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		<title> Should WSIS End? A Call for Discussion (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process will be one of the main topics of the 2025 Internet Governance Forum. Many in the IG community are heavily invested in the renewal of WSIS. They imply that if it is not renewed, there will be major, negative effects on the way we govern the Internet. IGP believes that it is healthy and productive for the community to consider the possibility of ending WSIS. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsshould-wsis-end-a-call-for-discussion">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Why We Need to Discard the Word "Multistakeholder" (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CircleID post by Alexander Klimburg takes aim at my article, "The Power to Govern Ourselves," delivered at the Gig-Arts conference in June. That speech, available here on the blog, argued that: "Multistakeholder does not describe a governance model. It never has. It was always a compromised Public Relations concept," one that muddied the distinction between governance by state actors and non-state actors. What really made the Internet institutions unique was their break with sovereignty. <a href="https://circleid.com/postswhy-we-need-to-discard-the-word-multistakeholder">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Regulation of Algorithmic Regulation Begins (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese law that went into effect six months ago required online service providers to file details of the algorithms they use with China's centralized regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). In mid-August, CAC released a list of 30 algorithms used by companies such as Alibaba, TenCent and Douyin, the Chinese version of Tiktok, with a brief description of their purpose. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20220901-regulation-of-algorithmic-regulation-begins">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN, Ukraine and Leveraging Internet Identifiers (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20220301-icann-ukraine-and-leveraging-internet-identifiers</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ukraine's representative to ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to remove Russian-administered top level domains (.RU, .SU and .рф) from the DNS root zone. In a separate letter, Ukraine's representative also asked RIPE NCC to withdraw the right to use all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses by all Russian members of the regional IP registry for the European region. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20220301-icann-ukraine-and-leveraging-internet-identifiers">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The US-China Cold War in Cyberspace (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20200422-the-us-china-cold-war-in-cyberspace</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2019 and 2020, the economic conflict between the US and China reached a peak. There was a months-long tariff battle that is still not fully resolved. After blocking Chinese-centered equipment manufacturer Huawei from its own markets, the US pushed hard to get the Five Eyes and all of its allies to block Huawei from foreign markets, too. Then the US started blocking its own companies... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20200422-the-us-china-cold-war-in-cyberspace">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Part 2: Let's Have an Honest Conversation About Huawei (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20191025_lets_have_an_honest_conversation_about_huawei_part_2</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first section of this piece, I argued that the anti-Huawei litany only makes sense when one realizes that it is the Chinese state, not a global telecommunication equipment manufacturer based in China, is the target of this attack. China, in this view, is an integrated monolith, and any Chinese firm can be ordered to do the government's will without any legal, political, or economic checks and balances. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20191025_lets_have_an_honest_conversation_about_huawei_part_2">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Let's Have an Honest Conversation About Huawei (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20191016_lets_have_an_honest_conversation_about_huawei</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 29, I attended an AEI event on "International economics and securing next-generation 5G wireless networks," with Ambassador Robert Strayer, who heads the U.S. State Department's CIP team. But the focus of the talk was not really on 5G security, international trade or 5G development. In fact, there was no constructive agenda at all. The talk was an extended attack on China and the Chinese-based telecommunications vendor Huawei – another episode in an ongoing U.S. government campaign to shut Huawei and other Chinese firms out of the U.S. market, and to convince every other country in the world to do the same. