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		<title>Steve DelBianco &#45; CircleID</title>
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		<description>Postings from Steve DelBianco on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:date>2011-11-01T04:34:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> Four Promises ICANN Must Meet with New Top-Level Domains (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just back from a week of ICANN meetings in Dakar. Is it just me, or is the new top-level domain program starting to feel like a TLD triathlon, where everyone's now jockeying for position in the final stage -- a grueling marathon? When ICANN's board approved the new gTLD plan in Singapore, it came with the promise of small but substantive changes to improve the program. I hope that wasn't empty rhetoric... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20111101_four_promises_icann_must_meet_with_new_top_level_domains">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-11-01T04:34:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> A Month in Africa Charts the Promise and Perils of Internet Governance (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There may be no better illustration of how far we've come in Internet governance, than this: twice in the past 30 days, the global Internet community has gathered in sub-Saharan Africa to plot a path to bring the Internet to its next billion users. Just weeks after wrapping up the sixth annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Kenya, Internet stakeholders from around the world traveled back to Africa for ICANN's 42nd meeting in Dakar, Senegal. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/a_month_in_africa_charts_the_promise_and_perils_of_internet_governance">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-10-23T16:18:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Multi-Stakeholder Debate at the IGF: Lessons from a Safari (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here at the IGF in Kenya, we're debating how governments, private sector, and civil society can improve the multi-stakeholder model that's helped the Internet become such a vital part of life around the world. Makes me think of another kind of multi-stakeholder model I saw last week on a photo safari in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/multi_stakeholder_debate_at_the_igf_lessons_from_a_safari">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-09-26T11:29:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Now Begins the Third Stage of ICANN's TLD Triathlon (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The ICANN community here in Singapore is celebrating after the historic vote to expand top-level domains (TLDs). And while I wouldn't begrudge anyone a few Singapore Slings, I think it's a little early to start celebrating. The marathon effort ICANN began 5 years ago isn't even close to reaching the finish line. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110620_now_begins_the_third_stage_of_icanns_tld_triathlon">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-06-20T17:35:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Decision Day for ICANN: The End of the Beginning, or the Beginning of the End? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've just arrived in Singapore, where ICANN's board will almost surely vote to launch an unprecedented expansion plan for generic top-level domains (gTLDs). As the new gTLDs start lighting-up over the next two years, we'll look back on this week as the "end of the beginning" since it ended several years of planning for the actual expansion. After the vote the real work begins: evaluating applications, implementing new mechanisms, and contract compliance on a scale far greater than ICANN has ever seen. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/decision_day_for_icann_the_end_of_the_beginning_or_the_beginning_of_the_end">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-06-17T17:53:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> .XXX Exposes the Naked Truth for ICANN (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Internet governance can be a little on the dry side. So when tech policy reporters get a chance to write an ICANN story that features porn stars on picket lines, it's hard to blame them when they run with it. But all the media hype about ICANN's .xxx decision at last week's meeting in San Francisco exposed the real dilemma facing ICANN: how to engage governments in a multi-stakeholder model that's led by the private sector. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110327_dot_xxx_exposes_the_naked_truth_for_icann">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-03-27T19:56:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Eureka! We've Struck ... Consensus (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It took a trip to California - the land of the gold rush - to discover that most elusive of ICANN aspirations: consensus. ICANN kicked off this week's meeting in San Francisco with a parade of Internet pioneers discussing the past, present and future of ICANN. ... ICANN insiders might focus on points of contention that came out of this morning's comments -- whether on new gTLDs or the future of the IANA functions -- but I was more interested by those areas where ICANN pioneers clearly agreed. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110315_eureka_weve_struck_consensus">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-03-15T00:32:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> To Serve the Public Interest You First Have to Define 'Public Interest' (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the ancient parable, six blind men are asked to describe an elephant, with each coming up with wildly different answers, depending on which part of the animal they touched. Now, while I would hesitate to call participants in the ICANN process "blind men," I am starting to think that "public interest" is their elephant. ICANN is on the threshold of completing its first major obligation under the Affirmation of Commitments it signed with the U.S. Government in 2009. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/to_serve_the_public_interest_you_first_have_to_define_public_interest">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-02-19T10:16:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Institutionalizing Consumer Trust and Public Interest at ICANN (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[For an organization where people argue for hours over arcane minutiae, it's remarkable that virtually everyone agrees that ICANN should serve the "global public interest" and build "consumer trust" in the Internet. Although it's only three pages long, ICANN's Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) cites "public interest" five times and "consumer trust" eight times. So at the ICANN meeting today in Cartagena, Colombia, a group of participants explored ways to "institutionalize" these concepts within the organization. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20101209_institutionalizing_consumer_trust_and_public_interest_at_icann">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-12-09T10:18:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> US Government Waves the Caution Flag at ICANN (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This month, ICANN is driving hard to get two of its horses to the finish line. The first is barely a year old - it's the first formal review of ICANN's accountability and transparency. The second horse is going on 4 years old: ICANN's plan to introduce hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs) for the Internet. Just as these horses have entered the home stretch, one of the racecourse officials is vigorously waving the yellow caution flag. And ICANN would do well to pull back on the reins. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20101202_us_government_waves_the_caution_flag_at_icann">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-12-02T17:36:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> A Tale of Two Governance Models (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As many of us in the Internet community gear up for the ICANN meeting in Colombia next week, it's important to remember that not everybody embraces the multi-stakeholder approach that we've gradually learned to love. Just a month ago, a group with a very different vision of how to run things wrapped up their own Internet governance meeting in Latin America. Their meeting was three times as long and accomplished about a third as much, but they'd still like to see their model replace the ICANN model. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20101130_a_tale_of_two_governance_models">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-11-30T10:54:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Precrime Regulation of Internet Innovation (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the sci-fi movie <em>Minority Report</em>, a 'precrime' police unit relies on the visions of psychics to predict future crimes, then arrests the potential perpetrators before they do anything wrong. In the world of Internet governance, the future is now, as regulators want online services to predict and prevent safety threats before they actually occur. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/precrime_regulation_of_internet_innovation">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-09-20T08:34:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> When Having a Voice Isn't Enough (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In Brussels on Friday, an esteemed panel of experts got together to discuss the challenge of improving ICANN's accountability. It's just too bad nobody from ICANN came by to hear it. ... While their prescriptions varied widely, the panelists were remarkably similar in their diagnoses - namely, that ICANN has yet to meet the fundamental challenge of making its board and staff accountable and answerable to the community that it is intended to serve. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/when_having_a_voice_isnt_enough">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-06-21T07:37:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> IDNs in cc-Minor: an Unfinished Symphony (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When he wanted to show the transformative and unifying power of the Internet to open this week's ICANN meeting in Seoul, ICANN President Rod Beckstrom had an ace in the hole: Korean guitarist Jay (Jeong-hyun Lim), who became a global YouTube sensation with his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8">hard-rocking version of Pachelbel's Canon</a>. As I watched Jay wail on his gold-plated guitar to standing ovations, I couldn't help but think of Rod waxing that the Internet was a "symphony" of ideas and voices from around the world. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/idn_in_cc_minor_an_unfinished_symphony">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2009-10-25T20:46:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> ICANN’s September Surprise (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["Surprise, surprise, surprise!" is how Gomer Pyle would react to the news that the US government has allowed the JPA to expire, thus completing the transition of DNS management to ICANN. Plenty of skeptics doubted the US would let it happen, but today really is ICANN's independence day. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090930_icanns_september_surprise">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2009-09-30T06:55:00-08:00</dc:date>
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