ICM registry to create a triple X domain has been rejected by the ICANN board.

Votes are as follows - 8 to reject, 5 to accept, 1 abstention

Technorati Tags: ICANN, icm, netgovernance

Source: ICANN

I am writing to express the Australian Government's strong concerns over the decision by the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board to reconsider the application from ICM Registry, Inc (ICM) proposing the creation of a new .XXX sponsored top level domain (sTLD).

The Australian Government remains strongly opposed to any measures that may result in an increase in the amount of illegal and offensive content on the Internet.

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Technorati Tags: australia, gtld, ICANN, netgovernance, icm, registry

Source: AlterNet: Web Censorship for Dummies

Given all the bad porn on the Internet, I guess it's only fair that there should be some truly terrible ideas about stopping porn on the Internet too.

Technorati Tags: censorship, ICANN, netgovernance

Source: Pacific McGeorge School of Law

On Friday, February 23 and Saturday, February 24, 2007, the Center for Global Business and Development’s Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure will sponsor a symposium, “ I Think I Can, I Think ICANN: Regulating the Internet . . . or Not.” It will examine the structure and supervision of the Internet. Topics include assessment of the work of ICANN; the results and impact of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) that has raised radically different alternative approaches to regulating the Internet; possible East-West and North-South tensions over Internet access and governance; the significance of the Internet for human rights and for economic development; and, the future of Internet governance post-WSIS.

Technorati Tags: conferences, ICANN, netgovernance, california

Dewayne Hendricks recently posted a message on Dave Farber's Interesting People (IP) list that could be of interest to readers who follow Internet governance policy.

Who Controls the Internet?

The Internet began as a digital Wild West, lawless and immune from market or government control. Columbia law professor Tim Wu explains not only how important national borders have proven to be, but also why policing them might not be so bad.

mp3: http://www.onthemedia.org/stream/ram?file=/otm/otm010507d.mp3

Transcript: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/01/05/04

Technorati Tags: ICANN, netgovernance

Want to serve the internet community?:

The ICANN 2006 Nominations (read Selection) Committee extended its call for Nominations for various positions within ICANN. More than ever, ICANN needs good Board, GNSO, ALAC and ccNSO members to take the organisation into a new post MOU era...

If you stumbled upon this, please nominate people who you think may help steer the organisation.