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Why I'm Standing for the ICANN Board and Why I've made My Statement Public

• Comment posted Jul 14, 2006 2:42 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I have created a page on ICANNWiki for anyone else that is happy to state publicly that they have applied to the NomCom for one of the positions. I note that Patrick Vande Walle has announced on his blog that…

• Comment posted Jul 12, 2006 2:21 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I agree with you John. The problem is not that decisions are made in comparative secrecy, or that people in the Internet community are lacking in ideas or views, it's that there doesn't seem to be a clear connection between…

The Blurr-Cade Proposal on Root Zone Oversight

• Comment posted Jul 30, 2006 12:52 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  It's not a bad idea, the Baby Bell concept. As I read your paper, you're talking about four different bodies. One for IP allocation, one for root server management, one for DNS management and another one to cover interconnections, protocols…

• Comment posted Jul 26, 2006 8:09 am PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I wasn't referring the UN Security Council as is, I thought I had made it clear I was refering to the proposed new models for the UN Security Council. The reason why should be obvious: because people have been reviewing…

• Comment posted Jul 25, 2006 8:05 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  There is already a government in overall charge of the root zone file, so can we honestly expect to get to a position where there isn't governmental influence in the future? I think the solution is to provide governments with…

Tom Cruise Wins TomCruise.com, Hardly Unpredictable

• Comment posted Jul 26, 2006 8:50 am PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I agree with you John in the sense that the stats can't be relied upon as proof - what stats ever can? - but what they do do is provide back-up for the endemic problems within the current UDRP. After…

The GNSO Review

• Comment posted Sep 19, 2006 5:56 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I think it's worth reading the whole report. And I have to say, I am slightly surprised and impressed that the LSE team got such a quick understanding of the issues that everyone has been privately complaining about for so…

Another View of the New ICANN-DoC Agreement

• Comment posted Oct 08, 2006 1:09 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I agree with you over the secret list thing. The easy solution to this is just to ask Stuart Lawley. He tends to give straightforward answers to questions. Kieren

• Comment posted Oct 07, 2006 6:26 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Ah, well then I am party to confidential information. I argued with Stuart Lawley over whether the adult industry would want .xxx so he must have provided me with some information. Plus I have been researching the adult online industry…

• Comment posted Oct 07, 2006 5:34 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Milton is right. The huge number of public comments came from right-wing US Christian groups that made it abundantly clear they didn't have the slightest idea of what the .xxx proposal actually entailed. As for the porn industry. The porn…

ICANN Sacrifices Privacy for Shot at Independence

• Comment posted Oct 13, 2006 8:05 am PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I'm still not sure what's gained apart from making any system massively more complex. What does the split actually provide? Is the idea that it will help fraud? How? Any fraudsters will use whatever loopholes exist - and in this…

• Comment posted Oct 12, 2006 11:21 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Re: splitting business and people. No, there's no need to split them. Why should there be? The splitting argument is just one of many that has caused this issue to go round and round. What does splitting the two actually…

• Comment posted Oct 11, 2006 3:37 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I think there's no doubt that Paul Twomey agreed to the Whois addition in order to get the USG wording that implies a lifting of government control. I also think he was right to do so because he didn't have…

Spamming the News Cycle: Spamhaus Non-Story Goes Viral

• Comment posted Oct 18, 2006 4:08 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I know it *shouldn't* take an expert, but I was just trying to explain how and why, within the media processes, it does need one. I can't say I blame you for not wanting to take on a media expert…

• Comment posted Oct 16, 2006 8:25 am PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Ah yes, but Tucows isn't talking and hasn't put out a press release. So its part in the saga is pushed to the sidelines. I agree, the reporting has been inaccurate, but the reasons are complexity and the lack of…

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2006 8:47 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Hang on, I wasn't saying that was the criteria that Spamhaus uses on deciding whether to stick someone on their blacklist. I was pointing out why the court case exists in the first place, why Spamhaus didn't contest it, and…

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2006 12:58 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I think I can offer some insight here into why the story has run so heavily in the media when normally you would expect it to barely register. It has a number of sexy elements that act as flags to…

What Will Be the Outcome of the Internet Governance Forum Meeting in Athens?

