September 2016 Blog Posts (14)

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This week, IANA stewardship transition on internet governance headlines again as "four conservative states Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada filed a lawsuit to stop the IANA transition in an effort to block the U.S. government’s contract with ICANN for IANA functions from expiring this night". On domain name, with just a…

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In the previous blog post, we have looked at the overall process related to the transition of the US Government (USG) stewardship role over the IANA functions, providing an overview of  the changes that will accompany the transition, and outlining the steps taken over the past several months in preparation for these…

The attention of the global Internet community is very much focused these days on the IANA stewardship transition process. The umbilical cord between the US government and ICANN is expected to be cut on 1 October; afterwards, ICANN is to function as an entity accountable to the global multistakeholder Internet community. With this date rapidly approaching, both the supporters and the opposers of the transition tend…

G20 leaders had their annual summit on 4-5 September, in Hangzhou, China. The communique released at the end of the summit, as well as other documents agreed or…

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This week, IANA Stewardship transition dominates Internet Governance headlines with some communication battle as Sen. Ted Cruz and Donal J Trump express oppostion on transition while ICANN and most of community members inform on the real "nature of the IANA functions, ICANN, and the likely impact of the transition". Also, United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable…

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.  - Albert Einstein

How does the Internet work? Well, let's think of a traditional phone, or telegraph - imagine it as the Einstein's cat... Or, think of data packets as…

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Cette semaine, la transition de la supervision des fonctions IANA est à la UNE de l'actualité sur la gouvernance internet avec le sénateur Ted Cruz et Donal J Trump qui expriment leur opposition à la transition au moment ou l'ICANN et la plupart des membres…

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Cette semaine, l'actualité de la gouvernance mondiale internet est marquée principalement par l'audition au sénat américain sur la transition IANA; l'Union Européenne qui envisage de fournir gratuitement du WI-FI dans toutes les villes de l'UE d'ici 2020 et le…

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This week, US senate judiciary subcommettee hearing on IANA transition; European Union planning to provide free WI-FI in every EU town by 2020 and 5G deployment by 2025 are among most commented news on Internet Governance landscape. Also, European Commission has set out proposals on copyright modernisation to increase cultural diversity and online content availability in Europe. As for event, we note African Union experts…

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Cette semaine, la transition de l'IANA est à la UNE avec une audition au sénat américain programmé le semaine prochaine…

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This week, Iana transition on headlines as Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday scheduled a hearing next week entitled "Protecting Internet Freedom: Implications of Ending U.S. Oversight of the Internet" while on Thursday, a group of republican committee chairmen ask U.S administration to reconsider IANA…

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This week, cyberpolitics, geopolitics as China reportedly allows foreign technology companies to join a key government committee in an effort to ease foreign concerns over its cybersecurity policies while Iran announce launch of its first ever national data network.  On Net neutrality, European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), has published new net neutrality guidelines to ensure open internet access for…