Theory Vs Reality, Rep. John Shimkus weighs in on IANA transition: Keeping...
By Rep. John Shimkus on rollcall.com Summary: In theory, this transition follows a long-anticipated, congressionally endorsed plan to empower Internet architects and engineers, civil society, and...
View ArticleGrand opposition to the Proposed Bylaws Changes Regarding Consideration of...
The Internet community is proving to be a force which is not looking back, this comes in light of a recent surprising bylaw change proposal that would require 2/3 of the voting members of the Board to...
View ArticleICANN 51: United States will not allow the global Internet to be co-opted by...
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, addressing attendees at the opening ceremony of ICANN‘s 51st public meeting in Los Angeles, declared unwavering support for the United States government’s decision to...
View ArticleWhy Commerce Secretary Pritzker’s ICANN remarks on US commitment to the...
Techpolicydaily: This week’s ICANN meeting is setting the tone for other upcoming Internet governance conferences dealing with strategies for managing the Internet infrastructure as a global asset....
View ArticleICANN Stakeholders Explore Rep. Kelly’s Defending Internet Freedom Act
Washington Internet Daily – ICANN Stakeholders Deplore Kelly’s Defending Internet Freedom Act The Defending Internet Freedom Act (HR-5737), if passed, would essentially reduce ICANN to a U.S....
View ArticleICANN Cross Community Working Group (CWG) publishes the draft transition...
ICANN Cross Community Working Group (CWG) has published the draft transition proposal for public comment. The comment period opened on 1 December 2014. Following the request of the National...
View ArticleICANN Welcomes the EU Council’s Conclusions on Internet Governance
December 2, 2014 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today welcome the EU Council on Telecommunication (TTE) for its Conclusions on Internet Governance adopted on 27...
View ArticleLawrence E. Strickling on ICANN, IANA: Accountability process needs to...
Remarks by Assistant Secretary Strickling at the PLI/FCBA Telecommunications Policy & Regulation Institute | NTIA: Excerpts from remarks by Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce...
View ArticleBreaking: U.S. Government Funding Bill Delays IANA Transition
By Philip S. Corwin on CircleID: On the evening of Tuesday, September 9th, Congressional leaders unveiled a 1,603 page, $1.01 trillion FY 2015 appropriations bill to fund the U.S. government through...
View ArticleKarl Auerbach on the Joint Statement from Chairmen of ISOC and ICANN
Karl Auerbach has commented on the Joint Statement from Chairmen of ISOC and ICANN below The chairmen of ICANN and ISOC put out a joint statement. What was not mentioned is that ISOC gets its funding...
View ArticleSophia Bekele calls for a New Body to Oversight ICANN
Sophia Bekele the Founder of DCA Trust has given her views the ICANN-IANA transition for 2015, calling for a new body to work with NTIA. “Therefore, I wish to call for the establishment of such a new...
View ArticleIANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) announced its transition...
The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) announced its transition proposal Assembly and Finalization Process –...
View ArticleCo-Chairs of CCWG-Accountability Publish High Level Statements
On behalf of the Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) Accountability, the co-chairs Thomas Rickert (GNSO), León Sanchez Ambia (ALAC) and Mathieu Weill (ccNSO) are pleased to announce that the CCWG has...
View ArticleUS Government expected to take Exceptionalism over Internet Governance issues...
The US government is being watched closely on how it is going to act in 2015 on matters that affect the Internet Governance space says Sophia Bekele in her 2015 Oped “Wikileaks 2012, NSA 2013, NTIA...
View ArticleSenator John Thune on ICANN: “There is much oversight that Congress and my...
As reported on internetcommerce.org Senate Commerce Committee Plans ICANN Oversight Hearing Elections do have consequences. Last year outgoing Senate Commerce Committee Chairman (D-WV) Jay Rockefeller...
View ArticleLawrence Strickling: “There is no hard and fast deadline for...
As written by Brett D. Schaefer, Paul S. Rosenzweig and James L. Gattuso on Heritage.org Time Is Running Out: The U.S. Must Be Prepared to Renew the ICANN Contract Last March, the National...
View ArticleICANN 52: A Proposal for Creation of “Community Veto” Process on ICANN...
By Robin Gross on CircleID Below is the text of a proposal made today to ICANN’s Cross Community Working Group on Accountability (CCWG-ACCT) to create a community veto process over certain key...
View ArticleIGP The last third: Why the IANA transition for names is hard
It is asserted that ICANN was “purpose-built” to operate the IANA functions. This is only partly true. ICANN’s original design, in which the IANA functions were a central aspect, was abandoned very...
View ArticleLawrence E. Strickling: We have the flexibility to extend ICANN contract if...
Lawrence E. Strickling has said in his latest post-ICANN 52 Singapore blog that “While September 2015 has been a target date, because that is when the base period of our contract with ICANN expires,...
View ArticleSophia Bekele, “No Legal Basis for IANA Transition”: A Post-Mortem Analysis...
As published on CircleID Only proper regulation by an independent agency with full Congressional mandate will ensure that a ‘FIFA-Mafia type’ organization of systematic corruption does not emerge....
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