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Internationalized Domain Names

Posted in At Large, icann jpa, IDN, internationalized domain names | Posted on: December 30th, 2008 by | No Comments

ISOC india Chennai is now an ICANN At Large Structure. One of our areas of focus would be Internationalized Domain Names. Here is a video on IDN for Chapter Members to know the IDN basics: These “internationalized domain name” (IDN) efforts were the subject of a 25 September 2000 resolution by the ICANN Board of Read more…


A free and open Internet

Gary Cooper:A Farewell To Arms You can watch Gary Cooper’s Farewell to Arms and a few more movies at Joost.com To those who may not be aware, Joost is another revolution from the entrepreneurs who have given us the Skype phone. We don’t call the Internet “free” to imply that everything is “free of cost”, Read more…


Net Neutrality under pressure – Google’s comments

Posted in icann jpa, Internet governance ., network neutrality | Posted on: December 17th, 2008 by | No Comments

A previous post in this blog Net Neutrality under pressure reproduced an article from ISOC Bulgaria’s Veni Markovski’s blog with a link to the original article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street article is challenged by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel in his blog post in the Google Public Read more…


The ISOC Global meeting at Hyderabad

Posted in icann jpa, Internet governance forum, isoc | Posted on: December 17th, 2008 by | No Comments

There was an ISOC meeting on 5th December at ISTA, Hyderabad (during the IGF) at Hyderabad – an informal meeting where Chapter Delegates and ISOC executives including Lynn St Amour, the President of ISOC were present. Here are some pictures: ..


Net Neutrality under pressure

Google which has been a committed supporter of the Network Neutrality principle is reported to be in talks with Cable companies to create a fast lane for its traffic. This is as reported in the Wall Street Journal article. Here is a reproduction of ISOC Bulgaria’s comments on the development as expressed by Veni Markovski Read more…