internet news - 16 Sept

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

U.S. Will Renew ICANN's Authority
The U.S. government will renew a California nonprofit's
authority to manage the Internet's global addressing
system, a top Commerce Department official said today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13478-2002Sep13.html

Dot-Org Selection Process Criticized
The process to determine which group will manage one of the
Internet's largest domains is turning into a three-way
dispute between a Virginia nonprofit that likely will win
the prize, a handful competing groups and the Internet
addressing authorities charged with making a final
decision. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12027-2002Sep13.html

September Deadline: Can The ICANN Model Be Revised?
On September 30, 2002, the Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) between the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and the
corporation created to privatize the infrastructure of the
Internet will expire. This corporation, known as ICANN
(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has
had a very contentious existence from its earliest days. On
July 10, 2002, a US Department of Commerce official, Nancy
Victory, sent a letter to ICANN. She wrote that the
agreement between ICANN and the DOC "will expire on
September 30, 2002 and in the coming weeks, the Department
of Commerce will assess whether to renew, extend, or modify
this agreement. To assist in this review process," Victory
asked, "I request that you provide me with a report
detailing ICANN's efforts in these areas, as well as any
other information that might inform the Department in its
decision-making with respect to this agreement." Victory
said that the response to her letter should be sent no
later than August 15, 2002.
 http://www.circleid.com/articles/2532.asp

Sixth Update on .org Reassignment Process
This is an update on the status of the evaluation of the
eleven applications ICANN received from entities seeking to
become the registry operator for the .org top-level domain
on 1 January 2003, when VeriSign, Inc. gives up that role.
For more information, see these earlier updates:
 http://www.icann.org/announcements/update-13sep02.htm

Massive domain dispute quietly launched
The National Arbitration Forum, one of the four
organisations contracted to provide domain name dispute
resolution services under the UDRP have quietly posted up
an intimation of a pending dispute which is set to be one
of the largest ever in UDRP history.
 http://www.demys.net/news/02_sep_13_cnn.htm

KIds.US
As a part of its contract with the U.S. Department of
Commerce for administration of the usTLD, NeuStar reserved
the second-level domain “kids.us” because of its important
public resource value. Content management within the
kids.us domain, however, goes beyond NeuStar's core
competence as a registry operator and trusted neutral third
party administrator of mission critical infrastructure.
NeuStar can design, build, and operate the infrastructure
for the kids.us domain, but seeks the guidance of community
members, experts, and interested parties to formulate
content guidelines and restrictions.
We seek public input on our first discussion draft of
content guidelines and requirements of this special domain.
We invite all interested parties to comment on this paper
at KidsDomainComments@NeuStar.us through October 11, 2002.
 http://www.neustar.us/kids/index.html

Dot-Kid Tussle in Congress 
The manager of the United States' Internet domain asked
Congress Thursday not to interfere with its efforts to set
up a kid-friendly zone free of violence, pornography and
other adult material.  

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1443748
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55131,00.html
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-957878.html

http://www.ispworld.com/Reuters/BreakingNews/091302_gt01.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-09-13-kids-domain_x.htm
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957775.html

http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQSESS=ir4TQ635&REQAUTH=0&2149REQEVENT=&CARTI=115772&CARTT=14&CCAT=2&CCHAN=28&CFLAV=1

Domainz under fire over .maori.nz name ownership
Domainz faces at least one legal challenge over its
decision to revoke ownership of a number of new domain
names registered in the new .maori.nz name space.

http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/52F56E60084D7647CC256C310010A180!opendocument

Australia: The Launch of .au Dispute Resolution Policy (reg
req'd)
The .au Domain Names Dispute Resolution Policy (auDRP)
commenced on 1 August 2002. The auDRP is intended to
provide a cheaper and quicker alternative to litigation for
resolution of disputes between .au domain name registrants
and parties with competing rights in the domain name.

