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A video was posted of an ICANN staff member interviewing the Chair of ICANN's Governmental Advisory ...

In a "policy implementation and experience report" presented at ARIN 31 in Barbados, ARIN's staff no ...

Remember all the businesses, internet techies and NGOs who were screaming about an “ITU takeover of ...

On Wednesday, April 10, a bill "to Affirm the Policy of the United States Regarding Internet Governa ...

If anyone doubted our recurring warnings that ICANN’s GAC is evolving into an intergovernmental orga ...

ICANN's Noncommercial Users Constituency, which represents civil society and individuals in the doma ...

ARIN is the Internet numbers registry for the North American region. It likes to present itself as a ...

A policy change now being considered by the European IP address registry RIPE-NCC would completely e ...

A market has developed in which specialized firms discover new vulnerabilities in software and sell ...

There are hundreds of applications for generic words in ICANN’s new top level domain program. They i ...

The release of the Mandiant report on "Advanced Persistent Threat 1" (APT1) marked a watershed in US ...

The "Independent Objector" (IO) is one of those unique ICANN creations that shows just how complicat ...

In the wake of the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai, we no ...

New top level domain (TLD) applications raise high financial stakes for the applicants. Those seekin ...

An important debate about the implications of BGPSEC - a new protocol that would use a hierarchical ...

In a good-natured response to a blog post accusing him of digital Bonapartism, ICANN CEO Fadi Ch ...

We now know more about what led to the impasse at the WCIT, and the scope of the fissure that it cre ...

When I stopped monitoring the WCIT process around 5:30 pm (CET) December 13, it appeared that the de ...

The US Commerce Department has issued what it calls a set of "Internet Protocol Numbering Principles ...

December 1st marks the beginning of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) ...

ICANN has been confronted with a new set of lawsuits invoking antitrust law. One such lawsuit, fr ...

Guest blog Robin Gross, Chair of ICANN's Noncommercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) On November 15- ...

In a sure sign that the winds of change are blowing in the addressing world, on November 9 it was an ...

From single-sign-on to federated systems to WHOIS data associated with Internet resources, countless ...

IGP has succeeded in putting IPv4 markets firmly on the agenda of the Baku Internet Governance Forum ...

At the Toronto ICANN meeting, the Council of Europe, which participates in the Governmental Advisory ...

The ICANN Toronto meeting marks the beginning of the tenure of Fadi Chehade as the organization' ...

Public interest groups involved in ICANN will gather on Friday 12 October 2012 at the Fairmont Royal ...

In response to a letter from ICANN's Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to data protection auth ...

A company that holds a legacy address block recently sought an opinion from the General Counsel of t ...

Yet another controversy has struck ICANN's new TLD program, leading to yet another call to change th ...

Today IGP releases its study of the market for IPv4 number blocks. It is the first independent acade ...

Based on calculations that I have recently done, nearly a third of IPv4 address space is not in acti ...

Did you know that .BABY is an evil domain name? The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia thinks so, and wants to ...

Finally, what you’ve all been waiting for: the right way to fit governments into what is supposed to ...

Created in a burst of exuberance about the contributions of multi-stakeholder dialogue to Internet g ...

The Whois database shows which organizations have been assigned which Internet address blocks. Maint ...

The UN last week passed a resolution on “The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on ...

ARIN's Public Policy Mailing List was abuzz last week with debate over the merits of modifying the n ...

Previous blogs about the ITRs emphasized the importance of interconnection agreements and flows of f ...

For those worried about the threat of a state-based takeover of the Internet, there is no need to ob ...

We have carefully reviewed the proposed modifications of the International Telecommunication Regulat ...

To understand what is really happening at the International Telecommunication Union's WCIT, one must ...

A mysterious email arrived in my inbox, and that of at least one other Internet freedom fighter last ...

The U.S. government and U.S. companies have pretty much succeeded in framing the International Telec ...

Today a policy proposal that we submitted to RIPE NCC was published for comment. Policy Proposal 201 ...

As followers of our blog know, there is an intense and important struggle going on under the surface ...

The relevance of the International Telecommunication Union’s World Conference of International Telec ...

Thirty-one academics, freedom of expression groups, and civil society organizations – including IGP ...

Only two years after signing the DNS root zone, the powerful lure of a secure global infrastructure ...

ASO to NRO: we need to be reviewed! NRO to ASO: don't worry, I'll do it NRO to ITEMS: here ...

The best summary of Rebecca MacKinnon’s book Consent of the Networked is its subtitle: “The worldwid ...

If you think the United Nations (UN) is about to subordinate Internet freedoms to governments, consi ...

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking submissions of research to be p ...

Although ICANN is now getting a lot of ridicule for the “glitch” in its TLD application System, it d ...

An important proposal for inter-regional market transfers of IP addresses has been put before RIPE-N ...

by Milton Mueller on Thu 15 Mar 2012 01:11 PM EDT In a dramatic confrontation that generated two ...

by Milton Mueller on Sun 11 Mar 2012 01:38 PM EDT The highly negative blog post written yesterday ...

by Milton Mueller on Sat 10 Mar 2012 10:19 PM EST In a deliberately precipitous move, the U.S. Co ...

by Milton Mueller on Mon 05 Mar 2012 04:34 PM EST Efficient markets require transparency. In this ...

With the ICANN meeting in Costa Rica only a week away, it’s a good moment to conduct a survey of wha ...

The emerging market for IPv4 addresses is about to cross a new threshold. A letter with the followin ...

Just today the Number Resource Organization released a review report of the Address Supporting Organ ...

A memo () from the US government dated January 23, 2012, makes it clear that the ITU World Conferenc ...

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its defeat call attention to a delicious irony in public disco ...

The January 5 issue of BNA’s Bankruptcy Law Reporter (24 BBLR 32) contains a remarkable article by t ...

I pay my son a weekly allowance to take out the garbage every week. He dislikes this chore, to put i ...

