http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Veni Markovski on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-10-24T14:29:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081024_russian_minister_cyrillic_domain_names http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081024_russian_minister_cyrillic_domain_names Russian Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications spoke at the opening of the InfoCom 2008 exhibition in Moscow. Among other things, which made news (for example, that the Russian government will be implementing a free and open source based operating system on all computers in the Russian schools), he also made the following remarks - translated by me in English. More...]]> 2008-10-24T14:29:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/861012_isoc_bulgaria_internet_community_igf_wsis http://www.circleid.com/posts/861012_isoc_bulgaria_internet_community_igf_wsis More...]]> 2008-06-10T11:22:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_governance_myth_problems_solutions http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_governance_myth_problems_solutions WSIS), but especially after the first Internet Governance Forum (IGF): The critical Internet resources (CIR) consist only of the IP addresses and the domain name system... There are only 13 root servers..." More...]]> 2008-01-10T10:09:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_governed_perspective_from_bulgaria http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_governed_perspective_from_bulgaria More...]]> 2006-08-22T11:56:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_difficulty_finding_directors http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_difficulty_finding_directors More...]]> 2006-05-18T15:02:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/thoughts_on_icann_turning_down_xxx http://www.circleid.com/posts/thoughts_on_icann_turning_down_xxx took a decision to not approve the .xxx in the top-level domain zone. The application was proposed by the ICM Registry. ...My explanation for my vote is as follows: "I think there should be more new TLDs. Many more. I believe my vote was not on the controversial issue about content (and ICANN should not deal with content), but on the simple issue if the agreement is good to be accepted. I also wrote on April 22nd in my blog that ICM at least are trying to prevent harmful content reaching our children. I prefer that, than just saying, ".xxx is bad, abolish it". OK, we did that. Now what?" More...]]> 2006-05-11T12:01:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/finally_the_com_discussion_is_over http://www.circleid.com/posts/finally_the_com_discussion_is_over announced, the Board approved the VeriSign Settlement Agreement. Now, there will be many questions, many pros and contras, but for me the main question is that finally this discussion is over. Here's what I think about my vote and the agreement itself. More...]]> 2006-03-06T08:47:00-08:00