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I took place in a discussion with various notables just before Xmas for an edition of the BBC’s Digital Planet radio programme and just remembered it has now come out and you can download and listen to it from its website (although I will also stick it below for ease).
The discussion was on two […]

On Friday, the ICANN Board approved some controversial renewal contracts for the .biz, .info and .org top-level Internet domains.
In a press conference a few hours later, chairman Vint Cerf urged the reporters to read the transcript of the discussion. That transcript isn’t up yet but I figured that Cerf was right about listening […]

I mentioned about a month ago how I was considering setting up a second blog so I could more easily separate my personal and professional life. And yesterday, twice, I was reminded that there is a bit of an unusual overlap when I spoke to two people: one, the spokesman for a company I […]

Nominet held a meeting over the IGF on Monday which has attracted a fair amount of attention, most of it revolving around Nitin Desai’s remarks at the end, picked up by the BBC.
I have grabbed the audio from the meeting and produced a series of MP3 files which you can download and listen to […]

There are two Board positions going at UK registry Nominet that will be decided on Wednesday (27 September) at the company’s annual general meeting in London.
Last week, Nominet announced that there were six candidates and released a statement from each. Despite the extremely tight time period (for example postal votes have to be with […]

So far the US government has been explicitly urged by just about every speaker at the NTIA meeting in Washington discussing ICANN that it transition its own role on the Internet to a more international body.
Commerce assistant secretary John Kneuer - the man that matters - was asked straight out whether the US was […]

This morning the new Home Secretary John Reid gave his first interview since taking over the job to Radio 4’s Today programme.
It was interesting for a number of reasons not least of which was the fact that he appears to have lied about having seen a BBC investigation which alleges that the detective in […]

Yesterday lunchtime, quite by accident, I saw that at 5pm that afternoon at the Oxford Playhouse was the annual Charles Simonyi Lecture, to be given by Nobel-prize winning scientist Sir Harry Kroto, on the subject of: “Can the Internet save the Enlightenment?”
So I changed my route home to go via the Playhouse and buy […]

There was an open public meeting of Pro-Test at Oxford’s Town Hall last night from 7pm to 9.15pm. The flyers sold it as: “Come and discuss the case for animal research with leading scientists, politicians, journalists, university representatives, medical charity workers and members of the Pro-Test committee”, and it was very interesting.
I have some […]

The IGF formation meeting is over, at least in terms of formal consultations.
In the next few days, the dates of the first inaugural Internet Governance Forum in Athens will be announced. It will be either late October of middle of November. In the next 10 days, all interested parties have been asked to send […]