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internet news - 25/2
Domain Name News
Internet's new world order (Australian IT)
World governments will have direct input into internet technical
policies in a radical shift by the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN).
http://www.australianit.com.au/articles/0,7204,3840719%5E16123%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8896957-0.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174731.html
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/268535p-2470362c.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2741326.htm
President's Report: ICANN - The Case for Reform (ICANN)
http://www.icann.org/general/lynn-reform-proposal-24feb02.htm
The Murky Debate Over an Internet Address Database (New York Times)
Anyone who registers a Web address must provide the company that
handles the registration with a name, mailing address, e-mail address
and phone number - certainly, not an unreasonable amount of
information to exchange in a business relationship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/technology/ebusiness/25NECO.html
EU agrees on new Internet name suffix (Nando Times)
The European Parliament has approved the new Internet address
extension of ".eu".
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/267552p-2463623c.html
Report on the Council common position for adopting a European
Parliament and Council regulation on the implementation of the .eu
Top Level Domain
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/OM-Europarl?PROG=PRESS-BRIEF&L=EN&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+PRESS-BRIEF+BR-20020227-B+0+DOC+SGML+V0//EN&LEVEL=1&REFERER=X&NAV=X#SECTION4
Recommendation For Second Reading
on the Council common position for adopting a European Parliament and
Council regulation on the implementation of the .eu Top Level Domain
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/OM-Europarl?PROG=REPORT&L=EN&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A5-2002-0027+0+DOC+SGML+V0//EN&LEVEL=3&NAV=S
Domain name commissioner wanted (IDG)
InternetNZ, formerly the Internet Society (ISOCNZ), has advertised
for its first domain name commissioner to oversee the operation of
the .nz namespace both during and after the shift to a new system,
says InternetNZ president Keith Davidson.
http://www.idgnet.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/AEA460DD4EC94F9CCC256B64001297CA!opendocument
Queue again for .biz domains (BBC)
Legal action has forced the owner of the .biz domain to change the
way it hands out popular net names.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1834000/1834201.stm
Romania gets set for ICANN conference (Europemedia.net)
Three local IT and internet companies, ICI, RNC and Artelecom, are
planning to organize Romania’s annual ICANN conference in Bucharest
by mid-June.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=8555
Internet News
World summit talks terrorism (Australian IT)
In 2000, it was Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Gates
at the World IT Congress in Taipei and the focus was e-commerce.
This week in Adelaide at the congress, Bill Clinton takes centre
stage with corporate luminaries from Infosys, Silicon Graphics and
IBM. The issue is IT terrorism.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3837435%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://www.it.mycareer.com.au/news/2002/02/26/FFXHZ8MA0YC.html
Tipping the balance on net security (BBC)
Net security is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. So
says Peter Tippett, the computer security pioneer who now runs
TruSecure, a company dedicated to spotting the next big security
problem before the vandals and malicious hackers exploit it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1836000/1836118.stm
Warning on students' Internet porn filters (Sydney Morning Herald)
A black list of inappropriate Internet sites would be updated at
least every 24 hours to protect NSW school children given access to a
new statewide educational email and Internet system, according to the
designers of the project.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/26/national/national23.html
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3840771%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
College, Church In Unique ICT Project (allAfrica.com)
A commercial college in Thika has come up with a cost-saving and
unique way of offering information communication technology studies
(ICT) to the rural masses.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200202240053.html
The East African Standard (allAfrica.com)
With a smile as a facade, his assertiveness is inescapable. When he
says "I like being in charge and in control," the facade is not in
any bit unmasked.
That is Paul Ojil who inadvertently admits to being a bit of an
autocrat with a bruising ambition and a zeal for being the top dog.
