Washington Internet Daily – ICANN Stakeholders Deplore Kelly’s Defending Internet Freedom Act The Defending Internet Freedom Act (HR-5737), if passed, would essentially reduce ICANN to a U.S. government-controlled entity, Internet governance experts said in interviews Friday. That would provoke international outrage, they said. The bill’s supporters said the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition demands …
Summary: The Defending Internet Freedom Act [PDF], put forward by Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA), would see the creation of a board made up of techies and reps from the domain name world, as well as a new consortium to run the critical IANA body. Bill would protect Internet from foreign government control WASHINGTON …
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade has told Bloomberg yesterday in an interview that government attempts to impose rules on the Internet are doomed to fail Read the coverage below Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — ICANN, the gatekeeper for Web addresses, said government attempts to impose rules on the Internet are doomed to fail as the group seeks …
ICANN has relocated its 52nd meeting which had been scheduled to take place in Marrakech, Morocco in February 2015, to Singapore In an official alert below, ICANN has given reasons 3 November 2014 Community concerns that would prevent maximum participation at its next global meeting (ICANN 52, 8-12 February 2015), a critical one given the …
On February 8, 2000, the US government signed a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to run the so-called “IANA functions” – which glue together the internet as we know it. Ever since that day, people have been trying to end that contract. This time next year, it will finally …
Techpolicydaily: This week’s ICANN meeting is setting the tone for other upcoming Internet governance conferences dealing with strategies for managing the Internet infrastructure as a global asset. Keeping the Internet free and open to content, communications, and commerce on a global scale requires a commitment by all participants in the decision making processes that make …
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, addressing attendees at the opening ceremony of ICANN‘s 51st public meeting in Los Angeles, declared unwavering support for the United States government’s decision to transfer stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community and not to any one single organization. “Let me be clear about this. The United States …
ICANN 51–Tuesday, 14 October, Schedule Highlights: 07:00 to 08:00 PDT At-Large Accessibility Working Group Olympic 08:30 to 09:30 PDT Board with the At-Large Los Angeles 08:30 to 09:45 PDT ICANN’s Public Responsibility Olympic 08:30 to 18:00 PDT ccNSO Members Meeting Day 1 Westside 09:00 to 12:30 PDT Non For-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC) Directors 09:00 …
Paul Rosenzweig, Brett Schaefer and James Gattuso take a look at the Transition debate at ICANN 51 in Los Angeles The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will hold a meeting next week in Los Angeles. The meeting, the 51st of its kind (hence the name “ICANN 51”), comes at an important cusp …
The Internet community is proving to be a force which is not looking back, this comes in light of a recent surprising bylaw change proposal that would require 2/3 of the voting members of the Board to vote to act inconsistently with a piece of GAC advice. Currently, the Bylaws require a simple majority of …