In today's show I talk about the ICANN Strategic Planning meetings that start tomorrow in Marina del Rey and note what might happen if .XXX is left unresolved until the Vancouver meetings. I also talk about digital distribution of media and digital residuals for artists and ask for input for a legal forum at the upcoming Portable Media Exposition. (iPro Radio 48 / 10 Minutes) Header Music: "That's How We Do It in L.A." by Lindsey Buckingham.
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Tuesday, October 18
IPR48: ICANN Strategic Planning and the Portable Media Expo
by
Bret Fausett
on Tue 18 Oct 2005 10:23 AM PDT
Monday, October 17
IPR47: ICANN Planning, Blame Canada, Illegitimacy, IDNs
by
Bret Fausett
on Mon 17 Oct 2005 03:40 PM PDT
Today's show has an ambitious agenda, and I don't do justice to any of the items. I'll be attending the ICANN Strategic Planning meeting this week on behalf of the At Large. I note an interesting new ICANN staff appointment and discuss Esther Dyson's view that ICANN is a legitmate manager of the DNS precisely because it's illegitimate...or something like that. I also give short shrift to this comment on IDNs but promise to talk more about IDNs soon. (iPro Radio 47 / 10 Minutes) Header Music: "The Streetbeater" by Quincy Jones.
Wednesday, October 12
IPR46: Verisign Buys Weblogs.com, .NET Agreement
by
Bret Fausett
on Wed 12 Oct 2005 02:50 PM PDT
In today's show I give kudos to Verisign for buying weblogs.com (and audibly choke myself doing so) and then comment a little bit more on the .NET registry amendments now under consideration by ICANN. (iPro Radio 46 / 10 Minutes) Header Music: "Agent Double-0-Soul" by Edwin Starr.
The Design History of ICANN's Structure
by
Bret Fausett
on Wed 12 Oct 2005 01:13 PM PDT
Paul Twomey: "We are firmly committed
to a multi-stakeholder approach....We expect to evolve, we
expect to keep changing. We are concerned about stability [of the
internet] and we think it's best to evolve existing institutions. Our
present corporate structure is a matter of history, not of any
particular design."
I either don't understand or don't agree with that last sentence. ICANN was designed and its design is a result of many discussions and negotiations over a period of years. It was redesigned, with celebrated time and effort, just a couple of years ago. The result may not be pretty and still can be improved, but it didn't line up like this by some historical accident.
Verisign Buys Weblogs.com
by
Bret Fausett
on Wed 12 Oct 2005 12:07 PM PDT
Check it out: www.weblogs.com.
Verisign Press Release: "VeriSign purchased Weblogs.com from Scripting News, Inc. for $2.3 million in cash. To read more about VeriSign’s work in supporting the blogosphere, visit http://www.verisign.com/infrablog."
ICANN Board Meeting Today
by
Bret Fausett
on Wed 12 Oct 2005 10:25 AM PDT
The ICANN Board will hold another one of its closed Board meetings today. The agenda is ambitious:
Vixie on ICANN
by
Bret Fausett
on Wed 12 Oct 2005 09:09 AM PDT
Paul Vixie: "[I] think the general structure of ICANN-- a public benefit corporation with international governance-- is the right steward for top level naming and numbering authority. ICANN seems to have some problems fulfilling that role, either because of USG oversight or weak internal controls or whatever-- but that's not a reason to prefer a small neutral government over the structure that ICANN was originally supposed to have, and perhaps, could still have." This pretty well sums up my current thinking as well. Tuesday, October 11
Fracturing the Internet
by
Bret Fausett
on Tue 11 Oct 2005 10:22 PM PDT
The Guardian UK: "The European commission is warning that if a deal cannot be reached at a meeting in Tunisia next month the internet will split apart."
Yes, but only if they break it.
