ICANN warns of global disintegration of the Internet
The international Internet administration ICANN warns of a fragmentation of the global Internet. The danger comes primarily from authoritarian regimes that want to control their people.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), based in California, coordinates the allocation of unique names and addresses on the Internet. Its central task is to ensure the secure and stable operation of the Domain Name System (DNS) for the World Wide Web. The potential fragmentation of the global Internet is a "worrying issue," a top ICANN official told Deutsche Presse-Agentur last week on the sidelines of an industry meeting in Rust, Germany.
According to the ICANN expert, there is an increasing tendency for individual nations to seal themselves off. However, the ICANN representative did not explicitly comment on the individual countries. They are authoritarian governments that want to control their people, he only said.
ICANN wants to continue to hold on to global data traffic. It is also still opposed to removing Russia from the traffic, for example, even though Ukraine demanded this at the beginning of the Russian war of aggression last year.
