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A victory for the multi-stakeholder model

History is being made in ICANN this week in Marrakech – how exactly the Internet will be administered in the future is in the process of being taken forward. The ICANN Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) on Enhancing ICANN Accountability has released its final report, which was then approved by the CcNSO (Country Code...

date 2016/03/11

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Podcast: The Digital Industrial Revolution and the Internet...

 Interview with Albrecht Kraas, CTO of Maincubes one, Initiator of the Industry 4.0 initiative IT -Experts - “ITEX”  What exactly is Industry 4.0 – the newest industrial revolution? How does it differ from the Internet of Things? And what makes an object truly smart? With the advent of interconnected...

date 2016/03/10

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The Internet isMore International than Ever Before

Internationalized domain names and e-mail addresses are extending the Internet to include new languages and alphabets 3.2 billion people are online worldwide, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and around 45 percent of all households have access to the Internet. Despite these impressive figures,...

date 2016/03/05

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WHD.global –Rethinking Privacy After Safe Harbor

Thomas Rickert, John Zanni & Edward Snowden @ Acronis night.TALK – Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 US/EU Safe Harbor provided a framework for companies from both regions to do business with one another despite very different privacy laws, but those protections are gone. A European court invalidated it over lax...

date 2016/03/03

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Universal Acceptance Quick Guide

© Universal Acceptance Steering Group -//- The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), established by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is a community- led, industry-wide initiative working on creating awareness and identifying and resolving problems associated with the universal acceptance...

date 2016/03/02

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dotBrands Part 1 – 2012 Round Application Status

An analysis of the .brand landscape This will be the first of a three part blog reviewing .brand gTLDs applied for in 2012. Part one will review the status of .brand applications that made up nearly half of all applications to ICANN. The second part will provide an analysis on the stats and activity of the .brand gTLDs...

date 2016/03/02

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Internet Transition Planners Finalize Text of Accountability...

Accountability and Transparency Reproduced with permission from Electronic Commerce & Law Report, 21 ECLR (Mar. 2, 2016). Copyright 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com> A proposal for increasing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’s accountability...

date 2016/02/29

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Final Piece of Internet Transition Plan Delayed by ICANN...

Accountability and Transparency Reproduced with permission from Electronic Commerce & Law Report, 21 ECLR 249 (Feb. 24, 2016). Copyright 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com> An Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers working group will decide Feb. 23 how to...

date 2016/02/29

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Last Piece of ICANN Plan to End U.S. Internet Oversight...

Accountability and Transparency Reproduced with permission from Electronic Commerce & Law Report, 21 ECLR 249 (Feb. 24, 2016). Copyright 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com> An Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers working group plans to release late...

date 2016/02/29

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CCWG-Accountability Delivers Report to Chartering Organizations

On 24 February 2016, the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) provided its Chartering Organizations with its final supplemental report on Work Stream 1 recommendations. You can download the full report here The report is the result of extensive work by the CCWG-Accountability’s...

date 2016/02/26

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