I wrote an extensive review of the dot-jobs saga earlier this week on .Nxt called: The case study that could kill ICANN. This afternoon, I saw the Stephane van Gelder had referenced it in a blog post: What ICANN is doing wrong. I wrote a lengthy response to Stephane’s post, but for some reason it [...] Continue reading →

We’re heading to the UK for Christmas. I’ve been meaning to try out this online video/picture tool at Animoto for work reasons. The two combined… [...] Continue reading →

I need your help. And I am counting on you and the power of the Internet to fix an issue dear to my heart. I have a gorgeous 1966 split-screen VW camper van. And rather cruelly I have left it on its own for basically a year at my mother-in-law’s house because the practicality of [...] Continue reading →

I am both happy and depressed to see a public comment period open at ICANN talking about making changes to ICANN’s public comment period process. With appalling inevitability, everything about the comment period highlights the problems that exist with the public comment period process. No one really knows about it, and it’s not being promoted [...] Continue reading →

One of the more bizarre situations I have found myself in while covering domain name system overseer ICANN, both outside and inside the organization, was at the Vancouver meeting in December 2005. It was a particularly difficult meeting. For one, ICANN was under intense scrutiny because it was about to sign an extension to [...] Continue reading →

Sorry to always be harping on about ICANN; it’s the not exactly the most important organisation in the world. But it is the one bureaucracy I have come to know really well and so just can’t help but rail against all the things that infuriate people the world over when they come up against unthinking [...] Continue reading →

The first preparatory meeting for the 2011 Internet Governance Forum has ended with a significant degree of uncertainty thanks to ongoing bureaucratic delays. Over two days, representatives from business, government, civil society and the technical community met in Geneva in order to decide the path forward for the sixth annual meeting of the Forum, dedicated [...] Continue reading →