ICANN, music censorship book, US/Latin America digital divide

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

ICANN: Net Not Ready for 'Foreign' Languages
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board is
urging
domain name registries not to rush into systems for assigning
non-English Web addresses, until common standards can be laid down.

The board took up the issue Monday, on the final day of ICANN's
quarterly meeting in Stockholm. Earlier, ICANN's Names Council voted
to
recommend that registries hold off on their plans until a meeting of
the
board's IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) Internal Working Group
in
August.
 http://www.nytimes.com/thestandard/standard_26901.html
 http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,26901,00.html

Crazy Little Thing Called Censorship
Author Eric Nuzum's new book examines the history of music censorship
in the United States. 
If you're looking for utter objectivity in a writer, Eric Nuzum isn't
your man. He's up-front about his biases. In both print and 
conversation, he comes across as blunt, opinionated and downright
passionate about freedom of speech. While the latter trait 
might be due partly to the extensive research he conducted for his
new book, Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America, 
Nuzum was quite possibly blunt and opinionated as a toddler.
 http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,26913,00.html

The Digital Divide Shrinks Between U.S. and Latin America
A new study shows a sharp rise in cellular telephony in Latin
America, though the region's Internet industry continues to lag. 
The digital divide between Latin America and North America has
steadily shrunk during the past four years, according to a 
study by the International Telecommunications Union. 
Latin American and Caribbean countries had just 20 percent of the
hemisphere's telephone land lines in 1996. By 2000, 
though, the figure had risen to 25 percent. 
 http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,26770,00.html

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