Month: September 2016

Prediction is risky, especially about the future. As of 29 September, the US House of Representatives has passed a bill continuing government finances, without the rider that had expressly forbidden the NTIA from discontinuing the IANA functions contract. So the IANA functions contract will expire, and the transition to the management of IANA will now […]

I have been attending the European Peering Forum in Sofia Bulgaria, and learning much. It feels as if I have inhabited the edges of the Internet- ICANN, ARIN, CIRA – until now, and finally the veil has parted and I find myself in the place where the deals are done, where the agreements are made to exchange […]

This morning’s oh-so-21st century news was that a woman was suing the manufacturer of a networked vibrator. An American woman says the Canadian manufacturer of a smartphone-enabled vibrator has crossed the line by selling products that allegedly secretly collect and transmit “highly sensitive” usage information over the web. Or, in the words of Leonard Cohen: And […]

The CRTC has publicly defended the Internet, for which Canadians should raise a cheer. It issued a letter which plainly defended its right to regulate telecommunications carriage against the pretensions of the Government of Quebec to interfere in the choice of Canadians as to which websites they might use. The Commission wrote: Consistent with the above, […]