• Comment posted Oct 20, 2006 5:55 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I'd say that was a pretty good summary Antonios. The IGF even now remains amorphous. No one really knows what is going to happen, or what the outcome will be. Or even if it will survive past this year. But…

Internationalizing the Internet

• Comment posted Nov 26, 2006 11:25 am PST — by Kieren McCarthy
  Just an observation - and I certainly don't mean to impugn anyone's motives or abilities - but: Why is it that the people that say putting the Net into different languages is too complex are always English speakers? All non-English…

The Real Problem with dot-XXX

• Comment posted Mar 16, 2007 7:03 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I don't really know what to say in response to that Milton. I make a point about US-bias in perspectives over online content and I receive in return a personal attack and a meandering diatribe smothered with yet more ICANN…

• Comment posted Mar 14, 2007 10:26 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  On a related tangent, I would like to quote from a new book called "The Regulation of Cyberspace" from London School of Economics (LSE) law lecturer Andrew Murray. Murray says his book is an effort "to develop a distinctly European…

ICANN Asked to Adopt Specific TLD for Banks

• Comment posted Apr 02, 2007 2:10 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I think this story is some clever PR by a company that wants to get coverage before the new gTLD round is opened. And good on them. The more innovative and helpful ideas for new gTLDs, the better, as far…

Splitting the Root: It's Too Late

• Comment posted Apr 16, 2007 2:57 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Re: China breaking free from the root. I read this recently in a Village Voice article: "Already, foreign country-code operators are balking at U.S. control and the hefty fees ICANN has attempted to impose; China recently bolted the ICANN root…

Researchers Explore Redesigning Internet Infrastructure from Scratch

• Comment posted Apr 16, 2007 8:13 am PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I agree with Brett - look at the problems there are with getting people to move to IPv6 and that has very clear advantages. I think you can only really build on top of the Internet at this moment in…

Vint Cerf on the Diminishing Novelty of Internet

• Comment posted May 19, 2007 12:49 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Hey Suresh, Actually, I checked this out. I owe Victoria an apology. Apparently she had a phone interview with Vint and he talked about the concept of management of the Net becoming less fascinating for people, so that explains the…

• Comment posted May 17, 2007 12:12 am PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Oh sorry to wrongly malign you Ali, it's Victoria Shannon I should be asking where she came up with the angle. I still think it's odd. Maybe the sub-editor wrote it. Kieren

• Comment posted May 16, 2007 10:42 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  This is a bit of a weird angle. I'm not sure what "diminishing novelty" means. The interview certainly doesn't imply any novelty or otherwise. Anyway… I thought it might be worth me sticking my head up for this one since…

How Can ICANN Improve Institutional Confidence?

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2008 11:34 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I think you are being a little disingenuous with your use of stats here Margie. If you look at the stats that MarkMonitor compiled from that session (see here: http://www.markmonitor.com/topleveldomains/index.php), it clearly shows that only 12 percent of people listed…

Cluck, Cluck... ICANN and Contract Compliance Enforcement

• Comment posted Oct 24, 2008 5:21 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I'm not sure I agree with your characterisation of direct input to the people in a position to make changes as "red tape". I'd argue it was the complete opposite in fact. I can however guarantee you that it will…

• Comment posted Oct 20, 2008 12:51 am PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Hi Michael, You can subscribe to ICANN's compliance newsletter at http://www.icann.org/newsletter, and read previous editions at http://www.icann.org/en/compliance/newsletter/. If you feel that ICANN is missing something in its compliance work, then the best way to change it directly is to provide…

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2008 10:36 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  The Internet community has always taken ICANN and its work very personally, and I think your response reflects that John. The point I have tried to make is that ICANN is doing alot of compliance work, and it is making…

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2008 4:22 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  We're in agreement about one thing - ICANN's compliance program used not to be as good as it needed to be. But from there, particularly this arbitrary idea that ICANN is "making it up as it goes along", we have…

• Comment posted Oct 13, 2008 5:27 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  All useful pointers, John, except that you're about six months out of date. The announcement (not press release) that ICANN had sent Breach Notices to Joker and DNS.com.cn (http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-01oct08-en.htm) was just one point in the September edition of the Contractual…

Will VeriSign Be Able to Engage in Tiered Pricing for .com Soon?

• Comment posted Oct 24, 2008 9:10 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  Hi George, My response above was with regard to your comment about price controls on sponsored and unsponsored TLDs, not the whole post. As to your wider question about whether the wording could in future allow for existing registries to…

• Comment posted Oct 24, 2008 5:08 pm PDT — by Kieren McCarthy
  I'm not sure I agree with how "disturbing" it is, but you're right George, this must have slipped through the net. The document is being updated as we speak with an explanatory note that should address your concern. Thanks for…