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.
Category: ICANN
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. […]
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 […]
Does Internet needs to be Governed?
Vint Cerf, who is normally a private person, wrote an article for CircleID as titled. In a sense, ICANN has become the only globally visible body charged with any kind of oversight for the Internet. The scope of this oversight responsibility was deliberately and intentionally limited in the process of the creation of ICANN. But […]
Problems with ICANN
The common misconception is the Internet is all de-centralization. It is actually both; Above IP, it is and should be absolutely decentralize but when you dealing with core infrastructure (IP & DNS), like it or not, that’s is centralized. Another misconception is ITU is all about the ‘old worlds’ and didnt ‘get it’. Regardless of […]
Joi joins ICANN board
ICANN has just announced the nominations for ICANN board and Joi Ito was “selected” as the representive for Asia Pacific. I play a small role in recommending Joi to the nomination committee and also providing advises to him during the process. I am glad he was selected by the NomCom. Congulations and welcome to ICANN. […]
Verisign’s suit dismissed
Yohoo! Verisign suit against ICANN (wrt to Sitefinder) is dismissed! :-) But then again, everyone (including Verisign I believe) expected this suit will go nowhere. IMHO, the other reason it is filed is to set a court precedence of what is within ICANN ‘jurisdiccion’ over Verisign and what’s not. As to that goal, Verisign has […]
Back from ICANN…
I feel quite bad to controdiact Vint Cerf in the open forum but my comment that whether to have IDN Top Level Domain is an ICANN issues and not IETF was well-received with an applause from the audience. So I am really glad that ICANN board passing the resolution to form a new President committee […]
ICANN again
Khaled Fattal, CEO of MINC gave an presentation of MINC yesterday on MINC. A very nice presentation with a nice story, about involvement of local community, respects of different culture, one that is difficult for people who believe in the bottom-up process to dispute. But he never managed to answer my question what has all […]