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Seems like we're living in bad times for the open, end-to-end Internet.

First, Verisign believes it is a smart idea to move error handling away from the network's edges towards its center, and to limit it to a single application-level protocol. Now David Isenberg and Cory Doctorow point to a company named CloudShield. This company believes that the notion that the network should remain "dumb" and simply perform transport is outdated, and develops the tools to make that notion enforceable.

On the Council's agenda for today: Actions from the last meeting, i.e., WIPO2 committee, UDRP issue prioritization, number of representatives per constituency, new gTLDs; TLD wildcard entries; WHOIS steering group update; UDRP issue prioritization.

The GNSO Council's resolution on Sitefinder, as adopted today with the votes of all constituencies, except the registries (who abstained), and the IPC (which didn't attend) has just been posted by the GNSO Secretariat.

Commentary from Karl Auerbach is here.