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		<title>Is the dark side of new gTLDs starting to emerge?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I received a highly unusual email claiming that an article on my personal website was libellous and insisting I take it down within a week.
Even more unusually, the article was from 2002 &#8211; yes nearly a decade ago &#8211; it is called &#8220;Domain scam merchants get legs sucked by toothless OFT&#8221; and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2012/04/18/is-the-dark-side-of-new-gtlds-starting-to-emerge/</link>
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		<title>Who should control the Internet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is going to be a particularly crazy year in terms of Internet policy and governance, maybe even more than so than 2005, when the World Summit on the Information Society happened. 
NPR used the launch of the new gTLD program last week to cover the other big issue &#8211; actual governance of the Internet. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2012/01/15/who-should-control-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>ICANN public comments: a glacier moving in the wrong direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am both happy and depressed to see a public comment period open at ICANN talking about making changes to ICANN&#8217;s public comment period process.
With appalling inevitability, everything about the comment period highlights the problems that exist with the public comment period process. No one really knows about it, and it&#8217;s not being promoted anywhere. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2011/09/06/icann-public-comments-a-glacier-moving-in-the-wrong-direction/</link>
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		<title>Threatening faxes, dot-xxx and an angry Vint Cerf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more bizarre situations I have found myself in while covering domain name system overseer ICANN, both outside and inside the organization, was at the Vancouver meeting in December 2005. 
It was a particularly difficult meeting. For one, ICANN was under intense scrutiny because it was about to sign an extension to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2011/05/14/threatening-faxes-dot-xxx-and-an-angry-vint-cerf/</link>
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		<title>USG Submission to the GAC Scorecard re New gTLDs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background: At a meeting in December, the ICANN Board and GAC agreed to a special session to be held in February that would be dedicated to trying to find a way to deal with GAC concerns over the new gTLD process and the dot-xxx application. The GAC has been preparing documents for the meeting &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2011/01/31/usg-submission-to-the-gac-scorecard-re-new-gtlds/</link>
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		<title>A damaged process and a damaged community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written for a while. There&#8217;s usually two reasons for that: either I have been horribly over-worked, or I need a break from the strange, incestuous and often bitter world of Internet policy and governance. In this case, unusually, it is both. 
Here&#8217;s the big news from the world of Internet governance: some vague [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2011/01/25/a-damaged-process-and-a-damaged-community/</link>
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		<title>ICANN begins to find its feet with published Board materials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Credit where credit&#8217;s due, the disclosure of Board materials of the organisation that oversees the domain name system, ICANN, has greatly improved since its first and woeful effort.
The materials for a special Board meeting held in September over the &#8220;new gTLD&#8221; process are clear, organised and understandable. They also help to publicly demonstrate the large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/29/icann-finds-feet-board-materials/</link>
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		<title>ITU Plenus Potens: Locked in a room, locked in time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union is a walking contradiction. 
I’m here in Guadalajara, Mexico at the organisation’s Plenipotentiary – a meeting it holds every four years to decide the strategic direction of the ITU.
Here’s what you need to know about the “Plenipot” first off: it goes on for three weeks. Yes, three weeks. It used to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/17/itu-plenus-potens-locked-in-a-room-locked-in-time/</link>
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		<title>ICANN review team: FAIL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve sent the following note to ICANN&#8217;s Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) on its own mailing list that it pays no attention to. 
I&#8217;m frustrated that they have become a part of the problem, rather than the solution. And in reviewing their draft recommendations, you can&#8217;t help but be struck by the vagueness, lack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/08/atrt-fail/</link>
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		<title>Is ICANN&#8217;s independent review dead in the water?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have avoided the meetings of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) into ICANN for a few months because it was so incredibly frustrating to listen to 60 minutes of people organising hotel rooms in different parts of the world while the ICANN Board and staff ran rings around them. 
But the meeting popped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/09/29/is-icanns-independent-review-dead-in-the-water/</link>
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