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Below is some news on general internet issues. Also, please feel free
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below also appears at
http://www.alfa-redi.org/noticia/noticia_descripcion.asp?idNoticia=105.
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David
No Decisions Made On New Domains - ICANN
Officials at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) today said that they have made no decisions as to what sort
of Internet domains will be created the next time ICANN adds new
suffixes to the Internet's worldwide addressing system.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=2764&PHPSESSID=4a847039d78bf35b32cf2e71eeb84b7c
Domain Dispute Mechanism Works Well
The global mechanism for settling disputes over Internet addresses is
"functioning satisfactorily," despite lingering concerns about the
extent to which arbitrators are honoring free speech rights of
address holders, according to a study issued today.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=2763&PHPSESSID=4a847039d78bf35b32cf2e71eeb84b7c
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173598.html
http://www.udrplaw.net/
.me registers in Britain
The new .me.uk domain opened for registrations Monday morning, after
a strong vote of approval by Nominet, the United Kingdom's national
registry of domain names.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8476481.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102460,00.html
From BNA Internet Law News...
ICANN CHIEF FAVOURS MEMBERS-ONLY INTERNET ADDRESSES
ICANN President M. Stuart Lynn has stated that he favors
creating new members-only suffixes, such as .edu and
.museum, over unrestricted domains like .com and .info.
Lynn's comments echo those made by ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf
at a meeting with reporters in December.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/085332.htm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8436749.html
REGISTRARS CRITICIZE RECYCLED DOMAIN NAME PROPOSAL
A group of Internet address retailers are criticizing a plan
aimed at redistributing some of the world's most attractive
Internet domain names as they expire. The comments follow
VeriSign's recent proposal for the creation of an Internet
address "Wait List Service" (WLS) that electronic
speculators could use to reregister .com addresses that are
scheduled to lapse. Verisign proposal at
http://www.loffs.com/images/VRSN_WLS.pdf
Coverage at
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173564.html
Nebraska Neo-Nazi Irks German Pol
German Interior Minister Otto Schily, an energetic campaigner against
U.S.-based neo-Nazi websites, has asked U.S. Attorney General John
Ashcroft for help in his fight.
Specifically, Schily asked Ashcroft during one of their recent
face-to-face meetings to exert pressure on an American Internet
service provider to block a site with an official-sounding German
name that currently diverts traffic to a neo-Nazi site.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49566,00.html
UN Adopts Resolution On World Summit On Information Society
The United Nations has taken a major step toward bridging the digital
divide with the adoption, by the General Assembly, of a resolution
which welcomes the organisation of the World Summit on the
Information Society.
The summit, which is expected to promote access by all countries to
information, knowledge and communications technologies for
development, is to be held in two phases, the first in Geneva in 2003
and the second in Tunisia in 2005, and is being convened under the
high patronage of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200201100296.html
The Internet is for Everyone
Memo by Vint Cerf, 1 January, 2002
Abstract - The Internet really is for everyone. However, it will only
be such if we make it so.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-isoc-internet-for-everyone-01.txt
CERT: Number of Viruses, Flaws Rocket Skyward
The number of viruses and other types of attacks making rounds on the
Internet, and the number of security vulnerabilities discovered in
software, climbed dramatically in 2001, according to newly issued
statistics by the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination
Center (CERT/CC).
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_953241,00.html
Who's Holding Back Broadband?
As the American economy struggles to get out of recession, an
important part of the recovery will be the revival of the country's
technology sector.
Not long ago, in a speech at a summit on Internet development,
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell gave the
nation a glimpse of his vision of what might kindle such a revival.
At least part of that vision was refreshingly new. The key is
"broadband".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11361-2002Jan7.html
Net browsing by voice a call away
People in Hong Kong and the mainland will soon be able to browse the
Internet by speaking to it, according to network components supplier
NMS Communications.
The technology behind the NMS voice portal enables callers to speak
and retrieve information via a mobile phone with speech recognition
capability.
http://technology.scmp.com/ZZZ9GUTN5WC.html
Shopping and clicking
So, now we know. UK people go on the web to do only one of two
things: to look up information about old people, or to practise how
to produce new ones.
At least that's the verdict you could have reached by reading many of
the reports about the success of the Public Record Office's 1901
census website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1755000/1755298.stm
Britain won't enact e-commerce law on time
Britain will be one of 10 countries to miss the European Union
deadline for implementation of the E-Commerce Directive, which the 15
member states are required to have enforced by Jan. 17.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-8442739.html
The Net: A Utility That Just Grew
No one owns it. And no one in particular actually runs it. Yet more
than half a billion people rely on it as they do a light switch. The
Internet is a network whose many incarnations - as academic playpen,
information superhighway, vast marketplace, sci-fi-inspired matrix -
have seen it through more than three decades of ceaseless evolution.
http://www.iht.com/articles/44675.html
Korea,Japan Agree to Cooperate on 4G Phone
Korea and Japan have agreed to cooperate in establishing the fourth-
generation (4G) mobile phone network between the two countries.
http://www.mic.go.kr/eng/jsp/etc/etc_100_02.jsp?menu_code=z400_0001_1&m_code=z400_0656_1&curpage=2
Teenagers' Online Spending Habits
For Internet retailers, the teenage market is much like the China
market. Both are huge and largely inaccessible because the targets
speak completely different languages than most mainstream American
merchants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/technology/ebusiness/14ECOM.html
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