Today, we sent the following response to a public comment period opened by ICANN on the advice it received from its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) on new "safeguards" for new gTLDs.
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IFFOR's thoughts and proposed solution to GAC safeguard advice
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Dear Joan,
On behalf of the IFFOR Board we want to thank you for your service, vision and leadership as IFFOR's Executive Director.
Amongst many other accomplishments, your leadership enabled us to attract, recruit and obtain an internationally recognized policy council, establish an online presence, secure 501(c) status, establish and develop the IFFOR Ombudsman’s service, initiate and formulate an industry leading guide to online piracy, launch our Policy Engine service, and deliver upon all of our contractual commitments and expectations, including our Grants Program.
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The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of ICANN produced a 12-page communique last week in Beijing with significant consequences for those wishing to apply for a new Internet extension.
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The Internet Watch Foundation today launched its IFFOR-funded research into the motivations, behavior and actions of those who view indecent images of children.
The project is aimed at understanding how sex offenders use the Internet to access and maintain access to child abuse images and videos. And its objective is to use this intelligence to direct resources more effectively in disrupting the online availability of child abuse images and ultimately striving to eradicate this content from the Internet.
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IFFOR will expand its specialist policy services to applicants of new generic top-level domains. The move follows a strategic review of the organization after its first full year of operation.
The review found that IFFOR has fully established itself as an organization and won recognition for its policies and best practices. It concluded that, going forward, IFFOR should embrace the emerging policy needs of thousands of new Internet extensions due to be approved in 2013 and go live in 2014.
That conclusion will lead to some key changes over the coming months including:
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The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR) is pleased to provide a grant of $5,000 to Innovate Identity, an independent consultancy providing advisory services on how to bring trust and safety to the global online community through age verification innovation and technology.
Innovate Identity will write a white paper to promote and enable solution-led thinking and education around age verification within the Internet infrastructure industry.
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The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR) is pleased to provide a grant of $5,000 to The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and The Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF) to research the use of newgroups in disseminating child sexual abuse images.
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Studies into age verification and newsgroup abuse funded by policy body
8 January 2013
Two studies into online age verification and the abuse of newsgroups by those seeking child abuse images are the first recipients of grants provided by the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR).
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Pragmatic, customized service for new Internet extensions
8 January 2013
The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR) has launched a new policy service specifically for operators of new generic top-level domains.
The Policy Engine service will help those companies planning to run a piece of the Internet's infrastructure by providing customized and pragmatic solutions for their specific needs, whether privacy requirements, content restrictions, age verification, registrant identification, or a range of other requirements.
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