ICANN’s plan to open up the domain name space to new top level domains is scheduled to begin Janu ...

My last blog post hit a nerve. When I wrote it I was vaguely worried about the direction certain ...

Activists and investigative journalists are highlighting the linkage between modern surveillance ...

A powerful Senator is starting to ask NTIA questions about IP addressing. On October 4, 2011, The U. ...

An international law enforcement action against a large botnet will set an important legal precedent ...

Is there such a thing as a Freudian typo? If so, the new IANA contract certainly contains one. On pa ...

The Dakar meeting marked an important milestone in ICANN’s development. The milestone was the co ...

The government of India has taken the next step in evolving the IBSA proposal for a new UN body on I ...

A reporter from the Indian newspaper The Hindu recently solicited my reaction to the India, Brazil a ...

Too many techies still don't understand the concept of due process, and opportunistic law enforc ...

It appears that the proposal by India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) to bring the wonders of United ...

In multistakeholder settings, national governments often claim that they should have special stat ...

The EC paper on country code top level domains (ccTLDs) contains no new ideas; this paper, like t ...

On September 12 China, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan released a Resolution for t ...

On the 1st and 2nd of September in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian foreign relations ministry, the ...

In ICANN Papers 3 and 4, the European Commission goes after ICANN’s finances and corporate govern ...

That was the eye-catching subject line in a recent note from Randy Bush to the North American Netwo ...

ICANN’s program to allow new top level domains is important. You cannot have a global manager of ...

The most notable thing about the EC Papers on ICANN is that they are designed to completely subordin ...

Not much. We searched for copyright and Internet, ICANN and cybersecurity. Almost all of the cables ...

Here is more evidence of how the emergence of a private market for IPv4 addresses is creating concer ...

Paul Vixie, a renowned Internet pioneer who runs the Internet Systems Consortium, has writte ...

Paul Vixie, a renowned Internet pioneer who runs the Internet Systems Consortium, has written an art ...

Dan Kaminsky seems to have rocked the cyber-world with a presentation at Black Hat in Las Vegas. The ...

Read the comments of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) in the IANA Further Notice of In ...

IGP filed comments on the Commerce Department's Further Notice of Inquiry on the IANA functions ...

Guest blog by Shawn Gunnarson ICANN needs to follow its own bylaws. That it too often winks at it ...

Elliot Noss, president and CEO of Canadian-based registrar Tucows, describes the real meaning of the ...

America's largest ISPs - AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon - have a ...

Last week's refusal of civil society organizations to endorse the OECD's Principles for Inte ...

Suggested citation: Comments of the Internet Governance Project (IGP) on the Further Notic ...

The OECD's division on information and communication policy has done a better job than all other ...

“A dialogue between the deaf and the stupid.” That’s how Gerard de Graaf, the European Commission’s ...

It has now been confirmed that the two letters sent to the ICANN Board by antitrust authorities in t ...

June 16 – two days before the ICANN meeting begins, the day most people going to it are getting ont ...

With its Further Notice of Inquiry (FNOI) on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract ...

Friday the Commerce Department released a "Further Notice of Inquiry" on the important contract betw ...

The EU needs new and better representation in ICANN. Its operatives in the Governmental Advisory Co ...

We are now only a day away from "World IPv6 Day," a global initiative to push network operators and ...

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), in co-operation with the Research ICT Af ...

The G8’s top-down intrusion into the field of Internet governance is drawing a growing chorus of pro ...

Last week Dutch Telecom giant KPN held its shareholder meeting at the Mayfair Hotel in London. All f ...

One of the highlights of the GigaNet event in Washington yesterday was U.S. Assistant Secretary of ...

The recent Nortel bankruptcy proceeding provided some clarity concerning the legacy space holders pr ...

Jeff Moss is famous in the security community as the founder of DEF CON and Black Hat. He is in I ...

It's racing season, and not just for cars. Some people have accused ARIN of not following its sp ...

Over on the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (PPML), a debate is raging about whether the Nortel-Micr ...

Something extraordinary happened today in the Internet economy. It is now official: legacy IPv4 addr ...

The European think-tank ECIPE has released a provocative new report, Digital Authoritarianism: Human ...

The Internet’s status as a communication medium that is decentralized, scalable and global contin ...

As expected, VeriSign placed its key material in the root zone yesterday (click on the picture belo ...

Comments of the Internet Governance Project on the NTIA's "Request for Comments on the Internet ...

While last week's IG news was dominated by the ICANN meeting in San Francisco, including the Boa ...

Wake up call for our friends in the Regional Internet Registries. Nortel, the Canadian telecommunica ...

The 7 year old saga of the XXX top level domain ended, more or less, on Friday March 18. And as luck ...

The San Francisco ICANN meeting has been completely dominated by GAC-Board negotiations over the ne ...

The slowly dawning knowledge that the US Commerce Department's NTIA has been pushing to give na ...

After 13 years of ICANN and the putative “privatization” of DNS governance, we are still having fun ...

      Suggested citation: Comments of the Internet Governance Project ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has issued a Request for Comments (RFC) on the renewal of the IANA cont ...

An official "Indicative Scorecard" has been posted in advance of the Feb. 28 showdown in Brussels be ...

If you've been following our coverage recently, you'll want to sign the petition telling the ...

Public Interest Groups to Discuss Controversial Plans to Add New Domains at San Fran ...

Warning: This blog is about to delve back into the arcana of IP address governance. This may seem st ...

A few days ago ICANN quietly posted this letter from David Holtzman of Depository Inc. to ICANN CEO ...

Our warnings against the GAC top level domain veto are getting attention. The story has been picked ...

IGP has spent a lot of time trying to get people to appreciate the massive global governance issues ...

IGP has obtained a copy of the US Commerce Department's position paper for its February 28 negot ...

By now almost everyone connected to the Internet knows that Egypt has literally cut off the entire c ...

