IGP's Brenden Kuerbis will convene a break out group of civil society participants from the Noncommercial Users Constituency during the Code of Good Practice workshop. The workshop, hosted by the Association for Progressive Communications, along with the UNECE and Council of Europe, will be held at the Internet Governance Forum at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt on Wednesday 18 November from 9:00-10:30 (local time, 7:00-9:30 UTC) in Room 3 (Suez Canal).
Upcoming Event: IGF Workshop #316 – Implementing the WSIS Principles: A Development Agenda for Internet Governance
IGP's Derrick Cogburn will join other experts in the workshop Implementing the WSIS Principles: A Development Agenda for Internet Governance at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt. The workshop will be held on Day 3 of the IGF, Tuesday 17 November, from 9:30-12:30 (local time, 7:30-9:30 UTC) in Room 3 (Suez Canal). Remote participation is available.
“Crypto-nationalism” and competition in secure DNS
The public forum at the recent ICANN-Seoul meeting included an exchange between IGP's Milton Mueller and ICANN Board member Steve Crocker concerning cryptographic algorithms used in DNSSEC and the requirement in ICANN's new gTLD application to deploy DNSSEC. Both raised points which bear repeating and further elaboration of the underlying competition issues that comes with signing the root.
Upcoming Event: IGF Main Session: Managing Critical Internet Resources
IGP's Jeanette Hofmann will co-moderate an open discussion examining the internationalization of critical Internet resources management including the transition to IPv6, the IANA contract and role of governments and the importance of new TLDs and IDNs to development at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt on Monday November 16 from 10:00-13:00 (local time, 8:00-11:00 UTC), remote participation options will be available.
Upcoming Event: IGF Workshop #114 – Need-based and market-based Internet resource allocation
IGP's Milton Mueller and other expert panelists will debate competing resource allocation mechanisms that could be used to address scarcity in the IP address space at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt. The workshop will be held Tuesday, November 17 from 11:30-13:00 (local time, 9:30-11:00 UTC) in Room 7 (Luxor), remote participation options will be available.
Upcoming Event: Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET): 4th Annual Symposium
The 4th Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Annual Symposium will be held in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 14th, 2009 – one day before the IGF official opening at Maritim Sharm El Sheikh International Congress Centre (SHICC). The program includes presentations by IGP members Michel van Eeten, Jeanette Hofmann, Derrick Cogburn, Milton Mueller, and Hans Klein, as well as other recognized experts in the field. The symposium is free to attend but you must register.
Upcoming Event: IGF Workshop #160 – Securing Cyberspace: Strategy for the Future
IGP's Michel van Eeten, along with numerous other practitioners and experts, will participate in a workshop, Securing Cyberspace: Strategy for the Future, at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt on Tuesday November 17, from 14:30-17:30 (local time, 12:30-15:30 UTC) in Room 4 (Nile Valley), you can listen to the audio feed (ch 5).
11.2009 ICANN, Inc.: Accountability and participation in the governance of critical Internet resources
[Abstract] Drafter: Milton MuellerConcurring: Michel van Eeten, Hans Klein, Derrick Cogburn, John Mathiason This paper assesses the relationship between public participation and accountability in ICANN. It explains how ICANN has responded to accountability concerns by creating new opportunities for public comment, review, and participation. Is public participation an adequate means...
Fresh start, or another week on the treadmill?
The Seoul ICANN meeting is over and my reaction to it is complex. On the one hand, the meeting felt like a fresh start: it was a showcase for the optimistic, likeable and accessible new President, Rod Beckstrom; it marked the end of the Commerce Department JPA; and it put into place a new domain name policy making structure with a revitalized and somewhat more empowered civil society segment (the NCSG).
On the other hand, ICANN's continuing inability to define an ongoing process for the routine addition of new top level domain names, and the multiplication of new obstacles in their attempt to do so, hung over the meeting like a thick cloud of gray Seoul smog. It produced a deadening feeling that we have been on the same stupid treadmill for 10 years.
Grumbling about the Affirmation
The new “Affirmation of Commitments” was, naturally, a major topic at the Seoul ICANN meeting. In the short meeting held to discuss it, ICANN seemed more interested in discussing methodology than in talking about the purpose and scope of the reviews. The audience, however, wanted to talk about accountability. The following comments, circulated afterwards by Becky Burr, reflect the tone of much of the discussion:
