There is an article on CNet with a misleading title The U.N. thinks about tomorrow’s cyberspace The International Telecommunication Union is one of the most venerable of bureaucracies. Created in 1865 to facilitate telegraph transmissions, its mandate has expanded to include radio and telephone communications. But the ITU enjoys virtually no influence over the Internet. […]
Tag: ICANN
Innovation in DNS business
[ This entry is also on CircleID. ] One thing that amazed me about the ICANN community is the creativeness in finding new business models. I am not even talking about new technology like Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), the number of business models created from the vanilla DNS (actually just .com) are just mind boggling. […]
.net domain name “tax”
Was scanning through some of my old comments and thought this conversation with Mark Mueller is interesting enough to be reposted. James, Would be interesting to hear your view on ICANN’s intention to charge a per domain fee of $1 in the “.net” space? I believe they will not only start charging in the “.net” […]
A Call for Resignation
This was posted to GA (General Assembly) mailing list by Danny Young: I would like to begin by thanking Thomas Roessler and Esther Dyson for their service on the At-Large Advisory Committee and applaud their decision to resign in order to better pursue other endeavors. I now call upon the remaining members of the At-Large […]
.net bids
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]