We join the chorus of protest and outrage caused by the Trump administration’s Executive Order on immigration. In the name of protecting the country from terrorism, the Order restricted travel from 7 arbitrarily-designated countries, and has even refused entry to people with well-established legal immigrant status, such as Green Card...
One of the outstanding accountability issues at ICANN after the IANA transition is the jurisdiction of ICANN and how that affects its ability to execute its mission. As part of Work Stream 2 of the accountability reforms, an ICANN working group focuses on the issue of jurisdiction. While the accountability...
Will the supplementary rules for ICANN's Independent Review Process become the first big FAIL in the Accountability Reforms? ICANN's response to a critical public comment period, which ends in two weeks, will provide the answer to that question. Revising ICANN's mission statement and improving its Independent Review Process (IRP) were...