Ill-advised stampede to deploy DNSSEC at the root?
Lost in the media excitement surrounding the Kaminsky variant cache poisoning attack and ongoing frenzy to patch vulnerable recursive nameservers, the calls for DNSSEC as the only complete solution to similar attacks and the accusations by the technical community that the DoC was dragging its feet in approving root signing,...
IGP Paper to be presented at ITU Workshop on IPv6
Milton Mueller will present (via webcast) the paper "Scarcity in IP addresses: IPv4 Address Transfer Markets and the Regional Internet Address Registries" at an upcoming ITU Workshop on IPv6. The presentation is scheduled for Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 14:15 UTC (10:15 EST) during Session 3: "Economic dimension of IPv6...
IGF Advisory Group Renewed, Expanded
The IGF’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) has been renewed, adding 17 new appointments, which brings the total number of advisers up to 50. We provide a quick review of the new appointees.
Internet governance highlighted at 36th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC)
Several papers on Internet governance will be presented during the 36th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), which will be held September 26 - September 28, 2008 at The National Center for Technology & Law, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA. IGP's Milton Mueller will...
IGP at IGF Open Consultation
IGP's Milton Mueller, Jeanette Hoffman and Brenden Kuerbis will be attending the Internet Governance Forum open consultations that will take place on 16 September, in room XIX in the Palais des Nations. These consultations will be followed by a meeting of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) on 17-18 September. View...
Job Posting: Program Officers (2), Global Internet Freedom Program, Freedom House – Washington, DC
Freedom House is an independent non-governmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom in the world. Freedom House functions as a catalyst for freedom through its analysis, advocacy, and action. Freedom House seeks a Program Officer for its Global Internet Freedom program. The Program officer will work with the Senior...
FBI contracting for access to global DNS, Whois information
The FBI is soliciting vendor proposals to provide one-stop, turn-key access to Internet Zone files, domain WHOIS and DNS records. Posted July 22, with responses due yesterday, the solicitation details a system that would aggregate the data and provide it to the FBI for up to the next 5 years. On one hand, the open nature of the DNS makes this request mostly just a large data collection exercise, but it has some interesting wrinkles with respect to its scope and selection process, as well as implications for civil liberties.
Will ICANN move to control routing security?
Replying to ICANN's draft 2009 Operating Plan and Budget, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee submitted comments last week vying for its piece of the estimated $60 million ICANN revenue pie. But the interesting story is not the dollar amounts requested by SSAC, rather their request for a specific line item for “Management of certificates for the addressing system (RPKI).” This request to put ICANN in the middle of controlling routing security raises many governance issues.
Civil Society Meeting at ICANN-Paris to discuss representative structure reforms
At the the upcoming Paris meeting of ICANN June 23 – 28 some reforms may be made which could greatly improve ICANN's representative structure. In a nutshell, representation of noncommercial users (public interest groups, NGOs, and individuals of a public interest bent) will be increased from its current 14%, possibly to 25% or one-third. This will also involve a change in the nature of noncommercial interest representation in ICANN.
The NCUC is inviting all civil society organizations with an interest in the Internet and its global governance to be aware of this and take advantage of it. You do not have to go to Paris to participate. They are using online collaboration tools to extend the meeting between the ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) globally. NCUC will be using the Elluminate platform to permit remote participation in the meeting. Attendees will be able to pose questions or participate in the discussion, as well as be able to hear discussions going on in the meeting.
