Competing for the Internet
Competing for the Internet

Author: Flip Petillion

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2017-03-15

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 9041182764

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), founded in 1998, is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation established to ensure a stable and secure global Internet. As the custodian of the Domain Name System (DNS), one of its key responsibilities is the introduction and promotion of competition in Internet-related markets, an aim which ICANN has tried to achieve through the delegation of generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This book investigates how successful ICANN has been in achieving this goal. Over the years, ICANN has been required to decide on a substantial number of complaints from applicants for gTLDs related to capture, arbitrariness, discrimination, and unwarranted restriction of competition. This book is the first detailed study of complaints related to ICANN decisions that have been brought using ICANN's Independent Review Process (IRP). The authors - preeminent expert practitioners in international litigation and arbitration related to Internet governance - take a close look at how ICANN has handled the major issues raised and how ICANN has shaped its own accountability mechanisms. The book also weighs the influence of external accountability on ICANN’s decision-making process and considers the implications of third-party decisions (such as IRP decisions) for the ongoing development of the Internet. This authoritative analysis covers: • the regulatory framework governing ICANN and the introduction of new gTLDs in a historic perspective; • ICANN’s accountability framework; • all the IRP cases that have been decided to date, with an in-depth analysis of those cases that have become reference decisions in the latest application round; and • the 2016 amendments to ICANN’s articles of incorporation and bylaws, concentrating on the problems that remain unresolved. This work is a welcome addition to the debate on how to address the shortcomings in ICANN’s accountability in the interests of the global Internet community. The authors make concrete proposals and recommendations, suggesting changes to ICANN’s regulatory framework in the light of the lessons learned and with a view to preventing similar problems arising in a next round of gTLD applications. This book has the potential to become the Green Book for fundamental changes to ICANN’s accountability framework.

Comparing Devolved Governance
Comparing Devolved Governance

Author: D. Birrell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0230389791

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Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government.

A Performance Assessment of NASA's Heliophysics Program
A Performance Assessment of NASA's Heliophysics Program

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2009-04-24

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 0309136563

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Since the 1990s, the pace of discovery in the field of solar and space physics has accelerated, largely owing to NASA investments in its Heliophysics Great Observatory fleet of spacecraft. These enable researchers to investigate connections between events on the Sun and in the space environment by combining multiple points of view. Recognizing the importance of observations of the Sun-to-Earth system, the National Research Council produced a solar and space physics decadal survey in 2003, laying out the Integrated Research Strategy. This strategy provided a prioritized list of flight missions, plus theory and modeling programs, that would advance the relevant physical theories, incorporate those theories in models that describe a system of interactions between the Sun and the space environment, obtain data on the system, and analyze and test the adequacy of the theories and models. Five years later, this book measures NASA's progress toward the goals and priorities laid out in the 2003 study. Unfortunately, very little of the recommended priorities will be realized before 2013. Mission cost growth, reordering of survey mission priorities, and unrealized budget assumptions have delayed nearly all of the recommended NASA spacecraft missions. The resulting loss of synergistic capabilities in space will constitute a serious impediment to future progress.

After the Network Change Programme
After the Network Change Programme

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business and Enterprise Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780215520739

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This report from the Business and Enterprise Committee (HCP 577, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215520739) follows on from an earlier report from the same Committee on post office closures under the network change programme (HCP 292-I, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215513663), with responses to that report contained in the appendix. This particular report considers the responses received to the earlier report and looks at the future of the network. The Committee has set out a number of conclusions and recommendations, including: the need for timeliness in the Government's and Post Office Ltd's replies to the present situation in respect of post office closures; that there is no guarantee that there will not be further closures although the Government does not desire the post office network to shrink below 11,500 outlets and is investing £1.7 billion to safeguard the network; the Committee regrets that the transfer of responsibility between Postwatch and the National Consumer Council is occuring at this critical time of change and that both Postwatch and the Post Office Ltd need to develop the new code of practice in respect of the onging network changes to the post office system and that this new code should be presented to Parliament before the Summer recess; the Committee believes there should be a presumption against the closure of post offices where possible and a recognition of their social value to customers, since there seems to be little co-ordination between regulators, the Government and government departments, especially in regard of the withdrawal of payment services from the post office network; the Committee is unclear where the £57 million of savings will come from and that the status of the Post Office Ltd, as a publicly owned monopoly supported by the taxpayer, and the Royal Mail Group as a whole, requires that there is greater financial clarity and transparency of both their financial systems and status

Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

Author: United States. Congress. House

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 2112

ISBN-13:

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Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".