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Fwd: [IP] Zittrain: The misguided freakout over ICANN
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

(Sent from my tiny-screen wireless device; excuse brevity or typos) Begin forwarded message: > From: Dave Farber <dave(a)farber.net> > Date: 26 marzo 2014 12:35:02 CET > To: "ip" <ip(a)listbox.com> > Subject: [IP] Zittrain: The misguided freakout over ICANN > Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Richard Forno <rforno(a)infowarrior.org> > Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 > Subject: Zittrain: The misguided freakout over ICANN > To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior(a)attrition.org> > Cc: Dave Farber <dave(a)farber.net> > > > No, Barack Obama Isn't Handing Control of the Internet Over to China > BY JONATHAN ZITTRAIN > > http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117093/us-withdraws-icann-why-its-no-big… > > On March 14, the U.S. government announced that it would seek to relinquish a privileged role in the management of Internet names and numbers. An organization called ICANN—the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers—is to continue doing what it’s doing without maintaining an ongoing contract with the Department of Commerce to do it. And what does ICANN do? It helps keep IP addresses in order, ensuring that each address—used to let parties on the Internet identify one another—is not assigned more than once. And it facilitates the addition of “top level domains,” those suffixes like .com, .org, .uk, and more recently, .clothing, which, with a concatenation of names to their left, become the names for nearly all online destinations, including newrepublic.com. A receding role for the U.S. government has been anticipated for over a decade, and the move is both wise and of little impact. Some reaction has been surprisingly alarmist. > > A Wall Street Journal columnist described it as “America’s Internet surrender.” Said one member of Congress: “Giving up control of ICANN will allow countries like China and Russia, that don’t place the same value in freedom of speech, to better define how the internet looks and operates.” > > From a former Bush administration official in the Daily Caller: “This is the Obama equivalent of Carter’s decision to give away the Panama Canal—only with possibly much worse consequences.” (Namely, to “endanger the security of both the Internet and the U.S.—and open the door to a global tax on Web use.”) And Newt Gingrich: “Every American should worry about Obama giving up control of the internet to an undefined group. This is very, very dangerous.” > > The venerable information technology publication The Register summed it up this way: “US govt: You, ICANN. YOU can run the internet. We quit.” And from the National Journal: “When U.S. Steps Back, Will Russia and China Control the Internet?” As Betteridge’s Law of Headlines suggests, the answer is no. Indeed, the truth is much less salacious—and far more interesting—than any of the reactions above. > > To understand why, we need to talk about the difference between owned and unowned technologies. Owned technologies are easy to grasp, because they’re so prevalent. They’re technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually someone selling it. The original AT&T phone system was an owned technology—and so are its descendants like Verizon landline services and mobile phone networks. TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why—and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast. If you’re reading this article on a digital device, chances are good that its hardware is owned—Apple or HP or Lenovo designed and built it—and so, too, is its operating system, whether iOS, Android, or Windows. > > If any of these technologies were to break, we’d turn to their vendors for an explanation and a fix. If a government wanted to affect how they work, it would seek to pressure or outright require certain changes—the way that, for example, the U.S. Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act requires AT&T and Verizon to design their telephone networks to be responsive to lawful wiretap orders. > > But owned isn’t the whole story. Occasionally unowned configurations emerge. In 1983, we might have assumed that walled gardens such as CompuServe and America Online would keep being the way we communicate with one another—classic, owned information services for which we paid for access by the minute. But something odd happened: An experimental network, subsidized by the U.S. National Science Foundation, shaped by researchers at universities and corporate think tanks, came about. This Internet was meant to provide compatibility among any number of smaller networks, and unlike CompuServe and its siblings, it had no CEO, business plan, or budget. CompuServe and AOL become mere ways to access the Internet, rather than their original incarnations as globe-spanning one-stop information shops whose subscribers could be reached only by special arrangement with them. > > Access CompuServe and you’d be asked for an ID and password to prove you’re a paying subscriber, and then you’d be shown a main menu of content and activities selected by CompuServe to appeal to you. By comparison, when you access the Internet, there’s nothing: no main menu, no meter from the overarching network, and no persistent identity upon it. (That’s why various Web sites fight one another to be the home page of your browser.) The Internet was less a particular set of hardware and more a set of protocols. You are simply assigned a number—which is not really meant to identify you personally—that lets you reach out to any other number on the network with bits. > > But it turns out that for the Internet to work, certain functions benefit greatly from a little centralized record keeping. To surf the Net with your unique number, it helps greatly if that number isn’t already assigned to someone else—assign it twice and bits can get confused as they wend their way towards you (or is it towards your doppelganger?). Same problem with phone numbers: they shouldn’t belong to more than one pizza shop at a time. So someone had to maintain a master list of IP addresses for the simple purpose of not handing them out twice. That someone was Jon Postel, a computer scientist who in essence drew the short straw to have to keep track. As the Internet’s protocols were written up it seemed a little informal to say with a technical document, “Well, a guy named Jon performs this function,” so Jon was labeled to be something much more official-sounding: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, or IANA. No official paperwork was filed; nothing was incorporated. Still no CEO. Just IANA. Jon also helped get domain names going, so we could visit mnemonic-sounding addresses like www.newrepublic.com instead of 166.78.85.160. (Both work, though – try it!) > > Jon asked various colleagues to manage lists like all those names ending in .com, and others ending in .org, etc. He maintained a list, called the root, of those names. It was Jon who agreed to create .uk for those interested in United Kingdom-themed domain names. When he realized that domain names were taking on real meaning to people, he looked for other ways to create names rather than just deciding on his own. (For countries, he found a list of country names maintained by the International Standards Organization and stuck to it—creating names for lots of peoples whose governments hadn’t formally asked for them.) And when disputes came up, he looked for consensus to settle them, such as when there was objection over the person originally entrusted to maintain names under .pn, for Pitcairn Island, population 50. (The objection was lodged by the entire adult population of Pitcairn Island, with the exception of the