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01-12-11-VerHeinz-EU-ICANN.txt 01-12-12-NetWorld-InternationalDNS.txt 01-12-12-UnknownSource-SamuelsonBroadband.txt 01-12-25-AP-NetCommercial.txt 01-12-29-CACommerceNet-NGI.txt 02-01-01-TechRevview-W3CLicenseFees.txt 02-01-04-WashPost-NationalBorders.txt 02-01-07-ACMUbiquity-OnTheInternet.txt 02-01-08-WashPost-LessigBroadband.txt 02-01-11-WashPost-UDRP.txt 02-01-12-SJMerc-DGillmor-DomainNames.txt 02-01-14-SJMerc-TechNet-Broadband.txt 02-01-16-WashPost-LarryRobertsInternerTraffic.txt 02-01-17-CNET-DomainReg.txt 02-01-20-SJMerc-Secuity.txt 02-01-28-ACMUbiquity-WebServices.txt 02-01-30-SJMerc-Langberg-ReplayTV4000.txt 02-01-30-SJMerc-Plotnikoff-DomainNameExp.txt 02-02-02-WashPost-ISC-SecurityInfo.txt 02-02-03-SJMerc-AdsvsEditorial.txt 02-02-06-DavidEssex-InternetVoting.txt 02-02-07-GlobeandMail-TMandDomainNames.txt 02-02-11-LATimes-NewTLDs.txt 02-02-14-Reuters-ElecSignatures.txt 02-02-15-GaTec-InternetPolicyEvent.txt 02-02-21-SJMerc-WebcastRoyalties.txt 02-02-24-ICANN-PresReform.txt 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02-05-27-Fortune-DysonInterview.txt 02-05-27-NYT-OnlineJurisdiction.txt 02-05-29-CNETNews-InternetInternationalJurisdiction.txt 02-05-29-HR4640-FalseInfoRegisterDomainName.txt 02-05-29-MediaAccesProj-OpenCompetition-DNS.txt 02-05-29-Slate-MusicSharingServices.txt 02-05-29-Ubiquity-ContentValue-XML.txt 02-05-30-WashPost-ICANNNeedsCompetitors.txt 02-05-31-CPSRCivSoc-ICANNReformRecommendations.txt 02-05-31-ICANN-RestructuringCommitteReport.txt 02-06-04-Slashdot-RestructuringCommitteReport.txt 02-06-06-PCWorld-LiebermanUniversalBroadbandBill.txt 02-06-10-BostonGlobe-MassBroadbandSummit-BBAdoptionRate.txt 02-06-11-Yahoo-SenBurns-ControlICANN.txt 02-06-12-BusinessWeek-CableInternet-TieredPricing.txt 02-06-13-Wired-SenateSupportsICANNRestructure.txt 02-06-17-NYT-Senate-ICANN-Restructuring.txt 02-06-17-WSJ-ICANN-DomainNames.txt 02-06-20-WashPost-ICANN-Restructuring.txt 02-06-21-WashPost-BusinessGovtImpedeInternetUse.txt 02-06-26-Wired-DenmarkDeepLinkingLawsuit.txt 02-06-27-AP-EU-ICANN-Autonomy.txt 02-06-27-SJMerc-InternetJunkie-TieredPricing.txt 02-06-28-SJMerc-ICANNRestruct-NoIndividualBoardMembers.txt 02-06-28-SJMerc-Nader-FTC-SearchEnginesAdPlacement.txt 02-06-29-NYT-ICANN-ApprovesReorg.txt 02-06-30-SFChronicle-WiFiNetworks.txt 02-07-01-CFA-FCCPoliciesStranglelSPs.txt 02-07-01-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-LessigZittrainEtc.txt 02-07-02-Salon-Gilmore-ICANN-ShouldGo.txt 02-07-02-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-FisherCohenEtc.txt 02-07-03-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-BenklerStallmanMatusowLessig.txt 02-07-04-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-JohariLessigBenklerFisherGuerreroMcLaughlin.txt 02-07-05-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-KangKellyZittrainEdelmanNessonRamasastry.txt 02-07-05-SJMerc-NewsboosterBarred-DeepLinking.txt 02-07-08-SJMerc-DG-HarvardILawSummary.txt 02-07-09-CNnetNews-Cable-WIFICrackdownt.txt 02-07-11-SJMerc-ISPsOfferDigitalMusic.txt 02-07-16-Unknown-WirelessConsortium-WiFi-ProjRainbow.txt 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02-10-07-CNETNews-BrucePerens-W3CAdoptsRoyaltyFreePolicy.txt 02-10-09-RIPE-RIRBlueprint-InternetAddrMgmt.txt 02-10-25-CyberFederalist-ICANNAtLargeOrg-UserVoice.txt 02-10-27-SJMerc-AuerbachLoosesICANNSeat.txt 02-10-29-ComputerWorld-ICANNCriticsMayCreateRivalGroup.txt 02-10-29-PersonalTelco-WirelessCommunities-Listing.txt 02-10-30-WashPost-MDPlansBroadbandBackboneLaunch.txt 02-11-04-SJMerc-WiFiInternetFutures.txt 02-11-06-BTSignsBroadbandPactWithMS.txt 02-11-07-GlobeAndMail-ICANNTurfWars.txt 02-11-07-WashPost-WiFiHeadingForAirSupremcy.txt 02-11-12-NYT-NetworkedWorldsFinalFrontier-TheAirplane.txt 02-11-15-SJMerc-CongressApprovesKidsDomainAndWebcastingRoyaltyFees.txt 02-11-18-NYT-Markoff-BusinessesBetOnWirelessInternetAccess.txt 02-11-25-NewsFactor-AlternativeDNSs-OpenNIC.txt 02-11-26-ScienceDaily-OSUStudy-LossOfHubCitiesCouldCrippleInternet.txt 02-12-02-FirstMonday-BeyondCouchPotatoes-ContributorsNotConsumers.txt 02-12-05-OReilly-Auerbach-ICANNOutOfControl.txt 