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Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]

Accountability Mechanisms: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Lily Martinet

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]
Article last updated:
March 2019

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved.date: 17 December 2021

Subject(s):
Transparency — Conflict of interests — Quasi-judicial bodies, procedure

Published under the direction of Hélène Ruiz Fabri, with the support of the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution, under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.

1 The Internet protocol enables data communication, by breaking data into small packets, which are then transmitted through the network (Petillion and Janssen, 2017, 7). Each packet carries a source and a destination address (Mueller, 2004, 32). These numerical routing addresses are called ‘Internet Protocol addresses’ (‘IP addresses’). IP addresses are composed of a sequence of numbers, which are hard to remember for humans. To make IP addresses more user-friendly, they are translated into domain names, which are a sequence of names separated by periods ordered...
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