ICANN CEO caught on camera slamming Community Working Group (CWG) on IANA...
As writen by Kieren McCarthy on Theregister.co.uk Video footage has surfaced of ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade slagging off an independent team investigating how the internet’s crucial IANA body will be...
View ArticleTroubling Revelations Regarding the IANA Transition – Major Alarming Gaffes...
The one million dollar question however is: “If the ICANN CEO thinks that the CWG does not understand how the IANA functions work, and no body else understands it but ICANN, then why give such an...
View ArticleIANA Transition postponed to June 30, 2016. Will it ever happen?
More than 1,400 members of the global Internet community have gathered this week, both in-person and remotely, to discuss and debate the future of ICANN and Internet governance at the ICANN53 in Buenos...
View ArticleGreg Walden Led #SubCommTech Schedules Hearing to Exercise Oversight of...
“Oversight and transparency are necessary parts of any proposed transition of IANA stewardship to the multi-stakeholder Internet community,” said Walden. “The House has spoken to ensure our oversight...
View ArticleICANN loses .Africa case: IRP panel rules in favor of DCA
The .Africa IRP has finally been ruled in favour of DotConnectAfrica Trust as the prevailing partly in case that has dragged for two years. The panel that comprised of Mr. Babak Barin who was President...
View ArticleNear-final IANA Transition Proposal is a hodgepodge of ideas and compromises...
The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) has posted the first Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce...
View ArticleICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé resigns to Join ABRY Partners as U.S. Government...
Two ICANN related announcements were made yesterday, both may or not be related to the IANA transition plans, however one thing could be certain that one triggered the other. Last May, (ICANN)...
View ArticleEFF asks ICANN working group to make user privacy a central tenet of WHOIS...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reiterated this week to a working group at the ICANN that it “must make user privacy a central tenet of any new registration data system.” The Expert Working...
View ArticleAn unsupervised Post IANA-ICANN will be pressured by power hungry governments...
Sophia Bekele Internet expert and previous ICANN policy adviser, has warned in her article that if, as has been argued by some other writers, governments want more power within the ICANN ecosystem,...
View ArticleNorth America’s ARIN Officially Reaches IPv4 Addresses Depletion
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has issued the final IPv4 addresses in its free pool, this effectively means that the ARIN no longer holds any IPv4 addresses. Due to depletion of its...
View ArticleUS Senators Letter Questions GAO on whether Obama Administration has Power to...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman...
View ArticleIANA Transition Standoff: ICANN Board neither supports the Single Member...
The ICANN Boards Penchant for maintaining its status quo on power has triggered another multistakeholder storm after rejecting the second option of the Designator model.This is after rejecting the...
View ArticleSenators Thune, Schatz warn ICANN Board not to stymie accountability demands...
US Senators Chairman John Thune (R-SD) and colleague Brian Schatz [D-HI] have once again written to the ICANN Board concerning interference of the accountability steps and proposals to the IANA...
View ArticleCongressman Sean Duffy tells Chehade to ‘abandon plans to weaken the Internet’
The US Congressman Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) has sent a letter to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade urging him to abandon plans to weaken the Internet for users in the United States and around the world This is...
View ArticleRepublican Presidential Hopeful Ted Cruz says ICANN CEO Chehadé is misleading...
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) who is also a Republican Presidential hopeful has issued a statement yesterday regarding a letter that Cruz, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)...
View ArticleSens. Ted Cruz, Lankford, and Lee Raise New Concerns About ICANN’s...
Following last week’s statement by Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz that ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé was misleading the U.S. Senate over Wuzhen Conference, the Senator to gether with Sen. James...
View ArticleWalden #SubCommTech Announces Hearings on IANA Transition ‘Privatizing the...
WASHINGTON, DC – Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced in February that the subcommittee will continue its oversight of both the Federal Communications...
View ArticleICANN accused of Stonewalling Congress by US Senators Cruz, Lankford & Lee
On Monday, April 4th 2016, Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz along with James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have sent yet another pressing letter to ICANN seeking...
View ArticleNTIA OKs IANA Stewardship Transition but Sen. Ted Cruz Team maintain it is...
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced yesterday that the IANA transition proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder...
View ArticleWhy should Businesses care about IANA Transition?
Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced yesterday that the IANA transition proposal developed by the global Internet...
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