ICANN has released new information about its crucial negotiations between the Board and its Governme ...

As mentioned briefly in a post last Friday, between 5 to 10 percent of all broadband subscribers in ...

Last night I got a chance to view the excellent 2009 documentary film “The Most Dangerous Man in Ame ...

Between 5 to 10 percent of all broadband subscribers in the Netherlands had their computers recruite ...

Global Internet Governance: Research and Public Policy Challenges for the Next DecadeDeadline for ab ...

Evgeny Morozov’s new book “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom” deserves an extensiv ...

Judging from IGP blog's readership, which grew by about 25% compared to last year, the most inte ...

No other issue unites the Internet community quite like ICANN’s accountability deficit. Governments, ...

It's been a bad week for the Internet. Now, to make things worse, the United Nations is turning ...

At the ICANN meeting in Colombia, the board passed resolutions indicating that it is one last step a ...

ISOC-NY is delighted to present Milton Mueller’s first full exposition of his new book Networks and ...

At IGP we pride ourselves on having a pretty good bead on internet governance issues, but we have to ...

Like a clinging, overbearing parent, the U.S. Commerce Department just can’t seem to let go of ICANN ...

On Tuesday (November 30) Internet backbone provider Level3 publicly accused cable-based ISP Comcast ...

A new paper on ownership rights in IPv4 addresses has been drafted; it is posted here. Author Ernest ...

Early yesterday the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released its 324 page annual ...

Everyone knows that the Internet is plagued by millions of computers that are infected with maliciou ...

In a rather shocking development, ICANN’s staff is trying to reject key consensus recommendations re ...

At a special meeting November 5, ICANN's Board passed a resolution decisively resolving the cont ...

A couple of trademark lawyers who work for nonprofits are trying to form a “new” constituency as par ...

If you listen to the buzz, the day of ipv4 exhaustion is nigh and operators need to be migrating en ...

ICANN has increased its number of root server instances by almost a factor of 10 since early 2010, a ...

Last week, the Dutch police managed to shut down the “Bredolab” botnet. At least, that is what they ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) concluded its Plenipotentiary meeting in Guadalajara ...

A new essay in Harvard National Security Journal by Dr. Dan Geer, the Chief Information Security Off ...

Responding to a cacophony of opposing voices, citing free expression and global governance concerns, ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has organized an impressive list of about 90 prominent Internet e ...

The new gTLD process seems to have leapt over yet another hurdle. An ICANN working group has release ...

Frustrated with the contradiction between the limits of jurisdictional authority and the Internet’s ...

An important and insightful examination of the relationship between U.S. government-sponsored "Inter ...

The Internet Governance Forum has many valuable and productive workshops going on but it has never f ...

The IGF workshop "Routing and Resource Certification," co-organized by IGP and LACNIC/NRO, was in my ...

My new book, Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance, will be released at a ...

It's likely the most important governance issue you've never heard of. The resource public k ...

A real name registration policy for mobile users in China was issued on September 1st, 2010, requiri ...

Drafters: Milton Mueller, Brenden KuerbisConcurring: Michel van Eeten This paper attemp ...

Syracuse University Professor Milton Mueller was awarded $304,000 by the U.S. NSF for his research o ...

One of the looming milestones in Internet governance is the impending renewal of ICANN's contrac ...

A new book by Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis (Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde) provides ...

The US General Accounting Office has released a new report which provides an overview of US governme ...

The Chair of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee has issued a statement on the censorship of ...

As we enter an era of hundreds or even thousands of new top level domains, how will the industry evo ...

Editor's note: The following letter was initially sent privately to the U.S. government's re ...

The U.S. Internet Governance Forum is convening in Washington DC July 21 (Wednesday) to discuss the ...

Yawn. Just as WSIS represented a discovery by the UN that we were in an information society about 3 ...

S.3480, The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, introduced by Sens Lieberman, Col ...

Perhaps it's summertime blues, DNSSEC-fatigue, or simply recognition of fait accompli, but the c ...

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It still isn't over. At its public forum Thursday, the ICANN Board indicated its willingness t ...

At the Brussels meeting between ICANN's Board and its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), a f ...

Everybody involved in Internet governance is in Brussels. It is one of the largest attendances at an ...

Network World reports that "unprecedented levels of broadband adoption in the Asia-Pacific region" i ...

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking submissions of research about I ...

Civil society organizations within ICANN have been holding a vote on the adoption of a new charter t ...

They were seven - And they fought like seven hundred! With less than a week to go before the openin ...

On May 17, 2010, State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China issued a new standard (in Chinese) r ...

The Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China has issued a state ...

Last month, in a speech to China's top legislature, Wang Chen, director of State Council Informa ...

What if ICANN finally, after 12 years, created a process for adding new top level domains to the roo ...

Two Italian law scholars, G. Sartor and M. Viola, have written up a nice description and analysis, ...

This is a book that deserves to get much more attention in this country. Cyber-Security and Threat P ...

The most recent episode of The Ask Mr. DNS Podcast offers up some disturbing corroborating evidence ...

In a recent empirical study correlating botnet activity with ISPs, academic-led researchers (Michel ...

The US government has pushed back the date of DNSSEC implementation at the root zone by two weeks. T ...

Late last month the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, chaired by Sen. Jay Rocke ...

We knew – and we suspect that ICANN knew – that calling for public comment on the future of the .xxx ...

Network World writes that IPv4 depletion is happening faster than expected and that a black market m ...

New analysis, by a group of researchers including IGP's Michel van Eeten, suggests that by focus ...

Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, the head of the NTIA, made extensive remarks on Th ...

ICANN's Trusted Community Representative (TCR) program, which proposes to distribute signing aut ...

I have been attending the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) meeting in Toronto. ARIN is ...

As reported last week, the House Homeland Security Committee has passed a $2.7 billion appropriation ...

The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), which is little known outside of the technical c ...