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20191016_lets_have_an_honest_conversation_about_huawei">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> IGF 2015: Running in Place (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20151117_igf_2015_running_in_place</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet Governance Forum, held this year in the Brazilian beach resort town of João Pessoa, completed its 10th annual meeting Friday November 13. The IGF Secretariat claims that nearly 5,000 people attended. Moreover, it looks as if its existence will be continued for another 10 years when the UN meets in New York later this year. Vint Cerf declared it "the best IGF ever" in the closing open microphone session. But how good is "best?" <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20151117_igf_2015_running_in_place">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Don't Give up on Membership (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20151014_dont_give_up_on_membership</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the ICANN community is headed to ICANN 54, the critical meeting in Dublin where some kind of an agreement on accountability reforms needs to be reached if the historic IANA transition is to take place. Only a few months ago, an open, multi-stakeholder process proposed to enhance ICANN's accountability by creating a very limited form of membership. It did not allow any individual in the world to become a member. It did not even allow any individual or organization with a domain name to become a member (as it should have). <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20151014_dont_give_up_on_membership">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Booting Up Brazil (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20111121_booting_up_brazil</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The improvised alliance between ICANN and the government of Brazil is now beginning to take shape. The "summit" that President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil announced last month now has a name: the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. It's no longer a summit, it's a GMMFIG. (Shall we pronounce it gum-fig?) The meeting will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 23 and 24. Don't book your tickets yet, though -- we are still debating how open this meeting will be. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20111121_booting_up_brazil">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Proposed New IETF Standard Would Create a Nationally Partitioned "Internet" (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120619_proposed_ietf_standard_creates_nationally_partitioned_internet</link>
		<description><![CDATA[For those worried about the threat of a state-based takeover of the Internet, there is no need to obsess over the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) exclusively. Three Chinese engineers are proposing a way to alter Internet standards to partition the Internet into autonomously administered national networks, using the domain name system (DNS). The idea was not proposed in the ITU; no, it was sent to a multi-stakeholder institution, the granddaddy of the Internet itself, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120619_proposed_ietf_standard_creates_nationally_partitioned_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> When No Action Is the Wisest Action (ICANN Does Good) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120416_when_no_action_is_the_wisest_action_icann_does_good</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Although ICANN is now getting a lot of ridicule for the "glitch" in its TLD application System, it deserves some praise and respect for the results of its April 10 board meeting. In that meeting, the board showed the involved community - and the rest of the world - that it is no longer going to be stampeded by extra-procedural political pressure to make yet another round of hasty amendments to its new TLD program's policies and procedures. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120416_when_no_action_is_the_wisest_action_icann_does_good">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> We Are All Internet Exceptionalists Now (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postswe_are_all_internet_exceptionalists_now</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its defeat call attention to a delicious irony in public discourse on Internet governance. Even those who don't want the Internet to be an exception from traditional forms of regulation and law are forced to admit that something <em>new and exceptional</em> must be done to bring it under control, such as massive departures from traditional concepts of territorially bounded sovereignty through the use of <em>in rem</em> jurisdiction. <a href="https://circleid.com/postswe_are_all_internet_exceptionalists_now">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> TLD Expansion: ICANN Must Not Back Down (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/poststld_expansion_icann_must_not_back_down</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN's plan to open up the domain name space to new top level domains is scheduled to begin January 12, 2012. This long overdue implementation is the result of an open process that began in 2006. It would, in fact, be more realistic to say that the decision has been in the works 15 years; i.e., since early 1997. That is when demand for new top-level domain names, and the need for other policy decisions regarding the coordination of the domain name system, made it clear that a new institutional framework had to be created. <a href="https://circleid.com/poststld_expansion_icann_must_not_back_down">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Of Canaries and Coal Mines: Verisign's Proposal and Sudden Withdrawal of Domain Anti-Abuse Policy (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20111014_verisign_proposal_sudden_withdrawal_of_domain_anti_abuse_policy</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Too many techies still don't understand the concept of due process, and opportunistic law enforcement agencies, who tend to view due process constraints as an inconvenience, are very happy to take advantage of that. That's the lesson to draw from Verisign's proposal and sudden withdrawal of a new "domain name anti-abuse policy" yesterday. The proposal, which seems to have been intended as a new service to registrars, would have allowed Verisign to perform malware scans on all .com, .net, and .name domain names quarterly when registrars agreed to let them do it. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20111014_verisign_proposal_sudden_withdrawal_of_domain_anti_abuse_policy">More...</a>]]></description>
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