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Featured Blogs IANA Transition Set to Disrupt ICANN Operations
The US Government's decision to transition its oversight of the IANA function to a multi-national, multi stakeholder organisation is set to impact ICANN's standard operations. On April 25, ICANN Board Chair Steve Crocker send an email to the ICANN community leaders suggesting changes to the agenda for the upcoming 50th International ICANN meeting, set to be held in London from June 22 to 26. more »
Apr 28, 2014 - by Stéphane Van Gelder - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, ICANN, Internet Governance, IP Addressing, Top-Level Domains A Civil Society Perspective on NETmundial Final Outcome: A Remarkable Achievement Despite Losses
few 'big picture' thoughts on the Netmundial meeting in Brazil this week and its final outcome document, adopted by its high level committee. Overall, there are some truly amazing and forward-looking principles supported in the "Netmundial Multi-Stakeholder Statement" that we as civil society should be proud of, and especially our civil society representatives who worked tirelessly for this achievement. more »
Apr 27, 2014 - by Robin Gross - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation RIP Network Neutrality
It's been an interesting couple of months in the ongoing tensions between Internet carriage and content service providers, particularly in the United States. The previous confident assertion was that the network neutrality regulatory measures in that country had capably addressed these tensions. While the demands of the content industry continue to escalate as the Internet rapidly expands into video content streaming models, we are seeing a certain level of reluctance from the carriage providers to continually accommodate these expanding demands... more »
Apr 26, 2014 - by Geoff Huston - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation, Telecom The Illusion of Internet Governance
There's been a lot of controversy over the U.S. Government's proposal to give up their supervisory role over ICANN. This lead Karl Auerbach, one of the only people ever elected to represent end-users in cyberspace, to write this letter to Congress. Karl did an excellent job as North America's first elected representative in cyberspace. He fought for things that would have made Internet governance more representative, and more transparent. more »
Apr 26, 2014 - by Jay Fenello - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation Stop the Presses! No Consensus at NetMundial!
We could see it as a victory for those advocating changes and adjustments in the system of internet governance. Au contraire... we could consider it as the debacle of the good intentions... all ending up in not knowing if it was worth it. I say and maintain, that the effort and the earned contributions were worth it. The final result is that ICANN should be strengthened to recognize its merits and achievements, not underestimate what this organization has accomplished in fifteen years of hard and continuous work. more »
Apr 25, 2014 - by Javier Rodriguez - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation The Cost of an ISO 27001 Certification
The first question I often get when talking to IT Service providers on ISO 27001 certification is: "How much does it cost to get it?" I like to reply with a question: "how much does it cost when you don't have it?" The answer to the first question is easy, the answer to the second one is more complicated. As a financial I am interested in the business case. If the cost of not having an ISO 27001 certification is higher than the cost of getting and maintaining one, you can actually make a profitable investment by getting certified. more »
Apr 25, 2014 - by Jos van Schaik - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Security Overcoming Cloud Storage Security Concerns: 7 Key Steps
According to a 2013 TwinStrata survey, 46 percent of organizations use cloud storage services and 38 percent plan to adopt this technology in the near future. Cloud storage capacity demands are increasing 40 to 60 percent year-over-year, while storage density lags behind at 20 percent. The result? More data, growing demands for space and increasing security concerns. How do enterprises overcome cloud storage security challenges? more »
Apr 25, 2014 - by David Eisner - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cloud Computing, Security Permissionless Innovation: Why It Matters
We live in a world of information abundance and the proliferation of ideas. Through mobile devices, tablets, laptops and computers we can access and create any sort of data in a ubiquitous way. But, it was not always like that. Before the Internet information was limited and was travelling slow. Our ancestors depended on channels of information that were often subjected to various policy and regulatory restrictions. The Internet changed all that. more »
Apr 24, 2014 - by Konstantinos Komaitis - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation, Web AOL Has a Security Hole, and It's Our Problem
Two weeks ago I wrote about Yahoo's unfortunate mail security actions. Now it's AOL's turn, and the story, as best as I can piece it together, is not pretty. Yahoo used an emerging system called DMARC, which was intended to fight phishing of often forged domains like paypal.com. A domain owner can publish a DMARC "reject" policy which, oversimplifying a little, tells the world that if mail with their name on the 'From:' line didn't come from their servers, it's not from them so you should reject it. more »
