ICANNgate: Attorney Flip Petillion On Holding ICANN Accountable (podcast)

Code & Conduit Podcast: Holding ICANN Accountable | Interview of Attorney Flip Petillion

Critics of the U.S. government’s decision to give up oversight of internet technical functions (IANA transition) were worried that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the global domain name system (DNS), would not be accountable to the global internet community, which includes new gTLD (new generic top-level domains) applicants.

Lack of predictability has been the main concern with ICANN’s new gTLDs' application process, Flip Petillion, a partner at Crowell & Moring LLP (domain: crowell.com)  in Brussels and co-chair of the firm's top-level domain and domain name practice, told Bloomberg BNA in the latest episode of the Code & Conduit podcast. Petillion said independent panels have rendered conflicting decisions over whether domains such as .car and .cars are confusingly similar.

“Although ICANN has reacted positively in response to certain individual complaints regarding inconsistent determinations on string confusion, it has failed to address the underlying reason for the inconsistencies in the determinations and it has refused to intervene in the majority of cases,” Petillion said.

Petillion discusses the steps ICANN has taken since the oversight transition to address these concerns and some of the remaining challenges.

Twitter: @Crowell_Moring

Petillion's book: Competing for the Internet: ICANN Gate - An Analysis and Plea for Judicial Review Through Arbitration

ISBN-13: 978-9041182524
ISBN-10: 9041182527
on Amazon.com


Podcast source: BNA.com and SoundCloud.com

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How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen by Adam Grant (a16z Podcast)

Steve Jobs to Meredith Perry to Elon Musk--original thinkers, entrepreneurs--"do a lot of different things to move the world to their visions. And many of those things (and traits) are counterintuitive, such as … Embracing procrastination. But there’s a catch: It’s about being the just-right amount of procrastinator, expert, or confident. There’s a curvilinear relationship between too much and too little. There’s also some surprising findings about why NOT to “start with the why” but with the how. Because sometimes the how is much more believable than the why. Especially when it comes to getting people to engineer things from ubeam to SpaceX. Or to really being able to tell the difference between communication vs. confidence vs. competence.

"Ultimately, it’s all about being flexible, argues top Wharton management professor and New York Times columnist Adam Grant in his new book Originals. So how do we strike the just-right balance — whether making an entrepreneur or just trying to raise more creative, productive kids? Is the answer perhaps to immerse them in sci-fi books and video games? Well, J.K. Rowling could be the most influential “original” alive, argues Grant in this podcast… but not for the reasons you think."

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India and China are the two most populous countries on the planet and also tantalizing markets for companies, from startups to conglomerates. But both markets are intensely, densely competitive: there’s a lot of capital, a lot of players, and a lot of people. Do local players really have the home-court advantage here? Can they compete with the global players who have unparalleled execution ability and scale? How does timing and structuring of companies entering those markets matter?

Andreessen Horowitz partners Connie Chan and Anu Hariharan cover these topics and more, from logistics and infrastructure to design and talent as well as domains like e-commerce, payments, and ride-sharing, and the layered sociocultural backdrop of these two countries, on this a16z Podcast.

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GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving, Leading Change, Interview, Podcast

GoDaddy's CEO Blake Irving talks about the company's renewed focus on small businesses, women-run businesses, startups, and bringing on a new leadership team. (17:40)

domain name: godaddy.com

source: Harvard Business Review, February 5, 2015 (transcript)

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