internet news - 18 October - correct version

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

Hi all

Seems I posted the latest news both yesterday and a few
days ago, so, here is the news I meant to post yesterday.

Cheers
David

Dot-Org Gets a New, Well, Org
The fifth most popular domain on the Internet gets
reassigned from VeriSign to a new group in a development
hailed by ICANN members and observers.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55778,00.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2329199.stm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25445-2002Oct14.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1573951
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-961959.html

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14oct02.htm
 http://www.demys.net/news/02_oct_15_org.htm

ICANN Board Selects New .org Registry Operator
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) Board of Directors voted 11 to 1 (with three
abstentions) today to select the proposal submitted by the
Internet Society (ISOC) for a new registry operator of the
.org top-level domain, to replace VeriSign. 

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14oct02.htm
 http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-14oct02.htm
 http://www.isoc.org/isoc/media/releases/021014pr.shtml

Internet names: a matter for both government and private
sector
The Working Group of the Plenary approved a resolution on
the management of internationalized multilingual domain
names. This resolution aims at helping promote the role of
Member States in the internationalization of domain names
and addresses of their respective languages. This will be
increasingly important in the coming years as a majority of
Internet users is expected to prefer to conduct online
activities in their own language. It is also important
because the current Domain Names System (DNS) mapping does
not reflect the growing language needs of all. The
resolution stresses that the registration and allocation of
Internet domain names and addresses should reflect the
geographical and functional nature of the Internet with an
equitable balance of interests of all stakeholders. It also
emphasizes that the non-discriminatory access to Internet
domain names and addresses, and more generally to the
Internet, should be available to all citizens and that the
management of Internet Domain Names and addresses is of
concern to both governments and the private sector. It also
reiterates the need to fully maintain country code
numbering plans and addresses as in ITU-T recommendation
E.164 which defines the international public
telecommunication numbering plan. Under this resolution,
ITU will be providing assistance to its Member States to
promote the use of their languages for domain names and
addresses and will cooperate with the World Intellectual
Property Organization whose role includes protection
against misuse of intellectual property rights in the use
of countries’ languages for domain names and addresses.
 http://www.itu.int/newsroom/pp02/Highlights/1010.html
 http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc11/msg00800.html

Internet Name Group "totally gone": administrator
The saga surrounding failed domain name reseller Internet
Name Group is at last drawing to an end, with the
administrators revealing the company's creditors are likely
to receive 55 cents in the dollar.  

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000025001,20269085,00.htm

Aust administrator recommends state-based domain names
auDA's New Names Advisory Panel has recommended new second
level domain names based on Australia's states and
territories.  

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20269087,00.htm

http://www.auda.org.au/policy/panel-newname-2002/interim-report.pdf
 http://www.auda.org.au/policy/panel-newname-2002/

ACCC gets tough on dubious domain name invoices 
The ACCC has warned domain name resellers not to mislead or
deceive customers or face the possibility of coming under
ACCC investigation and litigation.

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=3&Art_ID=11061

http://203.6.251.7/accc.internet/digest/view_media.cfm?RecordID=828
(ACCC news release) 

Creditors 'will receive at least 39c in the dollar'
Creditors to failed domain-name reseller Internet Name
Group agreed last week to the administrators' deed of
arrangement, which should return more than 39 cents in the
dollar. 

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/13/1034222639026.html

Notice of Initiation of Policy-Development Process:
Deletion of gTLD Registrations
Notice of Intiiation of PDP. On 3 October 2002, the DNSO
Names Council voted to initiate a policy-development
process ("DNSO PDP") on issues concerning deletion of gTLD
registrations. The DNSO PDP was initiated on the basis of
the issues paper that appears below.

