September 2011 - cooperation-wg

NRO IGF Workshop Starting Shortly
by Chris Buckridge 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Dear colleagues, The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) workshop entitled "Enhancing Understanding: Facilitating Internet Governance Through Openness and Transparency" will start in one hour, at 08:00 UTC (11:00 in Nairobi). If you would like to take part remotely, you can join the WebEx session from the following URL: http://j.mp/IGF11D2R4 More information on this workshop is available at: http://www.nro.net/news/internet-governance-forum-2011-in-nairobi-kenya Best regards, Chris Buckridge External Relations Officer, RIPE NCC

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Internet Governance Forum next week
by Chris Buckridge 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Dear colleagues, The sixth Internet Governance Forum (IGF) takes place in Nairobi, Kenya, next week, running from 27-30 September. The RIPE NCC, participating with the other Regional Internet Registries as the Number Resource Organization (NRO), will be organising two workshops in the IGF schedule. Workshop 166. Enhancing Understanding: Facilitating Internet Governance Through Openness and Transparency Wednesday, 28 September, 11:00 -12:30 (UTC+3) Following on from an NRO workshop at last year's IGF entitled "Enhancing Transparency", this workshop will consider some of the issues raised in that discussion and look at strategies for improving understanding between different Internet stakeholder groups. Workshop 165. Understanding IPv6 Deployment and Transition Thursday, 29 September, 9:00-10:30 (UTC+3) This workshop will focus on IPv6 capacity building, remaining obstacles to IPv6 adoption and strategies that have proved successful in encouraging IPv6 adoption. For those not attending the IGF in person, remote participation is available in both of these workshops (and all other IGF sessions). Increased opportunities for remote participation is something that the NRO has argued for in discussions about the future of the IGF, and we would very much welcome remote contributions to the discussion. More information on how to access the remote participation can be found at: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation-2011 More information on the two NRO-organised workshops is available at: http://www.nro.net/news/internet-governance-forum-2011-in-nairobi-kenya Best regards, Chris Buckridge External Relations Officer, RIPE NCC

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'European Commission calls for greater government control over Internet'
by Bastiaan Goslings 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hi Cooperation WG, I came across http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/08/31/ec-greater-government-control and decided it was a good enough reason for a first post to the list. 'Among a long series of measures promoted in no less than six papers by the EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General are: • A government veto over any new Internet extensions • The creation of a list of names, drawn up by governments, that would be banned from registration • Significant structural changes at overseeing organization ICANN, including at Board level and in the crucial IANA contract • An obligation for ICANN to follow governments’ advice unless deemed illegal or damaging to the Internet’s stability • Two new bodies to oversee ICANN decision-making and finances Combined together, the measures would provide governments with de facto control over the Internet’s naming systems and bring an end to the independent and autonomous approach that has defined the Internet’s domain name system since its inception.' The papers 'are billed as “informal background papers” and have not yet been published.' (For an 'analysis' see http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/08/31/ec-papers-analysis: 'Together the papers represent a wholesale effort to put governments in charge of the Internet.') I am not an ICANN-watcher myself, nor am I aware of the nitty-gritty details of DNS-related discussions that go on in different (EU) fora. So it is hard for me to judge the merits of these .nxt articles. And maybe it is indeed just 'informal background' stuff. But this does sound quite serious though and, if it is, it comes as a surprise that I haven't seen it being mentioned elsewhere a lot... Any thoughts? Cheers, -- Bastiaan Goslings AMS-IX Governance and Policy Officer AMS-IX B.V. tel: +31 (0)20 514 1712 Westeinde 12 fax: +31 (0)20 305 8990 1017 ZN Amsterdam http://www.ams-ix.net bastiaan.goslings(a)ams-ix.net

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