Archive for: January 2008

At the December 2007 Board of Trustees meeting held in Vancouver, ISOC presented plans for 2008 to 2010. Key to those plans were a series of new, longer term, more strategic activities which will replace the traditional ‘pillar’ model describing activities in Standards, Public Policy, and Education. The new initiatives will focus on ‘Enabling Access‘, ‘InterNetWorks‘, ‘Trust & Identity‘ and ‘Standards & Technology‘.

The third Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting will take place in Delhi, India from 8-11 December 2008, hosted by the Government of India.

Estimating the Exaflood: The Impact of Video and Rich Media on the Internet, a report released by the Discovery Institute estimates that by 2015 annual U.S. Internet and IP traffic will reach 1,000 exabytes, or one zettabyte, which is one million million billion bytes of data.

Blogger Jay Westerdal , who coined the term “domain tasting’, notes a couple of developments that should ring the death knell for those who currently abuse ICANN’s ‘add grace period’ (AGP) policy by repeatedly registering the same names.

In a recent Slate article Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu suggests that the recent proposal by AT&T to monitor internet traffic for copyright violations is the equivalent of corporate seppuku.

The Internet Society (ISOC) has announced the formation of a new chapter in Philadelphia.

Information regarding the ISOC Philadelphia Chapter is now available on the ISOC website.

DO TANK is shorthand for the Democracy Design Workshop of the Institute for Information Law & Policy at the New York Law School.

DO TANK contains a dazzling range of worthy projects from online access law to rethinking online conferencing

The Internet Corporation for the Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) made the plea in a lengthy report sent to the US Department of Commerce.

The report will be the focus of a meeting to consider ICANN’s progress on objectives the US government set it in preparation for independence.

On Jan 22, 2008 W3C published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web.

One notable  improvement is the adoption of the widely-used but non-standard <embed> element.

The Benton Foundation today notes a number of recent critiques of USA national broadband policy, or the lack of it.

President and CEO of the Internet Society, Lynn St Amour, will join a panel of distinguished speakers in the Royal Society of London, UK, to discuss the naming system which is critical to modern Internet operations.

The discussion “What’s in a name? The History and Future of the Domain Name System” will explore the history and future of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).

 A new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) explores  broadband options available to communities.  It concludes that municipal investment in fiber is a must.

Veni Markovski, chair of the Internet Society of Bulgaria, and a board member of ISOC-NY, has issued a white paper criticizing the ICANN obsession of many participants in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio last year.

“Growing Up Online,” a documentary to be broadcast on the “Frontline” program on most PBS stations on Tuesday night, uses real-life stories to ask an increasingly important question: What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age steeped in a virtual world seemingly outside parental control?

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf have been awarded the 2008 Japan Prize for Information Communication Theory and Technology for their work “Creation of network architecture and communication protocol for the Internet”.

The Japan Prize is awarded to recognize outstanding achievements in science and technology.