A Congressional hearing called “Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation” has been scheduled by the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet It will take place in Washington DC next Wednesday, May 13. The announcement has however not listed any …
By CircleID Reporter Allen Grogan, ICANN’s Chief Contract Compliance Officer, has written a blog post today concerning a formal letter it has received asking the agency to halt the rollout of .SUCKS, a new gTLD operated by Vox Populi Registry Inc. The complaint letter received by ICANN describes the proposed business practices and actions of …
DCA has won yet another IRP duel after the Panel ruled in favor of its own arguments. The Panel arbitrating the DCA Trust vs. ICANN IRP has declared that; “After deliberation and careful consideration by all three Panel member o the Parties respective submissions and supporting authorities, the Panel is unanimously of the view that …
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 important responsibility of aspects of the IANA Transition proposal to a group of people that presumably do not understand how the …
The Right2Know Campaign has issued a statement in response to the South African Film & Publication Board’s (FPB) recent draft policy proposing to regulate online content in the country, rejecting the plan as “unnecessary censorship” and “unconstitutional”. The policy claims that regulation of online content is the prerogative of the FPB, as a purported means …
A public discussion of the outcome of the first ICANN IRP ruling of the new gTLD process has found its way to the Cross-Community Working Group as one of the current topics on Enhancing ICANN Accountability. Whereas the entire ICANN community appears to work towards ways to improve the ICANN accountability mechanism some members from …
Source: CIO East Africa – Top Story The ICANN proposed Bylaws revisions that would incorporate a higher voting threshold for the Board to determine not to follow the advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has officially been “taken off the table”. Although a surprise announcement to the community, this has been confirmed by the …
The ICANN CEO has finally clarified ICANN’s position on the NETMundial Initiative. Giving his answer in one of the ICANN meetings during the Singapore 52 meeting, he put to rest the mounting questions over the relationships between ICANN, WEF, NETMundial and other partnerships formed during the formative stages of the Initiative. The NETMundial took center …
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 resisted member requests to engage in oversight on the Obama Administration’s March 2014 announcement that it intended to end the U.S. counterparty role on the IANA functions contract and turn …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, chairman of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, and Sen. Roy Blunt, member of the Senate Commerce Committee, introduced a resolution Tuesday to increase awareness of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s announced intention to transition its stewardship role over the Internet’s domain name system to the global community. …