An anonymous writer posted an article title Time for Reformation of the Internet on Susan Crowford’s blog. The article calls for an liberal approach towards ICANN making lots of references to IETF and its process. Two years ago, I might applause the article but since working for IDA, I learnt a lot of the policy […]
Year: 2004
VISA meets Dog
Jeff ordered a VISA debit card for his beloved Dog. Give a real meaning to On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog! Haha :-)
ICANN At-Large
I seldom talk about anything else other then IDN at ICANN meeting. But after several discussion over the week with various people, and prompting by Alan Levin, I decided to do so despite knowingly I am going to offend quite a few friends. The topic I talked at the open mike during the public forum […]
Be more liberal please…
At the public forum, Elliot Noss (CEO of Tucows) brought up a controvisal topic of new gTLDs – Vint’s commented that DNS is designed to be hierarchical in nature and hence not able to support large number of TLDs. To be exact, Vint is technically correct. And it is also true that we might have […]
Fun @ ICANN
One of the “nice thing” been an ICANN regular is you get to travel to all sort of exotic places for ICANN meetings. You also get invitations to castles and palaces hosted by Ministers and Mayors. For example, like having dinner at the Cape Castle, the oldest castle in African continent.
Words of the year
..is tada, “blog” (via FastCompany :-) Merriam-Webster, the dictionary folks, have put out its annual list of the 10 most popular words of the year. The list is put together from the number of online lookups at its site. And the winner is… “blog.” Yay, blog! I assume that no one reading this needed to […]
Proposal to implement IDN TLD
During the breakfast pre-panel discussion, a few of us were sitting around and discussing IDN Top Level Domains (TLDs). Normally, such debates goes no where but surprisingly, we actually got some agreement this time! The first thing we note is that there is no perfect solution. Every proposals has some problems – it does not […]
Politeness on Panel
Why is it that we have very interesting discussion openly during dinner or breakfast, but put everyone on a panel on stage, everyone become so quiet and so polite? This happened at my IDN Workshop yesterday. I wasn’t able to join the pre-panel dinner but I was told everyone have a lot of interesting debates. […]
New Tactic by Comment Spammers
I received quite a lot of comment spams in the last few days. Apparently, the comment spammers seem to be engaging in a new tactic: Redirect people to random entries on my blog who then post comment spams manually. What I couldn’t figure out is how and why these people would do that…
Arrived in Cape Town
Arrived in Cape Town last night. I think they overbooked the hotel so they give me a president suite1 which is pretty nice but pointless for me. Never figure out why anyone need such a big room. Anyway, I am here for the ICANN meeting. Particularly, I am helping to moderate a panel for the […]