Documents: Internet Governance
Scientific papers
The papers I published on scientific journals.
Power and the Internet (local copy)
(English, Journal on Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 323-337, 15 November 2010)
Una visione globale della neutralità della rete
(Italian, Quaderni dell'Internet Italiano, Vol. 5, pp. 33-40, April 2010)
General Internet Governance texts
These articles and documents describe my general views about the common principles of Internet governance and the relationships between governance institutions, governments, industry and users.
Tra la rete e il West (HTML version)
(Italian, article for Nòva, technology supplement to Il Sole 24 Ore, 26 June 2008)
The age of mass standards (slides)
(English, Open Standards International Symposium, Yale Law School, Yale University, 3 February 2007)
The age of mass standards (HTML version)
(English, Open Standards International Symposium, Yale Law School, Yale University, 3 February 2007)
End User Involvement in Internet Governance: Why and How
(English, submission to ITU's Workshop on Internet Governance, 26 February 2004)
WSIS: What Is It 'Really' All About?
(English, article on CircleID, 26 December 2003)
Internet Governance: There Are No Masterplans
(English, article on CircleID, 23 April 2003)
A user's point of view on international and national Internet governance
(English, submission to ITU's Workshop on Member States Experiences with ccTLDs, 3 March 2003)
Presentations: Hacking the United Nations
"Hacking the United Nations" is the standard title for my Internet governance presentation, at least after 2004. However, this presentation is updated and revised each time according to the specific flavour of the event, by adding or removing slides and issues. In this section you can thus find the slides I used in different occasions.
Hacking the United Nations @ ToShare Festival 2007
(Italian, ToShare Festival 2007, Turin, 24 January 2007)
Intellectual property rights
Studies and positions on the controversial matter of intellectual property rights, of its protection and of its boundaries in the use of the Internet and of new technologies in general.
An introduction to Trusted Computing
(English, Contribution to the 2006 IGF, Athens, 31 July 2006)
Intellectual property and the Internet: issues, disagreements and open problems
(English, Draft working paper for the WGIG, United Nations, Geneva, 21 January 2005)
Privacy and Whois
Privacy is an issue that I have always been interested in, both in general and for what pertains to its implementation in Whois, the database of Internet domain name registrants, that falls into the area of administration of ICANN.
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(English, posting to the WSIS Civil Society Plenary list, 2 June 2004)
Proposta di implementazione della legge sulla privacy nella registrazione dei domini .it
(Italian, proposal to the Executive Committee of the Italian Naming Authority, 29 January 2003)
Comments on the Final Report on Accuracy and Bulk Access
(English, submission to ICANN's DNSO Task Force on WHOIS, 30 December 2002)
Comments on the "Possible Recommendations"
(English, submission to ICANN's DNSO Task Force on WHOIS, 28 August 2002)
Structure and participation in the Internet Governance Forum
Documents related to my participation in the creation and management of the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum.
An implementation proposal for the Internet Governance Forum
(English, Consultations about the establishment of the IGF, ITU, Geneva, 15 February 2006)
ICANN structure and user representation
These documents represent contributions to all the internal reform and analysis processes that ICANN has been holding over the years, on the matter of its structure and functionings. These are just my personal submissions - I've been writing more documents, together with others, as member of the At Large Organizing Clearinghouse, the At Large Advisory Committee Assistance Group and finally of the At Large Advisory Committee.
Comments to "Tentative Timetable for the NomCom process"
(English, submission to ICANN's Evolution and Reform Committee, 13 September 2002)
My rough proposals for the ALAC
(English, posting to the Atlarge-Discuss list, 20 July 2002)
Introduction of a general ICANN membership...
(English, submission to ICANN's Evolution and Reform Committee, 16 May 2002)
Sparse thoughts on ICANN and the Internet community
(English, submission to ICANN's Evolution and Reform Committee, 29 April 2002)
A new option for At Large representation
(English, submission to ICANN's At-Large Study Committee, 7 August 2001)
Comments on the ALSC options for At Large representation
(English, submission to ICANN's At-Large Study Committee, 7 August 2001)
Is general public representation inside ICANN necessary and why
(English, submission to ICANN's At-Large Study Committee, July 2001)
A Proposal for an Open and Bottom-Up Self-Organization of the Membership
(English, ICANN meeting in Marina Del Rey, 13 November 2000)
ICANNAtLarge.org
ICANNAtLarge.org (formerly ICANNAtLarge.com) was a bottom-up attempt to build an independent At Large organization to represent users in ICANN's policy making process. I have been one of the founders, and I was elected in both panel elections, being then chosen as Chairman twice. The life of this organization wasn't exactly boring, due to the huge amount of controversy that has been left by the improductive years of battles about how many Board members the At Large members should elect.
Statement for the first panel elections of icannatlarge.com
(English, posting to the ICANNAtLarge.com forum, 16 April 2002)
Election charter for ICANNAtLarge.com
(English, posting to the ICANNAtLarge.com forum, 11 April 2002)
Structure and user representation in the Italian Naming Authority
The Italian Naming Authority dealt with policy making for the top level domain .it up to the end of 2003, going through, in its last years, many proposals of reorganization. Some of them came by me...
Petizione in difesa della Naming Authority Italiana
(Italian, petition to the Italian Ministry of Communications, 19 December 2002)
Proposta per la revisione dello statuto della Naming Authority Italiana (v2.0)
(Italian, proposal to the Executive Committee of the Italian Naming Authority, 29 October 2001)
Linee guida per la revisione dello statuto della Naming Authority Italiana (v1.0)
(Italian, proposal to the Executive Committee of the Italian Naming Authority, 7 April 2001)