In comments filed today with ICANN, the President and CEO of the Internet Society (ISOC), Lynn St. A ...

NPR concluded yesterday a series on "the newest arena of international conflict - cyberspace." To b ...

At the beginning of this year, a set of powerhouse organizations in cybersecurity (CSO Magazine, Del ...

Google announced its new approach in China: An update in March, 22, 2010, two months after its initi ...

From IP Watch, an extensive interview with ITU Strategist Alexander Ntoko, which covers among other ...

On March 26, ICANN’s General Counsel, John O. Jittery, had a nervous breakdown. Internal observers s ...

Two presentations at the recent IETF meeting in California underscore the way the Internet’s archite ...

I’ve been forced to rethink my initially dismissive assessment of the ICANN board’s Nairobi resoluti ...

Geneva, March 15 and 16, 2010. The first meeting of the IPv6 group of the International Telecommunic ...

The Internet Architecture Board issued a little-noticed statement February 12 that has the potential ...

The ICANN board issued a fairly large number of resolutions at the conclusion of its <?xml:namesp ...

From Avri Doria's blog: "While in a meeting with Board members, a member of my Stakeholder group ...

The office of the ombudsman was one of ICANN’s early attempts to strengthen its accountability. Any ...

There is so much going on this week and next week in Internet governance and IGP is so involved that ...

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to participate in its third s ...

Passed the House of Representatives February 4, 2010.  NIST and DoD have long been active, dire ...

Intermediary liability has become one of the critical flashpoints of Internet governance. A few week ...

In a historic decision, ICANN's Independent Review Process has dealt ICANN's past leadership ...

On March 15 and 16 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) holds a meeting in Geneva focused ...

IGP note: This is a comment Professor Wolfgang Kleinwachter made regarding the future of the Interne ...

TPRC is now soliciting abstracts of papers, panel proposals, and student papers for presentation at ...

An Australian judge has given the world's supporters of Internet freedom reason to heave a big s ...

The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) has become the leading forum for interd ...

The International Telecommunications Society has published a call for paper and panel sessions for i ...

As we’ve been telling people for six years, the global governance of the internet is creating geo ...

There has been a lot of Western press coverage about the recent conflict between Google, the US, and ...

In August 2009 the ICANN board decided to give its At Large community a voting position on the board ...

This comment from Professor Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski about the wider implications of Google& ...

Dutch news magazine HP/De Tijd found out that the Dutch Ministry of the Interior has been preemptive ...

Updates: 4 Feb -> Drezner holds little hope for a WTO challenge, he doesn't think the differe ...

Many thanks to our readers, both old and new, from civil society, industry and governments all over ...

This week's post on DNSSEC requirements for new gTLDs piqued my curiosity - what exactly are the ...

Update: An astute reader pointed out that:At its 36th plenary meeting, on 24 July 2009, the Economic ...

As noted by previously by IGP, it is not entirely clear where requirements for DNSSEC in the Draft ...

The Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management has published a new article by IGP's Michel v ...

UPDATES: CNNIC's restrictions, enacted around December 14, may have been a policy response to re ...

In response to a motion from Noncommercial Users, ICANN has released a staff issues report about the ...

The law firm representing ICM Registry in its pioneering Independent Review of the ICANN decision on ...

IGP Scientific Committee members were prominent in all phases of this year’s Internet Governance For ...

The gem above, heard over lunch at IGF Egypt, illustrates the apparently tenuous ground upon which s ...

This year’s IGF was characterized by intensified rivalry between the backers of the Internet Society ...

IGP releases today a new paper assessing the relationship between public participation and accountab ...

The problem with linking inter-governmental organizations and Internet governance were on display to ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The following federal contracts were announced by federal agencies as having b ...

IGP's Brenden Kuerbis will convene a break out group of civil society participants from the Nonc ...

IGP's Derrick Cogburn will join other experts to discuss the implementation of the WSIS principl ...

The public forum at the recent ICANN-Seoul meeting included an exchange between IGP's Milton Mue ...

IGP's Jeanette Hofmann will co-moderate an open discussion examining the internationalization of ...

IGP's Milton Mueller and other expert panelists will debate competing resource allocation mechan ...

The 4th Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Annual Symposium will be held in Sharm ...

IGP's Michel van Eeten, along with numerous other practitioners and experts, will participate in ...

Drafter: Milton MuellerConcurring: Michel van Eeten, Hans Klein, Derrick Cogburn, John Mat ...

The Seoul ICANN meeting is over and my reaction to it is complex. On the one hand, the meeting felt ...

The new "Affirmation of Commitments" was, naturally, a major topic at the Seoul ICANN meeting. In th ...

At the Seoul meeting the Registrar Stakeholder Group has adopted a position paper supporting the rem ...

The all-important direct meeting between the ICANN Board and the Noncommercial Users Constituency (N ...

A lot of interesting issues are simmering as we head to the Seoul ICANN meeting.For civil society ac ...

The 2009 Giganet scholarship award, intended to promote participation and scholarly work in Internet ...

ISOC-NY is hosting a forum, "Civic Representation in ICANN: What Now?," tonight at NYU's Warren ...

Affirming the results of a 2007 survey and consistent with numerous comments submitted in a 2009 NTI ...

Janna Anderson and the talented folks of the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University have c ...

The government of France has weighed in with a positive statement on the ICANN Affirmation of Commit ...

Yesterday the Board announced its appointments to represent Noncommercial Stakeholders on the GNSO C ...

The new agreement involving the U.S. Commerce Department and ICANN really does constitute a new ph ...

The first IGF-USA will take place this Friday, Oct 2 from 8:45-5:30 at the Center for Strategic and ...

We are all waiting for the other shoe to drop - i.e., for the NTIA to formally release the actual do ...

Details are beginning to emerge about the replacement for the ICANN – Commerce Department Joint Proj ...

Two people in ALAC are pushing to create a Consumer constituency within the new Noncommercial Stakeh ...

