In the wake of the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai, we now have a campaign to de-fund the ITU. What's more, two House subcommittees will be holding a joint hearing to examine "international efforts to regulate the Internet" February 5. There are legitimate reasons to discuss...
New top level domain (TLD) applications raise high financial stakes for the applicants. Those seeking new TLDs will have invested at least half a million dollars to prepare and submit their proposal, and many of the companies involved have raised millions more in backing from investors or venture capital firms....
An important debate about the implications of BGPSEC - a new protocol that would use a hierarchical Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to validate Internet route announcements - is taking place in the IETF's Secure Inter-domain Routing (SIDR) Working Group. It's a highly technical discussion, but its significance for Internet governance...