ICANN held its first international meeting of 2012 last week in San Jose, Costa Rica, and kicked off the week on a high note with an inspired speech by Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla. If you missed it, we strongly recommend that you read or listen to it here.
PIR shares many of the public interest values and policy positions that President Chinchilla expressed, including the assertion that:
“The legitimate concerns [related to] privacy, security and protection of intellectual property should not become an excuse to justify trends seeking to exercise highly restrictive controls on cyberspace.”
On December 5, 2012, Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit operator of the .ORG to-level domain and long-term advocate for collaboration, safety and security on the Internet, moderated an expert panel on “Mitigating DDoS Attacks: Best Practices for an Evolving Threat Landscape.” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are deliberate attempts to make Internet-connected machines or networks unavailable to their intended users by temporarily or indefinitely inter
ICANN held its second international meeting of 2012 last week in Prague, Czech Republic. While the agenda focused heavily on issues related to new gTLDs and on welcoming incoming CEO Fadi Chehade, ICANN also conducted a community consultation on its accountability and transparency reviews. That session’s transcript and presentations are 