Apr 23, 2014 - by John Levine - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Email Better Than Best Efforts Routing of Mission Critical Traffic and the FCC
It appears that the FCC will permit exceptions to the standard, plain vanilla best efforts routing standard for Internet traffic, such as the paid peering arrangement recently negotiated between Comcast and Netflix. In both academic and applied papers I have supported this option, with several major conditions... With no opposition that I have seen, companies like Akamai offer better than best efforts routing of "mission critical" traffic from content source to last mile, "retail" Internet Service Providers. more »
Apr 23, 2014 - by Rob Frieden - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation, Web Former ICANN Board Member to Congress - ICANN Needs Oversight
Karl Auerbach has written a quite long but very detailed and well thought out letter to Congress. It's not clear which members of Congress were sent the letter. Karl Auerbach is a former member of ICANN's board and is probably best remembered by many as having taken ICANN to court (and winning) in order to gain access to the organisation's financial records. more »
Apr 23, 2014 - by Michele Neylon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance Spotlight on African Contributions to Internet Governance Discussions (Part 1: NETmundial)
The internet affects every individual in this world whether directly or indirectly. For example, a medical professional somewhere in Goma, Congo might access the internet to read and post reviews to current medication available and this might have an impact on the kind of medication that he/she recommends to the patient, whether the patient has access to affordable internet or not. Since the internet affects everyone, Africans citizens who are aware of internet governance discussions, expect African stakeholders to engage in these discussions. more »
Apr 23, 2014 - by Ephraim Percy Kenyanito - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Censorship, Internet Governance, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation, Privacy The Importance of IP Resource Planning in Government ICT Strategic Plans
It seems everywhere I turn, there's someone throwing around statistics for how the Internet and broadband will drive economic growth, create jobs, end world hunger and bring world peace (ok, maybe not the later). Sure enough, government officials are buying into that rhetoric and extending it in initiatives like national broadband strategies, cybercrime and cybersecurity plans as well as e-governance strategies. more »
Apr 22, 2014 - by Mukom Akong Tamon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cybercrime, Internet Governance, Internet Protocol, IP Addressing, IPv6, Net Neutrality, Regional Registries, Telecom Doing Crypto
The recent discovery of the goto fail and heartbleed bugs has prompted some public discussion on a very important topic: what advice should cryptologists give to implementors who need to use crypto? What should they do? There are three parts to the answer: don't invent things; use ordinary care; and take special care around crypto code. more »
Apr 22, 2014 - by Steven Bellovin - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Security European Data Protection Supervisor Smacks ICANN Over Privacy Issues With 2013 RAA
ICANN has been sent a letter by the European Data Protection Supervisor calling them out with respect to both data collection, retention and privacy within the context of the 2013 Registrar contract (RAA). The letter is the first instance of one, to my knowledge, which makes reference to the ECJ's recent ruling that rendered the data retention directive null and void. more »
Apr 18, 2014 - by Michele Neylon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, ICANN, Policy & Regulation, Privacy Verisign's Preliminary Comments on ICANN's Name Collisions Phase One Report
Verisign posted preliminary public comments on the "Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions" Phase One Report released by ICANN earlier this month. JAS Global Advisors, authors of the report contracted by ICANN, have done solid work putting together a set of recommendations to address the name collisions problem, which is not an easy one, given the uncertainty for how installed systems actually interact with the global DNS. However, there is still much work to be done. I have outlined the four main observations... more »
Apr 16, 2014 - by Burt Kaliski - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Policy & Regulation, Security, Top-Level Domains Blocking Amplification Attacks: Sometimes the Incentives Work Against You
Since the end of last year, amplification attacks have been increasingly used by attackers and received heavy media coverage. Everyday protocols not given much thought before, like Network Time Protocol (NTP), can be asked in a very short remote command to send a very large response (list of 600 clients last connected to the NTP server) to a spoofed IP address (the target) by the requestor/attacker. more »
Apr 15, 2014 - by Bryant Rump - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, DDoS, Security
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