My Attention was drawn by the recent Gillmor Gang on Attention, forcing me to listen to the whole thing three times in order to get a handle on where the Gang was coming from. Steve Gillmor is now the president of Attention Trust, a new non-profit group interested in advocating for the “basic rights of…
Category: Internet Governance
U.S. Government announces it won’t release DNS to ICANN
A small but important development in the relationship between the US Department of Commerce, which used to directly regulate the Internet’s top level domains (.COM, .NET and .ORG) and ICANN, the group currently charged with the task. ICANN is the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, the closest the Internet comes to having a…