trustee and his wife.) It took years to settle the issue. > > By 1997 it was clear that having Jon simply run numbering and names, however fairly, was tricky. Entrepreneurs stood to gain millions should they be entrusted to register names in a new domain like .web or .chef. How to decide how many more to create and who would get them? The U.S. government, in the form of the Department of Commerce, began a process to create a “new IANA,” one supported by the Internet as a whole. This was seen as consistent with the idea of privatizing the Internet. But note that this process skated over the U.S. government’s authority to choose a new shepherd to begin with. Why was a new leader something for the U.S. government to designate? It wasn’t as if there were local airwaves over which the government claimed power. The only real hook was that American funding had subsidized the creation of Internet protocols—but these were grants, not fee-for-service; subsidies, not permission. And the small fees the government awarded to companies that maintained the domain name databases—after Jon found it boring to maintain on his own—were ones that the companies would be delighted to simply waive, charging Internet users directly instead. > > In reality, the U.S. government got to choose for two reasons, neither of which had to do with any legal authority. First, the government made sure that there wasn’t really a choice for anyone to make: the ultimate ballot it was to cast had only one entry on it. When three entities stepped forward to be the new IANA, the Department of Commerce persuaded them to negotiate with one another until only one proposal was left. Choosing something from a list of one is not controversial. Second, nearly everyone concerned about the future of the Internet wanted certainty and stability. So the U.S. government’s “decision” to recognize ICANN as the new IANA in 1998 was welcomed as a rallying cry to get a move on with the allocation of numbers and names. ICANN, a California non-profit, had a Byzantine set of by-laws to make Madison proud: Board members were appointed from various constituencies (“stakeholders” in governance parlance) and from various regions of the world. But it is not run by the governments of the world. Many had seen the way the UN operated and had little interest in replicating it. And in 1998, the U.S. government’s recognition of ICANN took the form of a cooperative agreement between ICANN and the Commerce Department spelling out certain minimal responsibilities–and a nominal way for the U.S. government to pull the plug if something went terribly wrong. > > With this background in mind, we can process the news that the U.S. government is letting that agreement ultimately lapse. > > First, the U.S. government control so far has had minimal impact on how ICANN has operated. For example, there was some consternation within the U.S. Congress about the creation of a .xxx domain, which was within ICANN’s purview to create. This likely delayed .xxx, but it didn’t stop it. And that accords with the government’s role in ICANN’s creation: Had it tried to be more heavy-handed, it’s not clear that it could have pulled off the move to a new IANA. Whoever newly contracts with ICANN for these IANA functions—yes, once again the U.S. government has vaguely called for a new organization to step up—will be similarly constrained. So there’s no obvious place for Russia or China to take control. > > Second, the plausible ways in which ICANN could trample free speech are narrow. ICANN does not itself hand out domain names—it only designates who runs each list of names. ICANN does not directly “shut down” names or otherwise deal in individual decisions. So far it has established procedures in some domains for trademark-like disputes to play out. But these are only over domain names themselves—not over claims of behavior taking place more generally on a Web site. Register gap.clothing and be prepared to justify your action through an ICANN-approved process; sell fake Gap clothing on your website goodclothes.clothing and that process won’t have anything to say about it. Any attempt to impose broad-based censorship through domain name assignments would be met with stiff resistance by the operators of domain name registries, and ultimately by the Internet Service Providers who choose to consult those registries for information about what destination each name represents. Anyone trying to tighten the screws too much will simply strip them. > > Taxes? ICANN takes a cut of fees generated by registering and renewing names for many domains like .com and many new ones in the process of being unveiled—so much so that ICANN enjoys tens of millions of dollars in income each year—but it doesn’t and can’t otherwise impose a “tax on Internet use.” > > Thus last week’s news is simply about symbolism. Having the U.S. nominally, but not really, controlling the modest functions of top-level numbering and name assignments provided ammunition to those who think the Internet should be utterly stateless—some of whom, oddly enough, might favor turning over ICANN’s functions to the International Telecommunications Union, which is an arm of the United Nations and has states as its members. To eliminate this symbolic U.S. involvement, an action envisioned from the moment of ICANN’s creation, helps address that complaint, while costing nothing. As ICANN’s own Q-and-A on the topic put it: > > How does this announcement affect the individual Internet user? > > This announcement does not affect Internet users and their use of the Internet. However, all Internet users have a stake in how the Internet is run, and it is therefore important to get involved. > > Confusing: Nothing to see here, but Internet governance matters, so go on and get involved. Such are the puzzles of unowned technologies. They can become incalculably powerful even with no one at the helm—or perhaps precisely because of it. Numbering and naming is a tiny part of the Internet, and governing it is of interest mostly because it’s one of the few things we can point to where decisions can be made. But these decisions happen by consensus, and are implemented one ISP and router at a time, rather than some kind of fiat. You may be reading this article at newrepublic.com, and if you are, you’re here because your ISP, your operating system vendor, your browser maker and you are agreeing to map that name to this online place. Any could change it, notwithstanding actions of governments and institutions like ICANN. Internet protocols at large aren’t implemented through anyone’s fiat; they are generated through open processes channeled through unincorporated organizations like the Internet Engineering Task Force (motto: “We reject kings, presidents, and voting: we believe in rough consensus and running code”), and then implemented through the actions of hardware and software makers. > > The Internet is a collective hallucination, one of the best humanity has ever generated. To be sure, it is delicate in many ways, with its unowned character threatened from many quarters. But rest easy that ICANN isn’t one of them. > > Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of law and professor of computer science at Harvard University, and author of The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It. He is a former trustee of the Internet Society, which facilitates the work of the Internet Engineering Task Force. He served on a membership advisory committee to ICANN in 1998, testified to Congress about it in 2000, and was among the authors of the Berkman Center’s 2010 report done at the request of ICANN, “Accountability and Transparency at ICANN: An Independent Review.” > > --- > Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. > > > Archives | Modify Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now

