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uk: In praise of ... W3C - Guardian Leader
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1780080,00.html
Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5009250.stm
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6075472.html
au: Melbourne IT's empire built on clicks and mortar
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/melbourne-its-empire-built-on-clicks-and-mortar/2006/05/23/1148150256584.html
.eu fast becoming popular domain name
http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20060523-102107-2919r
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uk: In praise of ... W3C - Guardian Leader
It is difficult to believe that the world wide web
could get much better. Since it entered the public
arena barely a decade ago, it has transformed how we
search for information, do business and entertain
ourselves. It has spawned eBay, Amazon and Google and,
through search engines, has enabled anyone to get
knowledge about anything if they are online.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1780080,00.html
The UN Human Rights Council and the Right to
Development by Alan Brouder
Advocates of the right to development may have some
cause for optimism following the election of 47 states
to the new UN Human Rights Council on 9 May 2006.
Despite the election of China, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, and other states with poor human rights
records, cautious optimism is warranted for three
reasons. First, the new body replaces the much
criticized Commission on Human Rights and will occupy
a more prominent place in the UN's hierarchy as a full
subsidiary organ of the General Assembly. The Council
will have a much broader mandate and wider powers than
the Commission, and will have the potential to be more
transparent and less susceptible to political
manipulation. Second, the resolution establishing the
Council explicitly refers to the right to development
both in its preamble and in paragraph 4.
http://www2.jura.uni-halle.de/telc/PolicyPaper22.pdf
IGF, $$$, .XXX and .MOBI
Bret Fausett on the the IGF meeting in Geneva.
http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/5/23/1978814.html
Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has warned
of the dangers of introducing a two-tier internet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5009250.stm
http://www.out-law.com/page-6946
Next, a 'more revolutionary' Web
Just when the ideas behind "Web 2.0" are starting to
enter into the mainstream, the mass of brains behind
the World Wide Web has started to introduce pieces of
what may end up being called Web 3.0.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/05/23/business/web.php
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has called
for clear separation between Internet access and
Internet content. Speaking at the World Wide Web
conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning,
Berners-Lee gave his views on the growing battle over
Net neutrality.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6075472.html
http://news.com.com/Berners-Lee+calls+for+Net+neutrality/2100-1036_3-6075472.html
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au: Melbourne IT's empire built on clicks and mortar
UNIVERSITY of Melbourne spin-off Melbourne IT, now the
world's fifth-largest domain name registrar, has
reported "stable, sustainable and profitable growth"
across all divisions.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/melbourne-its-empire-built-on-clicks-and-mortar/2006/05/23/1148150256584.html
.eu fast becoming popular domain name
Internet domain names ending with .eu are becoming one
of the most popular in the world, according to the
European Registry of Internet Domain Names.
http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20060523-102107-2919r
New .eu decisions published (reg req'd)
The city of Barcelona has won its challenge to the
registration of Barcelona.eu as a domain name
http://www.managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=632034
New top-level domain opens (reg req'd)
Members of the telecoms industry have started to apply
for domain names ending in .mobi ? the latest
top-level domain to be launched
http://www.managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=632029
The rights and wrongs of .xxx
The decision by the the US-based non-profit body that
runs the domain name system to reject proposals for
.xxx could have wide-reaching repercussions for how
the internet is run, writes internet law professor
Michael Geist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5003920.stm
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1249
uk: Phones4u wins passing off appeal against phone4u
An online seller of mobile phones did not infringe the
trademark of John Caudwell's Phones4u chain when it
used the domain name phone4u.co.uk, according to the
Court of Appeal. But Friday's judgment concluded that
there was passing off.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/23/phones4u_appeal_victory/
http://www.out-law.com/page-6942
Domain for mobile devices hits the Web
The domain, .mobi, is designed to spur use of the
Internet on mobile devices ? but some fear it will
have the opposite effect
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6075779.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/22/mobi_domain/
http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2156716/mobile-firms-act-secure-web
http://www.out-law.com/page-6941
http://news.com.com/Making+the+Web+fit+for+mobile/2100-1039_3-6074944.html
A Survey of DNS Security: Most Vulnerable and Valuable
Assets
The following provides and introduction to a study by
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gun Sirer, called
?Perils of Transitive Trust in the Domain Name System?
[PDF]. The paper presents results from a large scale
survey of DNS, illustrating how complex and subtle
dependencies between names and nameservers lead to a
highly insecure naming system. It is well-known that
nameservers in the Domain Name System are vulnerable
to a wide range of attacks. We recently performed a
large scale survey to answer some basic questions
about the legacy DNS: Which domain names are the most
vulnerable?; Which servers control the largest portion
of the namespace and are thus likely to be attacked?;
Are there any servers with known security holes, and
which domain names do they affect? We present the
results from this survey below in the hope of
identifying problem spots in the Internet and thus
improving the security of our common
cyberinfrastructure. This study is based entirely on
public data - all information available on these pages
is also available to others with less-than-honorable
intentions.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/survey_of_dns_security/
DNSSEC Deployment at the Root
The DNSSEC is a security protocol for providing
cryptographic assurance (i.e. using the public key
cryptography digital signature technology) to the data
retrieved from the DNS distributed database (RFC4033).
