Dr Paul Vixie, a pioneer of the internet’s domain name system (DNS), has lashed out at the creation of hundreds of new top-level domains, ranging from .dog to .horse, and .cool to .porn, labelling them a money grab and a mistake. Vixie was speaking at the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday about …
The applicant for .Africa new gTLD , DCA Trust, has opposed the latest effort by the ICANN board to revert the .Africa application for a Governmental Committee (GAC) at ICANN to “refining” its last advise GAC gave to the ICANN Board. This comes after the DCA Trust won an Independent Review Panel decision against ICANN …
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 CEO of DCA Trust has written a cautionary letter to the ICANN following an unsolicited letter by the Africa Union Commissioner of Infrastructure, Elham Ibrahim to the independent geographic names evaluation panel on 29th August 2015 following the July 2015 ruling where DCA Trust successfully fought and won against ICANN for the .africa handling. …
DCA Trust has fired back in a detailed response to the letter by AUC Commissioner AU Commissioner, Dr. Elham Ibrahim insisting that it “amounts to inappropriate interference designed to undermine the objectivity and independence of the GNP.” Bekele has also quoted several parts of the applicant guide book which gives restrictions to applicants on how …
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 …
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 Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling has given a new update on the ongoing proposals to prepare the IANA transition plan where the NTIA notes that comments have revealed that stakeholders have not reached consensus on all the specific tools that have been proposed to enhance the accountability of …
IANA transition despite jumping many hurdles may not be happening in the next few years, at least not before, thanks to the issue getting the attention of the U.S. Congress. In an article on the Hill, Sophia Bekele also adds that should the transition happen, it will give some governments who want more power within …