From info at internetgovernance.org Mon Mar 1 12:16:25 2010 From: info at internetgovernance.org (Internet Governance Project) Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:16:25 -0500 Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [IGP Announce] Internet Governance Project Headlines Message-ID: March 01, 2010 Accountability wins! Independent Review Panel upholds ICM Registry - .XXX is alive. There?s more to the Google-Italy case than meets the eye The ITU looks at IPv6 addressing Bill centralizes coordination of USG reps in cybersecurity standards development Search Internet Governance Project Headlines ________________________________________________________ * Accountability wins! Independent Review Panel upholds ICM Registry - .XXX is alive. - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44531994&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3564667 In a historic decision, ICANN's Independent Review Process has dealt ICANN's past leadership a severe rebuke. The three judge panel upheld ICM Registry's claim that ICANN treated its application for a .xxx top level domain in an unfair and discriminatory manner. The panelists ruled that the ICANN Board had decided on June 1, 2005 that the .XXX sTLD application met the required sponsorship criteria, and that its "reconsideration of that finding was not consistent with the application of neutral, objective and fair documented policy." If one understands what was at stake in this case, one realizes that this "defeat" for ICANN's past President and Board Chair (and the Bush Administration) is actually a great victory for ICANN as an institution.? Email to a friend ? Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;37966;Main Page;Accountability wins! Independent Review Panel upholds ICM Registry - .XXX is alive.;3564667 ? ? * There?s more to the Google-Italy case than meets the eye - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44631845&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3564667 Intermediary liability has become one of the critical flashpoints of Internet governance. A few weeks ago, we celebrated an Australian court decision that denied a bid by copyright holders to make ISPs liable for copyright infringement by people who happened to be using their networks. Yesterday, we learned of an Italian court decision that seems to have pointed in the opposite direction. Google executives were convicted of a privacy violation because of a video that one of their millions of users posted. The decision raises major concerns as it seems to require Internet intermediaries to monitor user generated content, which would be a disaster for the freedom and openness of the Internet. But there is more to this case than meets the eye. US news coverage, which concentrates solely on Google?s outraged claims, fails to take into account three broader issues: 1) the fact that Google itself has undercut its exemption from liability by implementing monitoring of copyright; 2) the weakness, vagueness and obsolescence of the EU E-Commerce Directive?s liability protection provisions; 3) the politics in Europe and the way privacy law can be used ? for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons ? to attack this large global corporation that threatens the business models of entrenched interests.? Email to a friend ? Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;37966;Main Page;There?s more to the Google-Italy case than meets the eye;3564667 ? ? * The ITU looks at IPv6 addressing - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44460260&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3564667 On March 15 and 16 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) holds a meeting in Geneva focused on internet protocol version 6 addressing policy. One of the focal points of this meeting will be a paper I wrote for the ITU exploring the economics of IPv6 addressing, ?Economic Factors in the Allocation of IPv6 Addresses.? The paper put forward the idea of a Transferable Address Block Lease (TABL). This would be a set of address blocks, ranging from /48s to /32s in size, that would be allocated on a provider-independent basis to anyone willing to pay a recurring annual fee based on the size of the block. There would be no ?needs assessment,? just a fee.? Email to a friend ? Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;37966;Main Page;The ITU looks at IPv6 addressing;3564667 ? ? * Bill centralizes coordination of USG reps in cybersecurity standards development - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44635888&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3564667 ? Email to a friend ? 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URL: From ceo at bnnrc.net Mon Mar 1 15:11:54 2010 From: ceo at bnnrc.net (AHM Bazlur Rahman) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 21:11:54 +0600 Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] =?utf-8?q?_Community_Radio_Broadcasters_of_Asia?= =?utf-8?q?_Pacific_call_for_placing_people=E2=80=99s_communication?= =?utf-8?q?s_rights_at_the_centre_of_development?