Mamadou LO's Blog – May 2016 Archive (9)

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This week, plan for the U.S. to cede control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority to a global multi-stakeholder community likely to be delayed after US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on IANA transition with some senators pushing for two more years delay. Reagarding infrastructure, Microsoft and Facebook plan to build 4,100-mile private undersea cable between US and Europe. As for event, we note ITU council 2016 with two women leading the council for the first time;…

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This week, plan for the U.S. to cede control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority to a global multi-stakeholder community likely to be delayed after US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on IANA transition with some senators pushing for two more years delay. Reagarding infrastructure, Microsoft and Facebook plan to build 4,100-mile private undersea cable between US and Europe. As for event, we note ITU council 2016 with two women leading the council for the first time;…

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This week, cyberpolitics with US government reportdely warning from China pursuing new registration rules for online addresses. Regarding ICANN, debate on IANA stewardship transition continues as republicans in Congress are again accused to block plan to hand off oversight of the internet domain name system. Otherwise, ICANN 57 meeting is relocated from San Juan (Costa Rica) to Hyderabad (India). Below, informations on those subjects as well as documents on domain…

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Cette semaine, l'actualité sur la gouvernance internet est marquée par le discours au Nations Unies d'un responsable de Microsoft sur le terrorisme numérique; la résiliation par ICANN de quelques nouveaux noms de domaine en Afrique et les essais parallèles entre ICANN et Verisign sur le nouveau sytéme de gestion de la zone Racine. En ce qui concerne les conférences et…

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This week, Microsoft telling United Nations that technology companies can do more to combat digital terror; some african new Top-level Domain (TLD) applicants reportedly receiving termination notices this week from ICANN "as a result of missing their deadlines to go live", and one month has gone since the start of the parallel testing beteween ICANN and Verisign on Root Zone Management System. As for event, we notice ITU international telecom week in Chicago, ITU Global…

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Cette semaine, la cyberpolitique est au coeur de l'actualité sur la gouvernance internet avec les autorités russes qui auraient demandés l'aide de la Chine pour une plus grande maîtrise de l'information sur l'Internet mais aussi Microsoft qui accepte l'invitation du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU pour se prononcer sur un débat spécial concernant le terrorisme numérique.

Quant à la régulation d'Internet en Europe, le règlement sur la protection des données (GDPR) est publié…

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This week, Cyberpolitics with russian authorities reportedly looking for China help to seek greater control of information on the internet; and Microsoft accepting invitation from UN security council to adress special debate on digital terror next week.

As for Internet regualtion in Europe, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is published in the Official Journal of the European Union on May 04 meaning one has until May 25, 2018 to ensure data processing…