Today we will be Live Blogging the US House of Representatives  Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy - Hearing on: The Expansion of Top Level Domains and its Effects on Competition

11:15 - Finally got it working. Will post updates shortly.

11:25 - Commitee member is asking if ICANN can do their job essentially? A very wide question with the answer with Doug Brent talking about how ICANN secures the root zone and how China needs its own ICANN appoved extension.

11:30 - How will this proposal assist with securing the Internet and Intellectual Properties?

response: Things are not as secure as they should be. This proposal is moving forward without considerations.

11:32 - What enforcement methods will ICANN have to keep gTLDs from violating their own rules?

Brent: Make it easy for IPs to challenge names. There's room to allow this to work better than it does.

DelBianco: If you have the right rules, maybe. Because enforcement is what counts. Right now we don't have any enforcement. Rules become obsolete the minute they are created.

Legislators have 5 days to submit new material. After that the committee will provide its recommendations.

Too bad I missed most of this due to the very poor method of streaming used by the US Subcommittee. It actually took raw file editting to get at the stream. We'll do better next time.