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Featured Blogs The Two Sides of Net Neutrality
Over the last decade or so the telecoms industry has been at loggerheads with the content providers and distributors (OTT companies) regarding the use of the infrastructure by the OTT players. On one side we have the people arguing for net neutrality (leave the OTT players alone), and on the other we have the telcos wanting to charge certain players for using their network. The whole issue came to a head, when in mid April the FCC decided to allow telecom operators (or ISPs as they are called in the USA) to charge content providers for higher quality services. more »
May 04, 2014 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 7
Related Topics: Access Providers, Internet Governance, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation Outcome from NETMundial Meeting in Brazil Largely Seen as Positive for Business
Last Month at the NETMundial meeting in Brazil, representatives from governments, private sector, civil society, the technical community and academia met to debate the key principles on which the Internet should evolve. The meeting culminated in a supporting the principles of a decentralized and multistakeholder (ie: non-governmental) driven Internet ecosystem, committed to principles of openness, fairness, accessibility, security and safety. more »
May 04, 2014 - by Kiran Malancharuvil - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement Concludes Act One of 2014 Internet Governance Trifecta
On April 24th the NETmundial "Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance" concluded with the issuance of an eight-page statement. This non-binding document falls short of the "Magna Carta for the Internet" called for in an opening statement delivered by Tim Berners Lee, but it does set the stage for the other two major 2014 events that will affect the course of Internet Governance (IG) - the IGF meeting in Istanbul, Turkey and the ITU meeting in Busan, Korea. more »
May 03, 2014 - by Philip S. Corwin - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Censorship, ICANN, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation Who Will Apply for .SCOUT in Round 2
I was pretty much suprised not to see any application for .SCOUT in round 1 of the ICANN new gTLD program. There were two applications for .GUIDE but a guide is a guide and a scout...is a scout. I remember going to meetings and introducing the potential of .SCOUT. Basically, what is say on my personal website: "I look forward to organize a team around one major Community project for round 2. more »
May 02, 2014 - by Jean Guillon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Top-Level Domains Peering and Interconnection Key to a Competitive American Telecoms Market
Peering has come back in the news with the FCC mentioning it in its set of reviews of the telecommunications market in the USA, following its Network Neutrality decision. The peering and interconnect issues are going to the heart of the telecoms matter in relation to competition, innovation and the Open Network. You don't need Network Neutrality rules, if you have a well functioning, transparent, interoperable and competitive infrastructure environment. more »
May 01, 2014 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation Wow! BIND9 9.10 Is out, and What a List of Features!
Today the e-mail faerie brought news of the release of BIND9 9.10.0 which can be downloaded from here. BIND9 is the most popular name server on the Internet and has been ever since taking that title away from BIND8 which had a few years earlier taken it from BIND4. I used to work on BIND, and I founded ISC, the home of BIND, and even though I left ISC in July 2013 to launch a commercial security startup company, I remain a fan of both ISC and BIND. more »
Apr 30, 2014 - by Paul Vixie - Comments: 6
Related Topics: DNS, DNS Security, Security Summary Report Now Posted of W3C/IAB "Strengthening The Internet (STRINT)" Workshop
Given that I've written here about the original call for papers for the W3C/IAB "Strengthening The Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)" Workshop and then subsequently that the STRINT submitted papers were publicly available, I feel compelled to close the loop and note that a report about the STRINT workshop has been publicly published as an Internet-draft. more »
Apr 30, 2014 - by Dan York - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Internet Protocol, Privacy, Security, Web A New Blog About "New gTLDs"
There are many blogs about new gTLDs. Some are interesting, others are not. Some are about domaining in which new gTLDs are included, some are from Law Firms and rather repetitive about the necessity to protect a brand in the Trademark Clearinghouse and how URS is the best (billable) mechanism to protect the brand; some are truly about domain names and remain must-read; very few are about new gTLDs only. more »
Apr 30, 2014 - by Jean Guillon - Comments: 15
Related Topics: Top-Level Domains Parallel Processes: ICANN Accountability and the IANA Transition
ICANN President Fadi Chehade gave Internet stakeholders a welcome surprise last week when he announced ICANN would launch a community-driven process to strengthen its accountability, and that this process would be "interdependent" with the transition of IANA functions away from U.S. Government oversight. It was fitting that Fadi announced the accountability process at NETmundial in Sao Paolo, where Internet stakeholders from around the world gathered to discuss the evolution of the global Internet governance. more »
Apr 29, 2014 - by Steve DelBianco - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance Net Neutrality? Give Me a Break
As my learned friend John Levine has noted, rightly, any policy that anyone has come up with thus far regarding net neutrality is based upon a Telco model. Now, think about that for a second. A telephone call costs pretty much the same if you whisper or shout. It costs the same if you make a quick phone-call or you yack for hours. These days, even long distance is trivially inexpensive, because the capacity to carry the world's phone-calls is well beyond any foreseeable demand. There is huge headroom. more »
Apr 29, 2014 - by Neil Schwartzman - Comments: 6
Related Topics: Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation What Does "Network Neutrality" Mean?
A lot of ink and pixels have been spilled about the FCC's new rules for network neutrality. It's impossible to comment sensibly yet about the actual proposal, since as far as I know it's not been published anywhere, but the various news reports have left me confused about just what is being addressed. There are a number of different sorts of behavior that can result in performance differences to the end user... The purpose of this post is to give a simplified (with luck, not too horribly oversimplified) explanation of the different issues here. more »
Apr 29, 2014 - by Steven Bellovin - Comments: 3
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation Telecoms Still Not Seen As Good Infrastructure Investment
It is interesting that when governments and financial investors, such as superannuation funds, talk about infrastructure investments and infrastructure investment funds they rarely include telecommunications in their deliberations... Most politicians and infrastructure investors have problems seeing telecoms infrastructure in that context. From a visionary and strategic aspect one could argue that, at a political level at least, telecoms should be seen as, and included in any policies on, national infrastructure. more »
Apr 29, 2014 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
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