[WSIS CS-Plenary] [IGP Announce] Internet Governance Project Headlines

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May 29, 2009

ICANN sings a different tune about accountability in .xxx appeal

ICANN and Trademark Maximalism (Again)

What the ICANN Board needs to know about the new SG charters

Will Obama Re-nationalize ICANN?

China ready to pull the plug on IGF

DHS requests funding to continue far-reaching secure Internet protocol work

Upcoming Event: ICANN Noncommerical Users Constituency (NCUC) Meeting - Jun 1 2009, 14:00 UTC

Job Posting: Global Network Initiative Seeks Executive Director

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* ICANN sings a different tune about accountability in .xxx appeal - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=39402556&f=175425&u=11399690

As we approach the deadline for filing comments on the expiration of ICANN's Joint Projects Agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department, do not forget about the .xxx Independent Review Process. In that proceeding, ICANN directly confronts issues related to its accountability.

ICANN is all for accountability and claims to be doing everything in its power to make itself accountable and responsive to YOU (it likes to use the second person). But in ICANN's official Response to the ICM's "Memorial on the Merits," which was just posted a few days ago, ICANN sings a different tune. There seems to be a bit of a gap between what ICANN says about accountability in the abstract (it is all for it) and what it says when accountability really threatens to alter its behavior.

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* ICANN and Trademark Maximalism (Again) - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=39392312&f=175425&u=11399690

When ICANN passed a policy to create many new top level domains, both free expression advocates and trademark owners squawked (but for different reasons). ICANNs Board ignored the free expression advocates and rewarded the trademark owners by passing a resolution authorizing the formation of an Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT). IRT is an acronym for â€œsecond bite at the apple;â€ it gave one special interest group, ICANN's Intellectual Property Constituency, the exclusive right to draw up a wish list of their most fervently desired policies for protecting trademarks in an expanding domain name space. Today, the last day for public comment, ICANN veteran Kathy Kleiman, a lawyer who played a role in forging a multistakeholder agreement on the UDRP ten years ago, filed comments pointing out some alarming features of the IRTâ€™s proposal.

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* What the ICANN Board needs to know about the new SG charters - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=39337213&f=175425&u=11399690

ICANNâ€™s Board meets tomorrow to discuss the charters of the new Stakeholder Groups that will make up the new, reformed GNSO. As we have explained in other posts, this reorganization is an important, long overdue reform. It has the potential to create a fairer, more balanced and more productive GNSO. It is still possible, however, for ICANNâ€™s Board to fumble the ball. That is because there are groups who donâ€™t want to fix the GNSO. Rather, they want to prolong or worsen its problems so that special interests can hang on to power and continue to play the obstructionist games that have made the GNSO an exercise in futility for so long.

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* Will Obama Re-nationalize ICANN? - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=39272810&f=175425&u=11399690

Speaking at a Technology University of Delft conference on the internationalization of infrastructures, Professor Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger made some unique and provocative observations about the future of the ICANN tether to the U.S. government. Mayer-Schoenberger was trying to predict the position of the three main players: the EU, the US and China.

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* China ready to pull the plug on IGF - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=39257675&f=175425&u=11399690

The Peoples Republic of China cast a pall over the consultations of the Internet Governance Forum yesterday by announcing that it opposes extending the life of the Forum for another 5 years. "When it comes to Internet governance, [developing country] points of view are not sufficiently reflected in [Internet Governance Forum] discussions," China's representative said, "which is why we don't agree that the IGF should continue its mandate after the five years are up. So we repeat that the delegation of China does not agree with extending the mission of the IGF beyond the five years. We feel that after the five years are up, we would need to look at the results that have been achieved. And we need, then, to launch into an intergovernmental discussion." China's preference for intergovernmental forums where it has a more prominent and exclusive role, such as the ITU, is well known, however up to now it has never publicly opposed extending the term of the IGF.

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* DHS requests funding to continue far-reaching secure Internet protocol work - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=39220960&f=175425&u=11399690

DHS will present its 2010 budget request before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs today, including a reported $400 million to protect critical infrastructure and cyber networks from attack. $11 million of this was requested to fund DHS's Information Infrastructure Security (IIS) Program and Secure Protocol Project, including work on securing the Internetâ€™s Domain Name System (DNS) and routing infrastructure. Despite the relatively small amount of funding, SPP work is intended to, and if successful could, have far reaching impact on the Internet.

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* Upcoming Event: ICANN Noncommerical Users Constituency (NCUC) Meeting - Jun 1 2009, 14:00 UTC - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=39403556&f=175425&u=11399690

Please join the monthly ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) meeting:

Date: Monday 1 June 2009

Time: 

07:00-09:00 California

10:00-12:00 New York

14:00-16:00 UTC

15:00-17:00 London

16:00-18:00 Geneva

21:00-23:00 Phnom-Penh

22:00-24:00 Singapore

Via: Attendee(s) may join the meeting online using Elluminate online meeting software. Please click on this link to access the meeting. This is an open meeting. Attendees will need to provide their name, but won't need a password to login. (If this is your first time using Elluminate, view support information here.)

Agenda:

Draft Discussion Agenda for June NCUC Monthly Meeting

I. Substantive Policy Discussions

1. GNSO Restructuring Discussion

2. Introduction of New gTLD Policy Concerns (IRT "team", MAPO)

3. Registrant Rights Charter Discussion

4. Update on other GNSO teams (whois, post-expiry domain names recovery, travel policy, RAA) 

II. NCUC Administrative / Constituency Business

1. NCUC Representation on GNSO Committees / Working Groups

2. Recruiting New NCUC Members & Participants

3. Planning for 21-26 June Sydney ICANN Meeting

4. Next NCUC Monthly Meeting: 23 JUNE 2009 (Tuesday "Constituency Day" at ICANN Meeting)

5. Any Other Business

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* Job Posting: Global Network Initiative Seeks Executive Director - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=39403158&f=175425&u=11399690

The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is seeking an Executive Director to lead a new multi-stakeholder organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the human rights of freedom of expression and privacy in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector.

About the Global Network Initiative: The GNI was launched on October 29, 2008 when a diverse group of companies, human rights organizations, academics, investors, and technology leaders published new Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy, accompanied by Implementation Guidelines and a Governance, Accountability and Learning Framework.

Executive Director Position: The Executive Director will report to GNIâ€™s Board of Directors and will be responsible for key tasks and milestones associated with the establishment and operation of the organization.

Key milestones include: globalizing and increasing GNIâ€™s membership, developing a strategic plan in close consultation with the board, and making the GNI a leading voice in defending and promoting freedom of expression and privacy in the ICT sector.

View the complete job description.

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