Intellectual Property Law

ICANN Monday

By Susan Crawford

This will be brief, because connectivity has been tricky in the main meeting hall and I’m running out of battery.  Petty technical difficulties.  The report for Monday is that ICANN Chair Peter Dengate-Thrush ran a lively session on the Joint Project Agreement (the latest MoU) between ICANN and the Department of Commerce this morning - as Bertrand de la Chapelle says, there are three questions:

1.  is the JPA ending as of Sept. 2009?

2.  what will ICANN look like afterwards?

3.  what process do we follow to get there?

A lot of imponderables.  Now we’re in an open public forum about the Internet Governance Forum, of which the next meeting will be in Delhi (also) in December 2008.  Here the key questions are:

1. will the IGF be a place for action as well as discussion?

2.  what other issues should IGF be discussing?

dying battery.  More later.

Full post as published by Susan Crawford Blog on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).