The latest entry in the IANA transition/ICANN reform process is a bill introduced in the U.S. Congress by Representative Kelly (R., Pa.). It is called the “Defending Internet Freedom Act of 2014.” Before it can effectuate the IANA transition, the law requires NTIA to certify to the appropriate Congressional committees...
Political people like to compare the making of laws to the making of sausages. In the IANA transition, we can now claim to have produced a Frankfurter. The most difficult part of the IANA transition plan – changes regarding the management of the domain name system root – took significant...
Who will inherit the legacy of the NetMundial meeting? A one-off meeting in April of this year that successfully brought together governments, business, civil society and the technical community to produce a set of principles and a 'road map' was lauded as a major success for multistakeholder Internet governance. The question...
It’s Hallowe’en and, appropriately enough, there are scary things going on in Internet governance land. Let’s begin with the western world’s favorite Internet bogeyman, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU is holding its quadrennial Plenipotentiary in Busan, South Korea. Booo! It is now impossible for the ITU to have...
