I had lunch on Friday in London with Ross Ferguson from Hansard’s eDemocracy unit. Ross is doing a very interesting thing: observing the impact and advantages (and disadvantages) of the UK government using new Internet tools in order to promote “eDemocracy”. He and his...

One thing that has been obvious for quite some time is the IANA web site needed some attention. Somewhat of a relic of an earlier era of the Internet, the web site had grown into a pile of information that is poorly organised and hard to navigate. Last year, we shared...

As part of a number of draft management operating principle documents at its San Juan meeting in June 2007, ICANN produced a translation framework. That document outlined the principles and broad framework for translating documents within the ICANN system, but did not go...

One of the problems with ICANN meetings is that so much goes on that it is impossible for people to keep track of it all. I am especially aware of this as (in my role as general manager of public participation) I have been trying to developed a way to let people know...

The NARALO has agreed its MoU, and this will be signed on Thursday. The RALO has voted for its two ALAC members, and they are Beau Brendler from the USA (1 year term) and Robert Guerra from Canada (2 year term). They will take up their positions at the end of the MoU...

The last update on the RegisterFly situation covered the deal struck between RegisterFly and GoDaddy that saw all the registrar’s domains transferred over to GoDaddy. That deal has seen the vast majority of domain issues sorted out. However, as far as ICANN is concerned,...

ICANN commenced a fellowships program trial for its 29th meeting taking place in San Juan on June 25-20, 2007. 34 fellows are participating in the San Juan meeting. I was sitting in a ccTLD workshop yesterday organized for the Caribbean ccTLDs, and I was rally impressed...

A Protection of Registrants’ Workshop will be held tomorrow, Monday 25 June 2007, at ICANN’s meeting in Puerto Rico at 1pm (EST) that will cover changes in the registrar market, a significant part of which will be suggested alterations to the Registrar Accreditation...

ICANN is hosting its 29th International Public Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While the official start of the meeting is Monday, meetings are currently underway on a number of topics. Check the San Juan meeting website at http://sanjuan2007.icann.org/ to follow...

We’ve been looking for an analogy for two days to explain the size of the IPv6 pool compared to IPv4, but IPv6 space is so huge none of the comparisons are immediately comprehensible. See below for Jacob’s light years attempt. However Kim Davies reckons he has come upon...

If there are: 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IPv6 addresses and a light year is 9,460,730,472,580.8 km and 1 IPv6 address = 1 km how far could you travel on IPv6 addresses? Could we get to Proxima Centauri? It’s about 4.22 light-years away. How about...

In March, ICANN released a report by the One World Trust (OWT) into ICANN that came up with 39 recommendations to further improve standards of accountability and transparency within the organisation. That report is also being used as input into the development of...

In the interests of openness, we have compiled statistics for the posts we have deleted from the blog last month, May 2007, broken down according to person and type of comment. We have only listed those who had three or more comments deleted. There was one person with two...

ICANN has posted a detailed report titled Building Towards a Comprehensive Registry Failover Plan. This ICANN’s first study of registry failure, and represents a significant document with information for existing registries, future registries, registrars and registrants....

ICANN has been invited to participate in the XIth St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Both myself (Veni Markovski) and CEO and President Paul Twomey will be attending. Paul will speak at the Round Table entitled: “Knowledge based economy” where the moderator is...

GoDaddy.com has announced that it will take over the entire portfolio of more than 850,000 generic top-level domain (gTLD) names held by RegisterFly.ICANN’s understands that GoDaddy.com and the gTLD registries holding RegisterFly names have worked out the mechanics for...

This morning, United States District Court Judge Manuel L. Real issued a Permanent Injunction against RegisterFly. The Court held Registerfly and Kevin Medina personally to be in contempt of the Court’s earlier Preliminary Injunction Order. So the Court has has ordered...

ICANN has been advised of a deal to transfer all names in RegisterFly’s management from RegisterFly to an existing accredited Registrar with a demonstrated record of customer service. This would be a quick and effective solution to many of the problems that registrants...

Hi this is a quick update on some of what has been going on in At Large in the last month. It includes: A requested issues report on domain tasting New working groups Translation of mailing lists ALAC requests Issues Report on Domain Tasting At-Large has now become the...

A deal has been reached by which all of RegisterFly’s domains – including those registered under the ProtectFly proxy system – will be made accessible to their respective registrants shortly. Full details will follow later today, contingent on the system being in place to...

ICANN’s motion for civil contempt against RegisterFly has been granted by the court. That means that ICANN is able, with the assistance of a law enforcement official, to enter RegisterFly’s premises and seize all its customers’ registration data, as well as gain access to...

Earlier this week, we released an interview with Vint Cerf in which he discussed ICANN, what it did, the fact he was stepping down as chairman this year, how the Internet has changed in the past ten years and who he hoped would join ICANN to continue the work of the...

As one sage Net observer never said: “There are three certainties in life: death, downtime and dozens of people telling ICANN what a poor job it is doing.” Today, we put out an RFC on ICANN’s performance. ICANN has changed enormously in the past few years, it is...

This is an update on the ongoing situation with registrar RegisterFly. On Wednesday 2 May 2007, ICANN asked for RegisterFly to be found in contempt for failing to comply with the preliminary injunction issued on 26 April 2007. If approved at a court hearing this week, the...

Vint Cerf, Internet founder, has spoken candidly about the future of ICANN as his chairmanship draws to a close, asking for people with a “passion for the Internet” to apply. ICANN’s Nominating Committee is still accepting applications for key roles within the...