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Ruling the Root part II: RPKI and the IP address
space<#127675b22d0104e1_127675989dc6caab_1276752c2163bfe6_0>

The Nairobi Board resolutions: painful to
read<#127675b22d0104e1_127675989dc6caab_1276752c2163bfe6_1>

Exposed: ICANN Policy staff manipulation of
Board<#127675b22d0104e1_127675989dc6caab_1276752c2163bfe6_2>

Civility and Humility: The story of ICANN’s
Ombudsman<#127675b22d0104e1_127675989dc6caab_1276752c2163bfe6_3>

A busy two weeks for Internet
governance<#127675b22d0104e1_127675989dc6caab_1276752c2163bfe6_4>

CFP: Third International Workshop on Global Internet Governance: An
Interdisciplinary Research Field in
Construction<#127675b22d0104e1_127675989dc6caab_1276752c2163bfe6_5>

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Ruling the Root part II: RPKI and the IP address
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The Internet Architecture Board issued a little-noticed statement February
12 that has the potential to revolutionize Internet governance - and not in
a good way. The IAB is now
claiming<http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/11399627/3650020/http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg07028.html>
that
the application of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to addressing
and routing is "a prerequisite for improving the security of the global
routing system." What may get lost in all the technical mumbo-jumbo is that
RPKI is a technology of control and identification. We need to think long
and hard before embarking on a path that would lead to the global
centralization of such authority in a single institution's hands.

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The Nairobi Board resolutions: painful to
read<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44902513&f=175425&u=11399627&c=3650020>

The ICANN board issued a fairly large number of
resolutions,<http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/11399627/3650020/http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-12mar10-en.htm%22%22>
at
the conclusion of its Nairobi meeting.   Give it an A for effort. But on
substance? Give them an F. On the .xxx issue, the Board chose to ignore its
independent review panel and refused to rectify what was officially
determined to be unfair and discriminatory treatment. On the vertical
integration issue, it issued a needlessly biased and poorly worded
resolution that was an attempt to clarify things but probably did the
opposite. There are other gems. We have done the painful work of reading
them for you.

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Exposed: ICANN Policy staff manipulation of
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From Avri Doria's
blog<http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/11399627/3650020/http://avri.doria.org/post/438544387/secret-board-briefings-a-method-of-icann-capture>
: *"While in a meeting with Board members, a member of my Stakeholder group
had an opportunity to read part of one page of the Policy
Staff’s briefing report to the Board from across the table (some of us
read documents upside down better the we read right side up.) In this case
it was all they could do to refrain themself from standing up and yelling
“the staff lies.” *Doria goes on to point out how inaccurate and biased
these secret board briefings can be and how unfair it is that these critical
messages are kept secret.

There is a vital structural issue here: ICANN's board faces too many issues
and relies heavily on the policy staff to tell it what is going on.
Unfortunately, during the past 5-6 years, the staff has chosen to take sides
on policy issues and to favor some constituency groups over others. Often,
this is caused by heavy lobbying of the staff by some of the professional,
full-time lobbyists who can invest in constantly following and communicating
with them. In other cases it is the staff's way of punishing those who were
critical of ICANN, especially its policy staff. New CEO Rod Beckstrom has
already made an important move to rectify this situation by replacing his
policy vice chair<http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/11399627/3650020/http://www.domainnamenews.com/people/david-olive-joins-icann-vp-policy-development-support/7041>
with
David Olive; it would seem, however, that lower level staff are still mired
in the organizational culture established by his predecessor. There is a
simple solution to this: make the board briefings public, with the usual
exceptions for information considered confidential for legal, personal or
personnel reasons.

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Civility and Humility: The story of ICANN’s
Ombudsman<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44843538&f=175425&u=11399627&c=3650020>

His behavior last fall during a dispute over the formation of the NCSG
confirmed that Frank Fowlie, ICANN’s Ombudsman, is both unhelpful and
biased. If the value-add of the Ombudsman’s office is unclear, the negatives
are now very clear indeed. About a week ago the Ottawa Citizen published a
story about Fowlie’s angry confrontation with a flight attendant after they
failed to serve him a meal on a Paris – Montreal flight.

What makes the Air Canada incident important is the way it relates to
Fowlie’s campaign for imposing standards of “civil discourse” on ICANN
participants. Fowlie’s decision to pursue a dispute resolution process
showed that he believed that his behavior, which was neither respectful nor
civil according to the people on that airplane, was justifiable under the
circumstances. Fowlie lost his temper – and a dispute – over bad airline
service. We wonder if he now has a bit more sympathy for the sometimes
intemperate language used by people in the ICANN community who think that
fundamental rights of free expression or privacy or consumer interests are
being lost. The stakes are a bit higher than a missed meal. Unfortunately,
Fowlie’s speech at the Nairobi meeting shows that he seems to have learned
nothing from this incident.

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A busy two weeks for Internet
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There is so much going on this week and next week in Internet governance and
IGP is so involved that we barely have time to blog about it. Here is a
quick summary and some links to more information; it includes tales of ITU
and the RIRs, the Council of Europe, ICANN Nairobi, and Google-Italy.

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CFP: Third International Workshop on Global Internet Governance: An
Interdisciplinary Research Field in
Construction<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=44693471&f=175425&u=11399627&c=3650020>

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to
participate in its third scholarly workshop to be held in Montreal (QC),
Canada, on 30-31 May 2010. This workshop is organized in cooperation with
the Canadian Communication Association and Media at McGill, during the Canadian
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2010 Congress week
in Montreal. Building on the success of its first two editions, respectively
in Paris, France in June 2008 and in Brussels, Belgium in May 2009, the
purpose of this third GigaNet workshop is twofold.

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