 "ICANN's 7-day AGM begins in Hyderabad")
The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which runs the World Wide Web, has begun its 57th annual general meeting in Hyderabad on Thursday. This is the first meeting —second one to be held in India — after the US relinquished its operational authority over the internet in September last year.
The conference would discuss transitional issues of internet governance, besides issues related to domain name system.
The ICANN is a platform representing the entire ecosystem dependent on the internet, including web users, business interests, intellectual property organisations, governments, among others.
The other major issue that would be debated at the seven-day event would be on ways to address issues of cyber security, particularly in the light of faster expansion of Internet of Things, which, experts reckon is the most vulnerable area for cyberattacks.