The NCUC Membership Affairs Team (MAT) coordinated by Walid Al-Saqaf has prepared a survey to elicit feedback from NCUC members on ways to improve engagement. The survey can be found here. It will stay open till March the 31st, 2015. The survey’s findings are expected to help formulate policies and steps to improve inreach efforts […]
NCUC awarded its first travel grant to NCUC member Benjamin Akinmoyeje to participate in the ICANN 52 meeting in Singapore, on February 8-12 2015. Ben Akinmoyeje is an ICTD & IT Manager working with Management Sciences for Health in Abuja, Nigeria where he operates the MSH IdeaLab, a platform for Internet Governance for Development. The […]
Freedom of Expression Chilled By ICANN’s Addition of Speech Restrictions in DNS “Public Interest Commitments” Amount to Illegitimate Usurpation of Bottom-Up Policy By Robin Gross, IP Justice Freedom of expression on the Internet is at risk from ICANN’s recent decision to prohibit anyone but one specific type of doctor from using the word within the […]
Minutes Location: Executive Committee Mailing ListTime: 10-17 April 2015Participants:Bill Drake (NCUC Chair)Roy Balleste (North America representative)João Carlos Caribé (Latin America/Caribbean representative) Grace Githaiga (Africa representative)Peter Green/ Zuan Zhang 张 钻(Asia/Australia/Pacific representative)Stefania Milan (Europe representative)Agenda:1. BudgetThe EC noted with great appreciation the Public Interest Registry’s currently in process contribution of $15,000.00, and asked the Treasurer to provide it with an […]
One of the things that has most surprised me since getting involved in the internet governance arena is the importance of face-to-face (F2F) contact and meetings. Certainly the internet should reduce the need to meet in the flesh, yet the longer I am involved in this field the more meetings there appear to be to attend. […]
Sunday the 22nd of March, 2015, 8pm GMT. I notice an email from 2pm that I hadn’t had a chance to look at: Robin Gross, NCUC Member of the Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability, henceforth also CCWG), is stuck in San Francisco. Do you think you could get on a plane tomorrow […]
As parallel consultations are being launched on the latest proposals from the working groups on Naming and on Accountability & Governance, we are delighted to invite you to a webinar dedicated to civil society, on April 29th at 1430-1600 UTC. This will be an opportunity to provide an update and exchange views on the IANA stewardship transition […]
Danielle Kehl and I have just published a background paper on the IANA transition – entitled “Controlling Internet Infrastructure – Part I: The IANA Transition and Why it Matters for the Future of the Internet” – for the Open Technology Institute. It’s available here: http://www.newamerica.org/oti/controlling-internet-infrastructure/ There probably isn’t a great deal in there that those of you […]
ICANN 53 – Progress and Building Consensus ICG The ICG met for two days to discuss the current status of the names, numbers and protocol proposals. With the numbers and protocols proposals having already been submitted in the previous number of weeks much of the focus was on the draft proposal that was to be sent for […]
The IANA Transition: The Work Ahead AUGUST 27, 2015 | Global Internet Policy On 17 August, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence Strickling announced that the US government would be extending the IANA contract with ICANN through 30 September 2016. This long anticipated extension reflects the community’s need for additional time to accomplish a number […]