http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=17815&p=5&c=1436&e=on

Register.com v. Domain Registry of Canada
Register.com Inc is suing a competitor for allegedly using
deceptive tactics to lure away its domain name registration
customers. But defendant Domain Registry of Canada Inc
seems to think Register.com is using very similar tactics
itself.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27101.html

It's worth keeping an eye on the name game
Notwithstanding the morbid fascination of watching the
internecine cabaret that is ICANN (the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers), it is as well to keep an
eye on our own DNS (Domain Name System) backyard.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/08/1031115958953.html

Letter from Kevin E. Brannon to Stuart Lynn Regarding
VeriSign WLS

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/brannon-letter-to-lynn-09sep02.htm

Letter from W.G. Champion Mitchell to Louis Touton
Regarding VeriSign Registrar's Response to Whois Inaccuracy
Reports

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/mitchell-letter-to-touton-11sep02.htm

NetRegistry pushes legal fund to fight domain wars
Accredited Australian Internet registrar NetRegistry has
upped the ante in its fight with similarly-monikered rival
NetRegister, announcing plans to set up an industry-wide
legal fund to combat allegedly unscrupulous operators.  

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20268206,00.htm

A PROfile of .pro
Before its expected release in late 2002, Demys profile
dot-pro - the last of the seven new top level domains
announced by ICANN in November 2000 to be launched.
 http://www.demys.net/news/02_sep_13_pro.htm

Managed DNS Frees Critical Web Operations from BIND 
As a separate point of failure for Internet communications,
the management of DNS information has become an essential
part of the operation of any Web site whose presence on the
Internet is of critical importance to a business. 
 http://thewhir.com/features/managed-dns.cfm

The In's and Out's of Pre-Owned Domain Names 
I don't know about you, but sometimes it seems like all of
the best domain names have already been taken. On more than
one occasion, I've come up with a great domain name for a
site, only to find that someone else had already purchased
it. I can live with that, but sometimes I've found that it
has been purchased by some scum domain scavenger, and
that's really annoying.

http://www.stickysauce.com/articles/domainarticles/preowned.htm

Catalan nationalism hits the web
The Spanish region of Catalonia has made a symbolic
declaration of independence in cyberspace.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2253123.stm

Cuba Takes to Internet to Refute U.S. Terror Charge 
Communist-run Cuba launched a Web site on Friday to refute
U.S. charges that it sponsors terrorism and to seek support
in the United States for the release of five Cubans
imprisoned there for spying.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1448323

Patently problematic
An important new study shows the promise, and pitfalls, of
intellectual-property rights for the poor
INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY rights (IPR), which embrace patents,
copyright, trademarks and trade secrets, were once
considered an esoteric, and slightly dull, bit of
commercial law. 

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1325219

Moderate the chat
Hectoring children to obey the key safety rule when using
chatrooms could be counter-productive.
There is one hard and fast rule for kids and teenagers
using the internet: never arrange to meet anyone in the
real word after contact online. Unfortunately, this most
basic guideline is routinely ignored. According to a study
from the cyberspace research unit at the University of
Central Lancashire, one in 10 chat users has attended a
face-to-face meeting with another chat user.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,790238,00.html

Police porn suspects remanded in custody
The detective who comforted the parents of murdered
schoolgirl Jessica Chapman spent last night in jail after
being remanded in custody charged with offences relating to
internet child pornography.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=333348

Soham officers held in child porn inquiry
A police family liaison officer who supported the parents
of Jessica Chapman during the investigation of her murder
has been arrested on suspicion of child pornography
offences.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=332804
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2257461.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,791373,00.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12195341&method=full&siteid=50143

China Toughens Obstacles to Internet Searches
Some Chinese Internet users seeking the popular search
engine Google today instead are now instantly routed to
GlobePage, which calls itself the "premier Asian search
engine."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/12/international/asia/12INTE.html

AltaVista tries to beat Chinese ban
The second search engine to be banned by the China is
looking at ways of making the site available to Chinese
surfers.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2251533.stm

