John Demco
CIRA Announces Nomination Committee Candidates For Election – CIRA has announced the Nomination Committee slate for the 2010 CIRA Board of Directors election. The candidates selected by the committee are: Paul Andersen, Daniel Blanche, Gary Evans, John King, Martin Kratz, Rowena Liang, Louise Macdonald, and Brian Wentzell. The call for Member nominations commences on Tuesday, August 3.
Picks To Click
- “Taking Back the DNS“, by Paul Vixie of the Internet Systems Consortium. Beginning with the statement “Most new domain names are malicious”, the article describes a technology called Response Policy Zones (DNS RPZ) that will allow nameservers implementing the specification to resolve or not resolve domain names based on policy rules. The rules may be maintained locally or be imported from a reputation provider. The article has drawn a spirited response.
- An article on Norm Ritchie, one of seven Trusted Community Representatives holding data that would be used to regenerate the DNS root keys in the event of a major disaster.
- The first .uk Internet domain names were registered 25 years ago.
- After a ruling by an Australian Court of Appeal, auDA has terminated the accreditation of Bottle Domains, one of its .au domain registrars, for “a serious breach of its obligations under the Registrar Agreement”.
- “.xxx Ushers in a New Era of Internet Governance?” by Byron Holland of CIRA.
- The second annual Internet Governance Forum USA took place on July 21.
Timeline
- Tue, Aug 3 – Mon, Aug 16: call for Member Nominees for CIRA Board election
- Thu, Aug 26 – Thu, Sep 9: shows of support for Member Nominees for CIRA election
- Tue, Sep 14 – Tue, Sep 21: online forum for CIRA Board of Directors election
- Tue, Sep 21: CIRA Annual General Meeting
- Wed, Sep 22 – Wed, Sep 29: CIRA Board of Directors election
- Sun, Dec 5 – Fri, Dec 10: ICANN meetings in Cartagena, Columbia