EU Policy, Open Internet, US Policy
The following is commentary by i2Coalition Chairman Christian Dawson and originally appeared on Site5 Blog. My name is Christian Dawson and in addition to heading up operations at a web hosting company myself, I am Chairman and co-founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, or i2Coalition. My friends at Site5 asked me to guest blog for […]
Patent Reform, US Policy
Senate
The i2Coalition is deeply disappointed that patent reform legislation has been removed from the Senate Judiciary Committee agenda. Patent trolls are a real and increasingly growing problem for innovators in the United States, costing companies $29 billion in resources and revenue in 2011 alone. The lack of action by the Senate will only embolden trolls […]
Access To Data, Internet Governance, Privacy, US Policy
DOTCOM Act, IANA, IANA Transition, ICANN, National Security Agency, NSA
The House Energy & Commerce Committee’s vote to recommend the DOTCOM Act to the full House for approval has the potential of slowing the transition of the IANA function to the global multistakeholder community. The i2Coalition believes that this transition, if given the opportunity to be handled properly by the multistakeholder community unencumbered by U.S. […]
The following is a guest post from Tenko Nikolov, CEO of SiteGround. I remember back in 2011 when the anti-SOPA campaign was in full swing. I feared that the web companies were the only ones standing against this threat of unseen censorship over the internet usage, that we had no chance against much older and more […]
Internet Governance, The Internet Infrastructure Industry
ICANN
Today, the i2Coalition announced the appointment of Blacknight Internet Solutions CEO Michele Neylon to the coalition’s board.
The following is commentary by Kevin Johnson, Channel Manager for The SSL Store™, about becoming a member of the i2Coalition. The SSL Store™ is the largest provider of SSL certificates in the world and the first Web Security Specialist Partner of Symantec. We take the utmost pride in offering SSL certificates and other web security solutions […]
Access To Data, Privacy, US Policy
ECPA, Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Washington, DC – Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coaliton) Co-Founder and Board Chair Christian Dawson released the following statement on the release of the White House report “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values,” which included a recommendation for updating ECPA: “Updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) has long been a priority for i2Coalition, and we are […]
Access To Data, Patent Reform, Privacy, US Policy
National Security Agency, NSA
Washington, DC – The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) today joined with nearly 400 other members of the Big Tent Coalition to send a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Grassley in support of a strong patent bill. The full text of the letter, which will also be sent to the rest of […]
Washington, DC – This week, NETmundial released a report on the conclusions from their “Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance.” The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) submitted public comments in advance of this meeting, many of which were incorporated in the final NETmundial statement. Below is a statement from i2Coalition Co-Founder and Public […]
Global Security Mag Tackling security concerns with hosting and cloud storage, pervasive monitoring, identity management, and telephony, the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group has announced the formation of four new collaborative special interest groups along with its organizational leadership for 2014.
