Today, we're kicking off a new feature on the blog, a weekly round up of the tech industry's various antitrust cases and "potential" antitrust concerns. While last week's antitrust news was dominated by competition concerns outside the technology industry (health insurers and the BCS), there were a few notable stories [...]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today took a critical step toward achieving real accountability and institutional confidence by agreeing to a new “affirmation of commitments” with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The decision is very much in line with the recommendations I made in a piece [...]
For the past two years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has faced mounting pressure to make itself more accountable to Internet stakeholders. Now a key driver of that pressure is in jeopardy as ICANN seeks to walk away from a critical agreement with the U.S. Government. [...]
It appears that some mistakes will live on in Internet infamy no matter how many times you try to apologize and correct them. Red Hat’s Vice President of Open Source Affairs and president of the OSI Michael Tiemann posted an piece on the OSI Board Blog entitled “A Question of [...]
Oops. Last week, we put out a short little statement about the final publication of the European Commission’s White Paper on ICT Standardisation. It said: “ACT has always been very supportive of European initiatives that foster an SME-friendly environment. The White Paper is a positive step towards a more flexible [...]