As followers of our blog know, there is an intense and important struggle going on under the surface of IP address allocations. ARIN, the regional Internet registry for North America, is conflicting with companies who would like to broker the market for legacy IPv4 address blocks. Most legacy blocks are...
The relevance of the International Telecommunication Union’s World Conference of International Telecommunications (WCIT) to Internet governance is a hotly debated topic. There is an organized campaign to raise concern about it, with the latest entry being the scheduling of a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives. What this means...
Thirty-one academics, freedom of expression groups, and civil society organizations – including IGP – have sent a letter to the International Telecommunication Union asking it to open up the preparatory process for the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). The WCIT is negotiating a revision of the International Telecommunication Regulations...
Only two years after signing the DNS root zone, the powerful lure of a secure global infrastructure for data distribution is starting to reveal itself. It is illustrated clearly by two proposed technical standardizations that seek to leverage secure DNS. To some degree these developments highlight the strength of DNS...
ASO to NRO: we need to be reviewed! NRO to ASO: don't worry, I'll do it NRO to ITEMS: here’s some money, do a review ITEMS to ASO: We talked to both heads, here’s your report! ASO and NRO: We are now reviewing your review report! Here are our comments...