China still censoring Google searches
Although Chinese Web users now have access to Google,
politically undesirable sites are still blocked by the
government.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122255,00.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5088297%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-09-12-blocking-google_x.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10664-2002Sep12.html
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135008
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992795

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,791772,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,792050,00.html

Chinese Web Surfers Still Face a Backwash
Google, the Internet search engine recently blocked in
China by the government, appeared to be up and running
Thursday. But anyone clicking into sensitive stories that
include keywords such as "Falun Gong" or "Jiang Zemin"
would probably hit a wall.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fg-google13sep13.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology

China grapples with net dilemma
China is keen to embrace a technological future but with it
may come many of the freedoms associated with the internet.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2255971.stm

Rampant phone tapping puts US in the shade
Australian authorities use telephone taps at 20 times the
rate of their counterparts in the United States, figures
that the Opposition says raise concerns about privacy and
oversight of call tapping.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/16/1032054714938.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5103471%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Greek gaming law defeated in court
A court has thrown out a case against three people accused
of violating a new Greek law banning all electronic games
in public.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122118,00.html

FBI investigation into child porn sites spans the world
A curious internet user browsing through the millions of
websites was puzzled by the welcome message to one site. 
"This group is for people who love kids," read the opening
page. "You can post any type of messages you like or any
type of pics and vids you like too. PS: If we all work
together we will have the best group on the net." Just a
click away the visitor found photographs and videos of
children aged as young of one suffering the most awful
sexual abuse. 

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=333096

Soham policemen on child porn charges 
A curious internet user browsing through the millions of
websites was puzzled by the welcome message to one site. 
"This group is for people who love kids," read the opening
page. "You can post any type of messages you like or any
type of pics and vids you like too. PS: If we all work
together we will have the best group on the net." Just a
click away the visitor found photographs and videos of
children aged as young of one suffering the most awful
sexual abuse. 

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=333096

Kid Porn Case: Click to Clink 
Adam Vaughn was a stand-up Marine, cop and local hero --
until the feds branded him a part of the largest child porn
ring in history. Inside Operation Candyman, the FBI's
campaign to rid the Web of child abuse.
 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/kidporn.html

Schools Install Internet Filters
Dale Alexander, the information technology director for
Albuquerque, N.M., public schools, was not exactly a fan of
filtering software for blocking pornography and other Web
sites deemed inappropriate for children.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology10sep14.story

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/536983p-4248011c.html

'Lascivious' child modeling sites may be tough to ban
The photos on the Web sites portray no nudity and no sex,
yet men by the thousands pay to ogle them - shots of
preteen girls posing in bikinis and halter tops.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/537155p-4248982c.html

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/4081278.htm

New cybercrime laws proposed
NEW state laws targeting computer crime will be introduced
into Victorian parliament today, which if passed would
raise the maximum penalties for hacking from 6 months to 10
years in jail.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5081376%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Mobilizing America: Tech vs. Terrorism - Part 2
The primary government response to terrorism has been to
augment existing agencies and programs. However, a complete
overhaul of our national defense is in order. 
 http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19367.html

9/11: Cyber threats fail to emerge
Despite widespread threats of cyber terrorism and virus
attacks, 11 September passed almost without incident in the
wired world.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135024

White House to unveil initiative for protection against
cyberattacks
Using Silicon Valley as the backdrop, the White House this
week will unveil its most comprehensive plan yet to protect
the nation's computer users from cyberattacks.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/4083736.htm

One computer per Penang household by 2010
The Penang Government is targeting for every household in
Penang to have a computer within the next eight years.

http://www.emedia.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/NewsBreak/20020912143332/Article/

Media giants want internet ruling
Music and film companies ask a US judge to rule on an
internet copyright case against three file-sharing outfits
without trial.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2250867.stm

It's OK: the fat lady can't sing
Hilary Rosen runs the Recording Industry Association of
America - the American music industry's trade body. She has
become a media celebrity because of the RIAA's practically
medieval suppression of file sharers, downloaders and other
copyright miscreants. This is not an obscure tussle between
corporate lawyers but a very public war between the net and
the music biz - involving one of the most powerful
corporate lobbies in history, the brightest geeks of their
generation and up to 100 million people - the file sharers
themselves. Both sides see this as a battle for survival. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,790297,00.html

