In response to the European Commission and Parliament review of a new draft Data Protection Regulation Christine Runnegar and Robin Wilton of ISOC policy team propose the focus needs to shift to data outcomes for users rather than solely on tick box controls of data elements. “The European Commission and Parliament are currently in...
Read more →ISOC’s development continues apace. Sometimes members can forget to explain what ISOC does and where it operates. The Internet Society is well known as the organisational home of open Internet Standards the IETF . This activity remains a core responsibility. What is less well known is that ISOC has over the last few years...
Read more →The English chapter of the Internet Society urges caution regarding the direct.uk proposals. In the absence of consensus for direct .uk and in view of the risk to stability of uk domain name system the conclusion is NOT to implement direct .uk plans to shorten domains as proposed. Should the proposed security mechanisms be...
Read more →ISOC UK England and the English Chapter of the International Institute of Communications held a joint meeting on 30 October 2012 with several speakers, discussing WCIT issues. Speakers included: - Markus Kummer, Vice-President Public Policy, Internet Society - Dominique Lazanski, Tax Payers’ Alliance - Malcolm Hutty, London Internet Exchange (LINX) and Chair, EuroISPA -...
Read more →The Internet’s next ten years: needs, opportunities and governance Joint Internet Society England and International Institute of Communications UK Chapter Event The Internet’s next ten year’s: needs, opportunities and governance Hosted by Cisco, Park House, 7th Floor, 16-18 Finsbury Square, London, EC2M 7EB Tuesday 30 October 2012, 17:00 Registration closes on Friday 26 October...
Read more →The Internet Society chapter in the UK (ISOC England) has been awarded a community grants award in November 2009 to design and implement an “IPv6 crawler”, a software that would crawl through the DNS at regular intervals in order to detect and test the following: IPv6 DNS servers IPv6 compliant web servers IPv6 compliant...
Read more →Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012. Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch...
Read more →Imagining the Future Internet Join Vint Cerf, Leonard Kleinrock, Mitchell Baker, Lynn St. Amour and other key panelists on 22 – 24 April 2012 at Global INET 2012! Meet hundreds of policy makers, technologists, government representatives and business executives to discuss the positive impacts of the Internet, past, present and future. Take this opportunity to:...
Read more →Internet Society member number two Vint Cerf is headlining this year’s UK Internet Governance Forum . The local Internet Society is partnering Nominet’s annual UK Internet Policy Forum which will be held on Thursday 22 March 2012 at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London . This provides an opportunity for the first meeting of the UK-IGF to...
Read more →This ITU WCIT Feb Contribution_v6 is a marker for our comments about the proposals to date and concerns that the negotiations may sweep in key aspects of the Internet architecture, operations, content and security. The concepts in this paper are based, in part, on the points put forward in the recently published Internet invariants paper: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-invariants-what-really-matters
Read more →Frederic Donck Director of European Bureau writes As you know it, ISOC is engaging many key stakeholders in the Net Neutrality dossier. In Europe, we have built robust relationships with key policymakers as the European Commission (incl. Mrs Kroes Cabinet), the European Parliament and the EIF, to name but a few. I am happy...
Read more →Friday 24th February London: Dr. Olivier Crepin-Leblond has been elected Chair of the chapter with immediate effect. Dr. Crepin-Leblond has been a member of ISOC England since 2000. He founded the ISOC England IPv6 Matrix Project and is the serving ICANN At Large Advisory Council Chair. His term of office is one year until...
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