The Video: US Gov Oversight of ICANN and Proposed gTLDs

The U.S. House Of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet recently met to examine issues related to ICANN, including the expiring JPA (Joint Project Agreement) between the Department of Commerce and ICANN, as well as ICANN’s proposed introduction of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs).

What Happened?

It was quite entertaining. See for yourself; we have preserved this historical grilling session here:

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Documents

Chair Boucher’s Opening Statement

Chair Waxman’s Opening Statement

Testimony of Fiona Alexander, Associate Administrator, Office of International Affairs, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Testimony of Paul Twomey, President and CEO, ICANN

Testimony of Kenneth J. Silva, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, VeriSign

Testimony of Christine N. Jones, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, The Go Daddy Group, Inc

Testimony of Sarah Deutsch, Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Verizon Communications

Testimony of Thomas M. Lenard, President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Paul Twomey Keynote Speech – Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008

Paul Twomey is the CEO of ICANN. His speech mainly focused on stability, resiliency and security of the Internet.

IDN ccTLDs

• Draft implementation plan posted for 45-day public comment period ending December 8.
• Many issues to be resolved.

Protective Measures (that ICANN provide)

• Timely de-accreditation and transfer of names to accredited registrars.
• Compliance audits, surveys, reports – transparency and accountability.

Registrar Accreditation Agreement

Substantative changes developed in cooperation with the community include proposals for:

• Stricter enforcement provisions
• Improved data protection and notice and education requirements
• Shared compliance responsibilities

Data Escrow, Data Accuracy and Warehousing

• Over 95% of all domain name registrations are with a data escrow provider.

RegistrarFly Issue

During the RegisterFly issue, we were trying to looking after the registrants;  one of the issues we had was to identify the registrants.

What Does The Future Hold?

• Global economy will be a major factor in the foreseeable future?
• Fastest growth and greatest potential lies in Africa, Asia, Middle East
• New gTLDs and IDN TLDs will bring challenges to do business around the world.
• Explosion in multilingual, multiculturalcontent, ideas, social and business interaction, education, things we have not dreamed of.

The Internet of the Future

• Internet and the domain name space are rapidly evolving.
• Wider variety of devices used to provide services.
• Evolving new services – banking and financial services – based on proximity
• Evolving new products – smart objects, RFID embedded objects, Internet enabled as standard
• Evolving new products – RFID technologies
• Convergence of other uses with devices
• Wide variety of devices used to provide services
• Increasing demand for products and services by developing countries

ICANN stands for a single, stable, globally interoperable Internet.