It is no secret that ICANN and the U.S. Commerce Department are engaged in intensive negotations ove ...

Reports are emerging from European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG), one of the regional In ...

The Korean Journal of Policy Studies (KJPS) at Seoul National University (SNU) and the Global Intern ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the China's Ministry of Culture has announced sweeping ...

The new President of ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, is making the rounds, listening. He's quickly figured ...

Although you may not have heard about it yet, there are plans afoot for an Internet Governance Forum ...

This gem was produced by the Noncommercial Users Constituency in line with the NCSG charter wars - i ...

Yesterday the Chair of ICANN's noncommercial users constituency, Robin Gross of IPJustice, sent ...

Rod Beckstrom really has his work cut out for him. ICANN’s well-paid policy staff, which is supposed ...

On August 4 the U.S. House Committee that oversees the Commerce Department published their opinion a ...

On July 30 a majority of the ICANN Board took a fateful step away from open public participation in ...

A wonderful thing is happening on the ICANN public comment board. Public interest groups from all o ...

The IGP filed comments today in ICANN's second proceeding on GNSO Stakeholder Group Charters. In ...

A few days ago we described the discrimination and barriers ICANN’s Board and staff have unjustly pl ...

These days you can hardly talk about Internet governance without hearing about security. DNSSECis a ...

A little-noticed outcome of the Sydney ICANN meeting (overshadowed by the excitement surrounding the ...

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is seeking to fill a senior position for a “Glo ...

One summer sport in Internet governance is speculating on what direction ICANN’s new CEO will take i ...

ICANN was formed as an innovative governance organization and today it lived up to that reputation, ...

The censorship of Internet communications by the Iranian theocracy has been known for years. Months ...

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNET) is a scholarly community that promotes the ...

The EU today issued a "Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council" tha ...

One of the more refreshing aspects of the NTIA's ongoing NOI regarding the expiration of the Joi ...

Phillip Hallam-Baker, an Internet security pioneer and most recently Principal Scientist at VeriSign ...

Rumors are flying that Rod Beckstrom, former director of the US Homeland Security Department’s Natio ...

The future of the JPA has been subject to a lot of debate. Some people argue that the JPA should e ...

The IGP has filed comments in the Department of Commerce proceeding on the “Assessment of the Transi ...

One of the better side stories of yesterday's Congressional hearing on ICANN concerned Congressm ...

On Jun 1, timed for the NTIA proceeding and Thursday's hearing before the House Energy and Comme ...

Suggested citation: Comments of the Internet Governance Project on the ICANN transition (N ...

Please join the monthly ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) meeting: Date: Monday 1 June ...

The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is seeking an Executive Director to lead a new multi-stakeholder ...

As we approach the deadline for filing comments on the expiration of ICANN's Joint Projects Agre ...

When ICANN passed a policy to create many new top level domains, both trademark owners and free spee ...

ICANN’s Board meets tomorrow to discuss the charters of the new Stakeholder Groups that will make up ...

Speaking at a Technology University of Delft conference on the internationalization of infrastructur ...

The Peoples Republic of China cast a pall over the consultations of the Internet Governance Forum ye ...

DHS will present its 2010 budget request before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Govern ...

Nearly 80 participants attended the EU-sponsored hearing on internet governance Wednesday. The heari ...

With Washington cyberbuzzing from Congressional hearings and report releases over the past week – on ...

Saying that "A moment of truth will come on 30 September this year," European Commissioner Viviane R ...

IGP's Milton Mueller and Jeanette Hofmann have been invited to attend a European Commission Hear ...

The NTIA has published a Notice of Inquiry, Assessment of the Transition of the Technical Coordinati ...

Discussions within ICANN are underway about what to do with the .SU top level domain. The .SU TLD wa ...

IGP's Milton Mueller will be a panelist at a Congressional Seminar, "ICANN & Internet Governance ...

Mad props to IGP's Milton Mueller, who has been selected to receive the 2009 International Telec ...

Public comments are in on the charter proposals that will shape the reformed GNSO. The politics of ...

The impending reform of the Generic Name Supporting Organization (GNSO) at ICANN, and specifically ...

While the fight over using cryptography to protect personal communications was allegedly "won" durin ...

The Rockefeller-Snowe bill emerges from an environment of blind hysteria around cyber-security probl ...

This is no April Fool's joke: here is a bill that is almost a caricature of what the rest of the ...

At ARIN, yet another intense controversy is swirling around the problem of IPv4 address transfers. N ...

RIPE's Enhanced Cooperation Task Force has released a report, calling for the establishment of a ...

The Consumer Council of Norway, the Consumer Ombudsman, Norwegian Internet service providers and the ...

ICANN has encouraged new constituencies to get involved in the GNSO. Now it has got what it asked fo ...

The World Intellectual Property Organization, which operates the dominant domain name - trademark di ...

Compared to other international and intergovernmental negotiations, which move at a snail’s pace, th ...

Dr. Paul Twomey, the Australian who was ICANN's first Governmental Advisory Committee chair and ...

UPDATE: ICANN is soliciting comments on the NCSG Charter Proposal. Comments are due by April 15, 20 ...

Think for a moment of the enduring legacy of African slavery in America. Think of the way it tainted ...

Wednesday's announcement by the Obama administration, that former Washington state governor Gary ...

Preliminary Announcement and Call for Contributions The Global Internet Governance Academic Network ...

The LSE Report’s harsh diagnosis of the problems of the GNSO were widely praised, even by those ...

The March 2009 "Focus on Internet" seminar will examine the role of national governments in Internet ...

The current round of ICANN reforms started in September 2006, when the London School of Economic ...

Important changes are taking place in ICANN’s representational structures. They are the most swe ...

Europe is very interested in the Internet of the future, having ceded to the United States so much o ...

The Internet is organized around “autonomous systems” -- independently managed networks most of whic ...

