internet news - 15 Nov

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

Internet turf war playing out
Last week in Shanghai, Internet Corp. for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN), the agency responsible for
administering the Internet, conducted the most important
meeting in its brief history. Following months of debate on
institutional reform, the ICANN board approved the
elimination of board positions reserved for the general
public, shelved plans for Internet user participation
through on-line elections and removed most of the
mechanisms that hold ICANN accountable.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20021107/TWGEIS

A Plan for Action Regarding New gTLDs (by Stuart Lynn,
ICANN President)
At its August 23rd meeting, the ICANN Board of Directors
directed me to produce a "plan for action" with respect to
the implementation of the Report of the New TLD Evaluation
Process Planning Task Force. This document and its
attachments are in response to that request.

http://www.icann.org/committees/ntepptf/new-gtld-action-plan-18oct02.htm

IANA Report on Recognition of LACNIC as a Regional Internet
Registry 
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (the IANA), as part
of the administrative functions associated with management
of the Internet Protocol (IP) address space, is responsible
for evaluating applications for approval of new Regional
Internet Registries. ICANN has received an application for
final approval and recognition of the Regional
Latin-American and Caribbean IP Address Registry (LACNIC)
as the fourth Regional Internet Registry.
 http://www.iana.org/reports/lacnic-report-07nov02.htm
 
2nd Circuit Limits Jurisdiction of Anti-Cybersquatting Act
Jurisdictional limitations for actions brought to stop
cybersquatting of registered Internet domain names have
been upheld by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1036630383097

Australia Seeks to Block Fake Opera House Web Site 
Australia's consumer watchdog said on Monday it was seeking
a court order to close down a U.S.-based Web site which
allegedly tricked buyers into paying for nonexistent
tickets for the Sydney Opera House.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1710965
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/10/1036308575882.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20269831,00.htm

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=1&Art_ID=11233

Korean Internet Oversight Body Admits Flaw in Sex Domain
Lottery
The nation's Internet name oversight body admitted
yesterday there were flaws in its operation of lottery to
pick the winner to use the sex.co.kr domain address, which
has an expensive market value in cyberspace. 

http://www.korealink.co.kr/kt_tech/200211/t2002110817402045110.htm

Cyberscam shut down
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC)
claimed a key victory in October against an internet domain
name renewal service provider that was found to be
misleading customers. The ACCC brought Federal Court
proceedings against a Melbourne-based domain name reseller,
Internet Name Protection, trading as Internet Name Group
(ING).
 http://www.brw.com.au/stories/20021107/16811.asp

Mattel Loses Ruling on Cybersquatting Law
Mattel Inc. lost a bid to reinstate trademark suits against
Web sites such as Hotwheelsweb.com and Barbie-Club.com.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup8.4nov08,0,2684630.story
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965184.html

CIRA Releases First Dot-ca Dispute Resolution Decision
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has
released the text of the first-ever dot-ca domain name
dispute resolution decision under the CIRA Dispute
Resolution Policy. The decision is available at
www.cira.ca/en/dpr-decisions/00001-redrobin.pdf.
 http://www.cira.ca/news-releases/79.html

Competition Bureau of Canada Lays Charges Against Internet
Registry of Canada
 http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ct02442e.html

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Justices to Review Internet Pornography Filters
The Supreme Court agreed today to review Congress's latest
effort to shield children from pornography on the Internet,
a federal law that requires libraries to install filters on
all computers providing Internet access to adults as well
as to young patrons.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/politics/13SCOT.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965434.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45772-2002Nov12.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56355,00.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0211130389nov13,0,3385743.story

Global weapon to fight child net porn
Software developed in the UK is being exported to Eastern
Europe and South East Asia as part of the worldwide fight
against child porn on the web.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2463305.stm

Council of Europe adopts protocol to cybercrime treaty
On 7 November the Council of Europe's Committee of
Ministers adopted an additional protocol to the Convention
on Cybercrime to fight against racism and xenophobia on the
Internet.

http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/2357580-53?targ=1&204&OIDN=1504221&-home=home
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=13579

Teenager ran biggest internet child porn library in Britain
A computer clerk who ran Britain's biggest and "busiest"
online child pornography library was jailed for two years
by the Old Bailey yesterday.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=351936

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1731293

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,839472,00.html

Parents alerted to safe surfing benefits
Parents are warned to wise up to the importance of
installing more controls on home PCs to stop children
accessing unsuitable material.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2446785.stm

