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		<title> Governments Shouldn't Play Games with the Internet (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governments often use small players as pawns in their global games of chess. Two weeks ago the European Court of Justice invalidated the EU-US Safe Harbor ("Safe Harbor") framework, turning Internet businesses into expendable pawns in a government game. But for the past fifteen years, Safe Harbor allowed data flows across the Atlantic -- fostering innovation and incredible economic development. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20151102_governments_shouldnt_play_games_with_the_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> NETmundial Initiative Lacks Backing, and ICANN Should Not Lead (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fledgling attempt to create a new global Internet governance clearinghouse has run into trouble as leading business and civil organizations said they are not yet prepared to participate in the NETmundial Initiative (NMI) championed by ICANN President Fadi Chehade. In highlighting that there remain several unanswered questions, the Internet Society (ISOC), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC-BASIS) raised serious concerns... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20141217_netmundial_initiative_lacks_backing_and_icann_should_not_lead">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> ICANN in Hollywood: Foreshadowing a Happy Ending? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we arrived in Hollywood -- the land of happy endings -- ICANN had just given us cause to hope that the ICANN accountability process might get its own Hollywood ending, despite a fitful start. As one who's been critical of ICANN management's heavy-handed attempts to control the accountability process, it's only appropriate to give credit where credit is due. In accepting the community's strenuous -- and nearly unanimous -- calls for a cross-community working group to lead the process of improving ICANN's accountability mechanisms, ICANN management says it's now prepared to follow the community's lead, rather than dictating and constraining it. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20141014_icann_in_hollywood_foreshadowing_a_happy_ending">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Want to Make a Difference in Internet Governance? Just Show Up (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140708_want_to_make_a_difference_in_internet_governance_just_show_up</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It was 20 years earlier than ICANN, and 25 years ahead of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that Woody Allen said "80 percent of life is just showing up," but he could have just as easily been talking about our current multistakeholder policy situation. The emergence of powerful multistakeholder governance and engagement models has fundamentally changed the way we do Internet policy, and the roles that companies, organizations and individuals play in the process. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140708_want_to_make_a_difference_in_internet_governance_just_show_up">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Making ICANN History in the Shadow of the Magna Carta (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140622_making_icann_history_in_the_shadow_of_the_magna_carta</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Two miles (and a short Tube ride) from where ICANN is gathering in London, rests an original copy of the Magna Carta, which introduced the concept of imposing limits on the powers of the king. I'm taking the proximity of this icon of constitutional history as a good omen for our task: to create a charter to limit ICANN's powers and enhance its accountability, in the wake of the U.S. Government's decision to terminate its legacy role. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140622_making_icann_history_in_the_shadow_of_the_magna_carta">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Parallel Processes: ICANN Accountability and the IANA Transition (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140429_parallel_processes_icann_accountability_and_the_iana_transition</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN President Fadi Chehade gave Internet stakeholders a welcome surprise last week when he announced ICANN would launch a community-driven process to strengthen its accountability, and that this process would be "interdependent" with the transition of IANA functions away from U.S. Government oversight. It was fitting that Fadi announced the accountability process at NETmundial in Sao Paolo, where Internet stakeholders from around the world gathered to discuss the evolution of the global Internet governance. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140429_parallel_processes_icann_accountability_and_the_iana_transition">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> A Programmer's Perspective on the IANA Transition (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140326_a_programmers_perspective_on_the_iana_transition</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I posted from Singapore on the challenges we face in designing the transition of IANA functions from the US government to the global multistakeholder community. Now, let's consider how a programmer would design new mechanisms to accomplish this transition. For starters, a programmer would need something more than high-level principles. Coding requires use cases for routine interaction and especially for cases where users don't follow the expected routine and where the real world intervenes with inconvenient problems. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140326_a_programmers_perspective_on_the_iana_transition">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The Path Forward: Accountability Through the IANA Transition (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140323_the_path_forward_accountability_through_the_iana_transition</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's clear that the US government is intent on dropping its legacy contractual role for the IANA functions. Whatever your views on the wisdom or timing of that decision, the challenge now is to ensure that the transition leaves ICANN in the best possible position to succeed. Arriving yesterday to the island nation of Singapore felt strangely appropriate. Over the past week I've been one of the lonely people in the ICANN community to express concern about the US government's decision. