Early Warnings….of Corruption in ICANN’s GAC

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....

The routing security battles intensify

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...