In October 2013 Fadi Chehadi will have been President and CEO of ICANN for one year. (Yes, it does seem longer than that, doesn’t it?) His apparent sincerity, his enthusiasm, his cosmopolitan perspective and his talk of equality among stakeholders initially gave many people hope that the corporation would be...
The deadline for public comments to the United Nations' Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation is only about a week away. For those unfamiliar with the arcane details of Internet governance processes, 'enhanced cooperation' is an unfulfilled promise that emerged out of the 2002-2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)....
Ah, summer. Time to catch up on reading that backlog of documents sitting on the desk corner - including a court ruling about RIPE NCC's summons against the Dutch government concerning operation Ghostclick. If you remember, the U.S. FBI secured a U.S. court order in November 2011 compelling all RIRs...
The RIPE region is moving closer to removing needs assessment from its policies governing initial IPv4 address allocations and secondary transfers. While support for that change has steadily grown, there remains a vocal minority insisting that operators submit documentation to a central bureaucratic authority which reviews some technical indicators in...
