Superbarack
has arrived.
The US New National CTO
A list is long... We'll see what happens in 2 week's time.
I am singing the packing hymn -
I'll be in Cairo as tomorrow for my second ICANN meeting in Cairo. The first one was in January 2000 when some lawyers from Germany turned up and started mentioning words Internet Governance... Richard Francis, a lawyer, from then Nominet asked me to join his Internet Governance consulting firm... They said - watch out - governments would like to get involved and these ICANN meetings will be filled in no time with government bureaucrats in the future. Well, the GAC has expanded, but not that much - but I think that we now have another forum for them as well - the IGF.
The ITU has this week in Johannesbourg just formed a members only (read goverments) internet international policy working group. What a joy ride.
Afternoon naps in the cinema
So I fell asleep this afternoon in the cinema at the 1:45 pm performance of Yah Chayka at the London Film Festival.
It did not happen to me in years, but this time the piano music was so soothing and the film was made of stills only followed by narrative - poems read softly by a beautiful Japanese female voice. I slept and so did the main actor in the film. He wanted to run away from everything - i.e. including his life and found a safe place in an observatory where a young scientist worked and he kept sleeping for days. I woke up and so did he - really happy to face the life again.
"Japan’s greatest living poet Shuntaro Tanikawa teams up with Wakako Kaku on a Chris Marker-like film composed largely of still photographs: a suicidal man is rescued by a young woman who works in a small astronomical observatory. With Babin, a strange fantasy set in a forest clearing by Japan’s foremost surrealist, Isamu Hirabayashi."
London
fun is always here in October. Have been to Freeze Art Show last Saturday. Today was a glorious Autumn day to visit Serpentine. I managed to get a few tickets for the Film fest last and am also very much looking forward to ben moor's play next Monday!
Eurodig
I am at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance meeting in Strasbourg, at the Council of Europe. Obviously it is difficult to arrive to a unified multi-stakeholder European position on any of the issues that will be discussed at the IGF third meeting in Hyderabad in December. ( namely the importance on any aspect of access, security, openness and privacy, diversity and the management of critical internet resources.)
However several participants echoed that the freedom of expression becomes one of the key messages to take to Asia.
New thang
is starting at the OII. I will be spending my time in Oxford as a visiting industry associate.
My project will try to map the The Networks of Power Shaping Internet Governance and Regulation.
It is a small project, but needs to be prepared and studied carefully.
There is no surgical cut
You probably heard of a wonderful letter that Ms Reding sent to Sarkozy today. If you have not I'll post the link tomorrow. There is no surgical cut anyhow, just implementing changes as we go along...
IPv4/IPv6
Tom put together a presentation on the above topic... Though I missed his presentation at the TPRC and the one at the RIPE meeting in Berlin in May this year - there will be more opportunity to discuss his thesis. He is arguing that if the RIs "let" their members "create" the IPv4 address transfer policies, members will be allowed to sell or resell their IPv4 addresses without any reasonable scrutiny and/or conditions. In other words, he is criticising their short-term goal and a lack of long-term vision. While one can argue that RIR members create policies in an open and bottom-up consensus policy making process - there should be some sounding board to see if they reprersent a wide industry view - or RIRs should spend more time educating their members about the pros and cons of such policies.
This weekend
Looking forward to Rita's and Stephen's wedding in New York, but also to Alice & Cory's wedding in London in October...
Mery Mery fall... Wonder how many people would go for 09/09/09 - and how many went for 08/08/08 in China this year...
and how many would never go *there*....
Yes, I've been seduced again
by RED. I also have a jacket from the old shop in Neil's street. Red or Dead.... So which one it will be?