DNSSEC deployment at the root is said to be subject to
politics, but there is seldom detailed discussion
about this "DNS root signing" politics. Actually,
DNSSEC deployment requires more than signing the DNS
root zone data; it also involves secure delegations
from the root to the TLDs, and DNSSEC deployment by
TLD administrations (I omit other participants
involvement as my focus is policy around the DNS
root). There is a dose of naivety in the idea of
detailing the political aspects of the DNS root, but I
volunteer! My perspective is an interested observer.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/dnssec_deployment_at_root/
Online 'squatters' might yield big revenue
Interested in comparing video cameras, taking a
vacation in Las Vegas or buying some lawn furniture?
There are sites on the Web -- with names like
videocamera.com, lasvegasvacations.com and
lawnfurniture.com -- that seem tailor-made for your
interests.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12911639/
ICANN gets its contract renewed
The Commerce Dept.'s exclusive contract with ICANN to
oversee key technical questions for the Internet will
be renewed as a sole-source contract, the Washington
Post reports.
http://government.zdnet.com/index.php?p=2310
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/us-aims-to-maintain-internet-monopoly/2006/05/21/1148150122616.html
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/05/23/business/doc44722ac5382f7217504558.txt
Sex, politics and the Internet
The head of the agency that authorizes Internet
address names insists that its rejection of an address
for pornography sites this month was neither
politically motivated nor unduly influenced by the
U.S. government, despite accusations of meddling from
both the European Commission and the U.S. company
hoping to manage the address.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/05/21/business/net22.php
Internet Registry Fights For .XXX Domain
The Internet domain registry seeking approval for the
.XXX top-level domain won't take no for an answer.
http://www.governmententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=188100694
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5003852.stm
http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6075779.html
http://www.out-law.com/page-6938
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/05/23/1148150236099.html
E-Mails Suggest Bush Administration Pressured ICANN to
Nix '.Xxx' Domain
Newly released e-mails allege U.S. government
officials pressured a leading Internet authority into
voting against creating a kind of red-light district
for adult Web sites. The apparent involvement of the
U.S. Department of Commerce, President Bush's chief
political operative Karl Rove and others is
significant.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196608,00.html
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1966086,00.asp
IANA-Funktionen bleiben ICANN erhalten
Die NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information
Administration), eine Abteilung des
US-Handelsministeriums, bestätigt in einer
Pressemitteilung die Absicht, die Internet-Verwaltung
ICANN auch weiterhin mit den IANA-Funktionen zu
betrauen.
http://www.intern.de/news/7993.html
Internetverwaltung: US-Regierung schreibt IANA aus
Das US-Handelsministerium schreibt die Aufgaben der
IANA öffentlich aus, bislang ist dafür die ICANN
zuständig. Wiederholt gab es entsprechende Gerüchte.
http://www.golem.de/0605/45469.html
Klage wegen Porno-Domain
Die Porno-Domain .xxx ist endgültig abgelehnt worden.
Die Firma, die sie beantragt hatte, klagt gegen die
US-Regierung, denn die habe die Internetbehörde Icann
zu der Entscheidung genötigt.
http://www.netzeitung.de/internet/400401.html
http://www.sat1.de/news/wirtschaft/2006/05/23/n2006052309552900002/index.php
http://www.intern.de/news/7985.html
Porno-Domain-Lobby verklagt US-Regierung
Zum wiederholten Male verweigerte sich vor Wochen die
Internet-Verwaltung ICANN, einen virtuellen
Rotlichtbezirk zu eröffnen. Hinter der Entscheidung
sollen US-Konservative stecken - und ihre Gönner in
der US-Regierung. Die sieht sich deshalb nun vor
Gericht.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,417518,00.html
El agente registrador ICM demanda a Washington por los
'.xxx'
El registrador ICM, cuyo plan para la creación de un
dominio '.xxx' fue rechazado por la ICANN, ha
demandado a los departamentos Comercio y de Estado
estadounidenses para intentar conseguir una copia no
censurada de los informes de ambos organismos sobre
este dominio. La UE también ha denunciado
recientemente la "interferencia política" de EEUU en
esta decisión.
http://www.24horaslibre.com/tecnologia/1148303257.php
Un .XXX de plus en plus sulfureux pour l'ICANN
Les hommes du .XXX demandent à l'ICANN de revenir sur
son refus de créer l'extension? et publient des
documents illustrant l'intervention du gouvernement
Bush dans ce dossier.
http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?vde_id=926
Une nouvelle vice-présidente à l'ICANN
Denise Michel vient d'être nommée vice-présidente de
l'ICANN. Elle sera basée à Bruxelles.