02-12-05-Weinberger-OpenSpectrumProvidesGreaterConnectedness.txt 02-12-11-SJMerc-DG-AustralianCourtSaysOKToLibelSuitThere.txt 02-12-12-G2BGroup-WeblogsAndPR.txt 02-12-12-NYT-InteractiveAds-MoviePostersThatTalkBack.txt 02-12-13-SJMerc-DirectTVToShutDownInternetService.txt 02-12-15-SJMerc-OnLineSimsNewWrinkle.txt 02-12-16-InfoWorld-ICANNPlansNewSponsoredTLDs.txt 02-12-17-Wired-ICANNPlansNewSponsoredTLDs.txt 02-12-18-PubInterestReg-AdvCommForDotOrg.txt 02-12-20-NYT-Markoff-BushAdminProposesInternetMonitoringSystem.txt 02-12-20-Wired-TerroristsUnlikelyToDamageNet.txt 03-01-00-CACM-ITResearchAndInnovationInEGovernment.txt 03-01-00-ColumbiaJournalismRev-DG-InteractiveJournalism.txt 03-01-00-Money-HighResPhotosFavoriteBroadbandApp.txt 03-01-00-NetAction-TheFutureOfTheInternetAndCommunication.txt 03-01-01-CIOInsight-Internet2ProvidesMegaBandwidth.txt 03-01-02-Philly-TechBarriersToWebsites.txt 03-01-06-DaveWiner-Weblogs.txt 03-01-06-SJMerc-MoreEUUsersWillingToPayForContent.txt 03-01-08-SJMerc-DG-TheReadWriteWeb.txt 03-01-08-ZDNet-RootServerDDoSAttacks.txt 03-01-09-SJMerc-SonyExec-TVsWillBeCommunicationsHub.txt 03-01-09-SJMerc-TiVoToConnectToInternetAsHub.txt 03-01-09-ZDNet-ExtensibleResourceIdentifier-XRI-BetterThanURL.txt 03-01-13-InfoWorld-UNWorldSummitOnInfoSociety.txt 03-01-14-SJMerc-CompaniesToWorkOnSeamlessCell-InternetInterface.txt 03-01-19-Weinberger-OpenSpectrumFAQs.txt 03-01-21-ITManagement-TeleworkingCausesITHeadaches.txt 03-01-21-SJMerc-DG-ProvidersMightControlInternetContent.txt 03-01-27-Yahoo-InternetGainingSomeRulesAndLaws.txt 03-01-28-PCMag-Dvorak-MeteredInternetWouldSolveManyProblems.txt 03-01-30-NewsFactor-IssuePutVoiceOverInternetOnHold.txt 03-01-30-OpenContentNetwork-Introduction.txt 03-01-30-SJMerc-InternetUsersWatchLessTV.txt 03-01-31-UCSD-InfrastructuresOfDigitalDesignConference.txt 03-02-00-CACM-UnderstandingTheScoiotechnicalAspectsOfInternetGrowth.txt 03-02-04-Newsweek-3NewBooks-TheoryAndPracticeOfTheInternet.txt 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08-02-14-SaveTheInternet-NetNeutralityBillWouldGiveFCCAuthorityToEnsureNonDiscriminatoryISPPractices.txt 08-02-15-FreePress-FCCShouldNotTolerateISPDiscriminatoryPractices.txt 08-02-15-LARIAT-CallForDismissingPetitionForNonDiscriminationgISPPractices.txt 98-03-31-Kahn-DNS-IPAddr-Testimony.txt ==========> 00-01-00-CACM-WillRegulationReflectInternetsEgalitatianViewOfInformation.txt========== Radio's lessons for the Internet Eszter Hargittai January 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 1 Will the government's inevitable regulation reflect the Net's historic egalitarian, democratic, all-welcoming view of information? "It was not at all clear how, or even if, corporations could own or manage [it]. It seemed that [this medium] might be the truly democratic, decentralized ==========> 00-04-00-CACM-APatchworkOfTelecommAndInternetRegulation.txt========== From Washington: a patchwork of legislation and regulation Neil Munro April 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 4 Corporations tout consumerism against citizenship. America Online's takeover of Time Warner is another great coup for Steve Case and his colleagues. This success was made possible by AOL's use of technology, its good understanding of its customers, clever marketing, and astute political ==========> 00-07-00-CommACM-DeliberatingOnICANN-DevelopmentOfInternetMustBenefitAll.txt========== On site: Deliberating on ICANN Dori Kornfeld July 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 7 The Internet's development must benefit all members of the global electronic community. In March, international representatives gathered in Cairo to discuss standards for Internet governance at the open meetings of the Internet Corporation for ==========> 00-08-00-ACMUbiquity-TheHistoryOfPrintingPressSuggestsInternetremainUnregulated.txt========== The information age and the printing press: looking backward to see ahead James A. Dewar August 2000 Ubiquity, Volume 1 Issue 25 History suggests that the Internet should remain unregulated. Introduction We are in the midst of the "Information Age." Pundits have proclaimed it for years; articles in the popular