A coalition of investors have filed shareholder resolutions with 10 major U.S. Internet service prov ...

In what may prove to be the biggest sleeper Internet governance issue of the year, ICM Registry has ...

With civil society unfortunately not invited to participate in Wednesday's State of the Net pan ...

Here it is: IGP's contribution to the beginning of the year forecasting. Note well: these are no ...

The European regional Internet address registry, RIPE-NCC, has finally passed an IPv4 address transf ...

On Monday the Wall Street Journal published an article alleging that Google was trying to arrange a ...

ICANN, which coordinates and sets policy for the global domain name system (DNS) and IP addressing, ...

While the uncertainty surrounding attendance at this year’s IGF was mostly unfounded (there were mor ...

Patrik Fältström, one of the panelists at the IGF security session blasted by IGP’s Michel van Eeten ...

At the Hyderabad Internet Governance Forum, the Chinese delegate threatened to withdraw from IGF and ...

Day two at the IGF. Day two focuses on cybersecurity, meaning the main sessions are devoted to it. ...

It is the first day of the program of the Internet Governance Forum itself. The first workshop I att ...

The 3rd meeting of the UN Internet Governance Forum is now underway in Hyderabad, India, beginning w ...

The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School is seeking applicants for 2009-2010 postdoc ...

Leading up to IGF 2008 in Hyderabad the IGP is releasing a second publication, Regional Address Regi ...

IGP submitted comments yesterday to the Department of Commerce regarding the deployment of DNSSEC at ...

In anticipation of the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India the IGP is releasing t ...

...

The speech by the International Telecommunication Union’s Hamadoun Tourébrought the ongoing power st ...

Poor GNSO. As all the policy making power gravitates to GAC and ccTLDs, we see the GNSO Council labo ...

Date: Nov 6th, 2008 Time: 16:00-17:00 Location: ICANN Cairo, Room TBD (if you're on the ground i ...

ICANN's policy for adding new generic TLDs was (sort of) settled in June. Now the staff has come ...

Drafter: Milton Mueller, Brenden KuerbisConcurring: Michel van Eeten Regional Internet ...

I am in Cairo for the ICANN meeting. My hotel is far away from any free internet access, so I attemp ...

Suggested citation: Comments of the Internet Governance Project on Enhancing the Security ...

Author: Jeremy MalcolmThe Internet Governance Forum provides a venue where stakeholders fr ...

The workshop entitled "The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?" will be held in Room 4 on Thursday ...

The main session panel entitled "Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 " will be held Friday, December 5 2008 ...

From the ICANN does good department, ICANN has released a report by Charles Rivers Associates on the ...

A Bulgarian group has proven that our earlier concerns about the connection between fast-track IDN c ...

Milton Mueller, appointed as professor to the Chair of Security and Privacy of Internet Users within ...

Milton Mueller will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Privacy in Social Network Sites Conference ...

I just returned from the “Internet of Things, Internet of the Future” conference sponsored by the Fr ...

The U.S. Commerce Department used its presence at a French conference on the “Internet of things” to ...

What is technical and what is political? Some of you may recall various members of the technical com ...

The Internet Governance Project has awarded two fellowships to young scholars from Poland and China ...

UPDATED 10/3 VeriSign has publicly released its proposal to sign the root. It comes on the heels of ...

Last June IGP reported on efforts to develop a trust anchor repository (TAR) to help bootstrap the d ...

Tuesday the Internet Governance Forum held its consultations about the 3rd Forum at Hyderabad, India ...

We are in Geneva for a flurry of Internet governance related meetings. Monday morning ICANN held one ...

About a month ago I joined with .org’s CEO Alexa Raad in a letter expressing concern about the condi ...

Routledge Press recently published "Internet Governance: The New Frontier of Global Institutions" by ...

Lost in the media excitement surrounding the Kaminsky variant cache poisoning attack and ongoing fre ...

Milton Mueller will present (via webcast) the paper "Scarcity in IP addresses: IPv4 Address Transfer ...

As we run out of IPv4 addresses, should the Regional Internet Registries allow address blocks to be ...

The IGF’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) has been renewed, adding 17 new appointments, which ...

Wednesday the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released the text of its Order sanctioning Comc ...

Several papers on Internet governance will be presented during the 36th Research Conference on Commu ...

IGP's Milton Mueller, Jeanette Hoffman and Brenden Kuerbis will be attending the Internet Govern ...

There’s some concern that basic human rights to free expression, privacy, and other civil liberties ...

Freedom House is an independent non-governmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom ...

About ten days ago the US Commerce Department sent ICANN a letter slapping it upside the head for su ...

The FBI is soliciting vendor proposals to provide one-stop, turn-key access to Internet Zone files, ...

A Statement on Internationalized Domain Name Implementation The deployment of Internationalized Do ...

The invitations for the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad were signed, on behalf of the U ...

The small working group created at the Paris meeting has come to an agreement about the voting distr ...

ICANN has made major strides towards increasing its transparency, but the point about openness and t ...

The IGP has released a new paper, Scarcity in IP addresses: IPv4 Address Transfer Markets and the Re ...

Some critics argue that a transfer market would slow down or harm the transition to IPv6. A transfer ...

The Paris ICANN meeting lurched to an end two weeks ago, but something about the following episode s ...

To the credit of the RIRs and their associated communities, the problem of IPv4 address depletion ha ...

To understand the controversy surrounding IPv4 address depletion and transfer markets, some descript ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of posts that will soon be released as a complete I ...

Drafter: Milton MuellerWe are running out of Internet addresses. This paper evaluates address ...

ICANN claims incessantly to be an open, fair policy making venue based on "bottom up" participation. ...

Replying to ICANN's draft 2009 Operating Plan and Budget, the Security and Stability Advisory C ...

This is the most intensely political ICANN meeting I have ever been in, with the possible exception ...

West Lake Consulting Limited recently published a draft of its independent review of the At-Large Ad ...

