The fate of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) future was the subject of a big debate when the NetMundial initiative was proposed and for a while it looked as if the IGF was going to fold, however in Early 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the UN General Assembly to renew the …
ICANN Spent a whooping $32 million on the IANA transition process for the period March 2014 to December 2016 , this is according to a presentation released last week. $15 Million went to “External Legal Advice”, $8.3 million went to third-party services, that included lobbying, puclic relattions and translation. In the period from July 2014 up …
The battle for a disputed .Africa top level domain appears to gain new insights as the court process continues. The court process which has taken the whole of 2016 and is set to be ruled upon in 2017 did not sit well with certain people who through a surprising proposal to the ITU’s World Telecommunication …
A Ted Cruz led committee will today Wednesday, September 14th hold a hearing on “Protecting Internet Freedom: Implications of Ending U.S. Oversight of the Internet”. This follows the plans to complete IANA Stewardship Transition steps on October 1, 2016. This is unless House and Senate Republicans are successful in their calls to delay the transition …
U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today, in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, raised numerous …
Rick Manning has released a statement on behalf of Americans for Limited Government that National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) performed no antitrust analysis even as it proceeded with the process to create an independent body to take over IANA oversight responsibilities that will cede the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the Internet …
Twenty-five advocacy groups that comprise TechFreedom, Heritage Action for America and Taxpayers Protection Alliance have writen a letter demanding that the Commerce Department to hold off on plans to transition its control over the body that governs internet domain names ICANN. But the NTIA shows no signs of halting plans to end its oversight of …
In a last ditch effort to prevent the IANA transition, the GOP has included in its Republican Platform for 2016 [PDF] which was formally approved during the party’s national convention in Cleveland a policy position on “Protecting Internet Freedom.” The position affirms the effort to stop the oversight handover to a new body, it reads: …
The Obama administration’s decision to give up U.S. control of regulating the internet is likely illegal, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said. “The Obama administration does not have the authorization from Congress,” Cruz said Thursday, speaking at a Heritage Foundation event on internet freedom. “And yet they are endeavoring to give away this valuable, critical property. …
Last week the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that the proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder community meets the criteria NTIA outlined in March 2014 when it stated its intent to transition the U.S. Government’s stewardship role for the Internet domain name system (DNS) technical functions, known as the …