IPR45: Commenting on the .NET Comments
by
Bret Fausett
on Tue 11 Oct 2005 04:29 PM PDT
ICANN has just closed the public comment period on the revised .NET agreement with Verisign. I review the comments submitted and provide a few thoughts of my own. (iPro Radio 45 / 10 Minutes) Header Music: "Fight the Power" by The Isley Brothers.
Gallagher: Contrast Stark, Choice Clear
by
Bret Fausett
on Tue 11 Oct 2005 08:25 AM PDT
Michael D. Gallagher, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce: "We embrace [the] concepts of the private sector, the
marketplace and freedom of expression. So the contrast [between the EU position and the US position] is stark and the
choice is clear."
If the article weren't in the Washington Times, I'd call it Exhibit "E."
More on the WSIS Backlash
by
Bret Fausett
on Tue 11 Oct 2005 08:11 AM PDT
Mark these as Exhibits "C" and "D" in support of the backlash against WSIS: LifeSite Editorial, "Control of Internet Being Taken Away From US For Questionable Reasons" and Jon C. Ryter, "UN Wants Control of the Internet."
See yesterday's podcast for Exhibits "A" and "B." Monday, October 10
Yahoo! Does Podcasts!
by
Bret Fausett
on Mon 10 Oct 2005 05:17 PM PDT
This is terrific. Take a look: podcasts.yahoo.com. And, yup, you can find my podcast in the Yahoo! directory (feel free to rank me
 ) Or use the search term "ICANN".
IPR44: The Backlash Against WSIS
by
Bret Fausett
on Mon 10 Oct 2005 04:44 PM PDT
The call for international oversight of ICANN and the Internet got some
unexpected traction at Prepcom-3 in Geneva. Is it time for the
backlash? That's the subject of today's podcast. Referenced articles
include these editorials from The Economist and The Gazette. (iPro Radio No. 44 / 10 Minutes) Header Music: "Got To Give The People What They Want" by The O'Jays.
Montreal Gazette Editorial on WSIS and ICANN
by
Bret Fausett
on Mon 10 Oct 2005 03:11 PM PDT
The Gazette, from Montreal, Canada, has an unsigned editorial in today's edition that endorses staying the course with ICANN rather than opting into U.N.-managed oversight of Internet resources.
Sunday, October 9
The Soul of a New Machine
by
Bret Fausett
on Sun 09 Oct 2005 03:51 PM PDT
I'm migrating to a new machine for my everyday work. For the past three
years, my everyday work computer has been an IBM Thinkpad X31 running
Windows XP. I'm typing this post from a Lenovo Thinkpad T43 running
Linux (Fedora Core 4).
As soon as I loaded Linux, without a dual boot, I immediately had second thoughts. Not everything worked out of the box. The wireless card wasn't recognized, and unlike other Linux distributions, Fedora doesn't come with an MP3 Player or a DVD Player. But those problems were quickly fixed. After a few hours of tinkering, everything seems to work well, including the MP3s and DVDs. It's amazing what little difference operating systems make these days. My data seems to move happily across the OS divides. So far, so good.
Economist Editorial on Internet Governance
by
Bret Fausett
on Sun 09 Oct 2005 08:04 AM PDT
From the October 6th Print Edition. Read it. It's excellent. (for non-subscribers, a copy is here).
Add: Karl Auerbach disagrees. But Karl, The Economist article is good not because of how it describes ICANN but in how it describes the WSIS-proposed alternatives to ICANN. Saturday, October 8
New IANA Staff
by
Bret Fausett
on Sat 08 Oct 2005 02:23 PM PDT
Wow. These look like excellent appointments. ICANN: "David Conrad joins ICANN as General Manager IANA." and "Kim Davies joins ICANN as IANA Technical Liaison."
Friday, October 7
U.S. State Dept. Story on Internet Governance
by
Bret Fausett
on Fri 07 Oct 2005 04:24 PM PDT
Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State: "U.S. officials are engaged in ongoing talks with other governments,
private enterprise and nongovernmental organizations working to craft
an agreement on the future of Internet governance for presentation at
the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to be held in Tunis,
Tunisia, November 16-18...."
