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- Rejections of '.xxx' worrisome
- On March 30, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers rejected a proposal by ICM Registry Inc. for a ".xxx" domain for Web addresses. If the proposal had passed, it would have let providers of adult entertainment sites voluntarily register with the new domain, making it easier for families...
- Research articles 2007-04-22
- U.S. to Continue Oversight of Internet Domain Policies
- WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commerce Department said it will extend its oversight of the California organization that handles domainname policies for the Internet, while finding ways to improve the group's accountability and transparency.John Kneuer, the department's acting assistant secretary for communications and information, said the government's current agreement with the...
- Research articles 2006-10-09
- The Internet Splits Up
- Sometimes it's tough to remember what life was like before the Internet. In those long-ago-seeming days, phone calls were expensive, document-shipping frequent, and we actually had to troll for random information in (gasp!) books. The Web made everything better. Suddenly, we could connect as often as we liked, for as...
- Research articles 2006-05-15
- Let the Internet Be the Internet
- Now that the Internet has become a keystone of global communications and commerce, many individuals and institutions are racing to jump in front of the parade and take over its governance. In the tradition of all those short-sighted visionaries who would kill the goose who lays the golden eggs, they...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Chinese walls; Internet infrastructure.
- China threatens to fracture the internet THE internet is supposed to be strong enough to survive a nuclear war, but nothing can protect it from politics. Since its inception, its technical underpinning--the handling of addresses such as .com or .org--has been based on...
- Research articles 2006-03-04
- A peace of sorts; The internet.(controlling of internet)
- No one controls the internet, but many are determined to try "EVERY civilisation starts as a theocracy and ends as a democracy," wrote Victor Hugo, alluding to the impact of the printing press on the Catholic Church. So too the internet. This week, ...
- Research articles 2005-11-19
- Institute for Policy Innovation: Spare US the UNternet; US Does Not Dominate Internet; Neither Should UN
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Tomorrow is the official kick-off of the World Summit on the Information Society WSIS where the International Telecommunication Union ITU, a United Nations UN agency, is poised to wrestle control of the Internet away from the United States. According to the Institute for...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Catalonia a 'virtual' nation as web lets .cat out of bag
- MADRID AFP — Web domain authorities in the United States have handed the eastern Spanish region of Catalonia 'virtual' national status by approving ".cat" for Internet sites in Catalan and pertaining to Catalan culture. "For the Generalitat regional government, this signifies that the Catalan linguistic and cultural community in...
- Research articles 2005-09-16
- Mapping an ignored agenda: Internet governance at the WSIS.(ComMunity IndePenDent MediA)(World Summit on the Information Society)
- Introduction A critical issue which is both a good and a bad barometer of the information society IS discourse at the World Summit on the Information Society WSIS today is the issue of Internet governance Ig. Within the negotiating framework of WSIS, the...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Eminent domain; Internet politics.
- In a pre-emptive strike, America decides to keep control of the internet AMERICA created the internet. It also controls the key physical infrastructure that makes it work. For years, some other governments have wanted more say and have lobbied to put the internet under...
- Research articles 2005-07-09
- The struggle for the Net
- Just whose Internet is it anyway? The 700 million users worldwide of email, the Web, P2P, VoIP and other applications might be surprised to learn that a fierce battle is underway for "control" of the Internet. It's a battle being fought by weighty "position papers" and "strategic plans" at summit...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- The global governance of the Internet: bringing the state back in.
- The accelerating pace of economic globalization has generated a lot of bad international relations theory. The loudest theoretical response to this phenomenon predicts a race to the bottom in wages, regulatory standards, and social protections. (1) Although popular with antiglobalization protestors, the race to the bottom theory has the tragic...
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- CONCERN OVER ATTEMPTS AT INTERNET CONTROL.
- The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders RSF expressed concern on 28 October over attempts by the Security Service of Ukraine SBU, the Ukrainian secret police, to assume control of the country's Internet operations and to intercept e-mail messages. On 22 July, a private company, Hostmaster, was taken to court by the...
- Research articles 2003-11-16
- UKRAINE: CONCERN OVER ATTEMPTS AT INTERNET CONTROL.(Brief Article)
- The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders RSF expressed concern on 28 October over attempts by the Security Service of Ukraine SBU, the Ukrainian secret police, to assume control of the country's Internet operations and to intercept e-mail messages. On 22 July, a private company, Hostmaster, was taken...
- Research articles 2003-11-16
- Governing the Internet - Engaging Government, Business, and Nonprofits.
- The rapid growth of the Internet has led to a worldwide crisis of governance. In the early years of Internet development, the prevailing view was that government should stay out of Internet governance; market forces and self-regulation would suffice to create order and enforce standards of behavior. But this...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Government steps into names crisis.
- Aug 19, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN will pay for Australian Government assistance. The move, announced in August 2002, means that the National Office for the Information Economy will retain control...
- Research articles 2002-08-20
- San Antonio Graphics Convention Looks at Virtual Marketing, Identities.
- By L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 25--People can manage multiple identities on the Internet, so marketers may never know everything they want to about Web surfers. Some people have five or six or even 10 e-mail...
- Research articles 2002-07-25
- "Icann is not an experiment in global Internet democracy". (The NMA Interview)
- Stuart Lynn, Icann president and CEO, talks to Jonathan Webdale about some of the controversies surrounding the keeper of the Internet's central domain name system. NMA: Icann is at a crossroads. How has it arrived at this point? Stuart Lynn: In my view, Icann has...
- Research articles 2002-07-11
- ICANN Committee Refines Governance Reform Proposal
- On May 31, 2002, a special committee appointed by the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN issued its recommendations for reform of ICANN governance. The committee adopted some of the recommendations made by ICANN President Stuart Lynn in February, but rejected his proposal that governments...
- Research articles 2002-06-12
- Government consultation on the management of Internet addresses.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 May 2002-UK Government: Government consultation on the management of Internet addresses C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05132002 Douglas Alexander, E-commerce Minister, today issued a UK wide consultation on the management of internet addresses ICANN, the US based organisation...
- Research articles 2002-05-13
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