http://domaines.info/article.php?art_id=925
L'ICANN dit non au .XXX
Le Conseil d'Administration de l'ICANN a décidé de
rejeter la proposition faite par ICM Registry de créer
une extension réservée à la pornographie. Une décision
potentiellement lourde de conséquences
http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?vde_id=916
http://www.journaldunet.com/breve/nommage/2761/le-xxx-n-a-pas-dit-son-dernier-mot.shtml
Le .TEL approuvé
Après avoir publié la proposition de contrat de
gestion du .TEL en avril, l'ICANN aurait maintenant
donné un feu vert définitif à la création de
l'extension.
http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?vde_id=920
http://www.allhtml.com/articles/detail/526
L'Europe critique la décision .XXX
D'après la Commission européenne, le rejet par l'ICANN
du .XXX est le résultat d'une ingérence étatique
manifeste.
http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?vde_id=917
Le .mobi est ouvert, en attendant le .tel
Moins de deux semaines après le feu vert donné par
l'ICANN à la création du .tel, une autre extension, le
.mobi est lancée ce jour. Jusqu?au 29 mai, s'ouvre une
première période prioritaire ou de "sunrise".
http://www.journaldunet.com/breve/nommage/2758/le-mobi-est-ouvert-en-attendant-le-tel.shtml
Pas de liste pour les .EU débloqués
L'EURid publie les détails de la procédure de
déblocage des noms sunrise non attribués. Pour chaque
nom, la date de déblocage sera directement affichée
dans le Whois.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/vie_extensions.php?cahier=eu&vde_id=928
.xxx : le ICM Registry veut faire la lumière sur les
rapports entre Bush et l'Icann
Le ICM Registry a déposé une plainte officielle devant
les instances commerciales US arguant que le vote
rejetant l?établissement d?un nom de domaine .XXX fût
en fait influencé par le gouvernement Bush.
http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/nouvelles/06-05/10-215902.html
http://www.faq-mac.com/mt/archives/017441.php
Empresa de dominios demanda al gobierno estadounidense
La empresa ICM Registry ha presentado una demanda
contra el gobierno estadounidense como consecuencia de
la decisión de ICANN de congelar el proyecto que
crearía los dominios ".xxx".
http://www.diarioti.com/gate/n.php?id=11526
.XXX, voto contestato: si chiede il riesame
Il Top Level Domain .xxx è stato bocciato dall'ICANN
ma il gruppo promotore (ICM Registry) contesta il voto
denunciando pesanti pressioni da parte degli Stati
Uniti d'America nella persona del Presidente Bush.
Secondo i proponenti il dominio va ridiscusso
http://webnews.html.it/news/leggi/4136/xxx-voto-contestato-si-chiede-il-riesame/
Dominio internet ".eu" avanza y ya ocupa octavo lugar
en el mundo
23 may, Bruselas (AFP) - Un mes y medio después de su
lanzamiento al público, el dominio ".eu" ya sedujo a
cerca de 2 millones de europeos, convirtiéndose en la
octava extensión internet más utilizada en el mundo.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1275&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Webcasting LACNIC IX Dia 2
Este martes 23 de Mayo a las 9:00 am de Ciudad de
Guatemala (- 5 UTC) se llevara a cabo la V edicion del
NAPLA (Reunion de Operadores de IXP/NAP de America
Latina y el Caribe) el cual se organiza en conjunto
con LACNIC IX.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1274&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
NIC Chile en la Presidencia de LACTLD
En su sexta reunión, realizada en Ciudad de Guatemala,
Guatemala, la Organización de ccTLDs Latinoamericanos
y del Caribe (LACTLD) eligió como Presidenta de su
Consejo Directivo a Margarita Valdés, de NIC Chile,
por los próximos dos años. La directiva la integra
también Demi Getshko de NIC Brasil, Eduardo Santoyo de
NIC Perú, Francisco Arias de NIC México y Rafael
Ibarra de NIC El Salvador.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1273&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
LACTLD nombra nuevo consejo directivo
Con una amplia participación de miembros de cctld de
la región, ha sido electa el nuevo consejo directivo
de LACTLD, teniendo a Margarita Valdes (ccTLD .cl)
como nueva presidenta.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1272&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
LACTLD se inicia reunion en Guatemala
El día de hoy, 22 de Mayo, se ha dado inicio a la
Asamblea General de LACTLD correspondiente al año
2006.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1271&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
El gobierno estadounidense demandado tras ser acusado
de estar detrás del rechazo del dominio ".xxx".
La empresa que solicitó la creación de un dominio
pornográfica ha presentado una demanda contra el
Departamente de Comercio estadounidense.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1270&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
LACNIC IX: Webcasting
A partir de las 9:30 AM del lunes 22 de mayo hora de
Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala (-5 UTC) iniciara la
transmision del webcasting del Tutorial Practico de
IPv6.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1269&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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