Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN)とインターネットの統治

The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany wishes to commend the ICANN Committee on having submitted within a brief period of time and in a difficult environment contributions to the ICANN reform issue. Keeping the world-wide web infrastructure stable is indispensable for the road leading towards the global information society; this applies also to the objectives of the European Union as laid down in the Action Plan eEurope 2005. A global communication medium like the Internet requires global policy co-ordination in many areas even after a thorough weighing of subsidiarity aspects. As long as every Internet address can generally be accessed from any place in the world, many questions especially regarding the Domain Name System require cross-border answers.