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Time to Retire the Tunis Agenda 23 Aug 2013 | 12:37 am

The deadline for public comments to the United Nations’ Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation is only about a week away. For those unfamiliar with the arcane details of Internet governance processes, ...

Court says RIPE-NCC has no standing in Ghostclick case 9 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm

Ah, summer.  Time to catch up on reading that backlog of documents sitting on the desk corner – including a court ruling about RIPE NCC’s summons against the Dutch government concerning operation Ghos...

How quickly do buyers of IP addresses put them to use? 2 Aug 2013 | 07:22 am

The RIPE region is moving closer to removing needs assessment from its policies governing initial IPv4 address allocations and secondary transfers. While support for that change has steadily grown, th...

Are we in a Digital Cold War? 19 Jul 2013 | 09:48 am

Note: the paper posted here was initially presented at the GigaNet workshop The Global Governance of the Internet: Intergovernmentalism, Multistakeholderism and Networks, Graduate Institute, Geneva, S...

The NTIA’s New Policy of Appeasement 6 Jul 2013 | 11:41 am

We’ve asserted before that the US government’s Internet governance policy has lost direction and become confused and self-contradictory. Yesterday the U.S. Commerce Department confirmed the diagnosis....

Secondary market for IPv4 addresses and the lessons of spectrum policy 25 Jun 2013 | 01:05 am

As the IPv4 address transfer market continues to grow and the Regional Internet Registries deal with address leasing and eliminating needs assessment in the post-free pool era, we thought it would be ...

Has the USA run out of ideas about Internet governance? (Part 2) 19 Jun 2013 | 02:18 am

Last week we began a review of the Council on Foreign Relations’ recent report on “Defending an Open, Global, Secure and Resilient Internet.”  Judging from our web statistics, neither the CFR report n...

The CFR Report on Internet governance: Good intentions. No new ideas 13 Jun 2013 | 02:50 am

U.S. policy toward Internet governance has not been innovative, or even clearly focused, since 1999. With its wholesale liberalization of telecommunication and information services in the 1980s and ’9...

“No need” and the debate over IP address conservation 4 Jun 2013 | 10:10 pm

At the RIPE 66 meeting in Dublin, the bold, long-overdue proposal to eliminate needs assessments for IPv4 number allocations got an interesting response. RIPE-NCC is the Regional Internet Registry for...

Internet fragmentation is a ‘law of history’ 26 May 2013 | 02:23 am

The following comments represent the personal views of He Baohong, China Academy of Telecommunications Research, Ministry of Information Industry and Technology, Peoples Republic of China, on the topi...

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