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March 01, 2010

Accountability wins! Independent Review Panel upholds ICM Registry - .XXX is alive.

There’s more to the Google-Italy case than meets the eye

The ITU looks at IPv6 addressing

Bill centralizes coordination of USG reps in cybersecurity standards development

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* Accountability wins! Independent Review Panel upholds ICM Registry - .XXX is alive. - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44531994&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3564667
 
 

In a historic decision, ICANN's Independent Review Process has dealt ICANN's past leadership a severe rebuke. The three judge panel upheld ICM Registry's claim that ICANN treated its application for a .xxx top level domain in an unfair and discriminatory manner. The panelists ruled that the ICANN Board had decided on June 1, 2005 that the .XXX sTLD application met the required sponsorship criteria, and that its "reconsideration of that finding was not consistent with the application of neutral, objective and fair documented policy." If one understands what was at stake in this case, one realizes that this "defeat" for ICANN's past President and Board Chair (and the Bush Administration) is actually a great victory for ICANN as an institution.• Email to a friend • Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;37966;Main Page;Accountability wins! Independent Review Panel upholds ICM Registry - .XXX is alive.;3564667 • •

 
 

* There’s more to the Google-Italy case than meets the eye - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44631845&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3564667
 
 

Intermediary liability has become one of the critical flashpoints of Internet governance. A few weeks ago, we celebrated an Australian court decision that denied a bid by copyright holders to make ISPs liable for copyright infringement by people who happened to be using their networks. Yesterday, we learned of an Italian court decision that seems to have pointed in the opposite direction. Google executives were convicted of a privacy violation because of a video that one of their millions of users posted. The decision raises major concerns as it seems to require Internet intermediaries to monitor user generated content, which would be a disaster for the freedom and openness of the Internet.

But there is more to this case than meets the eye. US news coverage, which concentrates solely on Google’s outraged claims, fails to take into account three broader issues: 1) the fact that Google itself has undercut its exemption from liability by implementing monitoring of copyright; 2) the weakness, vagueness and obsolescence of the EU E-Commerce Directive’s liability protection provisions; 3) the politics in Europe and the way privacy law can be used – for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons – to attack this large global corporation that threatens the business models of entrenched interests.• Email to a friend • Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;37966;Main Page;There’s more to the Google-Italy case than meets the eye;3564667 • •

 
 

* The ITU looks at IPv6 addressing - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44460260&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3564667
 
 

On March 15 and 16 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) holds a meeting in Geneva focused on internet protocol version 6 addressing policy. One of the focal points of this meeting will be a paper I wrote for the ITU exploring the economics of IPv6 addressing, “Economic Factors in the Allocation of IPv6 Addresses.” The paper put forward the idea of a Transferable Address Block Lease (TABL). This would be a set of address blocks, ranging from /48s to /32s in size, that would be allocated on a provider-independent basis to anyone willing to pay a recurring annual fee based on the size of the block. There would be no “needs assessment,” just a fee.• Email to a friend • Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;37966;Main Page;The ITU looks at IPv6 addressing;3564667 • •

 
 

* Bill centralizes coordination of USG reps in cybersecurity standards development - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44635888&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3564667
 
 

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