The exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses has been long coming, the biggest indicator was the September 2015 announcement by the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) that its pool of IPv4 addresses in North America was over. In a recent blog post, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses …
30 Years of Engineering the Internet This week marks the 30th anniversary of the meeting that became the very first edition of IETF meetings now held three times per year. On 16-17 January 1986 in San Diego, California, 21 people attended what is now known as IETF 1. Some names and topics found in the …
It is asserted that ICANN was “purpose-built” to operate the IANA functions. This is only partly true. ICANN’s original design, in which the IANA functions were a central aspect, was abandoned very quickly between 1999 and 2002. ICANN‘s first bylaws tried to create three Supporting Organizations, one for domains (DNSO), one for addresses (ASO) and …
By Monika Ermert on policyreview.info The internet has become an inevitable topic of discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos – a global encounter of business and state leaders. Cyberwar has popped up two times in the top five list (2012 and 2014) of the Forum’s Global Risk Report. In the just …
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 …
Two organizations whose voices hold considerable sway on Internet governance issues–which appeared up until just last weekend to be speaking in harmony–now find themselves at odds. The Internet Society has blasted efforts from some quarters to create a “UN Security Council” for the internet – which would rule over the online world. The society (ISoc) …
Fadi Chehadé’s last claim to fame in his short technical career and at IBM is merging the technical standards from various Technology Vendors. No wonder he thinks he could do the same with the Internet standards organizations whose leaders have called themselves the I* and think they should lead the Multi-stakeholder model of the global …
As various groups discuss their ideas for the Brazil Conference on the Future of Internet Governance in April, one issue is rising to the top of the agenda: stakeholder roles. Increasingly, it looks as if the Brazil conference will be used to challenge a definition of multistakeholder governance that assigns different ‘roles’ to state actors …
7 October 2013 Montevideo, Uruguay – The leaders of organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure globally have met in Montevideo, Uruguay, to consider current issues affecting the future of the Internet. The Internet and World Wide Web have brought major benefits in social and economic development worldwide. Both have been built and …