At only 30 years old, and at the peak of a brilliant and meteoric
career in Information Technology (IT), to say that he has arrived is
no understatement.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200202240181.html
Spam busters (Sydney Morning Herald)
Bombs away: the anti-spammers are stepping up the fight. They're
smart, highly skilled and gaining ground on the perpetrators of junk
mail,
http://www.smh.com.au/icon/0202/16/news1.html
Net pirates turn sites on Hollywood (Guardian)
Hollywood has always enjoyed fictional courtroom dramas but now it is
about to embark on some serious real-life courtroom action of its
own. Having enlisted the help of the FBI and the US secret service,
the entertainment industry is bringing in the heavy legal guns to
sink what they see as a new form of piracy that they claim is
changing the face of the movie industry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,655792,00.html
Terrorism And The Global Digital Divide: Why Bridging The Divide Is
Even More Important After September 11 (FindLaw)
The "digital divide" has been an item on the international agenda for
quite a while. Defined as the gap between the information haves and
have-nots, the divide separates those who can make effective use of
computers and information technology and those who cannot.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020211_yu.html
EU Telecoms Ministers OK Plan to Boost Web Use (Yahoo)
EU telecoms ministers on Friday unanimously approved Spain's plan to
bolster Internet usage and help the 15-nation bloc catch up to the
United States.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020222/wr_nm/eu_internet_dc_1&cid=582
New e-signature standard set (USA Today)
Leading Internet security companies and top industry
standards-setting bodies have settled on a more flexible way to
verify electronic signatures for documents sent over the Web,
organizers said Thursday.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/02/15/e-signatures.htm
From Quicklinks
Interview with Henrik W. K. Kaspersen (Council of Europe)
Interview with Henrik W. K. Kaspersen, Chairman of the Committee of
Experts on the Criminalisation of Acts of Racist or Xenophobic Nature
committed through Computer Networks.
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Communication_and_Research/Press/Themes_Files/Cybercrime/e_InterviewKaspersen.asp
ADL Report: Growing Proliferation of Racist Video Games Target Youth
on The Internet (Anti-Defamation League)
Attempting to capitalize on the vast popularity of computer video
games - especially among the young - hate groups are manipulating
available technology to create violently racist and anti-Semitic
versions of popular video games, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
says in a new report.
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/extremism_72/4042_72.asp
Racist Groups Using Computer Gaming to Promote Violence Against
Blacks, Latinos and Jews (Anti-Defamation League)
On Martin Luther King Day, Resistance Records, a distributor of
racist, anti-Semitic "White Power" music began to advertise Ethnic
Cleansing, a CD-ROM based computer game whose object is to kill
"sub-humans" — i.e. Blacks and Latinos — and their "masters," the
Jews, who are portrayed as the personification of evil. The ads said,
"Celebrate Martin Luther King Day with a virtual Race War!"
Resistance Records is owned by the National Alliance, the largest and
most active neo-Nazi organization in the United States
http://www.adl.org/videogames/default.asp
Año y medio de cárcel para un joven que difundía pornografía infantil
por Internet desde un 'e-mail' de la Generalitat
(delitosinformaticos.com)
Un juzgado de Barcelona ha condenado a un año y medio de cárcel a un
joven de 24 años conocido como 'Tío Willy' por difundir pornografía
infantil en Internet a través de una cuenta de correo electrónico de
la Conselleria de Agricultura de la Generalitat.
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101437251372940.shtml
Condenado por difundir imágenes de sexo con niños en Internet
(delitosinformaticos.com)
Una juez de Barcelona ha condenado a un año y medio de cárcel a un
técnico informático que difundió a través de Internet imágenes
pornográficas de menores de edad tras acceder a la red utilizando
fraudulentamente una cuenta y una contraseña de un funcionario del
departamento de Agricultura, Ramaderia i Pesca de la Generalitat.
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/10143724752578.shtml
Increasing number of parents spying on kids' Web wanderings (Nando
Times)
Over three-bean salads and wheat-grass smoothies, mother and daughter
are debating tough love.
"I'll come out and say it: I read my daughter's e-mails and I check
to see what Web sites she's visited," says Dorothy Peltier, as her
17-year-old suppresses a "don't embarrass me" scowl outside the Baja
Fresh Cantina here. "I think the times demand it," says Peltier, an
unemployed broker.
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/267700p-2439568c.html
From the Anti-Defamation League
A Parents Guide To Hate On The Internet
Helping Your Child Safely Navigate the Information Superhighway
http://www.adl.org/issue_education/parents_guide_hate_net.html
Poisoning the Web: Hatred Online
Internet Bigotry, Extremism and Violence
http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/poisoning_toc.html
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