EV1Servers Gets ICANN Accreditation

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EV1 Servers Obtains ICANN Accreditation

EV1 Servers Obtains ICANN Accreditation 04/19/2005 09:10 AM
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ICANN Awards Full Registrar
Accreditation to Solis (Japan Registry)

ICANN Awards Full Registrar
Accreditation to Solis (Japan Registry) 05/27/2004 04:57 AM
Belga Direct Press Releases May 27 2004 9:06AM GMT

Web Hosting News: ICANN Awards Full
Registrar Accreditation to Solis (Japan
Registry)

Web Hosting News: ICANN Awards Full
Registrar Accreditation to Solis (Japan
Registry) 05/27/2004 06:03 AM
Web Host Directory May 27 2004 10:06AM GMT

EV1Servers Offers Monitoring Service

EV1Servers Offers Monitoring Service 07/06/2004 04:52 PM
theWHIR Jul 6 2004 9:43PM GMT

Want to sell e-Government IT? You'll
need e-GIF Accreditation soon

Want to sell e-Government IT? You'll
need e-GIF Accreditation soon 05/13/2004 08:13 AM
PublicTechnology.net May 13 2004 11:43AM GMT

What's Wrong With E-Mail Accreditation?

What's Wrong With E-Mail Accreditation? 05/18/2004 06:06 PM

NAPP earns national accreditation

NAPP earns national accreditation 02/10/2004 10:40 AM
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) today announced that it has earned national accreditation from the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET), a Department of Education-recognized agency...

Calyx plc gets Microsoft Gold
accreditation

Calyx plc gets Microsoft Gold
accreditation 06/24/2005 09:27 PM
Irish News Jun 25 2005 1:51AM GMT

Vic government provides developer
accreditation funding

Vic government provides developer
accreditation funding 12/10/2003 10:17 PM
ZDNet Australia Dec 10 2003 9:39PM ET

Redbus Earns Security Accreditation

Redbus Earns Security Accreditation 06/15/2004 01:37 PM
theWHIR Jun 15 2004 5:20PM GMT

Al Khawarizmi wins Microsoft
accreditation

Al Khawarizmi wins Microsoft
accreditation 08/16/2004 12:52 AM
AME Info Aug 16 2004 4:37AM GMT

Ted Chappell of STR Software Completes
Oracle Technical Accreditation

Ted Chappell of STR Software Completes
Oracle Technical Accreditation 06/24/2004 02:53 AM
Systems engineer Ted Chappell of STR Software recently completed training for accreditation as an Oracle E-Business Suite Technical Champion. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]

Fujitsu Siemens puts resellers through
accreditation mill

Fujitsu Siemens puts resellers through
accreditation mill 04/10/2005 09:22 PM
Reaches down to the smaller guys

Mike Piland of STR Software Completes
Oracle Technical Accreditation

Mike Piland of STR Software Completes
Oracle Technical Accreditation 06/24/2004 02:53 AM
Mike Piland, manager of professional services, of STR Software recently completed training for accreditation as an Oracle E-Business Suite Technical Champion. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]

NIST launches accreditation program for
e-voting system evaluations

NIST launches accreditation program for
e-voting system evaluations 06/17/2005 04:29 PM
Washington Technology Jun 17 2005 7:53PM GMT

Win for ICANN

Win for ICANN 08/28/2004 06:06 AM
USA Today Aug 28 2004 9:21AM GMT

ICANN?

ICANN? 03/24/2005 10:41 PM

In the last post I talked about wanting to break up monopolies and I was accused of being a hypocrite. The accusation was that ICANN was a monopoly. I responded by saying that ICANN is not a monopoly. One of the ideas behind ICANN was to break up the Network Solutions monopoly and encourage competition among registrars and registries. Also, if you want globally-consistent references, you need a root and an administrator of the root. ICANN is a non-profit and the board members do not benefit directly from the ability to regulate the delegation of top level domains (TLDs) and IP addresses. I think the trick is not to figure out a way to avoid anyone being administrator, but to figure out how to make that administrator fair. ICANN tries to address many of the issues by having a board composed of neutral members and members which represent the various constituencies. ICANN exercises a strict conflict of interest policy. Because of this, the board is very difficult to "capture" although a very broad group, such as the intellectual property lobby could feasibly have a great deal of influence over a number of the constituencies.

Anyway, having responded a bit defensively that ICANN is not a monopoly... and in the spirit of the soul searching from my last post, I do want think about what could make ICANN better. Even if I don't believe it is "a monopoly" in the sense of monopoly that I was talking about, it does have a monopoly over a particular aspect of Internet governance. I am going to Argentina next week to participate in the ICANN meeting so I suppose this is a good time to think about ICANN constructively and think about how I should try to contribute next week.

Just to frame this a bit more. I'm less concerned about what "evils" ICANN has done in the past and am more interested in what ICANN is doing now or should do in the future. ICANN is changing and fighting about the past is interesting, but not as productive.

A few things that I currently believe:

1 - The ITU can not manage names and numbers as well as ICANN and it's affiliated groups and I can't see anyone else who can.

