governanca.cgi.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Overlapping Sets: From Rio to Delhi* <http://governanca.cgi.br/noticias/overlapping-sets-from-rio-to-delhi/> The second Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro continued the slow but steady movement to clarify the critical Internet governance issues. The Forum discussed, for the first time, the initial issue that prompted the international focus on Internet governance, critical Internet resources. It also explored the other clusters that had been identified: openness, diversity, access and security and further refined these. But the main result, not as well noticed, is a growing recognition that the key issues have less to do with the clusters than with where they overlap and conflict. Internet Governance Project Blog - 05/12/2007 *IGF Workshop Summary: DNSSEC: Securing a Critical Internet Resource* <http://governanca.cgi.br/noticias/igf-workshop-summary-dnssec-securing-a-critical-internet-resource/> This informative workshop, co-sponsored by the Internet Governance Project, CGI.br, and EuroISPA, drew approximately 80-90 attendees from government, civil society, the private sector and technical communities. While the multi-stakeholder panel brought a diversity of opinions regarding DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC), they agreed that improving the security of the Internet's infrastructure is an important activity which should be pursued. Internet Governance Project Blog - 05/12/2007 *An IG Research Home: A Long Term Role for IGF?* <http://governanca.cgi.br/noticias/an-ig-research-home-a-long-term-role-for-igf/> It is quickly becoming apparent that an important function of the UN's Internet Governance Forum could be to serve as a long term clearinghouse for knowledge acquisition and assessment concerning Internet governance. Despite its structural imperfections, the IGF is becoming a magnet for the academic community to discuss Internet governance ideas. Internet Governance Project Blog - 05/12/2007 *DNSSEC-Deployment Group Now Discussing Distributed Root Signing* <http://governanca.cgi.br/noticias/dnssec-deployment-group-now-discussing-distributed-root-signing/> DNSSEC and the issue of signing the root have been hot topics in Internet governance over the past year. Most recently, the IGP co-sponsored workshop at IGF-Rio saw several interested parties (see the workshop writeup) vigorously debating if the root should be signed. Perhaps anticipating that discussion, ICANN released a ccNSO survey of 61 ccTLD operators on DNSSEC just before IGF-Rio. Internet Governance Project Blog - 05/12/2007 *Land Grab? ccTLDs and multilingual names* <http://governanca.cgi.br/noticias/land-grab-cctlds-and-multilingual-names/> The introduction of internationalized domain names (IDNs) offers the world one of the best opportunities it will ever have to introduce more diversity and competition into the domain name registry market. That market is currently dominated by VeriSign, which operates the .com and .net domains (as well as a couple of TLDs it bought, .tv and cc) and hence controls about 80% of the gTLD market. It has proven almost impossible to crack the dominance of .com, but if anything can do it, TLDs in new scripts (Chinese, Cyrillic, etc.) responding to entirely new markets can. Internet Governance Project Blog - 05/12/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *http://governanca.cgi.br*