September 30, 2022
ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is having its Plenipotentiary meeting in Bucharest. These four-year events are always redolent with claims that Russia and China will somehow use the ITU to “take over the internet” (despite the fact that the ITU has no power over Internet standards, routing or identifiers and all repressive Internet policies are developed and enforced at the national level, not by intergovernmental organizations). This year’s meeting was dominated by the election of a new Secretary-General, in which the U.S.-backed Doreen Bogdan-Martin defeated the Russian candidate Rashid Ismailov, by a vote of 139 to 25. For useful live-tweeting of the Plenipot, follow @sgdickinson on Twitter.
US Congress Pressures NTIA on Whois/Privacy
Four U.S. Senators and House representatives urged the U.S. National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA) to “immediately cease the public disclosure of personal information about users of .US, the United States’ country-code top-level domain.” NTIA, which is the policy maker for the .US top level domain, is being asked to reverse two decades of U.S. policy favoring indiscriminate disclosure of the name, address, email address and phone number of domain name registrants. The passage of GDPR made ICANN redact personal data in gTLD domain name registration records, but since the US domain is a country code and not in European jurisdiction, it has not co ..
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