2 - The basic architecture of ICANN - multi-constituent, multi-lateral with various working groups is correct.

3 - ICANN should and will eventually become independent of of the US Department of Commerce. The current goal is 2006.

4 - A completely distributed peer to peer directory service is technically feasible, but would be impossible to implement without causing complete chaos for people using the Internet today and isn't practical. Having said that, a more distributed directory system that sits on top of DNS may be useful, but that doesn't replace the DNS.

5 - ICANN should focus on names and numbers.

6 - ICANN should not become bigger than necessary to fulfill it's mandate.

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ICANN OKs .eu tld

ICANN OKs .eu tld 03/24/2005 11:24 PM
p2pnet.net Mar 25 2005 1:59AM GMT

ICANN can't - but UN can?

ICANN can't - but UN can? 12/07/2003 12:43 PM
MultiReg.com Dec 7 2003 10:11AM ET

Why ICANN('t) pay the bill

Why ICANN('t) pay the bill 06/07/2004 04:03 PM
Industry Standard Jun 7 2004 5:27PM GMT

ICANN names new CEO

ICANN names new CEO 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the closest thing the Internet has to a governing body, taps Australian Paul Twomey to slip into the driver's seat.

ICANN proposes new Net tax

ICANN proposes new Net tax 12/19/2004 03:03 PM
ZDNet Dec 16 2004 6:20PM GMT

ICANN OKs '.xxx'

ICANN OKs '.xxx' 06/05/2005 11:44 PM
Ployer Jun 4 2005 4:50PM GMT

ICANN considering 10 new domains

ICANN considering 10 new domains 06/01/2004 03:39 PM
ZDNet UK Jun 1 2004 7:14PM GMT

ICANN Signs MoU with NRO

ICANN Signs MoU with NRO 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
Money Plans Jun 4 2005 9:29PM GMT

Will ICANN Add A Tax On Dot Coms?

Will ICANN Add A Tax On Dot Coms? 03/29/2005 11:33 PM
Late last year, we noted that ICANN was trying to slip in an extra $0.75/year/domain "tax" on all .net domain holders. At the time, we noted it was expected that they would expand this tax to other domains (despite the fact that a few years ago the group was slapped down in its attempt to charge an extra buck per domain, since the group has no authority to impose a tax). Apparently, not enough people got upset about the $0.75 issue, because ICANN has come back and quietly slip ped a $2/year/domain tax on all .jobs and .travel domains. Next up may be .coms -- since the existing contract expires in 2007. Why does ICANN need all this extra money? That's not particularly clear. They're already getting much more money thanks to the controv ersial budget they got approved last year, that makes life difficult for smaller registrars. No wonder ICANN refused to open its books to its own board members and then kicke d off the board members who simply wanted to see what they were doing with the public's money.

VeriSign still needs ICANN

VeriSign still needs ICANN 12/05/2003 07:50 PM
CNET Dec 5 2003 7:15PM ET

ICANN still can, says Court

ICANN still can, says Court 08/27/2004 02:07 PM
Demys Aug 27 2004 4:34PM GMT

ICANN signs in .eu

ICANN signs in .eu 03/24/2005 04:50 PM
ZDNet UK Mar 24 2005 8:35PM GMT

It's time to can ICANN

It's time to can ICANN 12/02/2003 01:22 PM
ZDNet Dec 2 2003 12:13PM ET

ICANN puts the .xxx in sex

ICANN puts the .xxx in sex 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
.xxx will be coming to a porn site near you by year end. Will the new TLD prove popular with adult website operators?

ICANN grows up at last

ICANN grows up at last 05/24/2004 09:20 AM
New attitude and a budget to match

ICANN Says "Yes" to .Travel

ICANN Says "Yes" to .Travel 02/01/2005 09:15 PM
" ICANN has entered into commercial and technical negotiations with two of the candidate registries, .post and .travel. No limit was set on the number of sTLDs to be designated and the status of the additional eight applicants is still pending."

ICANN goes domain crazy

ICANN goes domain crazy 12/19/2004 03:50 PM
IT-Analysis.com Dec 19 2004 3:22PM GMT

ICANN Doesn't Censor, Governments Do

ICANN Doesn't Censor, Governments Do 06/05/2005 11:44 PM
Corante Jun 4 2005 3:00PM GMT

RP to elevate '.ph' concerns to ICANN

RP to elevate '.ph' concerns to ICANN 05/21/2004 05:35 PM
Philippine Daily Inquirer May 21 2004 9:34PM GMT

Google now ICANN registrar

Google now ICANN registrar 02/01/2005 09:22 PM
p2pnet.net Feb 1 2005 3:51PM GMT

Icann Weighs Candidates for .NET Job

Icann Weighs Candidates for .NET Job 02/01/2005 09:15 PM
"VeriSign's contract to run the dot-net domain expires at the end of June, and we have spoken with the director of the non-profit German organisation looking to take over"

ICANN wins round one

ICANN wins round one 05/19/2004 04:32 PM
p2pnet.net May 19 2004 8:19PM GMT
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