http://www.icann.org/dnso/gtld-deletions-issue-paper-16oct02.htm

ICANN Meetings in Shanghai 
ICANN's next round of meetings will be held 28-31 October
2002, in Shanghai, China. The meetings are free to attend,
and open to any interested person. ICANN encourages broad
participation in its bottom-up consensus-development
process. You can take part in these meetings by attending
in person, by taking part in the webcast and remote
participation opportunities, and/or by joining one of the
various ICANN-related mailing lists.
 http://www.icann.org/shanghai/
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
 http://www.icann.org/shanghai/idn-topic.htm
Transfers of gTLD Domain Names
 http://www.icann.org/shanghai/transfers-topic.htm
 
Australian Wine Company Pops Cork on Two Decisions (from
UDRPlaw.net)
Orlando Wyndham Group Pty Ltd received two favorable
decisions from WIPO today in cases involving the domain
names JacobsCreek.com and OrlandoWyndham.com.

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0728.html

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0729.html

Assisting The UDRP Review
This page has been established to provide a reference for
the UDRP Review, with links to the major parties involved
in the review process of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy, papers and studies concerning the UDRP
and other helpful resources. Perhaps this effort will help
push the parties reviewing the UDRP to toward concrete
recommendations.
 http://www.udrplaw.net/UDRPReview.htm

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Super-fast net generation here
THE super-fast computer network that will enable the next
generation of educational and research internet uses in
Australian universities will be launched in Canberra today.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5293770%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Peace netter 
When did you encounter the internet? In the early days of
the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in
Nicaragua. Because the US was essentially at war with them,
contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet
connection and she found one, so we could communicate
thanks to the Pentagon!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,812968,00.html

Cybercrime Costs World Billions, Bush Adviser Says 
Cybercrime is costing the world economy billions of dollars
and is on the increase, President Bush's cyber-security
adviser said Monday.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1572962

World Cybercrime Experts See Need for Laws, Ties
Top international cyber-crimebusters wrapped up a three-day
conference in the world's most wired country on Wednesday
with a call for greater global cooperation to fight online
offences.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1582967

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33231-2002Oct16.html

Copyrights, Wrongs Get a Review
The list of what's legal under the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act will get a public working over. But critics
say Congress has more power to change the law for the
better.
 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,55801,00.html

New computer lab will help trace child porn 
A new computer laboratory (in NZ) was opened today to help
the unit that tracks down illegal pornography on the
internet.
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2999628

Ontario steps up attack on Internet child porn
The Ontario government announced Tuesday that it will
provide $2-million to the Toronto Police Service to help
address the problem of child pornography on the Internet.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20021015/wporn10152/Front/homeBN/breakingnews

Teen Arrested in Finland Blast
Police arrested a 17-year-old boy Tuesday for allegedly
providing information over the Internet about explosives to
the suspect in a deadly bombing at a suburban shopping
mall.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30850-2002Oct15.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1580857

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,811260,00.html

Many worry Net is not safe, study finds
Americans are using and enjoying the Internet more than
ever, a private research firm said Wednesday, even though
they're still not entirely sure their personal information
is secure.

http://europe.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/16/internet.report/index.html
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=13159

ICT Policy And Civil Society Workshop in Africa 
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC),
ARTICLE 19 and the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa (UNECA) will be holding a five-day information and
communications technologies (ICT) policy and civil society
workshop from November 6th to 10th, 2002 in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200210160054.html

NetSafe II: Society, Safety & the Internet
The New Zealand Police, the University of Auckland and the
Internet Safety Group have announced the upcoming NetSafe
II: Society, Safety & the Internet conference in July,
2003.  They have issued an international Call for Papers,
with submissions due January 31st, 2003. 

http://www.netsafe.org.nz/conferences/conferences_default.asp

Vietnam Requires Businesses to License Web Sites 
Businesses and organizations setting up Web sites in
Vietnam must obtain a license from the culture ministry,
according to a new government regulation. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1582157

Internet stalkers face 10 years jail
CYBER-STALKERS from around the world could be jailed for up
to 10 years in Victoria under Australia's first legislation
policing internet intimidation.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5281038%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

17 fired by VDOT for surfing porn sites 
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has fired
17 workers who spent several hours a day surfing Internet
porn sites.
 http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20021009-554841.htm

