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ICANN
103 items.
10 Jun 2014
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CIS Comments: Enhancing ICANN AccountabilityOn May 6, 2014, ICANN published a call for public comments on "Enhancing ICANN Accountability". This comes in the wake of the IANA stewardship transition spearheaded by ICANN and related concerns of ICANN's external and internal …
10 May 2014
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Net Freedom Campaign Loses its WayA recent global meet was a victory for governments and the private sector over civil society interests.
25 Apr 2014
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NETmundial Day 2Fadi Chehade, the ICANN boss, closed NETmundial 2014 with these words "In Africa we say if you want to go first, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together." He should have added: And if you want to go nowhere, go multi-stakeholder.
24 Apr 2014
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NETmundial: Tracking *Multistakeholder* across ContributionsThis set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the …
24 Apr 2014
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NETmundial Day 1Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's speech at the opening of NETmundial in São Paulo was refreshingly free of the UN-speak that characterised virtually every single other presentation this morning. The experience of sitting for five hours …
24 Apr 2014
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Brazil passes Marco Civil; the US-FCC Alters its Stance on Net NeutralityHopes for the Internet rise and fall rapidly. Yesterday, on April 23, 2014, Marco Civil da Internet, the Brazilian Bill of Internet rights, was passed by the Brazilian Senate into law.
23 Apr 2014
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NETmundial Roadmap: Defining the Roles of Stakeholders in MultistakeholderismNETmundial, one of the most anticipated events in the Internet governance calendar, will see the global community convening at Sao Paolo, with an aim to establish 'strategic guidelines related to the use and development of the Internet in …
22 Apr 2014
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NETmundial and Suggestions for IANA AdministrationFollowing NTIA's announcement to give up control over critical Internet functions, the discussion on how that role should be filled has gathered steam across the Internet governance space.
27 Mar 2014
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CIS Statement at ICANN 49's Public ForumThis was a statement made by Pranesh Prakash at the ICANN 49 meeting (on March 27, 2014), arguing that ICANN's bias towards the North America and Western Europe result in a lack of legitimacy, and hoping that the IANA transition process …
18 Mar 2014
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NTIA to give up control of the Internet's rootOn Friday evening the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it was setting into motion a transition to give up a few powers that it holds over some core Internet functions, and …
31 Mar 2013
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What’s In a Name? — DNS Singularity of ICANN and The Gold RushMarch 2013 being the 28th birthday of the first ever registered Internet domain as well as the exigent launch of the Trademark Clearing House disguised as a milestone in rights protection by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …
8 Oct 2009
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Control Shift?The USA has ceded control of the Internet over to Icann, but only partially. (This post appeared as an article in Down to Earth, in the issue dated November 15, 2009.)
7 Oct 2009
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The ICANN-US DOC 'Affirmation of Commitments' - A Step Forward?On 30 September 2009, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) signed an Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) with the US Government's Department of Commerce. For those of us who are concerned that the Internet should serve …