Police demand extra cash to tackle internet child abuse 
Britain's strategy to tackle internet paedophilia is being
seriously undermined by a lack of funding, senior police
officers have warned.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,838574,00.html
A force to be reckoned with - comment
Operation Ore, the police investigation into a child porn
ring, is raising fundamental questions about the priority
the police attach to child protection and about the
capacity of the Home Office to respond to rapid change.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,838583,00.html

UK plans to tighten the net on internet paedophiles 
The UK government plans to update the laws on sexual
offences, including taking account of the way that
paedophiles are using the internet to contact children.

http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=1030972819&30REQEVENT=

The Net Tightens For Online Paedophiles - IWF news release
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has announced today a
tough stance against 51 newsgroups that regularly carry
child abuse images and a further 25 newsgroups with names
that appear to advertise or advocate paedophilia. These new
policies have been worked out in close consultation with,
and with the full support of IWF's industry funders and are
intended to apply to all UK Internet Service-Providers.

http://www.iwf.org.uk/news/archive/detail_news.epl?INFO_ID=144

Press groups pressure Vietnam to release cyber-dissident
The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors
Forum called Wednesday for the release of Vietnamese
cyber-dissident Le Chi Quang, jailed for criticizing the
communist regime.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/618689p-4757811c.html

Riding the Airwaves, Surfing the Net to Freedom in Iraq
Nearly every night, Murtadha Eqabi manages to escape from
the control that the Iraqi government tries to exert over
everything the college student hears and sees. He turns on
a radio.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraqinfo14nov14.story

Russians Wage Cyber War on Chechen Websites 
Chechen separatists say Russia's FSB security service is
behind the collapse of two Web Sites that form a key source
of news for the rebel area.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1737521
 
The Internet faces a free-speech test
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear challenges to
a pair of state laws that require sex offenders to register
personal facts in publicly accessible databases, in a legal
showdown that could set new rules for access to information
in the digital age.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965641.html

AOL Must Reveal Subscriber's Identity
In a case against America Online in which an electronics
company alleged that an AOL subscriber was libeling it, the
Virginia Supreme Court ruled that AOL must reveal the
member's identity. Siding with the electronics company's
claim that the posting violated the law even if it wasn't
defamatory, the court concluded that a speaker who uses
nondefamatory words in a scheme to enrich himself at the
expense of another does not enjoy First Amendment
protection.

http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1036630400911&t=LawArticleTech

IM Users: Your Boss Is Watching
An increasing number of businesses are reading the instant
messages of their employees. New software by AOL helps them
do just that.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56290,00.html

FTC Sues Six in 'Spam' E-Mail Round-Up
The Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday that it had
sued six junk e-mailers who bombarded Internet users with
illegal pyramid schemes, fraudulent loans and e-mail
filters that actually attracted more "spam."

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20021113_560.html
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_964229_1794_9-10000.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49903-2002Nov13.html
 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/11/netforce.htm

Junking Spam
It's the ultimate bane of the Information Age, the one
topic that everyone who uses technology agrees on -- the
need to can spam. But the most hated of electronic
communications seems unstoppable, and bulk e-mailing
"companies" (often one-person operations run out of
basements) are laughing all the way to the bank.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53369-2002Nov14.html?referer=email

Korea Falls to 5th in Internet Use  
The National Statistics Office announced Monday in 'Korea
Seen Within the World by Statistics' that the number of
Internet users per 100 persons had increased, but that the
country had fallen to 5th place. The previous year, Korea
beat the US. and Canada, to get third place, but was behind
Singapore in second. The number of Internet users in
Singapore jumped within the past year, showing signs of
heated competition between the two countries for the "IT
foothold" of Northeast Asia.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200211/200211110028.html

Why MS 'Ruling' Is Dangerous  
Has Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly helped set the stage for a
computing disaster of unprecedented magnitude?
She's not the only culprit involved, but her ruling
affirming the Justice Department antitrust deal with
Microsoft may have devastating results that we'll all come
to regret.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56279,00.html

Pair Aims to Return Million AOL CDs 
Two California men rebelling against a sea of America
Online promotional compact discs have got mail like never
before.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35934-2002Nov10.html

W3C recommends online forms standard
The online standards body has made a candidate
recommendation on its preference for which forms developers
use on the Internet.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2125881,00.html

Namibia: MP Says Internet Can Be Empowerment Tool 
WOMEN and Child Affairs Deputy Minister Marlene Mungunda
says Information Communication Technology (ICT),
particularly the internet and e-mail, could be used for
women's empowerment.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200211130030.html



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