Tag: Fadi Chehade

Nov222013 by Alex ReeceNo Comments

Fadi Chehadé: shift away from US ‘is the way forward’

The internet's main governing body for the control of domain names has indicated a further shift away from its US roots as it gears up for a London meeting in December to discuss internet governance. In a press conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) Fadi Chehadé publicly stated that the internet governance debate, while brought to public attention by the Snowden revelations, is nothing new and has been going on for years within Icann. Chehadé said that “it has always been envisaged, including written into the founding agreements, that the special relationship between Icann and US government will become more global in the future, and less focused on one government. So there’s nothing new he

Nov202013 by editorNo Comments

Your Father’s Internet: ICANN pushes for a shift in “the future of Internet governance in the world”

Governance, Internet

ICANN 48 is currently ongoing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the primary issues on discussion, is the single most important question: Who gets to run the Internet? Currently, the Internet is the direct evolution of the US-created military network. The US still retains the supreme governing of it. Recent revelations on the PRISM mechanism, a surveillance system created by the NSA, have made other nations quite nervous. This nervousness is expressed in the initiative, driven by ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé, which aims for a decentralized Internet, away from US command. The conference to discuss this in detail, is going to take place in Brazil in April 2014, most likely on the 23rd and 24th. Brazilian tech media, are covering the event today extensively – some excerpts via aut

Nov132013 by Alex ReeceNo Comments

Sacrificing ICANN Not Enough for the US to Restore Its Internet Ethics

Governance

First Written by Jean-Christophe Nothias Editor in chief, The Global Journal on huffingtonpost.com We were only a few among media to realize, back in 2012, how arrogant and powerful was the US over its dominance of the Internet, and not just its control over the root servers and the domain name management. Policy making was at stake! Since December 2012, we know it as the US 120-member delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) left the room where over 190 nation states were convene to discuss terms of progress over agreement in international telecommunication connectivity. Its major reason was: "We do not want to see the word 'Internet' appearing in an updated telecommunication intergovernmental treaty. If the US accepts this, freedom of expression ov...

Apr172013 by editorNo Comments

ICANN in Beijing, China: IDNs to win big in the new gTLD process.

Domains

Internationalized domain names (IDNs) which are Internet domain names containing at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Tamil or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics, such as French. They are stored in the Domain Name System as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription. Within ICANN until recently, the Root Zone was limited to a set of characters conforming to US-ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) or "Latin" alphabets. This changed with the introduction of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), which introduced top-level domains (TLDs) in different scripts and enabled Internet users to access domain names in their own langua

Mar152013 by Alex ReeceNo Comments

African domain-name registrars have mixed reaction to ICANN push

Domains

While the imitative is badly needed, increasing the number of registrars isn't a cure-all, one says By Loek Essers | 12 March 13 African domain-name registrars responded with mixed reactions to details of ICANN's initiative on the continent, saying that while they should now have increased access to the Internet governance organization, increasing the number of registrars isn't all that needs to be done. source