As the IPv4 address transfer market continues to grow and the Regional Internet Registries deal with address leasing and eliminating needs assessment in the post-free pool era, we thought it would be useful to review the literature and development of another related secondary market: radio spectrum. Spectrum resources and their...
Last week we began a review of the Council on Foreign Relations’ recent report on “Defending an Open, Global, Secure and Resilient Internet.” Judging from our web statistics, neither the CFR report nor our review of it is setting the world on fire. But we doggedly adhere to our plan...
U.S. policy toward Internet governance has not been innovative, or even clearly focused, since 1999. With its wholesale liberalization of telecommunication and information services in the 1980s and '90s, its 1996 Framework for Global Electronic Commerce and its (semi-) privatization of DNS via ICANN, the US took bold moves that...
At the RIPE 66 meeting in Dublin, the bold, long-overdue proposal to eliminate needs assessments for IPv4 number allocations got an interesting response. RIPE-NCC is the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, and almost everyone in Europe supported the proposal. Vocal opposition came from two policy tourists from North America: ARIN...