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NETmundial / European Commission to facilitate a conference call for information sharing
by Andrea Glorioso March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

[ *Apologies if you receive this message multiple times. Please share with your contacts.* ] In view of the forthcoming Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETMundial, http://www.netmundial.br/) which will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 23-24 April 2014, the European Commission is organising an open conference call, with the purpose of sharing information among stakeholders. The online meeting will be facilitated by the European Commission, but we do expect stakeholders to actively contribute to the conversation. We kindly ask those who plan to attend the conference call and would like to share their views with other participants, possibly on the basis of their / their organisation's contribution to NETmundial, to *let us know in advance*so that we can allocate a fair number of slots for interventions. Details of the conference call (phone numbers, PIN, and Adobe Connect data) are below: - Date: 8 April 201 - Time: 11:00 - 13:00 (CET) - Telephone number: 02 808 1363 (if calling from Belgium - for a list of international number, please see the attached PDF document) - Conference room number: 1327846 - Adobe Connect URL: http://ec-wacs.adobeconnect.com/ag4682/ (please note that you do *NOT* need to use Adobe Connect to participate in the teleconference - it's offered as an option) As background information, you might want to go through the contributions which have been submitted to NETmundial. They are available at http://content.netmundial.br/docs/contribs. The European Commission has submitted two contributions, which are available at http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/internet-governance-principles/17… http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/roadmap-for-the-further-e volution-of-the-internet-governance-ecosystem/177. Thanks for your kind attention. We hope you will join us for this discussion. Best regards, -- Andrea Glorioso (Mr) European Commission - DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology Unit D1 (International relations) + Task Force on Internet Policy Development Avenue de Beaulieu 25 (4/64) / B-1049 / Brussels / Belgium T: +32-2-29-97682 M: +32-460-797-682 E: Andrea.Glorioso(a)ec.europa.eu Twitter: @andreaglorioso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.glorioso LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1749288&trk=tab_pro The views expressed above are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. Les opinions exprimées ci-dessus n'engagent que leur auteur et ne sauraient en aucun cas être assimilées à une position officielle de la Commission européenne. Be transparent - Sign up to the European Commission's Register of Interest Representatives http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regrin

