EU parliament votes to invite Snowden to testify over NSA Surveilance

The European Parliament has voted to formally invite former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden to provide official court testimony on NSA spying, in the face of overwhelming concern from conservative MEPs. European conservatives seemed reluctant to pay full attention to the possibility of the hearing on Wednesday. The European People’s Party (EPP), which is …

Concerned NSCS insists on multilateral net governance

KOLKATA: The apex agency looking into India’s political, economic, energy and strategic security concerns has warned that the internet is “controlled and managed by the US government and its security agencies,” and demanded a “multilateral model” for resolution of all matters pertaining to internet governance. In a confidential note, seen by ET, the National Security …

ICANN, like NSA, a self-serving bureaucracy killing the internet

This is a repost from johnmpoole.com  All of the hopes, dreams, and promise of the internet, dashed by the NSA and ICANN et al: ICANN leaders push for broad-based Internet governance | PCWorld: “The revelations this year of NSA surveillance by former contractor Edward Snowden have stirred up Internet governance issues, Chehadé said. “That’s, frankly, …

Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users

Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers’ data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama and Congress to set new limits on government surveillance. On Monday the companies, led by Google and Microsoft, presented a plan to regulate …

Leaked European Commission Document Stirs Internet Governance Controversy

The European Commission is preparing a policy statement on Internet governance that elevates state power and multi-lateralism over the civil society-based open and participatory governance that has characterized the native Internet governance institutions. An early version of the policy document, obtained from sources in a national government, addresses “Internet Governance and Policy: Europe’s role in …

ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals on Name Collision Identification and Mitigation

6 December 2013Los Angeles, California… ICANN today issued comprehensive advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public Domain Name System (DNS) and thus, eliminate the causes of name collisions as new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are added to the DNS. In a report titled …

.xyz Signs Registry Agreement with ICANN

Beverly Hills, CA — (SBWIRE) — 12/04/2013 — XYZ.COM, the Internet registry operator behind the new .xyz domain names, has signed its registry agreement with ICANN, paving the way for the new generic domain extension to launch in Quarter 2 of 2014. As one of the first approved extensions in ICANN’s new gTLD program, .xyz …