On Monday, April 4th 2016, Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz along with James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have sent yet another pressing letter to ICANN seeking feedback about outgoing CEO Fadi Chehadé’s and ICANN’s relationship with the Chinese government and the planned transition away from U.S. government oversight of the Internet. …
WASHINGTON, DC – Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced in February that the subcommittee will continue its oversight of both the Federal Communications Commission and the administration’s work to transition certain oversight functions of the Internet to multi-stakeholder governance. “The upcoming hearing with the FCC Commissioners will allow the committee to continue …
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board Chair Dr. Stephen D. Crocker today submitted to the U.S. Government a plan developed by the international Internet community that, if approved, will lead to global stewardship of some key technical Internet functions. The news was confirmed at a press conference finalizing the ICANN 55 meetings …
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, …
Late Tuesday night, after the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, Republican leaders in Congress released a $1.15 trillion budget proposal. It’s a massive bill with several huge points of contention, including tax breaks and military spending, but nestled within its 2,009 pages is a small provision that could frustrate attempts to loosen the country’s …
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 …
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 …
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 …