ICANN, NASSCOM Collaborate to Develop Technology, Standards for IoT

• Global internet body Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Indian IT industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) collaborated to develop identifier technology to manage devices and infrastructure using internet.

Key Features

• Under the collaboration, both partners will initially focus on testing the use of the domain name system (DNS) to modernise internet of things (IoT) firmware and studying how the proposed technology would be used outside a lab environment.
• The initiative aims to direct people looking to update their IoT devices and infrastructure to other manufacturers or vendor in case the original seller has ....