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: Organizations
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 […]
Technology Bets
Technology Bets is a process Technology group within IDA taken every year to identify 10-15 strategic technology in the next 1 to 5 years based on two criteria (1) attractiveness of the technology and (2) relevance of the technology to Singapore. My group in IDA is responsible for doing this identification process and you can […]
Network Technology Paradigm Shift
Bob Shaw (from ITU) just did some presentation in Africa (focus on ENUM). But more importantly, I like what he said on Network Technology Shift, which is very similar to what I blog about last year. ITU-T Definition of NGN (Feb 2004) A Next Generation Network (NGN) is a packetbased network able to provide services […]
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 […]
Impact on VoIP
A European study shows that more people are jumping onto VoIP. Over 50 million western European consumers with a broadband Internet connection at home may use telephony software and special phones by 2008, British research group Analysys found. “The impact on traditional telephony providers’ revenues could reach 6.4 billion euros in 2008, representing 13 percent […]
Summary of WTSA 2004
ITU has a good summary of the WTSA including the several Internet issues discussed in my previous entry. (via ITU SPU) The two main topic of the whole assembly could be summaries as (1) NGN (aka the move to packet-switch network) and (2) Internet issues (aka Spam, ENUM, IDN and ccTLD).
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 […]