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<div align="left"><!-- Begin .header --><font size="3" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 102);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"></span></font><font size="3" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">March 30, 2009</font><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span><br /><br /><a href="#0">ARIN's Board declares an emergency</a>
<br /><a href="#1">RIPE: Existing Internet community policy channels and processes insufficient</a>
<br /><a href="#2">Norway claims agreement on "net neutrality"</a>
<br /><a href="#3">Cyber-safety, or global censorship?</a>
<br /><a href="#4">WIPO the cybersquatter</a>
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<p>At ARIN, yet another intense controversy is swirling around the problem of IPv4 address transfers. At its 18 March 2009 meeting, the Board declared an emergency and revised a transfer policy that we all thought it had adopted a month earlier. The Board explained the new draft policy, <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399690/https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2009_1.html">2009-1</a>, with the statement, "The
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<p>RIPE's <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399690/http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/cooperation/index.html">Enhanced Cooperation Task Force</a> has released a <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399690/http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/coop-report.html">report</a>, calling for the establishment of a standing working group to discuss improving coordination and communication between the Internet community and public sectors on Internet policy matters. The report states it is "clear that the conventional channels and processes of the Internet community are not, of themselves, sufficient to meet the demands of enhanced cooperation."<img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~4/fLFZTAQ4QYE" height="1" width="1"/><br><div style="font-size: 8pt; ">• <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Fwd2FriendEdit=175425;11349437;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~3/fLFZTAQ4QYE/4134905.html;RIPE: Existing Internet community policy channels and processes insufficient;1388165">Email to a friend</a> • <a title="Search based on this article's keywords, tags and categories" href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;11349437;Main Page;RIPE: Existing Internet community policy channels and processes insufficient;1388165">Article Search</a><!-- _!fbztxtlnk!_ http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;11349437;Main Page;RIPE: Existing Internet community policy channels and processes insufficient;1388165--> • <a href="http://www.talkr.com/app/text_to_audio.app?feed_url=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2fIGPBlogCombined&permalink=http%3a%2f%2ffeedproxy.google.com%2f~r%2fIGPBlogCombined%2f~3%2ffLFZTAQ4QYE%2f4134905.html&src=5"><img border="0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/audio.ico" title="Listen to this article" /></a> •</div><br> </p>
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<p>The Consumer Council of Norway, the Consumer Ombudsman, Norwegian Internet service providers and the Norwegian regulatory authority have come to an agreement on <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399690/http://forbrukerportalen.no/Artikler/2009/historic_agreement_on_net_neutrality">joint guidelines for net neutrality</a>. [Note: An earlier version of this post made some assertions based on the understanding that the Norway blocking list was compulsory, which we have learned is not true.]<img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~4/yQTV3vqpXn4" height="1" width="1"/><br><div style="font-size: 8pt; ">• <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Fwd2FriendEdit=175425;11349437;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~3/yQTV3vqpXn4/4133397.html;Norway claims agreement on "net neutrality";1388165">Email to a friend</a> • <a title="Search based on this article's keywords, tags and categories" href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;11349437;Main Page;Norway claims agreement on "net neutrality";1388165">Article Search</a><!-- _!fbztxtlnk!_ http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;11349437;Main Page;Norway claims agreement on "net neutrality";1388165--> • <a href="http://www.talkr.com/app/text_to_audio.app?feed_url=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2fIGPBlogCombined&permalink=http%3a%2f%2ffeedproxy.google.com%2f~r%2fIGPBlogCombined%2f~3%2fyQTV3vqpXn4%2f4133397.html&src=5"><img border="0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/audio.ico" title="Listen to this article" /></a> •</div><br> </p>
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<p>ICANN has encouraged new constituencies to get involved in the GNSO. Now it has got what it asked for. This month, Cheryl Preston <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399690/http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#cybersafety">filed a petition with ICANN</a> to form a new “Cyber-safety Constituency.” It turns out that this constituency is nothing more than an extension of <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399690/http://www.cp80.org">the CP80 Foundation</a>. CP80 is devoted to systematic, global censorship of internet content in order to eradicate pornography.<img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~4/sf2-1vJc7KU" height="1" width="1"/><br><div style="font-size: 8pt; ">• <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Fwd2FriendEdit=175425;11349437;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~3/sf2-1vJc7KU/4125801.html;Cyber-safety, or global censorship?;1388165">Email to a friend</a> • <a title="Search based on this article's keywords, tags and categories" href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;11349437;Main Page;Cyber-safety, or global censorship?;1388165">Article Search</a><!-- _!fbztxtlnk!_ http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;11349437;Main Page;Cyber-safety, or global censorship?;1388165--> • <a href="http://www.talkr.com/app/text_to_audio.app?feed_url=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2fIGPBlogCombined&permalink=http%3a%2f%2ffeedproxy.google.com%2f~r%2fIGPBlogCombined%2f~3%2fsf2-1vJc7KU%2f4125801.html&src=5"><img border="0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/audio.ico" title="Listen to this article" /></a> •</div><br> </p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399690/http://wipo.int">World Intellectual Property Organization</a>, which operates the dominant domain name - trademark dispute resolution service, has ripped off someone else's trademark with a domain name registration. The discovery was made by US patent and trademark lawyer John Berryhill, known for defending domain name registrants against UDRP claims.<img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~4/bTfMCFCIHbI" height="1" width="1"/><br><div style="font-size: 8pt; ">• <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Fwd2FriendEdit=175425;11349437;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~3/bTfMCFCIHbI/4112753.html;WIPO the cybersquatter;1388165">Email to a friend</a> • <a title="Search based on this article's keywords, tags and categories" href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;11349437;Main Page;WIPO the cybersquatter;1388165">Article Search</a><!-- _!fbztxtlnk!_ http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Search=175425;11349437;Main Page;WIPO the cybersquatter;1388165--> • <a href="http://www.talkr.com/app/text_to_audio.app?feed_url=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2fIGPBlogCombined&permalink=http%3a%2f%2ffeedproxy.google.com%2f~r%2fIGPBlogCombined%2f~3%2fbTfMCFCIHbI%2f4112753.html&src=5"><img border="0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/audio.ico" title="Listen to this article" /></a> •</div><br> </p>
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