Recently, there have been a lot of noise about China tightening control on new top levels and how it could severely damper domain names registrations in China and one should make preparation for the worst. Initially, I tried to stay out of this as I know all the players behind this. But given there are […]
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美国宣布有意移交IANA监督权到底意味着什么？
最近一直在关注NTIA移交IANA监督权的话题，也去参加了一些相关的国际会议，产生了一些想法，想和大家分享。在此之前，先分享一些背景吧。 今年3月14日，NTIA（美国国家电信和信息管理局）宣布有意将IANA（互联网号码分配机构）的监督权移交至全球多利益相关方社群。NTIA称，它不会接受采用以一家政府主导或一家政府间合作组织来取代NTIA职责的解决方案（也就是说，不能让联合国或类似主体接手）。而从1998年起，ICANN（互联网名称与数字地址分配机构）一直在通过与NITA的合同行使IANA管理职能。所以，美国政府希望ICANN召集多利益相关方来制定一套移交提案。 先从美国政府的这一声明说起吧。与业内同行聊天，达成的共识是，美国政府选择在这个时间点宣布放权IANA，从国际政治的角度看，是明智之举。 这个时间点是指什么？ 是指巴西时间4月23日召开的全球互联网治理大会之前。这场全球大会的诉求，缘起2013年的美国窃听事件。随着全球被美国NSA窃听的政要名单大白于天下，巴西总统罗塞夫和德国总理默克尔的名字赫然在列，二者都对美国的窃听行径怒不可遏。巴西总统罗塞夫表示，巴西将会避免使用服务器在美国的网络服务；德国总理默克尔发表声明，她支持建立一个独立欧洲网络。在经过多个互联网机构协调，ICANN CEO于巴西总统罗塞夫见面后， 共同牵头在4月23日主办这场旨在推动互联网“多利益相关方模式”治理模式的全球大会（NetMundial），以此批判美国行为，挑战单一的全球互联网政治格局。
China’s Category of Telecommunications Services
This morning I read a catchy titled article on CircleID “China Closing the Door to New Technologies”. I was trying to make sense of what’s all the fuss is about … So I called up my friends in Ministry of Industry and Information for lunch to find out what’s going. Background The document is called […]
JET Open Letter to ICANN
Rod Beckstrom President and Chief Executive Officer Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601 Cc: Tina Dam Director, IDN Program Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601 Dear Mr. Beckstrom, In July 2000, […]
ICANN Public Forum – Plea from CJK
This is James Seng. First, I would like to thank the staff who have work very hard for the revised gTLD RFP. The quality of the RFP clearly show the effort the staff have put into the document, despite facing very challenging and sometimes conflicting comments from the community. It is important for me to […]
Anti-Phishing in Hong Kong
Planning for a short trip to Hong Kong tomorrow reminded me of Jonathan Shea, something I want to blog about but was waiting for the hype around the new generic TLDs to cool down. Jonathan Shea is an old friend who is in-charge of “.hk”. I have the pleasure to catch up with him in […]
.test in 10 scripts
Wohoo! Finally we getting our IDN Top Level domains :-) Update: IDN .test Root-Zone Evaluation Specifically, the Board approved the delegation of eleven evaluative top-level domains representing the term ‘test’ translated into: Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. Following this ICANN Board approval, the delegation request will […]
Late thoughts on .XXX
It is kind of silly to talk about .XXX, especially it is a forgo conclusion that it is not proceed, not to mention a couple of months late. Nevertheless, I was discussing this with a friend recently and said something I like to share: “.XXX is (perhaps) the first time the pornography industry and the […]
Peace …
Finally, after nearly 8 years of tug-of-war, ITU finally comes to terms that it needs to work with ICANN as I noted a few years ago (here and here). The Internet should continue to be overseen by major agencies including ICANN and the ITU, rather than any new “superstructure,” the new head of the International […]
Timetable for IDN TLD testbed
ICANN announced the Timetable of Proposed Testing of IDNS in Top-Level Domains: ICANN released today a statement outlining a proposal by the President’s Committee on IDNs (co-chaired by Hualin Qian, Mouhamet Diop and Paul Twomey) for a timetable leading to the technical testing of IDNs at the TLD level. The timetable contains a series of […]