Documents
Documents
Internet Governance
| Bookmarks | Description |
|---|---|
| Thoughts on the NTIA Green Paper | This is a copy of the NTIA “Green” paper of January 30, 1998 with some of my comments interleaved. |
| The National Science Foundation (NSF), the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), and The Privacy Act of 1974 | This is a collection of pages from 1998 describing the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the domain name system. |
| IFWP: International Forum on the White Paper - Transcript of First Day Working Group Reports | The International Forum on the White Paper was a gathering to discuss the then growing concerns about control of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) September, 1998 |
| What I would say to the House Commerce Committee were I invited to testify | July 17, 1999 |
| Suppose ICANN Had An At-Large Membership Drive | Humor - Suppose ICANN hired a telemarketeer to try to get you to join. What might that be like? August 22, 1999 |
| Structural Principles For Internet Governance | Materials for the Meeting of the UN Internet Governance Forum. |
| Stakeholderism - The Wrong Road For Internet Governance | Submitted to the the Meeting of the UN Internet Governance Forum. |
| Request for Independent Review | After ICANN rejected my Request for Reconsideration of ICANN great giveaway to Network Solutions (now Verisign) as being in violation of ICANN’s procedures, I submitted this Request for Independent Review. |
| Reconsideration Request | Way back in 1999 ICANN began the great giveaway of the crown jewels of the internet to Network Solutions, nee Verisign. |
| Questioning Authority - Searching For Stability In Internet Governance | I spoke on the weakness of ICANN’s legal and technical foundations, and the potential collapse of ICANN as a result, at Signifiers in Cyberspace: Domain Names and Online Trademarks at the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, November 12-13, 2009. |
| Why Louis XIV Would Have Loved The Internet | King Louis XIV of France, a man who treasured control over chaos, would have loved the Internet. This is a presentation I gave at Cal Tech and Loyola Law when I was named a Fellow of Law and Technology in 2001. |
| My Comments at the Conference on The Internet and Governance, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Let me declare that ICANN has been a successful experiment in governance of the Internet. But there is more to say… |
| My Senate Testimony on ICANN of February 14, 2001 | |
| A Prescription To Promote The Progress of Science and Useful Arts | I wrote this to express concerns about the privitization of government powers into the hands of private bodies. January 2002 issue of Internet Law & Business. |
| My testimony before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. | June 12, 2002 |
| My submission to the Communications subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation | July 31, 2003 |
| My comments to NTIA’s “mid-term review” of its ICANN “JPA” agreement. | My comments on NTIA’s “The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination and Management of the Internet’s Domain Name and Addressing System: Midterm Review of the Joint Project Agreement” |
| Internet Governance - By Whom? | This is a note written not long after ICANN got started - and it reflects on how poor a start it was and how it established the pattern for the ICANN we have today. May 1, 1999 |
| ICANN Mission Statement Generator | Are you a prolix pleonast? Do mission statements amuse you? |
| Fragmentation of the Internet | This is a presentation that I gave at the American Bar Association (ABA) National Institute on “Computing and the Law: From Steps to Strides into the New Age”. San Francisco, June 2007. |
| Evaluation of ICANN | As my last act as a director of ICANN and during the course of a public meeting I tendered this report to ICANN’s Board of Directors. ICANN has never acknowledged this document; nor does it appear in any ICANN document collection or website. Adobe Acrobat format, 13 pages. June 2003 |
| Decision Diary | During my term on the ICANN board of directors I kept a written, public diary of my decisions. This is that diary. It spans the entire duration of my term, November 2000 through July 2003. |
| Contracting the Internet: Does ICANN create a barrier to small business? | This is a statement made before the Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives |
| Containing the whole Science of Government | This is a chapter from Charles Dickens’ book Little Dorrit (1857) The chapter describes the Circumlocution Office. It may, and should, call to mind a certain existing institution of internet governance. |
| Campaign Platform - Election for North American Director of ICANN | This is my campaign platform for the year 2000 election for the North American seat on the ICANN board of directors. There is a fair amount of material here, much of it is still relevant today. November 10, 2000. |
| Boston Working Group Submission to NTIA | This is the Boston Working Group (BWG) submission to NTIA on NTIA’s plan to form ICANN. September 29, 1998 |
| A Plan To Reform ICANN: A Functional Approach | This is one of several papers that describes a way to structure bodies of internet governance, such as ICANN, into tightly constrained units that are less likely to go astray or suffer from mission bloat. April 2002 |
| A note to NTIA for their review of their “transition” to ICANN. | My submission to “The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination and Management of the Internet Domain Name and Addressing System |
| Review of the At‐Large Advisory Committee. | My “Concurrence” (Appendix 3) contains my arguments why ICANN needs a much broader base of public representation on its controlling body, the Board of Directors. My portion begins on page 32. |
Internet Governance / ITU meeting on IG (Feb 2004)
Materials presented at the ITU meeting on Internet Governance in Geneva, February 2004