Senators Thune, Schatz warn ICANN Board not to stymie accountability demands as it jeopardizes IANA transition

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 transition as it would jeopardizes IANA transition. The ICANN Board has twice rejected proposals that would improve board accountability and the ability of the multistakholder …

US Senators Letter Questions GAO on whether Obama Administration has Power to allow IANA Transition

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 of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an affirmative determination of whether the Obama …

An unsupervised Post IANA-ICANN will be pressured by power hungry governments warns Internet Expert

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, an unsupervised PTI-ICANN will also be pressured by various governments. Read the article below on The Hill: November 2016 elections will determine …

Africa Union comes out shouting “accountability is dysfunctional over .Africa IRP ruling”

Following the 2 year long .Africa IRP where one applicant DCA Trust took ICANN to the independent review panel over how the domains organization handled its application, the Panel declared “that both the actions and inactions of the Board with respect to the application of DCA Trust relating to the .AFRICA gTLD were inconsistent with …

.africa applicant responds to ICANN Attorney Blog, says revoke ZACR’s Registry contract

DCA Trust has responded inline to the ICANN’s General Counsel & Secretary, John Jeffrey’s recent article. “.AFRICA IRP Declaration – Clearing Up Some Facts” here is a summary of the clarification Issue of Redaction of Parts of Final IRP Declaration On the thorny issue of many redactions that rocked ICANN immediately after the IRP final …

Near-final IANA Transition Proposal is a hodgepodge of ideas and compromises that fail US Government check list

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 Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to the Global Multistakeholder Community. Comments are due by the deadline of 8 September 2015 at 23:59 UTC. Te group …

“Case far from Closed” says BBC: Unsuccessful ICANN interview on .africa Cover up

In an interesting follow up response to last week’s BBC Click Program discussion on .Africa  dispute, the head of the ICANN’s Global Domains Division Akram Atallah  tried to clarify the issue of the wrongdoing and alleged coverup make by ICANN on the  .africa DCA VS ICANN IRP  case, which DCA prevailed in. Most interestingly, he …

DCA Trust’s Precedential Win over ICANN, .AFRICA the most important case of the gTLD Program

dubious After ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) issued “consensus advice” objecting to DCA Trust’s application, ICANN’s Board summarily awarded the .AFRICA domain to the African Union Commission, DCA Trust’s competitor. DotConnectAfrica in turn refused to back down and accept the Boards recommendation that it should withdraw its application and instead invoked the last accountability mechanism …