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140323_the_path_forward_accountability_through_the_iana_transition">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Playing the Long Game at the Internet Governance Poker Table (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poker players say if you can't spot the fish within your first 15 minutes at the table, you're the fish. With that in mind, I'm tempted to ask ICANN President Fadi Chehade who's the fish in the high-stakes game of global Internet governance we're now playing. In 2013, ICANN dramatically changed its course in the global Internet governance debate. For a decade ICANN largely stayed out of the game, allowing stakeholders to defend the multi-stakeholder model where private sector and civil society are on equal footing with governments. But in 2013 ICANN went on the offensive... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140127_playing_the_long_game_at_the_internet_governance_poker_table">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The ICANN Quilombo (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131120_the_icann_quilombo</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentines use the word "quilombo" to describe "a real mess", which is what I feared was awaiting us at the outset of ICANN's meeting in Buenos Aires this week. Since then, ICANN President Fadi Chehade has done a good job cleaning-up the internal process quilombo he and the board created. But ICANN's leadership has left the ICANN community struggling to answer deep and ongoing questions about the future of the Internet and the multistakeholder model. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131120_the_icann_quilombo">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> 'Rethinking ICANN' is Not a One-Man Job (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131024_rethinking_icann_is_not_a_one_man_job</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the overseeing the biggest change in the history of the Internet's global addressing system, ICANN President Fadi Chehade has inexplicably embarked on a high-stakes battle over the very future of his organization and its relationship to world governments -- at the expense of the private sector's historical role in Internet governance. Worse, Fadi's global government gambit could have serious repercussions for the future of the Internet. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131024_rethinking_icann_is_not_a_one_man_job">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> ICANN Mission Creep is Becoming Mission Leap (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20130716_icann_mission_creep_is_becoming_mission_leap</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the leadership of Fadi Chehade and Steve Crocker, ICANN finally runs like an organization that has grown up. When it comes to process, accountability, and transparency, this is excellent news for the Internet. But it also raises a new question: how far will we let ICANN grow "out" of the limited technical mission for which it was created? In his opening remarks here in Durban, Chehade announced the expansion of local engagement centers and significant expansion of ICANN staff - for the second straight year. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130716_icann_mission_creep_is_becoming_mission_leap">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> New TLDs: Time For a Do-Over on Plural Similarity (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mandarin is a tricky language, but ICANN may want to learn the expression chóngfù before leaving the Beijing meeting. Chóngfù means "do-over" and that's what ICANN needs to forestall an entirely preventable disaster in the delegation of new top-level domains (TLDs). The issue of "string similarity" seems straightforward. Nobody inside ICANN or out there in the real world wants Internet users to be confused by new TLDs that are confusingly similar. Imagine hearing an ad offering low rates at car.loans but you encounter something completely different at car.loan instead? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130411_new_tlds_time_for_a_do_over_on_plural_similarity">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The GAC Strikes Back (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in Prague, the GAC (Government Advisory Committee) relentlessly hammered ICANN over a range of issues relating to the new gTLD program. And while their criticisms were legitimate, one has to wonder to what extent governments were punishing ICANN for past offenses. At the same time, the ICANN board and management seem to have finally - much belatedly - figured out how important it is to maintain a constructive and positive relationship with governments. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120703_the_gac_strikes_back">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> An Open Letter to ICANN's New CEO, Fadi Chehadé (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120624_an_open_letter_to_icanns_new_ceo_fadi_chehade</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations on your appointment as the next CEO of ICANN, and welcome to our little rogues' gallery. Some denizens of this domain (your humble author included) may strike you as a little odd at first, but we're mostly harmless. We usually steer first-timers onto the <em>Newcomers</em> track, but in your case, that may be... inadequate. And while we would never presume to tell you how to do your job -- which may be one of the world's hardest - we thought we might offer a few pieces of friendly advice, based on our time here. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120624_an_open_letter_to_icanns_new_ceo_fadi_chehade">More...</a>]]></description>
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