I just got back from the National Conference for Media Reform, where the mood was vibrant and optim ...

At the the upcoming Paris meeting of ICANN June 23 - 28 some reforms may be made which could greatly ...

Two US Government contractors and the National Institute of Science and Technology have released a w ...

As we noted earlier, Public Interest Registry wants to implement DNSSEC in the .org zone. DNSSEC mak ...

Initiated in spring 2006 in conjunction with the UN Internet Governance Forum, the Global Internet G ...

Zittrain's Future of the Internet is a book about Internet governance, despite the fact that the ...

The OCED has officially released the "Economics Of Malware: Security Decisions, Incentives and Exter ...

A subcommittee of the U.S. Congress on Telecommunications and the Internet has expressed opposition ...

If you’re reading this shortly after it was posted, you’ve got about 17 hours to comment on an impor ...

In early April, Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted a service proposal announcing its intention ...

Today I spoke in Brussels at a well-attended seminar on "Net Neutrality and the Reform Proposals fo ...

The NTIA has released a short announcement about the mid-term review of ICANN. The announcement tell ...

Call For Papers: Third GigaNet Annual Symposium 2 December, 2008Hyderabad International Conference C ...

Just five more days before April 1. Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders promised that his short an ...

It's "Sunshine Week" in Washington, a week devoted to "open government," but the light came a fe ...

A briefing last month to House and Senate members and staff of the Homeland Security Committee by Ve ...

Three U.S. Senators, led by Maine Republican Olympia Snowe, have proposed a new, harsh law allegedly ...

The Council of Europe is pushing to extend the Cybercrime Convention to impose criminal sanctions on ...

On Monday the NTIA released the agenda for the upcoming public meeting in Washington DC covering the ...

The Internet Governance Project welcomes Dr. Michel J.G. van Eeten as a new member of its Scientific ...

For some time it has been known that law enforcement authorities in Norway and Finland have prepared ...

Just who will be "it" and control the secure DNS root took another turn this week at ICANN ...

The Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has added a new wrinkle to the ongoing domain n ...

Bret Fausett's blog has cast new light on the ICANN JPA question. Many of us had assumed that th ...

IGP today responded to a U.S. Department of Commerce proceeding seeking comment on the future of its ...

Suggested citation: Comments of the Internet Governance Project: (Docket No. 071023616-761 ...

We were discussing how governments could take over ICANN. This was in response to a new meme gaining ...

"War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength." And, according to the Center for Demo ...

The European Parliament has issued a resolution which illustrates the growing interplay of global In ...

ICANN is lobbying hard to bring an end to its “Joint Project Agreement” (JPA) with the US Commerce D ...

The root server agreement between ICANN and ISC was published yesterday. As "agreements" go, this is ...

The Second IGF meeting held in Rio raised, in one of its workshops on last November 13th, a latent ...

ICANN has announced some kind of an agreement with the Internet Systems Consortium, operator of the ...

IGP Partner Milton Mueller, a scholar known for his work on global Internet governance and professor ...

A consulting group (DNK LLC) report to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated clearly that ...

Adding to the growing questions about the wisdom of giving incumbent country code registries a “fast ...

DNSSEC and the issue of signing the root have been hot topics in Internet governance over the past y ...

The second Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro continued the slow but steady movement to cla ...

This informative workshop, co-sponsored by the Internet Governance Project, CGI.br, and EuroISPA, ...

It is quickly becoming apparent that an important function of the UN's Internet Governance Forum ...

The introduction of internationalized domain names (IDNs) offers the world one of the best opportuni ...

Reflection on what was wrong and what was right with the Rio Internet Governance Forum is not waitin ...

The Rio IGF has been a great venue for raising ideas and fostering dialogue. But the managers of the ...

Like Derrick (see prior post) I am in Rio at the UN’s Internet Governance Forum. Yesterday, IGP’s ne ...

The final of three panels at the 2007 GigaNet Annual Symposium was convened to address the distinct ...

The 2nd Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is now underw ...

As a contribution to the 2007 UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), IGP has released a new paper showi ...

Amidst all the drama surrounding ICANN’s Los Angeles meeting (Vint Cerf’s exit from the ICANN Board, ...

Drafters: Milton MuellerConcurring: Derrick Cogburn, John Mathiason, Jeanette Hofmann A ...

ICANN's GNSO Council stumbled and bumbled its way to a nonresolution of the Whois privacy contro ...

As ICANN opened its 30th meeting in Los Angeles on Monday, the .uk registry Nominet released a short ...

Q: When is a policy adopted unanimously in ICANN not really a consensus policy? A: When the US Gove ...

As most of you know, the Inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens spawned a number of &qu ...

the GovCert.NL SymposiumGovCert.NL Symposium This week I attended the GovCert.NL Symposium in the Ne ...

IGP noted early on how progressive companies like eBay were viewing the content blocking and filteri ...

A series of meetings in Ottawa, Canada this week started setting the foundation for civil society pa ...

First it was China, experimenting with its own special DNS name space and its own Great cyber-Wall t ...

Our 9 September blog post on DNSSEC has generated significant attention. It is gratifying to see DN ...

We republish below an astounding post by VeriSign's DNS expert, Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker, made o ...

The ICANN comment period on its new gTLD policy is over. The comments reflect overwhelming oppositio ...

Finally, the UN Secretary-General has renewed the mandate of the multistakeholder Advisory Group (MA ...

Researchers at IGP have prepared a comprehensive timeline of the Whois service and the controversy o ...

The ICANN Working Group that was trying to reconcile data protection and privacy principles with the ...

Thanks, Jonathan, for a more comprehensive statement of your position. (See JZ's reply to my Au ...

Dawn Nunziato has developed a strong paper on the connection between Internet governance and freedom ...

Over the last few months much has been made of the digitally signing the root as a critical step in ...

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is now moving through its second year and two institutional iss ...

