The best summary of Rebecca MacKinnon’s book Consent of the Networked is its subtitle: “The worldwide struggle for Internet freedom.” This is a comprehensive, spirited, and rich journalistic account of the way the use of the Internet and its supply industries intersect with classic civil and political rights. Importantly, it...
If you think the United Nations (UN) is about to subordinate Internet freedoms to governments, consider this. Compare the ineffectual and bureaucratic UN, which lacks any real operational leverage over the Internet, to the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Now, there's a real threat to bring...
The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking submissions of research to be presented at its Seventh Annual Symposium to be held on 5 November 2012, one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku, Azerbaijan. Since 2006, GigaNet has organized an Annual Symposium to showcase...
Although ICANN is now getting a lot of ridicule for the “glitch” in its TLD application System, it deserves some praise and respect for the results of its April 10 board meeting. In that meeting, the board showed the involved community – and the rest of the world – that...
An important proposal for inter-regional market transfers of IP addresses has been put before RIPE-NCC, the Internet protocol address registry for the European region. The proposal notes that “there is a significant over-supply of IPv4 in North America versus the rest of the world,” and that “in a global economy,...
