Most of the Internet’s users rely on the Domain Name System (DNS) and navigation aids or services to find the resources they seek or to attract users to the resources they provide. Yet, although they
perform well, both the DNS and Internet navigation services face challenges arising from technological change and from institutions with a wide variety of commercial, cultural, social, and political agendas.

Individually, or together, those pressures could force operational changes that would significantly reduce access to Internet-linked resources by segments of the user community, reducing the Internet's value as a global resource.