= Message-ID: <42A33360D79D4C87ACA585004D62E5EF@ceo> Community Radio Broadcasters of Asia Pacific call for placing people?s communications rights at the centre of development Bangalore, India, February 24, 2010. Community radio broadcasters from 20 countries of the Asia Pacific region have demanded to place people?s communications rights at the centre of development. The Bangalore declaration issued at the conclusion of the regional assembly of community radio broadcasters held in Bangalore, India from 20-23 February 2010 has also called for supporting initiatives that aid access to digital and other technological opportunities to enable community broadcasting in an ever-widening scale, while calling for creating spaces on the airwaves for diverse and marginalized voices, irrespective of caste, creed, race, colour, gender, sexuality, faith, and differently-abled or other differences. Over 300 Community broadcasters, activists, NGO representatives, academics, as well as governmental and multilateral institutions participated in the regional conference organised by the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC in collaboration with VOICE, India. While analysing the situation and challenges to community radio, the conference reaffirmed the need for the oppressed and marginalized communities to take control over their own means of communication. Conference participants attended several knowledge sharing and capacity building workshops while engaging in networking with like-minded individuals and institutions from across the region. The 2nd AMARC Asia Pacific Conference has committed to build alliances with grassroots and human rights movements for strengthening communities and the community radio movement and has put forward the rights of women, migrants, indigenous peoples and the poor. It has called for further recognition of Community Radio in the region as a tool for disaster preparedness, poverty reduction, inclusion, human rights, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. A number of resolutions ranging from human rights violations in the Philippines, to removing the ban on news in the recently adopted India Community radio legislation and simplifying license application procedures to calling on the Government of Bangladesh to forward the process of granting licenses for community broadcasting, were endorsed by the conference participants. A regional assembly of community radio broadcasters held on the 23rd of February 2010 elected the Asia Pacific Regional Board. The newly elected board of directors comprises of Ashish Sen, India as President, Maica Lagman, Philippines as deputy president, Shane Elson, Australia as Treasurer, Bianca Miglioretto, Philippines as Women International Network representative, Raghu Mainali, Nepal as vice-president for South Asia, and Imam Prakoso, Indonesia as vice-president for South East Asia. The assembly also ratified the strategic working plan of AMARC Asia Pacific for 2010-2013. Representatives Afghanistan, Australia, The People?s Republic of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, The Republic of India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Philippines, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste, and observers from Africa, Europe and Latin and North America participated in the conference. The previous AMARC Asia Pacific regional conference was held in Jakarta, Indonesia in November 2005. Further information is available at: http://asiapacific.amarc.org/index.php?p=2_Conference_Asia_Pacific_2010 Bazlu _______________________ AHM. 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URL: From info at internetgovernance.org Mon Mar 15 16:10:14 2010 From: info at internetgovernance.org (Internet Governance Project) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:10:14 -0400 Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [IGP Announce] Internet Governance Project Headlines Message-ID: March 15, 2010 Ruling the Root part II: RPKI and the IP address space The Nairobi Board resolutions: painful to read Exposed: ICANN Policy staff manipulation of Board Civility and Humility: The story of ICANN?s Ombudsman A busy two weeks for Internet governance CFP: Third International Workshop on Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction Search Internet Governance Project Headlines ________________________________________________________ * Ruling the Root part II: RPKI and the IP address space - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44926032&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3650020 The Internet Architecture Board issued a little-noticed statement February 12 that has the potential to revolutionize Internet governance - and not in a good way. The IAB is now claiming that the application of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to addressing and routing is "a prerequisite for improving the security of the global routing system." What may get lost in all the technical mumbo-jumbo is that RPKI is a technology of control and identification. We need to think long and hard before embarking on a path that would lead to the global centralization of such authority in a single institution's hands.? Email to a friend ? Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;1948269;Main Page;Ruling the Root part II: RPKI and the IP address space;3650020 ? ? * The Nairobi Board resolutions: painful to read - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44902513&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3650020 The ICANN board issued a fairly large number of resolutions, at the conclusion of its Nairobi meeting. Give it an A for effort. But on substance? Give them an F. On the .xxx issue, the Board chose to ignore its independent review panel and refused to rectify what was officially determined to be unfair and discriminatory treatment. On the vertical integration issue, it issued a needlessly biased and poorly worded resolution that was an attempt to clarify things but probably did the opposite. There are other gems. We have done the painful work of reading them for you.? Email to a friend ? Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;1948269;Main Page;The Nairobi Board resolutions: painful to read;3650020 ? ? * Exposed: ICANN Policy staff manipulation of Board - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44863756&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3650020 From Avri Doria's blog: "While in a meeting with Board members, a member of my Stakeholder group had an?opportunity?to read part of one page of the Policy Staff?s?briefing?report to the Board from across the table (some of us read?documents?upside down better the we read right side up.) In this case it was all they could do to refrain themself from standing up and yelling ?the staff lies.? Doria goes on to point out how inaccurate and biased these secret board briefings can be and how unfair it is that these critical messages are kept secret. There is a vital structural issue here: ICANN's board faces too many issues and relies heavily on the policy staff to tell it what is going on. Unfortunately, during the past 5-6 years, the staff has chosen to take sides on policy issues and to favor some constituency groups over others. Often, this is caused by?heavy lobbying of the staff by some of the professional, full-time lobbyists who can invest in constantly following and communicating with them. In other cases it is the staff's way of punishing those who were critical of ICANN, especially its policy staff. New CEO Rod Beckstrom has already made an important move to rectify this situation by replacing his policy vice chair with David Olive;?it would seem, however, that lower level staff are still mired in the organizational culture established by his predecessor. There is a simple solution to this: make the board briefings public, with the usual exceptions for information considered confidential for legal, personal or personnel reasons. ? Email to a friend ? Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;1948269;Main Page;Exposed: ICANN Policy staff manipulation of Board;3650020 ? ? * Civility and Humility: The story of ICANN?s Ombudsman - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44843538&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3650020 His behavior last fall during a dispute over the formation of the NCSG confirmed that Frank Fowlie, ICANN?s Ombudsman, is both unhelpful and biased. If the value-add of the Ombudsman?s office is unclear, the negatives are now very clear indeed. About a week ago the Ottawa Citizen published a story about Fowlie?s angry confrontation with a flight attendant after they failed to serve him a meal on a Paris ? Montreal flight. What makes the Air Canada incident important is the way it relates to Fowlie?s campaign for imposing standards of ?civil discourse? on ICANN participants. Fowlie?s decision to pursue a dispute resolution process showed that he believed that his behavior, which was neither respectful nor civil according to the people on that airplane, was justifiable under the circumstances. Fowlie lost his temper ? and a dispute ? over bad airline service. We wonder if he now has a bit more sympathy for the sometimes intemperate language used by people in the ICANN community who think that fundamental rights of free expression or privacy or consumer interests are being lost. The stakes are a bit higher than a missed meal. Unfortunately, Fowlie?s speech at the Nairobi meeting shows that he seems to have learned nothing from this incident.? Email to a friend ? Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;1948269;Main Page;Civility and Humility: The story of ICANN?s Ombudsman;3650020 ? ? * A busy two weeks for Internet governance - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44774346&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3650020 There is so much going on this week and next week in Internet governance and IGP is so involved that we barely have time to blog about it. Here is a quick summary and some links to more information; it includes tales of ITU and the RIRs, the Council of Europe, ICANN Nairobi, and Google-Italy.? Email to a friend ? Article Search - http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;1948269;Main Page;A busy two weeks for Internet governance;3650020 ? ? * CFP: Third International Workshop on Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44693471&f=175425&u=11399690&c=3650020 The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to participate in its third scholarly workshop to be held in Montreal (QC), Canada, on 30-31 May 2010. This workshop is organized in cooperation with the Canadian Communication Association and Media at McGill, during the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2010 Congress week in Montreal. Building on the success of its first two editions, respectively in Paris, France in June 2008 and in Brussels, Belgium in May 2009, the purpose of this third GigaNet workshop is twofold.? Email to a friend ? 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