In the process of drafting its revised charter (which came about because it is now largely finishe ...

"If you hold the keys you can decide who is the root zone file editor and who are the root servers ...

At the San Juan, Puerto Rico ICANN meeting today a large audience turned out for a workshop organize ...

Tufts political scientist Daniel Drezner has produced an appealingly simple model to explain the typ ...

The European IP address registry, RIPE, has formulated a formal request to ICANN to sign the DNS roo ...

We are still waiting for the UN Secretary General to pronounce on the future of the Internet Governa ...

IGP has published a proposal to decentralize authority over the Internet domain name system (DNS) as ...

The newly authorized operator of the .tel registry has sent a letter to ICANN asking for permission ...

A proposal for signing the root The implementation of DNSSEC and required development of a proce ...

Drafters: Brenden Kuerbis, Milton MuellerManagement of the Domain Name System (DNS) root z ...

I am attending the Yale Information Society Project's second Access to Knowledge (A2K) conferenc ...

Our last post explained the basics of how DNSSEC works. A security-aware resolver's ability to ...

Nearly five months after the fact, DHS acknowledged widely last week the release of a draft technica ...

What is DNSSEC? DNSSEC is a proposed Internet standard that modifies DNS resource records and pr ...

Management of the DNS root zone file is a uniquely global policy problem. For the Internet to connec ...

Today, IGP launches a month-long series of blog entries on DNS security, focusing specifically on th ...

ICANN finally made a decision to kill the .xxx application, with the Board voting 9-5 against it. In ...

Emerald Group Publishing has informed us that Milton Mueller's paper, IP addressing: the next fr ...

I just returned from ICANN’s “gala dinner,” lavish affairs that have become an institutionalized par ...

I am at the Lisbon, Portugal meeting of ICANN. There are about 900 registrants and maybe 400 at the ...

During recent testimony to the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the NTIA requested that do ...

Another statement voicing opposition to the efforts by ICANN's Government Advisory Committee to ...

Following on its public meeting on net neutrality the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has posted the c ...

Just when you thought the .xxx affair couldn’t get any worse, it does. I’m beginning to think that I ...

This morning, the 2nd Meeting of the Global Alliance on ICT and Development got underway at the Inte ...

Cybersquatting is so 2000, or so we thought. The UDRP at WIPO, a process that was hashed out in ICA ...

Eight years after its creation, ICANN is finally closing in on defining a process for adding new top ...

Since September I have been working on research on the wireless Internet, and specifically on the ap ...

Monika Ermert, writing for IP Watch, has posted a great summary on the recent IGF Stocktaking. Her a ...

The IGF Stocktaking meeting is up and running, and they have worked hard to faciliate some level of ...

On 13 February 2007, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will convene a "stock-taking" session, whic ...

Lurking at the heart of some of the Internet Governance issues is the trade-off between fair use and ...

Last week was a busy one for the US National Science Foundation (NSF).  In addition to the meet ...

On 31 January the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the OECD held a joint conference on "social ...

As reported by CNet, GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, pulled a well known sec ...

Drafter: Milton MuellerConcurring: John Mathiason, Jeanette Hofmann, Lee McKnight, Derrick ...

It's all over but the shouting. ICANN's 8-year experiment in nongovernmental governance of t ...

Despite embarassing connectivity problems and wide agreement that some of the plenary discussions ne ...

The Internet Governance Project was prominent at the Forum. Below is a summary of our activities. IG ...

GigaNet is the "global internet governance academic network," a new network of researchers in the fi ...

Responding to public comments showing widespread reluctance to set ICANN free of the US Government b ...

Responding to the recently released JPA, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane R ...

Drafters: John MathiasonConcurring: Milton Mueller, Jeanette Hofmann, Lee McKnight, Derric ...

The new agreement, called a Joint Project Agreement (JPA) is a cosmetic response to the comments rec ...

The London School of Economics Public Policy Group finally released its long-awaited assessment of t ...

The US Commerce Department renewed its purchase-order with ICANN for "the IANA function" on August 1 ...

Over 100 people attended yesterday's public hearing (view the archived webcast) as part of the o ...

The IGP submitted comments today in response to the NTIA inquiry on transition of the DNS. The esse ...

Internet Governance ProjectThe essence of our comments can be summarized as follows: The t ...

IGP Partners John Mathiason and Derrick Cogburn will serve in a high-level Panel of Advisors, provid ...

Author: John MathiasonJohn Mathiason examines the international relations theory underlyin ...

IGP Partner Jeanette Hoffman was selected to serve on the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), whi ...

Author: Milton MuellerMilton Mueller assails the "premature triumphalism of the territoria ...

Author: John MathiasonInternational policy discussions are heavily dependent on the substa ...

The United Nations is building a new platform for the discussion of global Internet policy. Public c ...

Drafters: Milton Mueller, John MathiasonSignatories: Jeanette Hofmann, Lee McKnight, Derri ...

WSIS seems to be foundering on the issue of "political oversight" of the Internet. IGP issues a new ...

Author: Hans KleinDebates over Internet governance can be clarified by the recognition tha ...

The Internet Governance ProjectWSIS seems to be foundering on the issue of "political over ...

Authors: John Mathiason, Derrick Cogburn and Lee McKnightIGP issues a new analytical paper ...

The Internet Governance ProjectOn June 30, 2005, the United States Department of Commerce ...

Authors: John Mathiason and Milton MuellerThe United Nations Working Group on Internet Gov ...

Author: Milton MuellerIGP releases a new paper discussing proposals for competing sources ...

Authors: Hans Klein and Milton MuellerControversies over ICANN led to the creation of the ...

Authors: John Mathiason and Derrick CogburnThe Project releases a new paper calling for th ...

Author: John MathiasonThe Project releases one of our most significant WSIS contributions: ...

  Author: John Mathiason, Milton Mueller, Hans Klein and Marc HolitscherA comprehe ...