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Comunicazione di servizio. Prossima Chiusura delle iscrizioni al Convegno del 31 MARZO 2014 alla sala del Mappamondo. " Internet e libertà d'espressione".
by Fulvio Sarzana March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

Egregi Colleghi, dato laltissimo numero di soggetti che hanno richiesto di essere accreditati al Convegno del 31 Marzo di cui alloggetto, Vi chiederei di affrettare la registrazione inviando una mail a <mailto:info@lidis.it> info(a)lidis.it, chiamando il numero 06 3211553 o registrandosi on line al sito http://news.lidis.it/. Diversamente, non saremo in grado di garantire la presenza degli accreditati. Cordialità Fulvio Sarzana ************************************* Studio Legale Sarzana e Associati Via Velletri, 10 - 00198 Roma Tel. +39 06 3211553 Tel. +39 06 97614489 Fax. +39 06 97256424 skype fulvio.sarzana <http://www.lidis.it/> http://www.lidis.it ************************************* This message and any file transmitted are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please You should not copy or disclose the contents to any other person. For further information please visit our website at <http://www.lidis.it/> http://www.lidis.it . --- Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus. http://www.avast.com

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Copyright & Co.: internet e libertà d'espressione. Il 31 marzo Convegno a Roma
by A Dicorinto March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

#ddaonline, internet e libertà d'espressione. Il 31 marzo Convegno a Roma Leggi, ruolo della politica e di Agcom al centro del convegno che si terrà a Roma il prossimo 31 marzo in occasione dell'entrata in vigore del Regolamento sul diritto d'autore online. http://www.key4biz.it/News/2014/03/25/Policy/ddaonline_internet_liberta_d%2… -- Arturo Di Corinto 393 9383040 ---------------------------------> AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003

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Fwd: Arduino Day Torino
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

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Fwd: Breaking News: Obama to Propose Ending N.S.A.'s Bulk Collection of Phone Records
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 25, 2014

