January 2010
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The coming of a new Policy VP at ICANN
I have nothing but best wishes for the ICANN Policy Group and look forward to meeting David Olive, the new leader of this vital service group. I know no one has asked me, (why would they?) but I have a few recommendations for the new VP:
Make service within the bottom-up philosophy of multistakeholder organization your guiding light.
Work with the volunteer corps as if they were instrumental...
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Does the subject of Vertical Integration require a...
For the last several months people in and around the GNSO have been discussing Vertical Integration and its cousins; joint marketing, cross/joint ownership, registrars owning registries, registrars selling the names of affiliated registries, etc. This discussion has been full of claims and of counter claims of possible and expected harm, or advantages, to ICANN’s 3Rs - Registrants,...
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Will the quest for openness at ICANN persist?
Over the last few months, ICANN has lost some amazing people and, I am afraid, the champions of openness. With Maria Farrell’s departure last week I realized what those of us who care about open communications at ICANN have lost a lot. In losing Paul Levins, Kieren McCarthy, and Maria Farrell we lost a team that was dedicated to doing the right thing and fostering communications among the...
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ICANN - Expression of Interest for new gTLDs, are...
At the Seoul meeting of ICANN a few prospective new gTLD applicants petitioned the ICANN Board for a means to get around the forever delayed new gTLD process with an invention that is being called Expression of Interest (EOI). From their perspective, I can see why this would be advantageous to their business plans and I cannot blame them for trying - if you have the money why not try to use it...