Anti-spammer wins court case
THE Australian court system upheld the right of internet
activists to campaign against junk email in a landmark
decision today.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5283290%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Spam poses threat to privacy
The problem of spam is set to get a whole lot worse and in
the office it could have a big impact on levels of employee
privacy.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2330823.stm

Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts
Pop-up ads disguised as Windows system administration
alerts annoy users and puzzle security experts. Spammers,
on the other hand, say the tactic works.
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55795,00.html

Fat times for spam
In September, more than 17 percent of all e-mail traveling
across the Internet could be classified as spam, according
to data collected by UK e-mail service provider
MessageLabs. The company's figures are presented in its
latest monthly report. 

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20269152,00.htm

13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy
CFP2003 will explore the most important issues facing the
Internet and freedom, including: consumer privacy,
broadband issues, wireless privacy and security, digital
divide, critical infrastructure issues, public records,
filtering, ICANN, disabilities access and much more.
 http://cfp2003.org/

Consumers Face Tricky Maze in Guarding Privacy
While businesses claim to give customers more control over
the use of their personal information, critics say attempts
to exercise that control are often frustrated.
 http://nytimes.com/2002/10/17/business/17PRIV.html

Internet will challenge banks
BANKS and national watchdogs must reinforce surveillance
procedures to deal with an expected growth in cross-border
electronic banking over the internet, an international
group of banking regulators warn.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5305639%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Microsoft Judge Takes His Case To the Public 
About 15 months after the Appeals Court for the D.C.
Circuit rebuked U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson
for talking to the media in the Microsoft antitrust case,
Jackson has formally filed his rebuttal.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51851-2002Oct6.html

AOL Says It Will Phase Out Pop-Ups
America Online Inc. announced Tuesday that it will stop
accepting new pop-up ads on its Internet service, becoming
the latest online company to curb the practice after
receiving widespread complaints from users.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32134-2002Oct15.html

Diffuse Final Conference - Convergence of Web Services,
Grid Services and the Semantic Web for delivering
e-Services? 
A conference organized by the IST Diffuse Project and
hosted by the European Commission 
Commissioner Erkki Liikanen will provide the Opening
Keynote Address at the IST Diffuse Project Final Conference
to be held on 12th December 2002 in the Centre Borschette,
Brussels.
 http://www.diffuse.org/event3.html

Wi-Fi Goes To Washington 
Remember when technology-based startups were going to put
established companies out of business? The surviving
incumbents are having a last laugh. But their schadenfreude
may be short-lived in the telecommunications industry. 
 http://www.forbes.com/2002/10/14/1014mckinsey.html

Wearables: More Than Sci-Fi Stuff
Wearable computers are showing up in operating theaters, on
museum tours and at archeological digs. Still, geeks ask:
Where are the games?
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55743,00.html

The keyboard that isn't there
Work on the move? Forget laptops and fiddly data entry
devices; soon an uncluttered tabletop will be all you need
to set up a mobile office.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2326077.stm

Strange but true... so they say...
From The Guardian Unlimited's The informer
 >>> AND FINALLY

"I was in the car park at the station at the time when he
pulled in and said: 'Mate, I've got a crocodile in my bus,'
Constable Paul Carmody told the Courier Mail of Queensland.
"I said: 'Yeah, right'. He said: 'No, I've got a crocodile
in my bus'. At that point I inspected the rear of the bus
and, sure enough, there was a crocodile in there."

The 75cm reptile, whose jaws had been taped, had been
noticed by a passenger as she boarded a Darwin minibus
travelling from Palmerston to Humpty Doo. "I've got no idea
where he came from," the driver, Baz Young, said. "I
believe someone must have taken him into the bus thinking
that they'd take him somewhere and maybe he was too strong
for them to hold so he disappeared under the seat and
they've done a quiet exit and left me with the crocodile.

"It's just one of those things that happen in the
Territory."



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