Okay State Department, where do I send my comments? Where's the public forum? I have some thoughts for you....
IPR43: Friday Mailbag, Alternate Roots, and My Favorite Podcasts
by
Bret Fausett
on Fri 07 Oct 2005 04:08 PM PDT
What's in the Reader Mailbag this week? I comment on the comments, and
answer a question about alternate roots and the meaning of
'end-to-end.' Three of my new favorite podcasts: David Lawrence (RSS), The Business (RSS), and Martini Shot (RSS). (iPro Radio No. 43 / 12 Minutes) Header Music: "Cadillac Jack's No. 1 Son" by Kevin Gordon.
Feuding Warlords
by
Bret Fausett
on Fri 07 Oct 2005 03:20 PM PDT
Andy Sullivan, writing for Reuters: "Thousands of Internet users struggled to send e-mail and keep their Web sites running on Thursday after a dispute between two service providers left large portions of the Internet unable to talk to each other. Computer technicians scrambled to shore up their networks after Level 3 Communications Inc. refused to accept traffic from rival Cogent Communications Group Inc., rendering large portions of the Internet unreachable by others." I understand that this has affected by law firm's e-mail as well. If you need to reach me, use my personal mail accounts. Can you "security and stability"? Thursday, October 6
IPR42: The Role of Governments and Alternate Roots
by
Bret Fausett
on Thu 06 Oct 2005 03:18 PM PDT
Can any good come of the World Summit on the Information Society? And
does the threat of creating an alternative root system give the
governments of the world leverage over the United States? Those
thoughts, and a really cool song, on today's Internet Pro Radio. (iPro
Radio No. 42 / 10 Minutes) Header Music: "Still A Few More Honky Tonks" by Chris Gaffney.
What Can the U.S. Do? A Lot, Actually
by
Bret Fausett
on Thu 06 Oct 2005 02:43 PM PDT
Kieren McCarthy, writing in The Guardian: "[F]aced
with international consensus, there is little the US government can do
but acquiesce [to multinational control of ICANN and the root zone]."
Not so fast. The U.S. doesn't have to do any such thing. The only
leverage wielded by the other governments of the world is the threat to
start their own root zone, which would speak volumes about whether
their concerns are really about stability and security.
Axis of Delusion
by
Bret Fausett
on Thu 06 Oct 2005 02:01 PM PDT
I'm getting a kick out of reading the position papers submitted by
various national governments during last week's Prepcom-3 for the World
Summit on the Information Society. Here is Iran's take on ICANN:
 We decide to establish an
intergovernmental Council for Global Public Policy and Oversight based
on the principles of transparency and democracy with the involvement,
in an advisory capacity, of the private sector, civil society and the
relevant intergovernmental and international organizations. The Council
shall be anchored in the United Nations and have...oversight relating
to Internet resource management, especially the related to ICANN/IANA
competence in the areas such as additions or deletions to the root zone
file, management of IP addresses, introduction of Global Top level
Domains (gTLDs), delegation and redelegation of Country Code To Level
Domain (ccTLDs). The relationship between the Council and technical and
operational Internet institutions, such as the reformed and
internationalized ICANN/IANA, should be formalized. In this model, the
reformed ICANN/IANA will be accountable to the Council. This
internationalization should be accompanied by an adequate United
Nations like host-country agreement for reformed ICANN/IANA.Monday, October 3
IPR41: Framing the WSIS Debate
by
Bret Fausett
on Mon 03 Oct 2005 05:16 PM PDT
What caused the result from WSIS Prepcom-3? Was it U.S. hubris? or European ignorance? And what does it have to do with the ICANN At Large? All this, and an apropos song, on today's Internet Pro Radio. (iPro Radio No. 41 / 10 Minutes) Header Music: "Political Science" by Randy Newman.
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