March 25, 2014

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Breaking News: Obama to Propose Ending N.S.A.'s Bulk Collection of Phone Records Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:23:36 -0400 From: NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect(a)nytimes.com> To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add nytdirect(a)nytimes.com <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACHCpQxp3Fo5Z&cam…> to your address book. The New York Times <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACKqxdqYf5TwZRlcq…> | BREAKING NEWS ALERT <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACKqxdqYf5TwZRlcq…> NYTimes.com <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACKqxdqYf5TwZRlcq…> | Unsubscribe <http://www.nytimes.com/gst/unsub.html?email=jcdemartin@cyber.law.harvard.ed…> BREAKING NEWS Monday, March 24, 2014 9:15 PM EDT Obama to Propose Ending N.S.A.’s Bulk Collection of Phone Records <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgZ8QB…> Under President Obama’s proposal to Congress, data about Americans’ calling habits would be kept in the hands of phone companies, according to senior administration officials. The changes would end the most controversial part of the bulk phone records program, a major focus of privacy concerns since its existence was leaked last year. Under the plan the administration is now advocating, the officials said, the government would no longer systematically collect and store records of calling data. Instead, it would obtain individual orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain only records linked to phone numbers a judge agrees are likely tied to terrorism. READ MORE » http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/us/obama-to-seek-nsa-curb-on-call-data.ht… <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgZ8QB…> ADVERTISEMENT <http://Z.GLAKA.COM/click?s=62659&t=newsletter&sz=300x250&li=BreakingNews&m=…> <http://Z.GLAKA.COM/click?s=2297&t=newsletter&sz=116x15&li=BreakingNews&m=17…> <http://Z.GLAKA.COM/click?s=2298&t=newsletter&sz=69x15&li=BreakingNews&m=17E…> FOLLOW US: Twitter @NYTimes <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KWkqACYTXC750bgRZRyRovPJIEX…> | Facebook Facebook <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KWmuacvKaClnScR5XC3Nq7OzJ3a…> For breaking news on your mobile device, go to m.nyt.com » <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=XzzrGg+iKs9YRj28EbS+JZqSgyyIS3CdRlcq…> NYT <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACKqxdqYf5TwZIbHH…> Access The New York Times from anywhere with our suite of apps: iPhone® <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=pMJKdIFVI6rQ1A83aF/Jg7/jh3WgNi7QC3By…> | iPad® <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=pMJKdIFVI6rQ1A83aF/Jg7/jh3WgNi7QC3By…> | Android <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=pMJKdIFVI6rUh2PW8hSxDWaBY9XU8GQKtWNz…> | All <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACDuqzkg7rwCI6o0M…> About This Email This is an automated email. Please do not reply directly to this email. You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's breaking news alerts. As a member of the TRUSTe privacy program, we are committed to protecting your privacy. Unsubscribe <http://www.nytimes.com/gst/unsub.html?email=jcdemartin@cyber.law.harvard.ed…> | Manage Subscriptions <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACHjdnNiNT4YKoxod…> | Change Your Email <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=pMJKdIFVI6rcMVYYXia0CswGfPcU3iP2Bbbo…> | Privacy Policy <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACMlEhIhWVuPIxgan…> | Contact <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACDE6h1nWlLhfgdX2…> Copyright 2014 | The New York Times Company |NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018

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Italy's own SOPA is coming, and it could be disastrous
by Fulvio Sarzana March 24, 2014

March 24, 2014

A zealous government board in Italy has granted itself the power of judge, jury, and executioner of any site it deems a copyright violator. That is, unless one intellectual property lawyer can convince a court to stop it, but the clock is ticking. Fulvio Sarzana of Rome's Sarzana & Partners Law Firm is the author of a book on Internet commerce, and he's representing a host of activist groups and consumer associations against AGCOM, an Italian acronym for an independent government body called the Communication Authority. In late 2013, AGCOM <http://www.agcom.it/default.aspx?DocID=11564> proposed, then granted to itself, a controversial means of enforcing copyright. "We are very concerned because this legislation has not been adopted by the Italian parliament, but by an administrative body," Sarzana told the Daily Dot. The gist of AGCOM's proposed program, <https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/nexa-center-responds-italian-com munication-authority-proposal-online-copyright> according to papers by Giancarlo Frosio, a fellow at Stanford Law's Center for Internet and Society, is that enforcing online copyright would become an administrative issue, rather than a civil or criminal one. http://www.dailydot.com/politics/italy-sopa-eu-agcom/ ********************************************************* Avv. Fulvio Sarzana di S.Ippolito Studio Legale Sarzana e Associati Via Velletri, 10 - 00198 Roma Tel. +39 06 3211553 Tel. +39 06 97614489 Fax. +39 06 97256424 skype fulvio.sarzana <blocked::blocked::http://www.lidis.it/> http://www.lidis.it **************************************** This message and any file transmitted are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please You should not copy or disclose the contents to any other person. For further information please visit our website at <blocked::blocked::http://www.lidis.it/> http://www.lidis.it . --- Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus. http://www.avast.com

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Call for Papers, 9th GigaNet Symposium
by Francesca Musiani March 24, 2014

