Ari Schwartz (CDT), Danny Weitzner (W3C) and Adam Palmer (PIR) are all on Jules Polonetsky's (DoubleClick, now Google) new privacy thingee. I remember when Jules was Chief Privacy Officer and Special Counsel at DoubleClick. We used to face off in the IAB (Internet Advertising Board, not Internet Architecture Board) calls and the W3C P3P Specification Working Group calls every week.
I also remember that after 9/11 the "Chief Privacy Officer" was about as welcome an idea in Occupied North America as Chief Indian Officer.
I was expecting something that would discuss the unique properties, if any, of the domain name market, and the types of inventory theoretically available to allocate, and the expected outcomes for the various types of auctions, and some showing that for some desired policy goals, whether greatest gain to seller or lowest loss to buyer, or something entirely different, the expected outcomes.
This would assist the better informed, bottom-up, stakeholder-driven, consensus policy making.
When Kurt Prinz briefed the GNSO Council (and observers) in Los Angeles April 10th and 11th, the new gTLD process model flows transition through an "auction" state in two of the three paths where two or more applications existed for the same (or similar) strings. At that time Kurt, speaking for Staff, was clear that the existence of a well-defined community was not dispositive, which surprised the Council members from the Intellectual Property Constituency present who recalled coming to the opposite position at San Juan.
Tim Ruiz wrote to relay that the ICANN BoD requested SO and AC input/comments regarding ICANN Geographic Regions.
There were prior stabs at this:
In order to ensure equitable international participation among Registrars, IAHC ... initially allocated equally to each of the six (6) ITU designated geographical world zones... That's from 12/97, and I know that in 97/98 Jon Postel and I were corresponding about a TLD for Indians, and I suggested x.121 to get a geographic "bag" for things that weren't states.
Glen de Saint Géry wrote asking for my thoughts on the GNSO Council Restructuring.
Attached was the report of the Working Group on GNSO Council Restructuring, to which I'd been a secondary resource to Jon Nevett.
I'd already sent a note on geographic diversity, and I need to address the problem of transition.
Data collected by
renesys shows no more than transient outages no greater than 35% of all external connectivity characterize the effect of Russian military operations targeting network infrastructure in Georgia. This is significantly different from the measured effect of American military operations targeting network infrastructure in Iraq.
Others with the same view:
PAF and
Gadi.
When I heard that a DEFCON paper had been withdrawn because the vendor of an insecure system didn't want the insecurity disclosed, I was underwhelmed. So was Jennifer Granick, EFF civil liberties director. Their statement is here.
MBTA's pleadings, claiming a violation of 18 U.S.C § 1030, link.
