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Featured Blogs The ITU Plenipotentiary: Member States Decrease Financial Contributions
The ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary Conference wraps up at the end of the week. The more than 2000 people present in Busan Korea from 171 countries -- overwhelmingly government bureaucrats -- have been busily polishing nearly a hundred resolutions on everything that ails them. The good news is that some sanity seems to have prevailed and most of the really extreme provisions apparently disappeared during the ensuing dialogue. One of the reasons for the change of heart is the realization that the ITU emperor's budget for clothes is disappearing. more »
Nov 03, 2014 - by Anthony Rutkowski - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Telecom Europe and Data Protection: We Need a Real Debate - Exactly What We Don't Have Now
Europe is at the forefront of the global debate about data protection and privacy. Unfortunately that debate is characterised more by hyberbole and scaremongering than real discussion. Europeans deserve better -- and so does the world, who rightly see Europe as a leader on this subject. The new Commission has a chance to truly lead in partnership with governments, like Brazil, that agree with us. more »
Nov 03, 2014 - by Nick Ashton-Hart - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation, Privacy Data Mining - The Next Driver of Mobile Revenue
I have often argued that in both the fixed and the mobile telecoms markets the actual telecoms element is a utility -- a utility that allows for an enormous range of new services, new business models and new applications. For this reason the argument for more than a decade (since 2002 to be precise) has been that structural separation of the vertically-integrated telecom model is needed in order to unleash the huge potential of telecoms. If that doesn't happen technologies will be applied that allow the users to bypass the barriers set up by the telcos to protect their utility. more »
Nov 03, 2014 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Mobile, Policy & Regulation, Telecom Zero-Rating and the Creation of Digital Castes
During the last Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul, a day was devoted to Net Neutrality with three panels devoted to the subject. The first was exactly about Zero-Rating: Net Neutrality, Zero-Rating & Development: What's the Data? the second was Network Neutrality: a Roadmap for Infrastructure Enhancement and last, the main session Network Neutrality: Towards a Common Understanding of a Complex Issue and Zero-rating was discussed on all three panels. more »
Nov 03, 2014 - by Joao Carlos Caribe - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Internet Governance, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation 45th Anniversary of the First Message Between ARPAnet Computers
Given that CircleID is about "Internet Infrastructure" it would be remiss if there wasn't a mention here that October 29, 2014, was the 45th anniversary of the moment when the first message was sent between two ARPAnet computers located at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). That moment was chronicled well this year by Matt Novak writing on Gizmodo's Paleofuture, complete with photos of the original logs and more. more »
Oct 31, 2014 - by Dan York - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Protocol Enhanced Confusion: The European Council and the Governance of the Internet
On November 1, 2014, the new European Commission started its work. One of the priorities of its new president, Jean Claude Juncker, is the digital agenda. The European Union wants to be a leader in the Internet world of tomorrow. Vice President Andrus Ansip from Estonia (some people spell the country name "e-stonia") and Commissioner Günter Oettinger from Germany will have special responsibilities to implement the big plans. Juncker was elected by the European Parliament, although the green light for his nomination came from the European Council. more »
Oct 31, 2014 - by Wolfgang Kleinwächter - Comments: 1
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation Deadline of Oct 31 to Register for IAB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet
Can we develop better transport protocols for communication across the Internet? In a world where the "end-to-end" principle is no longer certain and middleboxes are common, which paths through the Internet are actually available to applications? Which transports can be used over these paths? How can applications cooperate with network elements to improve path establishment and discovery? ... These are all questions posed for the Internet Architecture Board's (IAB) Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI). Taking place in Zürich, Switzerland from 26-27 January, 2015. more »
Oct 30, 2014 - by Dan York - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Protocol Stopping Illegal Activity Online - It's More Complicated Than It Seems
There was a compelling article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) the other day about ICANN and illegal online pharmacies. The result of a six-month investigation, the reporter, Jeff Elder, calls into question ICANN's effectiveness in investigating complaints of suspected illegal activity on domain names it has a contractual relationship with. Elder cites a recent incident where Interpol and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration tried to have 1,300 websites shut down because they were suspected of selling drugs without a prescription. more »
Oct 30, 2014 - by Byron Holland - Comments: 4
Related Topics: Cybercrime, ICANN, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation The "Bottom Dilemma"
I attended the 46th ICANN meeting in Beijing, China, and made a statementat on the panel "Internet Governance -- The Global Agenda", questioning the limits of the multistakeholder model, or more precisely the "bottom" of the bottom-up concept. My expectation was enormous, just at the time when two important meetings on governance and information society are in evidence: the WCIT and WSIS +10. more »
Oct 30, 2014 - by Joao Carlos Caribe - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance Taking It to the Streets
It is interesting to see telecommunications policy issues being covered by the general media. Of course, we expect to see coverage of communications issues in the business press. The sector is a large employer, makes massive investments in infrastructure and virtually every citizen buys communications products and services every month. Still, covering the sector in the business section is different from seeing coverage move to the front page or the general editorial pages. more »
Oct 30, 2014 - by Mark Goldberg - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Broadband, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation, Telecom The New TLD Registry Example to Follow
With lessons learnt from the first Round, what does a new applicant need to know to prepare for the coming Round? Which example should he follow to increase his chances of success? I have had the chance to read about new domain names sales figure expectations, prior to the launching of Round one of the ICANN new gTLD program. Comments that I read and feed-backs that I have today are: "our expectations are the one we wrote on the paper and we are happy with them". more »
Oct 29, 2014 - by Jean Guillon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Registry Services, Top-Level Domains The ITU Busan Plenipotentiary
The ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan South Korea is the quadrennial gathering where its Nation State Members gather to elect new leadership of its four permanent secretariats and populate a few other of its assorted bodies. The next two weeks are spent in endless sessions where several regional blocs of Members still enamored with pre-liberalization telecom models complain about the new world of telecommunications that they did not invent -- while engaging in copious use of their new smart phones and online services. more »
Oct 28, 2014 - by Anthony Rutkowski - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance Summary of the Registration Operations Association Workshop
The first Registration Operations Association Workshop took place on Thursday, 16 October 2014, at the Los Angeles Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel. I'd like to thank the 64 people that took the time to attend and participate in the discussion, both in-person and remote. I started the workshop with an introduction to some of the technical challenges being faced by the domain registration industry. more »
Oct 28, 2014 - by Scott Hollenbeck - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, Domain Names, Registry Services
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