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Number Resource Society
The Consultation Survey Designed by the Institution Under Review
An institution can administer a useful survey about its own performance, but if it controls the questions, sample, answer options and interpretation, independence cannot be inferred from anonymous responses.
Number Resource Society
Language Choice Before Translation Begins
Translation can widen access to a finished text, but the first drafting language has already selected the concepts, ambiguities and burdens that every later language must carry.
Number Resource Society
Gender Balance Cannot Repair a Missing Principal
A balanced board can correct exclusion and improve judgment, but composition alone cannot reveal who authorised the board, what it may decide or how those affected can remove it.
Number Resource Society
Youth Panels and the Problem of Borrowed Legitimacy
A youth panel can widen the evidence available to an institution, but selection by the institution cannot manufacture consent from a generation that never chose the speakers.
Number Resource Society
Fellowship Is Access, Not Authority
Travel support, training and mentorship can open a closed professional world, but a fellowship award cannot appoint its recipient to speak for everyone who could not enter.
Number Resource Society
Who Speaks Twice: Employer, Working Group and Advisory Seat
Internet governance needs people who carry knowledge across institutions, but it also needs a record that distinguishes one person's several roles from several independent constituencies.
ICANN
Forty-Seven People in the Room
ICANN85's average session headcount is useful evidence about the scale of face-to-face deliberation, but it cannot bear the constitutional weight often placed on an open conference.
ICANN
Fifteen Seats for Six Billion Users
ALAC is most legitimate when understood as a small advisory institution that compresses diverse end-user knowledge into ICANN deliberations, not as an elected delegation of the global online population.
ICANN
ICANN made the DNSSEC root key rollover a readiness-evidence problem
The first DNSSEC root Key Signing Key rollover was not a story about a global outage. It was a story about how a global maintenance event should prove readiness before it touches the trust anchor that validating resolvers depend on. ICANN's postponement in 2017 and completion in…
ICANN
The Promise of Uniqueness and the Claim of Ownership
The number registry system promises that the same resource will not be assigned to competing parties at the same time. That essential coordination function is often described as if it also settled ownership, use, transfer, routing and economic value. It settles none of them on…
ICANN
Delegation, Recognition, or Certification? Three Words That Conceal Different Powers
Internet number governance repeatedly relies on three authoritative-sounding words. Yet delegation, recognition and certification describe different relationships, carry different consequences and require different proof. Treating them as synonyms can turn technical coordination…
ICANN
The Missing Principal in the Number Registry Chain
The global number registry system has members, boards, courts, ICANN, IANA services and autonomous networks, each with bounded powers. What its adopted instruments do not clearly identify is one actor able to remove a failing regional registry, preserve the full record, appoint a…
ICANN
Mandate by Memorandum: The Limits of RIR-ICANN MoUs
An institutional memorandum can coordinate global number policy, recognition advice and IANA-facing services without becoming a charter over every network that depends on the resulting registry. The decisive question is not whether coordination has consequences, but which…
Companies
CAIGA risks reproducing centralised power as Africa confronts ICANN’s governance overreach
CAIGA is promoted as reform, but critics warn it may deepen ICANN’s control over Africa’s internet governance.
Companies
CAIGA and ICANN spark new fears over Africa’s IPv4 and IPv6 future
CAIGA and ICANN raise fears of centralised control over Africa’s IPv4 and IPv6 policies, threatening regional autonomy and transparency.
Companies
Should African communities challenge ICANN’s CAIGA support?
African communities face a critical decision on whether to challenge ICANN’s support for CAIGA, impacting digital sovereignty.
Companies
The politics behind ICANN’s partnership with Smart Africa
ICANN’s collaboration with Smart Africa raises questions about governance, regional autonomy, and the global rules of Internet management.
Afrinic
ICANN and AFRINIC: A partnership or a power play?
Is ICANN helping or taking control? The AFRINIC governance crisis exposes tensions in Africa’s internet oversight.
Companies
ICANN invites ccTLD operators to join domain metrica
ICANN has opened its Domain Metrica platform to ccTLD operators, offering access to DNS abuse data, phishing.
Companies
ICANN CEO’s latest power play: NRO’s new consultation hides a quiet expansion of authority
ICANN’s expanding powers threaten Internet governance, shifting authority from regional registries to centralized control.
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