Writing Assignment 3/ ICANN

The ICANN is a non profit organization based in the United States that regulates the internet address system, serving mainly for technical coordination. Some people are concerned with the functions of ICANN because they believe that they may have too much control. A decision must be made before ICANN is forced to hand over their control to the United Nations.

One of the main concerns regarding this issue is that the ICANN controls the domain names such as .net and .org. Some people would like to have a whole separate domain for pornographic sites in order to properly identify them, but others would rather not make it so obvious.

Some people who are anti ICANN would suggest that rather than one group controlling this organization, several multi-cultural nations should take over control. They also suggest allowing other non-government agencies take a part of this organization. Another main issue revolving the ICANN is that some people doubt their financial integrity and would like to subject them to random audits to make sure that they are properly functioning.

The opposition would recommend that the ICANN should remain as is. Their main argument is "if it's not broken then why fix it". They also do not want the internet to become a huge tug of war between several nations because having the internet operate in codes in various languages would complicate the entire web; making it difficult to navigate.

Based on the articles that I read, I would recommend to keep it as- for now.