Internet Governance

If the DIDP Did Its Job

Over the course of two years, the Centre for Internet and Society sent 28 requests to ICANN under its Documentary...

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IANA Transition: A Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes?

The post was published by Digital Asia Hub on October 6, 2016. In March 2014, the US Government committed to...

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Jurisdiction: The Taboo Topic at ICANN

In March 2014, the US government announced that they were going to end the contract they have with ICANN to...

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Internet Governance

Comments on the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10)

The WSIS+10 Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes, scheduled for December 2015, comes as a review of the...

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Do we need a Unified Post Transition IANA?

The Internet Architecture Board, in a submission to the NTIA in 2011 claims that splitting the IANA functions would not...

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Response by the Centre for Internet and Society to the Draft Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration

For more than a year now, the customers and operational communities performing key internet functions related to domain names, numbers...

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IANA Transition Stewardship & ICANN Accountability (II)

The discussions and the processes established for transition plan have moved rapidly, though not fast enough—given the complicated legal and...

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IANA Transition Stewardship & ICANN Accountability (I)

In developing these papers we have been guided by Kieren McCarthys writings in The Register, Milton Mueller writings on the...

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Where Does ICANN’s Money Come From? We Asked; They Don’t Know

Why Is ICANN Here? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for critical backbones of the...

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ICANN accountability, IANA transition and open questions

At a briefing on ICANN52 organized by the Centre for Communication Governance (NLU, Delhi) on 3 February, 2015 (‘CCG Briefing...

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