ICANN
ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers.
The RIPE NCC and the RIPE community work closely with ICANN in a number of areas:
- ICANN is contracted by the U.S. government to carry out the IANA function, which includes allocating Internet number resources (IP addresses and AS Numbers) to the Regional Internet Registries from the pools of unallocated resources.
- The NRO Number Council serves as the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC), which has responsibility for nominating two ICANN Board members.
More information on the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).
ICANN News
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About / NewsSigning of the Root Zone Represents Milestone in DNS Security
The RIPE NCC announces today that the Internet has reached an important milestone with the publication of the root zone key tonight between 19:30 - 22:30 UTC. This key enables the widespread deployment of the Domain Name Server Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol, which the RIPE NCC has been supporting for almost two decades.
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About / NewsRIPE NCC and ICANN Commit to Ongoing DNS Root Name Service Coordination
22 June 2009 - Dr. Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN, has posted an open letter to Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of the RIPE NCC, noting ICANN's appreciation of the role RIPE NCC plays as operator of k.root-servers.net, or simply K-root, one of the 13 Internet root name servers. The letter was sent in resp
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About / NewsRIPE NCC Joins Other Root Server Operators in Statement to ICANN
7 May 2009 - The RIPE NCC, which operates k.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root name servers deployed globally to manage traffic between computers connected to the Internet, has joined Autonomica, operator of I-root, and WIDE Project, operator of M-root, in issuing a joint statement to ICANN, the I
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About / NewsIPv6 Deployment Panel at ICANN Meeting, Lisbon
17 March 2008 - An IPv6 deployment panel discussion was held at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon on Sunday 25 March between 13:00 and 15:00 (UTC+1). The session focused on IPv6 deployment in the root DNS and ISP environments as well as the policy support needed for this. The panel consisted of Gert
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About / NewsIPv6 Deployment Panel at ICANN Meeting
22 June 2007 - There was an IPv6 Deployment Panel discussion at the ICANN meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday, 24 June between 15:00 and 16:30 (UTC -4). The session focused on the issues associated with deploying IPv6 on a network designed for IPv4. As well as webcasting the session, remote p
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