By Amy E. Bivins of bna.com ICANN Trademark Jargon, Like everything else at ICANN, trademark-related discussions are laced with acronyms and buzzwords that can make communications nearly unintelligible to those unfamiliar with the relevant shorthand. These terms of interest to brand owners come up most often: ACPA. Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. A U.S. statute that …
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 largely via domain name registration fees in the .org top level domain. In other words, ISOC’s funding depends on …
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 the end of September 2015. One provision of the omnibus bill would delay the IANA transition until after the September 30, 2015 expiration of …
Internet Society CEO Kathy Brown has rebuffed efforts to get her onside a controversial new body that plans to steer the internet. Despite a series of private meetings with the ICANN-backed NetMundial Initiative (NMI), Brown noted in a blog post on Monday: “It is fair to say that issues, including the need for the NMI …
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 for Communications and Information at the PLI/FCBA Telecommunications Policy & Regulation Institute, Washington, DC, December 4, 2014 (go to the link above for complete copy): “… we [NTIA] play a central …
The DCA Vs ICANN IRP has taken a new turn. According to the newly published documents that include Ms. Sophia Bekele’s expert testimony and the Second Memorial on the Merits by DCA’s legal representatives, new explosive details have been brought to the fore on how the .Africa new gTLD application was processed. Bekele has detailed …
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee – CGI.br, in a meeting on November 28, 2014, at its headquarters in São Paulo, SP, while fully subscribing to the last Public Note on the NETmundial Initiative prepared by its Working Group on Internet Governance, as available in <http://www.cgi.br/noticia/public-declaration-on-the-netmundial-initiative-issued-by-members-of-the-board-of-cgi-br/>, decided to provide these additional clarifications in view of the …
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 November 2014. The Conclusions underline “that the governance of Internet is expected to include all stakeholders” and “the importance of strengthening the Internet Governance Forum …
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 Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for ICANN “convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role” with regard to the …
The people behind a plan to create a sort-of UN Security Council for the internet have backed down from giving themselves permanent seats on the panel. Domain-names overlord ICANN, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Brazilian internet body CGI.br – which are behind what’s called the NetMundial Initiative – announced the climbdown earlier today. It …