08/Apr/2013

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REPORTS & RESEARCH PAPERS

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Role of ICANN in Internet Domain Name Dispute Resolution by S.V. Damodar Reddy [The IUP Law Review]

Abstract: ICANN is an apex authority responsible for the administration of domain names, IP address numbers and protocol parameters. The domain name is much like an entry in a phone book. Computers communicate by using numbers called IP addresses to contact each other, much like we use a phone number to dial a specific person’s phone.

ssrn.com/abstract=2243481

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DOMAIN NAMES

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Are you passionate about Internet governance? by Yrjö Länsipuro

If you like challenges, embrace change, are passionate about Internet governance and a fervent believer in bottom-up consensus-building, then ICANN’s Nominating Committee wants to hear from you.

blog.icann.org/2013/04/are-you-passionate-about-internet-governance/ https://www.myicann.org/news/topics/13126/page/1/articles/25969">

www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-05apr13-en.htm

Ombudsman in Beijing by Chris LaHatte

The ICANN life seems to revolve around our meetings. In Toronto, our Communications team recorded a short video of me attending meetings and talking to our community. As we prepare for Beijing, I am excited to visit a country where some of the oldest civilizations are now overlaid with the largest Internet community in the world, and a community who I am anxious to meet.

blog.icann.org/2013/04/ombudsman-in-beijing/

ICANN Beijing: Update on the ATRT

"ICANN is reviewing itself to death. So it would be nice to know why the current review process doesn't work." There is a certain irony in the fact that ICANN Board member Chris Disspain was asking this of the organization's lead review team - the Accountability and Transparency Review Team, or ATRT.

news.dot-nxt.com/2013/04/06/icann-beijing-update-atrt

One World, One Internet: An open discussion... in China by Milton Mueller

ICANN’s Noncommercial Users Constituency, which represents civil society and individuals in the domain name policy making process, has established a traditional of holding policy conferences at ICANN meetings that are usually far more interesting and creative than the official workshops put on by ICANN. The Beijing meeting is no exception. NCUC is facilitating a dialogue on Internet regulation in the capital of China that raises the issue of national Internets and the possibility of fragmentation or division of the Net.

www.internetgovernance.org/2013/04/03/one-world-one-internet-an-open-discussion-in-china/

Stumbling in the wrong direction

ICANN needs to get back to its technical mission before it does real damage to the Internet