U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) who is also a Republican Presidential hopeful has issued a statement yesterday regarding a letter that Cruz, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) received from Fadi Chehadé, CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Friday over his involvement with the Chinese government. …
The US Congressman Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) has sent a letter to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade urging him to abandon plans to weaken the Internet for users in the United States and around the world This is after listening to a December 21, 2015 interview with Fadi Chehade on National Public Radio. In the interview, …
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 …
The ICANN Boards Penchant for maintaining its status quo on power has triggered another multistakeholder storm after rejecting the second option of the Designator model.This is after rejecting the proposed Single Member Model (SMM or CMSM). In an email to the CCWG-Accountability mail list on Monday evening, October 5, 2015, just hours before a scheduled …
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 …
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has issued the final IPv4 addresses in its free pool, this effectively means that the ARIN no longer holds any IPv4 addresses. Due to depletion of its IPv4 Free Pool, ARIN is no longer able to fulfill requests for IPv4 address space unless you are an organization requesting …
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 …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reiterated this week to a working group at the ICANN that it “must make user privacy a central tenet of any new registration data system.” The Expert Working Group is crafting a new domain registration database, but “can’t seem to wrap its head around why privacy matters when it comes …
Two ICANN related announcements were made yesterday, both may or not be related to the IANA transition plans, however one thing could be certain that one triggered the other. Last May, (ICANN) announced that President and CEO Fadi Chehadé would be concluding his tenure in March 2016 to move into a new career in the …
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 …