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The ICANN Board has stuck discussion of the dot-xxx Internet extension on the agenda for its public meeting on 12 March – a good but brave move.
As covered last week, ICANN came off pretty badly following an independent review of the Board’s decision to reject dot-xxx back in 2007. A three-judge panel decided that [...]
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So I think there is a real chance that the Internet extension .xxx will appear on the Internet some time this year.
Of course, you really can never know since overseeing body ICANN is a complex beast, but following the first use of the organization’s Independent Review Process (IRP) and the resulting panel declaration [pdf], [...]
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On Friday, there was a very interesting decision made by an independent panel of eminent retired judges with respect to an application five years ago for a “.xxx” Internet extension that would be used purely for online pornography.
The dot-xxx application was rejected by ICANN in 2007 following a long, complex and tortuous process. The man [...]
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I’ve written a story for The Register about a new report [pdf] regarding the Whois system for domain registration data. We all knew that Whois was a mess, but it’s good to have some facts and figures that show what a mess it is.
Here’s hoping this gives the endless, intractable discussions within ICANN about Whois [...]
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Updated: A new announcement from ICANN has just gone up, highlighting additional security precautions for Nairobi and making it clear the meeting is going ahead as scheduled.
Recognising that several companies have already decided not to attend (but noting that many are still attending – particularly the ccNSO), the last paragraph talks about improving remote [...]
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Update: Meeting going ahead.
There is a questionmark over ICANN’s upcoming meeting in Nairobi, Kenya again. This time it has more bite than the usual xenophobia: the COO has published a US Department of State report that lists the conference centre itself as a specific threat from a Somalian insurgency group, Al-Shabaab. In response, a number [...]
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Of the hundreds of people I have worked with, some of them very difficult, I have only truly disliked two. Not so much for their personalities but for the fact that they infected the whole work environment with destructive and negative behaviour. One was an incompetent bully of a news editor on a weekly PC [...]
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Sadly, paper is no more than blinkered academic nonsense
Last month, the Internet Governance Project (IGP) put out an academic paper [pdf] that covered the issue of participation within ICANN.
As the ex-general manager of public participation for the organization, I was hoping to find some insights that I might then be able to promote from [...]
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I wrote a leaving report for my job as ICANN’s general manager of public participation. It’s posted on the organization’s website at http://www.icann.org/en/participate/gmpp-leaving-report-25nov09-en.pdf.
I could have written something 10 times longer but I figured it would be more useful to produce something that more people are likely to read so it stretches to just 20 pages. [...]
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Why the new gTLD process is going off on another wrong tangent
December 28, 2009 · 11 comments
in Domain names, ICANN, Internet, Internet governance
I’ve just submitted a response to an ICANN public comment period asking for feedback on a model that would allow people to send in “expressions of interest” for new Internet extensions like dot-com or dot-info.
Broadly, ICANN is putting a system in place that would allow anyone to apply for their own Internet extension (known as [...]
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