The devil is in the e-mail
Corporate e-mail has long been abused by people trading bad
jokes and pornography or venting office rage but it now
poses a bigger problem: how to store the vast amount of
vital business information that e-mail contains.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/08/1031115958963.html

Cable outages disrupt Net access 
Internet access throughout Thailand was crippled last week
following the loss of two undersea fibre-optic links.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/110902_Database/11Sep2002_data01.html

Report: Nations need open source
Software is too expensive, many shrink-wrap licenses should
be voided, and reverse engineering of software is essential
to developing nations, a commission claims.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-957827.html

Landmark interconnection agreement reached
After a decade of wrangling and threats of legal action,
the country's (New Zealand) two largest telcos have finally
reached an agreement over interconnection pricing, although
the key sticking point of price has yet to be determined.

http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/867CF645DC97F890CC256C35007FC810!opendocument

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2847208&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general

Sony offers glimpse of the future
A digital television that knows what you like and a PC that
learns your preferences are among the gadgets on show at a
Sony exhibition in Japan.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2255474.stm

Wireless web gives villages free net
Hundreds more web users and businesses could benefit from
the expansion of Europe's densest wireless internet
network.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2251565.stm

Is Wi-Fi the answer in emergencies? 
Intel thinks Wi-Fi is a key to pinpointing a cell phone's
location. The company's Emerging Platforms Lab is
developing a new software and hardware package for wireless
carriers that will add a Wi-Fi network to all the various
ways of locating a cell phone, Bob Hills, technology
marketing director at Intel's Emerging Platforms Lab, said
this week. 
 http://news.com.com/2100-1033-957570.html

Microsoft, Legend partner on tablet PCs 
Software giant Microsoft said Wednesday that it has teamed
with dominant Chinese computer maker Legend Group to make
tablet PCs--laptops with write-on screens expected to make
a splash in Asia.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1040-957594.html

No Tablet PC for users in Latin America yet, MS says 
When Microsoft Corp. officially launches its Windows XP
Tablet PC Edition operating system on Nov. 7, users in
Latin America and several European countries will find the
software does not support their native languages.
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_947091_4394_1-3921.html

PC market welcomes Tablet's entry
The 'evolution of the laptop' continues with the tablet PC,
which some hardware makers hope will spark life into the PC
market.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122295,00.html

Will new audio formats drown out the CD?
Buying music these days is like staking your entertainment
dollar to one in a circle of fast-spinning tops: Several
similar-looking formats appear poised to replace the
standard compact disc. So how to tell which is the "best" -
and, more important, which will be the last to fall?

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/537662p-4251609c.html

Porn Biz Offers to Buy Napster 
Adult-entertainment site Private Media Group, based in
Spain, on Thursday said it has made an offer to acquire the
assets of defunct song-swapping site Napster. In a
statement Private Media said that it had offered to acquire
the Napster trademark and Internet address for one million
shares of Private Media common stock, valued at about $2.4
million.  
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55113,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1443959

Napster Judge Allows More Time for Bids
Napster Inc. creditors won two more weeks to solicit bids
for the company's assets and stave off liquidation. U.S.
Bankruptcy Judge Peter Walsh delayed ruling until Sept. 27
on a motion by federal officials to shut the firm down for
good.
 http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup14.4sep14.story

America Online Is Making More Changes at the Top
AOL reshuffled the management of its America Online
division Thursday, aiming to move beyond accounting
problems and begin developing new programming.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/13/technology/13AOL.html
 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/19398.html

Oz "Silicon Valley" to be Established
The Australian government has announced that, in
collaboration with industry, it will develop a framework
for the future of the Australian Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) industry. The focus of the
framework will be on innovation as a key driver of
long-term industry growth and a major determinant of global
competitiveness.

http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/nea/200209/coau_204330.html

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