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These are the most recent articles mentioning "icann" .ORG pushes forward with DNSSEC Posted 04/25/08, 14:58 ... proposal announcing its intention to begin offering secure DNS extensions in the 4th quarter of 2008, and seeking to amend its registry contract with ICANN. If approved by ICANN, .ORG would likely be the Internet™s first secure production gTLD zone. One interesting wrinkle is PIR's proposed languag... The U.S. Congress and œfree speech principles on the Internet� [cough] Posted 05/11/08, 17:57 Amidst growing concern about the future independence of ICANN, the subcommittee of the U.S. Congress on Telecommunications and the Internet has expressed opposition to any move by the Commerce Department to alter its unilateral oversight of ICANN. Representative Edward J. Markey, the supposedly li... New TLDs and National Monopolies Posted 07/14/08, 16:13 At its Paris Board meeting two weeks ago, as ICANN passed its policy authorizing the creation of new generic top level domains, GAC spokesperson Janis Karklins expressed the governments™ concerns that not enough attention had been paid to promoting competition in the formulation of the policy. A rea... GNSO Reform: a Window into ICANN's Soul Posted 06/30/08, 20:27 ICANN claims incessantly to be an open, fair policy making venue based on "bottom up" participation. At the ICANN meeting in Paris, the organization came face to face with the prospect of making good that claim, and it....delayed. Over the next month, we will see how that issue is resolved. The resu... Will ICANN move to control routing security? Posted 06/25/08, 13:07 Replying to ICANN's draft 2009 Operating Plan and Budget, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee submitted comments last week vying for its piece of the estimated $60 million ICANN revenue pie. But the interesting story is not the dollar amounts requested by SSAC, rather their request for a ... ICANN Paris: a revealing exchange Posted 06/25/08, 10:37 This is the most intensely political ICANN meeting I have ever been in, with the possible exception of Berlin 1999. Part of the cause is the GNSO structural reform, which has the various constituencies snarling at each other about vote distributions. Multilingual domain names, which combines market ... ALAC report: Barriers to meaningful participation Posted 06/22/08, 12:57 A draft of the independent review of the At-Large Advisory Committee to ICANN has recently been published (a summary can be found here). The authors conclude that ALAC has made progress, but due to several factors, has not made any significant contributions. Under the current system, the prohibiti... Upcoming Event: Civil Society Meeting at ICANN-Paris to discuss representative structure reforms Posted 06/13/08, 16:46 At the the upcoming Paris meeting of ICANN June 23 - 28 some reforms may be made which could greatly improve ICANN's representative structure. In a nutshell, representation of noncommercial users (public interest groups, NGOs, and individuals of a public interest bent) will be increased from its cu... On Technical (and Political) Risks Posted 06/09/08, 14:48 Public Interest Registry wants to implement DNSSEC in the .org zone. According to ICANN's regulations, this is a "new registry service" and it has to be reviewed by a committee of technical experts to assess its impact on the security and stability of the Internet before it can be approved. The expe... Upcoming Event: GigaNet Workshop on Global Internet Governance Posted 06/05/08, 09:24 ... n "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction" in Paris, 23 June 2008, from 08:30 to 13:30, concurrent with the ICANN-Paris meeting. [invitation-fr] [invitation-en] The purpose of the workshop, the first of its sort, is to allow scholars involved in Internet Go... << back