Emerald Group Publishing has informed us that Milton Mueller's paper, IP addressing: the next frontier of internet governance debate has been selected as a Highly Commended Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007.
NTIA hides .com contract advice
During recent testimony to the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the NTIA requested that documents containing advice it received from the Department of Justice during the recent .com contract negotiations between ICANN and VeriSign not be revealed to the public: Ironically, NTIA made this request on the heels...
Cybersquatting and geopolitics heats up
Cybersquatting is so 2000, or so we thought. The UDRP at WIPO, a process that was hashed out in ICANN's early days (see Mueller's Ruling the Root), has been chugging along for several years now, methodically determining if complainants IP rights have been violated and reassigning "ownership" of domain names....
Talking Internet core resources at the IGF
Monika Ermert, writing for IP Watch, has posted a great summary on the recent IGF Stocktaking. Her article finishes with the debate whether or not to discuss Internet critical resources at IGF, in particular: "Patrik Falstrom, former member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), said he personally would reject discussion...
GoDaddy Abruptly Silences Website
As reported by CNet, GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, pulled a well known security website's domain name (Seclists.org) last week after receiving a complaint from MySpace. MySpace, a popular social networking site, complained that sensitive, but not necessarily illegal, user information was being displayed improperly. Seclists.org, which archives...
IGP at the Forum (Eminence Grise)
The Internet Governance Project was prominent at the Forum. Below is a summary of our activities.
GigaNet Conference Brings Academics Together
GigaNet is the “global internet governance academic network,” a new network of researchers in the field of internet governance. GigaNet plans to hold annual conferences preceding the forum and engage in research collaboration and discussion around IG issues. The first GigaNet pre-conference vastly exceeded the expectations of its organizers, filling the room to capacity (80+ people) and provoking many compliments about the value and quality of the presentations and discussions.
European Commission responds to JPA
Responding to the recently released JPA, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Redding welcomed the "US government's declared intention to grant more autonomy to ICANN and to end its governmental oversight." However, the IGP notes that the new JPA does not introduce any guarantee that the relationship will...
IGP urges DoC to broaden ICANN oversight and complete DNS transition
The IGP submitted comments today in response to the NTIA inquiry on transition of the DNS. The essence of IGP's comments can be summarized as follows: The transition of DNS administration envisioned by the White Paper has gotten stuck somewhere in the middle of the process. This halfway house is...
Mathiason and Cogburn appointed to Global Alliance Advisory Panel
IGP Partners John Mathiason and Derrick Cogburn will serve in a high-level Panel of Advisors, providing policy and expert advice to the Steering Committee and Strategy Council of the UN's newly created Global Alliance for ICT and Development. The Strategy Council consists of 60 members representing governments and non-governmental stakeholders...
