September 5th, 2010
Prof. Xue has been invited to present at “Domain Name Dispute Resolution and ODR: Asian Perspective” to be held on 15 October 2010 in Beijing.
The Conference is to further improve the substantive and procedural rules on domain name dispute resolution, develop relevant theories and practice in terms of online dispute resolution, strengthen the communication and cooperation of theoretical and practical workers in this field and promote the domain name and online dispute resolution services provided by ADNDRC.
The conference is organized jointly by CIETAC, Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. It is expected that over a hundred participants will be present, including government officials, domestic and foreign scholars, judges, lawyers and representatives from enterprises.
Wonderful speeches will be delivered by some renowned judges, scholars and lawyers during the conference on several significant topics, such as procedural issues of domain name dispute resolution, the People’s Courts’ basic principles and practice on hearing of domain name dispute, application of the substantive conditions justifying complaints under UDRP, dispute resolution in e-commerce and online arbitration and setting up online arbitration system in China.
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August 14th, 2010
It was my first contact with a real Internet Cafe in this city. I remember I used kind of public computer access service 10 years ago at my home town. 3 Y for an hour or so. A young boy by the door charged the customers. All I did was to pay in cash. Today I learned I was so outdated after the reform of regulation. When I went to the underground site, I saw a large room with hundreds of computers and a number of users. At the front desk, a man with suspicious accent replied to my query of prices impatiently. After being told that 1 Y for 20 minutes, I presented Y10 as deposit. The man then asked me to provide my ID card, the most important personal document, to him. He got my ID, scanned or stored the information, and asked me to stand in front of a camera to take a snapshot. The whole process was like to screen a new prisoner. Finally I got a small receipt, with my ID number as account number. I manged to login a vacant computer by inputting my ID number. After 10 minutes’ usage, I turned off the computer and presented the receipt to the counter man to get my deposit back. He retained my receipt, on which my ID number was printed.
I took a long breathe after eventually getting back to the ground. I was not only impressed by strict identity monitoring process but shocked by the danger of privacy intrusion and ID theft. The service provider is required by the authority to check, verify and store large amount of customers’ personal information. Are they obliged to keep confident of the information obtained? How can customers know that they will not abuse by forging, selling, leaking the information?
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August 12th, 2010
Isn’t weird that Internet governance suddenly becomes a hot topic of this place? People who have no background on research and education are all of a sudden upgraded to the position of top experts or advisers. Billions of state funds find the new way to enter into corrupt pockets. New so-called excellent courses or training programs are set up. The reason, obviously, that more useful idiots are needed.
I was so amused when attending an absolutely boring window-dressing meeting to assess an irrelevant university’s newly born LLM program. Apart from listening from a couple of colorful-nail middle-age women’s suggestions to the meeting host on how to fool the assessment criteria, a seemingly half-drunk man intervened that governance means solely and completely governmental administration and shall be categorized as administrative law. The meeting hosts who applied to run the LLM program and self-claimed experts on IG nodded with greatest consent. I was so overwhelmed at that moment. I might be Alice in the wonderland.
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July 28th, 2010
The European Summer School on Internet Governance offers annually (end of July) a one week academic course (48 hours). 4th Summer School was on July 25-31, 2010 in Meissen, Germany.
The course covers the political, legal, economic, socio-cultural, technological and other dimensions of the governance of the Internet. The course includes also practical oriented lectures covering the management of critical Internet resources as well as the development of the domain name market. Each academic lecture is followed by a Q&A Session. There are smaller more practical oriented workshops, round tables and case presentations as well as students project. Evening events with “Snacks & Wine” are for interactive communication among faculty and fellows. Students will get a “Certificate” for the successful participation in the Summer School.
Apart from representatives from the governments of European countries and European Union, a line of distinguished international academic faculties, Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Wiiliam Drake, Avri Doria, Hong Xue, Milton Mueller and Wolfgang Benedek gave the lectures on a variety of theoretical issues on Internet governance. Their research reflects remarkable academic quality and international vision. There were also a series of presentations from 5 ccTLD managers, RIPE, UNESCO, geo-TLD applicant and others. Technical community is supportive for the Summer School. Fellows were self-stimulating and highly interested in studying.
An International Association of Summer Schools on Internet Governance was initially launched by representatives from Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America.
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July 20th, 2010
The Nominating Committee (Nom Com) is an independent committee tasked with selecting a majority of the members of the Board of Directors and other key positions within ICANN’s structure. ICANN is an internationally organized, public benefit, non-profit corporation dedicated to: preserving the operational security and stability of the Internet; promoting competition; achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and supporting the development of policies appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.
Individuals selected by Nom Com will have a unique opportunity to work with accomplished colleagues from around the globe, address the Internet’s intriguing technical coordination problems and policy development challenges with diverse functional, cultural, and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and experience from working across boundaries of knowledge, responsibility and perspective.
