IGP filed comments on the Commerce Department's Further Notice of Inquiry on the IANA functions contract today. Our comments noted that there are elements in the proposed new IANA Statement of Work (SOW) which could radically alter the nature of the IANA functions contract.
Guest blog: ICANN needs to follow its own bylaws on UDRP review
Guest blog by Shawn Gunnarson
That ICANN too often winks at its fundamental rules is illustrated by the Preliminary GNSO Issue Report on the Current State of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP Report”). At a basic level, the UDRP Report is untimely and unresponsive. It satisfies neither the timeline prescribed by the bylaws nor the substantive criteria of an issue report required by the bylaws. Rather than assisting the GNSO Council, the Report appears to dismiss the Council’s questions and concerns and presents a one-sided advocacy brief against conducting a Policy Development Process (PDP). This it does despite the barely acknowledged unanimous support for a PDP on the UDRP expressed by the Council, and two working groups.
Interview: The real meaning of the ICANN’s new gTLD vote
Elliot Noss, president and CEO of Canadian-based registrar Tucows, describes the real meaning of the ICANN Board's new gTLD vote in Singapore.
In historic agreement, American ISPs agree to police their users for copyright interests
America's largest ISPs - AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon - have agreed to actively police their users on behalf of copyright owners. Their cartel-like agreement makes it impossible for most American Internet users to punish them by switching to less intrusive ISPs. The big five have agreed...
Try, try again: How the OECD High-Level Meeting replayed the fight over the EU Telecoms Package
Last week's refusal of civil society organizations to endorse the OECD's Principles for Internet Policy Making was powerful. It killed any pretense that the OECD's call for Internet intermediaries to “assist rights holders in enforcing their rights” has consensual support. But news coverage of that phenomenon has overlooked two other, equally important questions. First, why was this struggle even necessary? The very same battle was fought in Europe only a few years ago and the rights holders lost. Second, why didn't the business interest advisory committee (BIAC) and the Internet Technical Community Advisory Committee (ITAC) join civil society in its dissent?
07.2011 Comments of the Internet Governance Project (IGP) on the Further Notice of Inquiry on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Functions (Docket No. 110207099-1319-02)
[Abstract] Suggested citation: Comments of the Internet Governance Project (IGP) on the Further Notice of Inquiry on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Functions (July 28, 2011). Internet Governance Project. Paper IGP11-002. Available at https://www.internetgovernance.org/pdf/iana-contract-fnoi-igpcomments.pdf
