Corwin: ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade passed secret resolutions, used NSA spy leaks as “false premise” to strip control from U.S. Philip Corwin, Founding principal of Virtualaw LLC, and ICANN watchdog for the Internet Commerce Association, spoke out recently at the 49th ICANN meeting. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is in charge of assigning …
Two ICANN boards tasked with reviewing requests for further reconsiderations in the new gTLD programme. This is intended to give applicants a fair evaluation of their requests before any exhaustive solutions are made on the 185, 000 USD applications. Such applications that have to go through the committees include those which GAC objections and are …
Remember the TLD Application System (TAS) glitch? Well ICANN has just experienced another Glitch. According to ICANN, CZDS is temporarily offline while ICANN investigates a technical issue with the system software. An update on system status will be posted by 23:59 UTC on 2 May 2014. Thank you for your patience. Read further reporting as …
According to Politico.com the House Appropriations Committee is proposing to slash NTIA spending by 20% to defund the IANA transition. APPROPRIATIONS REPORT CONCERNED ABOUT ICANN TRANSITION The House Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations subcommittee report on its FY15 funding bill unveiled this week expresses wariness about NTIA’s plan to relinquish oversight of ICANN, according to an excerpt of …
Sourced from Internet Law Center Cyber Report ilccyberreport According to a report in All Africa, the African Union barred African internet entrepreneur Sophia Bekele, founder of the DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA), from speaking at the ITU’s “Girls in ICT” day event held at the AU headquarters. The reason? Bekele’s DCA has also applied for the .africa gTLD and is …
As the NetMundial global meeting on the future of Internet Governance convenes in Brazil today, the fallout stemming from the Obama administration’s announcement it would cede the United States’ remaining control of the Internet to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers beginning in 2015 continues. Thanks to political pressure coming from Capitol Hill, the …
It appears the Africa Union Commission’s epic fight with the .africa contestant DotConnectAfrica is not yet over, according to a recent report: AUC blocks Sophia Bekele from ITU event over DotAfrica dispute . Sophia Bekele the DCA Executive Director had been invited to give a Key Note speech at the annual Girl’s ICT day on …
If ICANN remains stubborn about its scoping gambit, it could threaten the legitimacy as well as the practical success of the whole transition. There is a legitimate debate to be had about whether the transition is best accomplished by keeping IANA in ICANN or moving it somewhere else. We need to have that discussion. The …
It was a very reactionary decision from Brazil to organise this meeting,…..But I don’t think anything new or creative or different is going to come out. A meeting to determine how the internet should be governed gets under way in Sao Paulo, Brazil later. The country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, organised the two-day NetMundial event following …
Fadi Chehadé’s last claim to fame in his short technical career and at IBM is merging the technical standards from various Technology Vendors. No wonder he thinks he could do the same with the Internet standards organizations whose leaders have called themselves the I* and think they should lead the Multi-stakeholder model of the global …