It’s a question that everyone has asked at one time: Who controls theinternet?
The answer, of course, is no one. But just how can this be? How is it possible for nearly two billion people to interact with one another every day – posting words, linking videos and tagging photographs – without someone, somewhere making sure it all works properly?
Part of the explanation lies in the organisation that I am the chief executive of – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann.
Icann was formed 11 years ago today through a combined effort of the US government and the technical community that built the network itself. And today we celebrate the remarkable success of that effort by doing a very unusual thing: ending the agreement that was responsible for our success.
