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

Faking It: The Internet Revolution Has Nothing to Do With the Nasdaq
When Internet stocks began their free fall in March 2000, the
Internet was finally put in its proper place. It was nothing more
than a fast delivery service for information -- that was what serious
people who had either lost a lot of money in the late stages of the
Internet boom or, more likely, failed to make money began to say now.
The profit-making potential of the Internet had been overrated, and
so the social effects of the Internet were presumed to be overrated.
But they weren't. Speeding up information was not the only thing the
Internet had done. The Internet had made it possible for people to
thwart all sorts of rules and conventions. It wasn't just the
commercial order that was in flux. Many forms of authority were
secured by locks waiting to be picked. The technology and
money-making potential of the Internet were far less interesting than
the effects people were allowing it to have on their lives and what
these, in turn, said about those lives.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/magazine/15INTERNET.html

Asean must fight cyber-crimes Malaysia proposes joint network
security centre as region moves towards a knowledge 
economy Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is urging Southeast
Asian nations to set up a joint centre to clamp 
down on rising cyber-crimes and Internet abuses.
 http://technology.scmp.com/ZZZ6XVLF3PC.html

Five Questions with David Hernand
New.net CEO weighs in on the tussle between his company and ICANN
over who controls the expansion of the Internet.
Since early 2001, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and
Names (ICANN) has had a major thorn in its side. That 
thorn, domain name registry New.net, has circumvented ICANN’s process
for naming new domain suffixes to expand the 
Internet beyond the .com, .net and .org domains that have been used
to date. New.net has gone directly to Internet service 
providers (ISPs) and made deals to allow users to access new domains
that New.net sells, and has drawn a heap of 
controversy its way by doing so. Business 2.0 Online visits with
New.net CEO David Hernand to get his take on the debate 
surrounding the expansion of Internet domains.
 http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,,16182,FF.html

AT-LARGE COMMITTEE RELEASES DISCUSSION DOCUMENT
The ICANN committee studying at-large membership has
released its first set of initial conclusions in a
discussion document.  The document notes the importance of
the board in the decision making process and starts with the
premise that individuals need a voice in ICANN.
http://www.atlargestudy.org/DiscussionDraftRev.5.4.htm

The row over who runs the internet is hotting up. 
This week the net's ruling body re-asserted its existing policy for
managing and creating domain names on the world wide web. 
It issued a stark warning to those organisations offering alternative
domain names that sit outside the net's centrally organised 
name system. 
But critics have questioned the policy statement and say the net's
administrators should consult more widely before handing 
down judgement. 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1437000/1437377.stm

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