March 24, 2014

Buongiorno, allego il call for papers per la conferenza GigaNet di quest'anno, sperando che possa essere di interesse. Cordialmente, Francesca Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Annual Symposium 1 September 2014 Istanbul, Turkey Deadline for abstract submissions: April 15 2014 The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking research submissions about Internet Governance to be presented at its Ninth Annual Symposium, held on 1 September 2014, one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Istanbul, Turkey. GigaNet is a scholarly community that promotes the development of Internet Governance as a recognized, interdisciplinary field of study and facilitates informed dialogue on policy issues and related matters between scholars and governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society. http://giga-net.org/ Since 2006, GigaNet has organized an Annual Symposium to showcase research about Internet Governance, bringing together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and fields. As in previous years, the symposium will provide room to discuss current and future questions as well as the challenges encountered and results achieved in global Internet governance. The 2014 GigaNet Symposium offers researchers a timely opportunity to present their work on our rapidly changing field. Conference themes GigaNet is interested in receiving abstracts related to Internet Governance themes, especially those containing innovative approaches and/or emerging research areas. The program committee welcomes all proposals on topics related to global Internet governance including such themes as: ï The WGEC process and outcomes ï The WSIS review process and outcomes ï The mainstreaming and proliferation of ìInternet Governanceî ï The institutionalization of internet governance ï Analysis of the NETmundial meeting ï Global Trade, Intellectual Property and Internet Governance ï The ICANN separation roadmap from the NTIA We will continue to provide a venue for emerging scholars in the field by offering select panels. Emerging Scholars are those individuals who have received their Ph.D. within the past three years as well as current doctoral students working on their approved doctoral research. Accepted papers from senior scholars will be presented and discussed in a roundtable format involving business, government and technical community representatives, while emerging scholars will present their work in a more traditional academic panel. In both cases, presenters should expect to have conversations about their work with people from a wide range of stakeholder groups. Submissions Interested scholars should submit abstracts of their research paper at the Easy Chair platform: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2014 Deadline for abstract submissions: April 15 2014 Paper proposals should be submitted following these requirements: * An abstract of 800-1000 words, in English, that describes the paperís main research goal(s) and methodology employed * A short bio note focused on institutional affiliations, advanced degrees, scholarly publications and work in the field of Internet Governance and related issues (for example ICTs). Please include a link to a more detailed CV. * Authors of accepted abstracts must submit their final papers by 15 July 2014. Those unable to do so will be removed from the program. Process and publication The Program Committee will evaluate submitted abstracts and inform proposal authors of acceptance decisions by email before 1 June 2014. Accepted submissions and final papers will be published on the GigaNet website. An online publication with selected papers on the main challenges of Internet Governance is also planned for the Istanbul IGF. Registration The GigaNet Annual Symposium is free of charge. However, registration will be required to gain entry to the event venue. Please continue visiting our website for further information about registration, venue and accommodation. If you have any question related to the submission or the symposium activities, please e-mail the Program Committee Chair: j-laprise(a)northwestern.edu. -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France Co-Chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> | Outreach officer, GigaNet <http://giga-net.org> Projet ANR ADAM - Architectures distribuées et applications multimédias<http://adam.hypotheses.org/> Internet Policy Review @ HIIG Berlin <http://policyreview.info/> Personal website <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/People/musiani/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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I: Civil Society response to Big Pharma´s wish list for EU-US Free Trade TTIP agreement
by Blengino March 24, 2014

March 24, 2014

FYI Da: IP-Enforcement [mailto:IP-ENFORCEMENT@ROSTER.WCL.AMERICAN.EDU] Per conto di david(a)davidhammerstein.org Inviato: lunedì 24 marzo 2014 08:46 A: IP-ENFORCEMENT(a)ROSTER.WCL.AMERICAN.EDU Oggetto: Civil Society response to Big Pharma´s wish list for EU-US Free Trade TTIP agreement

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Copyright User portal
by Maurizio Borghi March 24, 2014

March 24, 2014

Cari colleghi e amici, Vi segnalo questa nuova risorsa, che è stata sviluppata da un gruppo di ricercatori del CIPPM (Bournemouth University) ed è stata lanciata ufficialmente qualche giorno fa: http://copyrightuser.org/ Ogni commento è benvenuto. Copyrightuser.org is an online resource aimed at making UK copyright law accessible to creators and members of the public. The resources here are meant for everyone who uses copyright: musicians<http://copyrightuser.org/musician/>, filmmakers<http://copyrightuser.org/filmmaker/>, performers<http://copyrightuser.org/performer/>, writers<http://copyrightuser.org/writer/>, visual artists<http://copyrightuser.org/visual-artist/> and interactive developers<http://copyrightuser.org/developer/>, among others. Our goal is to inform creators about how to protect their work<http://copyrightuser.org/protecting/>, how to license and exploit it<http://copyrightuser.org/licensing-and-exploiting/>, and how to legally re-use the work of others<http://copyrightuser.org/using-and-reusing/>. [more<http://copyrightuser.org>]

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