Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN
Paul Twomey
ICANN is an internationally organized, nonprofit corporation based in the United States that has responsibility for managing the infrastructure of the Internet. Paul Twomey has served as the president and CEO of ICANN since March 2003. The following is excerpted from his June 14, 2005, speech to the Working Group for Internet Governance (WGIG) in Geneva, Switzerland.As you know, ICANN staff, board members, and members of the ICANN community and its stakeholders have been participating in the WSIS process. This is a wide ranging group, with enormous expertise in many areas of the Internet’s functioning — and includes ccTLDs (country-coded…
