by Milton Mueller on Thu 15 Mar 2012 01:11 PM EDT In a dramatic confrontation that generated two hours of debate, ICANN’s Noncommercial Stakeholder Group successfully deferred a motion to give the International Red Cross (RC) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) special privileges in the new gTLD space. The NCSG...
by Milton Mueller on Sun 11 Mar 2012 01:38 PM EDT The highly negative blog post written yesterday was fueled by the concern that NTIA was using the IANA contract to push ICANN into policy positions demanded by the GAC and a few powerful interests still trying to undermine or...
by Milton Mueller on Sat 10 Mar 2012 10:19 PM EST In a deliberately precipitous move, the U.S. Commerce Department has announced that no acceptable bid for the IANA contract was received and that they are withdrawing the Request for Proposals. Ironically, the announcement that ICANN was not qualified to...
by Milton Mueller on Mon 05 Mar 2012 04:34 PM EST Efficient markets require transparency. In this respect a market for IP addresses should parallel the market in real estate. When you want to buy a house the seller’s name and listed price are a matter of public record. You...
With the ICANN meeting in Costa Rica only a week away, it’s a good moment to conduct a survey of what’s happening in our multistakeholder Internet governance institutions – you know, the ones that are there to preserve internet freedom and prevent a UN takeover. The IGF front looks rather...
