Michael Niebel on Internet Governance

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About this Event

26 Feb 2010 @ 12:45

About the Speaker:

Michael Niebel is currently responsible in the European Commission's "Directorate General for Information Society and Media" for " Internet: Network and Information Security".

This includes responsibility for matters related to the European Internet Top Level Domain ".eu", and network and information security policies, including the use of electronic signatures. His area of responsibility also includes the Commission's relations with the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the global multistakeholder processes related to Internet governance, .

As such, he has been an active participant on behalf of the European Commission in the World Summit on the Information Society and has participated in all the meetings of the Internet Governance Forum since the inaugural meeting in Athens (2006), up to the most recent meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (in 2009). Mr Niebel is also currently the Commission representative in the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Mr Niebel will provide an oversight on the Commission's views about the GAC along with a broader perspective on the Commission's views on Internet governance in general.

About ICANN:

The landlord of cyberspace and adjudicator of e-conveyancing, ICANN is a non-profit corporation that was created in September 1998, in order to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the United States government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Headquartered in Marina Del Ray, California, United States, ICANN's tasks include responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) top-level domain name system management, and root server system management functions. ICANN is also responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and Internet Protocol addresses. It is through this remit that the very successful uniform name domain-name dispute resolution policy procedure (UDRP) was created. The bulk of ICANN's work to date has concerned the introduction of new generic top-level domains (TLDs). ICANN's primary principles of operation have been described as helping preserve the operational stability of the Internet; to promote competition, and to achieve broad representation of global Internet community.

About the Event:

Two important changes have recently occurred at ICANN. These include: (i) the election of new CEO and President, Rod Beckstrom (who succeeded Paul Twomey in summer 2009), and (ii) the signing of the Affirmation of Commitments between ICANN and the US Government (Department of Commerce) in September. The Affirmation is important because it terminates the series of amendments to the original 1998 Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the US government. The Affirmation broadens ICANN's reporting commitment to the entire global Internet community, and cements the ICANN multi-stakeholder bottom-up model. Other recent developments include: the launch of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process in mid-November, policies for allocating the rapidly depleting IPv4 address, and recent agreements with UNESCO. This event is important because Mr Niebel will be providing an informative insight into the Commission's views on Internet governance.

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