Those selected will gain the satisfaction of making a valuable public service contribution towards the continued function and evolution of an essential global resource. Considering the broad public interest, those selected will work to achieve the goals towards which ICANN is dedicated in order to facilitate the Internet’s critically important societal functions.
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June 27th, 2010
Prof. Xue, Chair of APRALO gave a presentation at APTLD Colombo Meeting in July 2010. This is the second briefing given by Prof. Xue to the Asia-Pacific ccTLD community. Although she was at the Nomination meeting at the suburb of Brussels, she managed to call in the APTLD meeting despite the difficulties of time zones and connections. APTLD staff went out for lunch and let Prof. Xue waited quite a while online. Eventually the connection was resumed and she gave the brilliant presentation, without being able to get the souvenir for all the presenters. In 2009, she managed to give a presentation on behalf of APRALO to APTLD via remote call-in, when she was in Connecticut for a conference.
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June 25th, 2010
“Internet governance is the development and application by governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.”
More than a half of world Internet users are in Asia-Pacific region. Governance issues, such as CIRs, SS, privacy, e-commerce, cyber-crime, network neutrality and etc., are critical to this region. Asia-Pacific’s multi-stakeholder participation in the Internet governance, however, is considerably underdeveloped. Given the tremendous diversity in languages, cultures, eco-social status in this region, a systematic, informative and insightful training program is definitely needed to be set up.
Asia-Pacific Summer School on Internet Governance (AP-SSIG) will provide a unique opportunity for the local community. People from private sector, governmental officials, technicians and civil society can all benefit from the training’s multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder lecture series. AP-SSIG will be a learning center on Internet governance issues in Asia-Pacific Region.
The founding AP-SSIG will be held in June 2011 in Beijing, concurrent with ICANN meeting. Application and selection process will commence shortly.
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April 27th, 2010
(Drafted by APRALO Statement; Hong Xue, Chinese Domain Name Users Alliance
Posted at https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?statement_on_icm_application_for_the_xxx_stld)
The following Statement was drafted by Hong Xue and unanimously supported and endorsed as an APRALO Statement at the meeting of 27/04/2010.
APRALO agrees with the statement made by ALAC The .XXX is primarily an issue of procedural justice. ICANN has to follow truthfully the procedures set up by itself. We support ICANN to be a transparent, neutral and effective coordinator of the Internet domain name system, rather than interfering with the issues that are not really in its mandate. However, we do not have an interest in supporting any specific TLD, which we believe is out of the mission of the At-Large community.
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April 25th, 2010
(Drafted for ALAC Statement on IDN Issues; Hong Xue, Chinese Domain Name Users Alliance
Posted at https://st.icann.org/idn-policy/index.cgi?alac_statement_idn_issues)
The Synchronized IDN ccTLDs is a proposal to resolve some critical problems of the fast-track IDN ccTLD implementation. Although the proposal facilitated the Board to make the resolution on completion of fast-track string evaluation of two Chinese-character IDN ccTLDs on April 22, which absolutely addresses the pressing need from the Chinese-language community and is warmly welcomed by At-large community, we have the reservation that the proposal should be generalized to cover the other language and culture. ICANN may wish to limit the solution to script or language group, which would truthfully reflect ICANN’s bottom-up, rather than one-set-fit-all, policy-making & implementing character.
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April 8th, 2010
Submitted to ICANN by Hong Xue, Chinese Domain Name Users Alliance
April 8, 2010
The Proposals seem a follow-up to the Fast Track IDN ccTLD Implementation Plan. Given that a request for a synchronized IDN ccTLD must have completed the String Evaluation in the Fast Track Process, the proposals, obviously, are patches to redress the insufficiency or unthoughtfulness of the original one. Although no one would really appreciates the patchwork, which would inevitably complicate the implementation, these remedial proposals do capture the most critical issues, particularly multiple corresponding strings deemed equivalent to one IDN ccTLDs. The issues are by no means new to the community or ICANN. During the policy develop process and implementation plan drafting process, the string equivalence or variants issues were repeatedly, consistently and vocally addressed by a few non-Latin script communities. For instance, both ALAC and APRALO made the submissions. After so many rounds of public consultations, it has been widely understood that solution to equivalent strings or variants is the center piece for implementation of IDN ccTLDs in the relevant IDN communities. No solution available, hardly IDN ccTLDs workable. This is why there were strong repercussions from the IDN communities after the Fast Track implementation took off. It is indeed positive that ICANN eventually moves to solve such “significant” problem for the communities. If the Fast Track was crafted to address the pressing need of non-Latin script users and non-solution to equivalent strings or variants would pose “significant problem for the community”, I cannot help but ask why such measures could not be incorporated into the implementation plan in the first place and have to be deferred to such a supplementary document.
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