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

ICANN adopts reform measures
THE internet's key oversight body approved a major overhaul aimed at
improving efficiency but also ending direct elections for its
directors.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4612624%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53546,00.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2071000/2071866.stm
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/technology/29DOMA.html
 http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-28jun02.htm

New domain regime in 'chaos'
TECHNICAL glitches have undermined the introduction of the new domain
name regime, industry players report.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4622007%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

New era for domain names
AUSTRALIA’S new domain name regime has gone live after years of
negotiation and controversy.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4613397%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/01/1023864705235.html

Court Sees Appeal in Sex.com Case 
One year after winning a $65 million judgment from the man accused of
stealing the domain name sex.com, Gary Kremen is awaiting a new
hearing that threatens to reverse the still elusive windfall.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53588,00.html

Buffer overflow in DNS resolver libraries
CERT has updated an advisory warning of a flaw in Domain Name System
servers which run on Unix.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/03/1023864750802.html
  
Critical systems 'at risk'
AUSTRALIA'S information infrastructure is at grave risk because the
federal Government is foisting responsibility for IT security on to a
private sector that is overwhelmingly failing to protect its own
systems, experts warn. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4614454%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

It's time for ICANN to go
John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet
supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is
broken.
John Gilmore has spent 30 years shaping Internet culture and
politics. An early employee of Sun Microsystems and a co-founder of
free software pioneer Cygnus Software (now part of Red Hat), he has
worked tirelessly to promote his civil-libertarian views on how
cyberspace should evolve. Entities as diverse as the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, the "cypherpunks" and Usenet's wacky and
subversive "alt" newsgroups can all trace their roots to Gilmore's
efforts -- and, quite often, his funding.
 http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/index.html

Dozens held in swoop on Internet paedophile ring
Dozens of suspected paedophiles have been arrested in a wave of
coordinated swoops following a global police probe into an
Internet-based child abuse ring, police in London and The Hague said.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/03/1023864746529.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4627570%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://www.msnbc.com/news/775326.asp
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,747976,00.html

WorldCom
WorldCom, one of the brightest stars of the technology boom, could
soon be delisted from the Nasdaq market as the controversy over its
massive book-keeping fraud continues to cast doubt on the integrity
of big corporations and the professionalism of accounting firms.
 http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1211873

WorldCom Internal Accounting Probe Expands
WorldCom Inc., which announced last week that it would have to
restate earnings for 2001 and part of 2002, informed the Securities
and Exchange Commission this morning that an internal investigation
has now raised questions about the company's books as far back as
1999.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7249-2002Jul1.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10894-2002Jul1.html
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldcom/story/0,12167,747893,00.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/business/02TELE.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/business/yourmoney/30TELE.html

Cyberlaw: Cybersmart or cybersilly?
Is there really a cyberspace full of “cybercitizens” who need only be
accountable to their own “cyberlaws”? A loose-knit group of law
professors is bucking one of the big fads in the legal field by
calling that whole idea “cybersilly.”
 http://www.msnbc.com/news/774871.asp

EU Warns Microsoft on New Plan 
Microsoft's new security plan, known as Palladium, needs to be
compatible with other software manufacturers, the European Union
says.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53611,00.html

EU looks to wrap up Microsoft probe 
A top European Union official said on Monday that a ruling in its
Microsoft antitrust inquiry will happen by the end of the year.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-941090.html

Judge: Microsoft Fulfilled Tunney Act
Microsoft does not have to disclose its lobbying contacts with
Congress connected with its antitrust case, a federal judge decided
Tuesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Microsoft-Antitrust.html


First Internet cafes to open in Kabul
After decades of near-total communications isolation, Afghans are
about to make a leap onto the World Wide Web with the opening of the
country's first Internet cafes.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/02/1023864722598.html

Internet access on the increase
More than four in 10 UK households accessed the internet from home in
the first quarter of the year, according to new government figures.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,748079,00.html

Internet doctor guilty of misconduct
A Harley Street doctor was found guilty of serious professional
misconduct through 'irresponsible' use of a website.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,747573,00.html

Internet Law Notes
Posted by Dan Gillmor
I'm at Harvard Law School this week for an incredible education --
five days of lectures and seminars on Internet law There are people
here from 23 countries -- an amazing turnout. Only 38 percent of the
people here are lawyers. Others are from technology companies,
government and other fields including journalism.
One of the points of this, says William Fisher, a law professor here,
is to build a global community of people who are thinking about all
this in a serious way.
Here are my running notes:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/3580048.htm

U.S. Warns Web Sites to Label Sponsorships
The Federal Trade Commission has warned the operators of several
major Internet search engines to make it clearer to their users when
companies have paid to be included in Web search results.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/technology/02SEAR.html

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