http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Michael Geist on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-09-30T15:26:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_that_never_forgets http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_that_never_forgets More...]]> 2008-09-30T15:26:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/86103_cira_backdoor_whois_police http://www.circleid.com/posts/86103_cira_backdoor_whois_police glowingly about the new CIRA whois policy, which took effect today and which I described as striking the right balance between access and privacy. The policy was to have provided new privacy protection to individual registrants -- hundreds of thousands of Canadians -- by removing the public disclosure of their personal contact information... Apparently I spoke too soon. More...]]> 2008-06-10T15:45:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/85210_cira_whois_policy_privacy_access http://www.circleid.com/posts/85210_cira_whois_policy_privacy_access CIRA whois policy that is scheduled to take effect on June 10, 2008. The whois issue has attracted little public attention, yet it has been the subject of heated debate within the domain name community for many years. It revolves around the whois database, a publicly accessible, searchable list of domain name registrant information (as in "who is" the registrant of a particular domain name). More...]]> 2008-05-02T10:54:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/841710_bell_p2p_bandwidth_problem http://www.circleid.com/posts/841710_bell_p2p_bandwidth_problem More...]]> 2008-04-17T11:17:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/832072_business_internet_censorship http://www.circleid.com/posts/832072_business_internet_censorship More...]]> 2008-03-20T08:27:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/711612_internet_on_cable http://www.circleid.com/posts/711612_internet_on_cable More...]]> 2007-11-06T13:40:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/782710_globe_terror_goes_digital http://www.circleid.com/posts/782710_globe_terror_goes_digital embarrassing feature story on the weekend focusing on terror groups' use of the Internet and a "Canadian connection." A story on terror group use of the Internet would have made for an interesting (albeit unoriginal) story, so it appears that the Globe tried to generate greater interest in the story by adding a Canadian connection. The article begins with "Welcome to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - pivotal battleground in the global jihad."... More...]]> 2007-08-27T11:37:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/whois_policy_reform_advances http://www.circleid.com/posts/whois_policy_reform_advances GNSO) has successfully pushed for reform, though it is uncertain how the ICANN board will respond. More...]]> 2007-03-22T10:01:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_sacrifices_whois_privacy_independence http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_sacrifices_whois_privacy_independence More...]]> 2006-10-10T10:36:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/cira_second_public_letter_icann http://www.circleid.com/posts/cira_second_public_letter_icann recall that the Canadian Internet Registration Authority wrote a public letter earlier this year to ICANN that expressed concern over the current lack of accountability (note that I am on the CIRA board). The letter indicated that CIRA was withholding payment of any voluntary fees to ICANN until the accountability concerns were addressed. This week CIRA followed up with a second public letter to ICANN... More...]]> 2006-06-20T06:07:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/telecom_policy_panel_net_neutrality http://www.circleid.com/posts/telecom_policy_panel_net_neutrality Telecommunications Policy Review Panel report [Canada] was released yesterday and while the immediate reaction will no doubt focus on the recommendations for a market-oriented approach with significant changes to the CRTC, I would call attention to three other recommendations gleaned from reading the executive summary (the full document is nearly 400 pages). More...]]> 2006-03-23T09:55:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_credible_threat http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_credible_threat four country-code domains. More...]]> 2006-02-28T09:10:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_search_for_net_neutrality http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_search_for_net_neutrality Toronto Star version, freely available version) examines the growing trend toward a two-tiered Internet, which upends the longstanding principle of network neutrality under which ISPs treat all data equally. I argue that the network neutrality principle has served ISPs, Internet companies, and Internet users well. It has enabled ISPs to plausibly argue that they function much like common carriers and that they should therefore be exempt from liability for the content that passes through their systems. ...Notwithstanding its benefits, in recent months ISPs have begun to chip away at the principle. More...]]> 2005-12-22T07:47:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_wsis_deal http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_wsis_deal coverage this morning (or this evening in Tunis) on the last minute WSIS deal struck yesterday. The gist of the coverage rightly reports that the U.S. emerged with the compromise they were looking for as the delegates agreed to retain ICANN and the ultimate U.S. control that comes with it (note that there is a lot in the WSIS statement that may ultimately prove important but that is outside the Internet governance issue including the attention paid to cybercrime, spam, data protection, and e-commerce). This outcome begs the questions -- what happened? And, given the obvious global split leading up to Tunis, what changed to facilitate this deal? More...]]> 2005-11-16T11:53:51-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/facing_the_facts_on_internet_governance http://www.circleid.com/posts/facing_the_facts_on_internet_governance Toronto Star version, freely available version) focuses on the Internet governance issues that are likely to dominate discussions all week. I argue that claims about a "digital Munich" and a U.N. takeover are not helpful to arriving at an appropriate solution (though based on discussions this morning it does not appear that things are moving very far away from such claims). More...]]> 2005-11-14T09:45:20-08:00