ICANN is now seeking public comments regarding the .net bids. Unlike before, I am not going to offend one friend or another by siding with one proposal over another. They are all qualified and experienced registry operators. Instead, I will make some general observations. 1. None of the Revenue and Pricing Model (i.e. Section 4) […]
Category: Organizations
Off to Bali
I am off to Bali for a quick trip. The purpose of the trip is to look at the proposed venue for APRICOT 2007 (yes, 2007 ;-). Speaking of APRICOT, 2005 will be held in Kyoto late next month. I haven’t been back to Kyoto since my honeymoon two years ago and I been looking […]
Where did the .ORG money goes?
A friend pointed me to the latest Internet Society budget for 2005 :- ISOC is expecting PIR (ie, .ORG) to contribute 3.4M to the society! Wow, thats 2-3x as much as what Internet Society gets from its membership! I think that’s pretty neat because ISOC has been in the red for many years and could […]
IGOVAP Online Forum
I am helping Dieter Zinnbauer to distribute this press release from APDIP. I will be helping them to build up resources on theme area on IDN for them. Please sign up if you like to contribute to the Internet Governance discussion. Priorities in Internet Governance for the Asia-Pacific Region (IGOVAP): An Online Forum UNDP’s Asia […]
Second Level .sg available for registration
Yohoo! Finally .sg is open for 2nd level domain name registration :-) SGNIC announced in August last year that it was opening the second-level ‘.sg’ domain names to create more choices and a vibrant Internet environment in Singapore through the proliferation of such domain names. Second-level ‘.sg’ domain names like xyz.sg are shorter and easier […]
Engineers on TLDs
Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries? on CircleID by Vittorio Bertola: This is why engineering solutions are not carved in stone, and young engineers have always been eating up old engineers since gave engineering to the world. That’s not because the old solutions were better than the new ones, or the opposite, […]
Adopt-a-TLD programme
Thomas Roessler responded to my previous entry on ICANN wrt to TLD. Instead of being scared of possible failure, ICANN should think about how to deal with it. ICANN should be thinking about escrow solutions. ICANN should be thinking about how it can contribute to establishing a healthy and sufficiently large pool of operational registry […]
IETF-style ICANN
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 […]
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 […]