informing about threats to the Internet’s reliability and stability. ICANN is a consensus development body for the global Internet community, and its focus is the development of consensus policies relating to the single authoritative root and the DNS. These policies include those that allow the orderly introduction of new TLDs. There are those–including operators of commercialized alternate roots–who pursue unilateral actions outside the ICANN consensus-development process. Many hope to circumvent these processes by claiming to establish some prior rig
