ICANN Interviews GAC Chair Heather Dryden on Beijing Communiqué and New gTLD Advice
In the wake of recent widespread criticism for the Governmental Advisory Committee’s (GAC) Beijing Communiqué, the ICANN crisis management team sprang into action. Posted prominently on the ICANN website is a new, one-on-one video interview with GAC Chair Heather Dryden in which she addresses, and tries to explain the thinking behind, the Communiqué and New […]
Notes from ICANN 50 – June 26
Timelines get pushed back, constituencies raise their voices, and ICANN sits up to listen – here is some of the latest coming out of ICANN 50. The ICANN Board has not and will not pass any resolutions relating to name collision this week. It is expected that the ICANN Board will approve the final name […]
What About Baidu?
Google’s been up to a lot lately: It recently signed on to an intellectual property best practices document aimed at cutting off ad revenue to cybersquatters. Its investment in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will (or won’t) come to bear soon. It announced the launch of Chromecast. And it continues to generate privacy issue buzz […]
GAC’s Final Word from Durban
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) issued its traditional communiqué at the conclusion of ICANN’s public meeting in Durban, but the most sought-after information was absent. The GAC has not published a definitive list of strings it plans to review for additional safeguards – because the strings may […]
The View from Basecamp
Fadi Chehadé, CEO of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), compares ICANN’s reorganization efforts to a climber at basecamp: ICANN has climbed a pretty major hill, is now taking a breather, but has a ways to go towards its peak of better professional and operational management. That “breather” of course is hardly […]
A Panel Discussion on the Geopolitics of Internet Governance
The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society recently co-hosted a panel discussion on the dicey topic of “The Geopolitics of Internet Governance.” Panelists addressed the questions of how to devise a more inclusive Internet Governance structure to replace the U.S.-centric one developed in the 1990s. The […]
Just a Warning?
Last week in Toronto during ICANN’s 45th Public Meeting, members of the Governmental Advisory Committee, or GAC, discussed a variety of topics about both new gTLDs and other ICANN policy initiatives. Of those, the topic with arguably the highest stakes for new gTLD applicants was the GAC’s Early Warnings.