Category Archives: Internet Society

ISOC at the NTIA public meeting on the ICANN MoU

Posted by Patrick Vande Walle on 27 July 2006 None comments
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The Internet Society yesterday read a very direct, unambiguous statement on the role of the USG in the ICANN process. Some excerpts:

Finally, as the MOU has become a symbol internationally of US control over the DNS, it can be argued that the MOU, which was originally designed to support and shore up ICANN in its early days, is now actually hampering ICANN’s continued development and their legitimacy in the eyes of many.

ISOC believes a clear unambiguous signal needs to be made internationally that we are entering a new phase and taking steps to move to the private sector model per the original vision of the US Government.

I heard a zillion times that ISOC was the USG’s best friend. I hope this will definitively show it is untrue.

Public Interest Registry Welcomes New Worldwide Internet Leaders to the .ORG Advisory Council

Posted by Patrick Vande Walle on 4 May 2006 None comments
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The Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced today the appointment of
seven new Worldwide Advisory Council members and a new representative
from the ICANN Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to fill
expiring term open seats. New members include:

  • Maarten Botterman: Europe (RAND Corporation)
  • Hans Peter Dittler: Europe (Internet Society)
  • Michael Mann: North America (Grassroots.ORG)
  • Sebastian Ricciardi: South America (Jauregui & Assoc.)
  • Sadiq Hussain: Asia (Majan University College)
  • Angela Stuber: North America (Ohio Community Computing Network)
  • Jaechul Sir: Asia Pacific (Korea NIC)
  • Frannie Wellings (NCUC Representative)

IPv6 workshop at RIPE 52 in Istanbul, Turkey Friday 28th April

Posted by Patrick Vande Walle on 18 April 2006 None comments
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I just got this link from Jordi Palet Martinez.

ISOC and The IPv6 Portal organize a half day IPv6 workshop in Istanbul, next Friday 28th, after the RIPE meeting.

The target audience is engineers, ICT managers, software developers and public sector. It is expected that the participants have some IPv4 knowledge in order to take bigger advantage of the workshop.

The goal of the workshop will be to introduce IPv6 from a theoretical point of view, and make some hands-on practices with Windows XP. Information about other operating systems will be also provided. The workshop will also give some basic ideas about how to enable IPv6 in ISP and enterprise networks. As a practical exercise, the participants will be able to present their own network cases and work on possible transition paths for those cases. It is expected that the participants bring their own laptops with XP SP2 to take further advantage of the hands-on part.

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Veni Markovski’s blog

Posted by Patrick Vande Walle on 11 April 2006 2 comments
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It seems like every ICANN board member needs to run a blog these days. Veni Markovski has started his own one.

David W. Maher’s memoirs

Posted by Patrick Vande Walle on 27 March 2006 None comments
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Worth reading and funny, too. These are David W. Maher’s memoirs from his early days in the Internet governance world. David was the former VP Public Policy of ISOC. He is now Senior Vice President, Law and Policy of PIR.

This is no diplomatic talk. Maher talks frankly about Postel (“God”), Cerf, Magaziner and how the Clinton administration managed to ignore the IAHC in favour of of its creation, ICANN.