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Featured Blogs The Framing of "IP Transition" Fails to Come to Terms With Real Impact of the Internet
I keep seeing so many articles about the Internet and related policy issues that it's hard to know how to respond. The term "IP Transition" may be a good starting point since the term is an attempt to treat the Internet as a smooth transition rather accepting the idea that we are in the midst of a disruptive change. It seems that the FCC's approach is to simply substitute IP for old protocols and to preserve policies tied to the accidental properties of a copper infrastructure. This shows a failure to come to terms with the new reality. more »
Nov 27, 2013 - by Bob Frankston - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Policy & Regulation, Telecom Rewiring Internet Governance: Step One Is About ICANN (Part 1)
It is time for some straight talk about governance. The word "governance" used here means authority. It does not merely mean rules, or coercion, or any other weasel-worded definitions that deflect our attention from the art of good governance as distinct from self-serving opportunism and illusory power sharing. Politics, as Theodore Lowi reminded us, is ultimately about "who gets what". Quibbling with endless essays about who rules the root is useful, but not demonstrative. more »
Nov 26, 2013 - by Frederick Harris - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance Telecoms As a Spying Tool
With more and more stories coming in from all over the world about the prolific use of telecommunications to spy on what people are doing, the ball has been thrown back into the industry's court, to do something about it. In principle, ever since telecoms came into existence in the 1850s spying was high on the agenda of the people who started to use the new technology. In 1865 countries formed the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). This later became the first institution under the UN and all countries in the world are a member. more »
Nov 25, 2013 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Privacy, Telecom Nov 25th Deadline To Nominate Technical Community Reps for IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG)
Would you (or someone you know) be interested in representing the "technical community" on the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)? If so, the deadline to nominate someone (including yourself) is Monday, November 25, 2013. Under-Secretary-General Wu Hongbo of UNDESA has issued a statement on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) renewal process for 2014 with the stated aim of rotating one third of the MAG members. more »
Nov 22, 2013 - by Dan York - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance Conclusion: SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback (Part 4 of 4)
ICANN's second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause "severe harm," and that SLD can potentially be blocked for a certain period of time. The extent to which that provision would need to be exercised remains to be determined. However, given the concerns outlined in Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, it seems likely that there could be many additions (and deletions!) from the blocked list given the lack of correlation between the DITL data and actual at-risk queries. more »
Nov 21, 2013 - by Burt Kaliski - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, Domain Names, ICANN, Security, Top-Level Domains 2014 M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award Nominations Now Being Accepted
In 2010 the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) and the Internet industry as a whole lost a great friend and supporter, Mary Litynski. Her dedication, excellence, perseverance and tireless work behind the scenes of M3AAWG helped make the organization the success that it is today. Through this award, M3AAWG seeks to bring attention to the remarkable work that is done far from the public eye over a significant period of time... more »
Nov 21, 2013 - by Neil Schwartzman - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cybercrime, Email, Malware, Privacy, Spam Booting Up Brazil
The improvised alliance between ICANN and the government of Brazil is now beginning to take shape. The "summit" that President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil announced last month now has a name: the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. It's no longer a summit, it's a GMMFIG. (Shall we pronounce it gum-fig?) The meeting will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 23 and 24. Don't book your tickets yet, though -- we are still debating how open this meeting will be. more »
Nov 21, 2013 - by Milton Mueller - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance The ICANN Quilombo
Argentines use the word "quilombo" to describe "a real mess", which is what I feared was awaiting us at the outset of ICANN's meeting in Buenos Aires this week. Since then, ICANN President Fadi Chehade has done a good job cleaning-up the internal process quilombo he and the board created. But ICANN's leadership has left the ICANN community struggling to answer deep and ongoing questions about the future of the Internet and the multistakeholder model. more »
Nov 20, 2013 - by Steve DelBianco - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation TPP IP Chapter Leaks Reveal New U.S. Proposed Regulations for Country-Code Domain Names
The leaked Trans Pacific Partnership intellectual property chapter has revealed a number of U.S. proposals including U.S. demands for Internet provider liability that could lead to subscriber termination, content blocking, and ISP monitoring, copyright term extension and anti-counterfeiting provisions. This post discusses Article QQ.C.12 on domain names. more »
Nov 20, 2013 - by Michael Geist - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation, Whois
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