press have plumbed its implications for every ==========> 00-10-00-ACMUbiquity-CandiatePositionsOnInternetPrivacyFreeSpeechAndIntellectualProperty.txt========== Presidential politics and internet issues in the 2000 election Doug Isenberg October 2000 Ubiquity, Volume 1 Issue 34 What are the candidates' positions on Internet taxes, online privacy, free speech and intellectual property law? You certainly can't vote in this year's presidential election online, Internet coverage of the Democratic and Republic conventions was largely a bust, and -- ==========> 00-11-00-CACM-AnInternetToSupportDemocracy.txt========== Viewpoint: an Internet of democracy Steven Clift November 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 11 Engaging the fundamental structure of the Internet with an eye toward making it a real democracy network. On a park bench outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, I sit with my laptop. Ah, the wonders and hype of modern technology. It was here the U.S. ==========> 00-12-00-CACM-TrustOnline.txt========== Trust online Batya Friedman, Peter H. Khan, Daniel C. Howe December 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 12 Trust can be cultivated to enhance our personal and social lives and increase our social capital. Trust matters. It allows us to reveal vulnerable parts of ourselves to others and to know others intimately in return. A climate of trust eases cooperation ==========> 01-01-00-CACM-AFixForTheBrokenDomainNameSystem-DNS.txt========== Viewpoint: fixing a flawed domain name system Lenny Foner January 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 1 Replacing an inequitable system with one that will better serve the world. The way we use the domain name system today is fundamentally flawed. As a result, ICANN's primary mission is broken beyond redemption, and arguments about the details of its proposals amount to rearranging the deck chairs on the ==========> 01-08-00-ACMUbiquity-ResponsibilityAndAccountabilityInAnUncontrolledInternet.txt========== Unclear on concept: anarchy and the Internet M. E. Kabay August 2001 Ubiquity, Volume 2 Issue 24 Responsibility and accountability in an uncontrolled environment. I recently had an interesting, if disheartening, e-mail discussion about freedom and responsibility. Details have been expunged to prevent an unfortunate termination of employment. The following is a slightly edited ==========> 01-09-00-CACM-IPv6MayNeverReplaceIPv4.txt========== Whatever happened to the next-generation Internet? Mark Weiser September 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 9 Despite its performance benefits, long history of development, and well-heeled advocates, IPv6 may never replace IPv4. A new Internet Protocol (IP) is ostensibly on the horizon—where it's been for the past decade. Among the rapidly developing hardware and software technology ==========> 01-11-06-InetNews-Neoteris-VPN.txt========== November 6, 2001 | InternetNews - Enterprise News Archives Meet the Next Generation Virtual Private Network By Clint Boulton Cognizant of the heightened concern for network security, scores of high-tech firms have spent the past year bolstering their virtual private network (VPN) offerings. Just ==========> 01-11-07-SJMerc-Internet-Radio.txt========== Posted at 10:47 p.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 Internet radio quietly gaining stream BY MIKE LANGBERG Mercury News Downloading songs through the Internet is only half of the online music revolution. ==========> 01-11-19-WashPost-TLDs.txt========== ICANN's Lynn: Don't Expect New Domains Anytime Soon Latest names being tested for capability (Nov. 19, 2001) Marina Del Rey, Calif. At this time last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved seven new top-level domains (TLD) to compete with the original TLDs. But the organization, which follows a Star Trek-like "prime directive" of ensuring the stability of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), has no plans to go beyond that. ICANN CEO Stuart Lynn explained why in an interview last ==========> 01-11-24-SJMerc-Lessig.txt========== Posted at 1:31 p.m. PST Saturday, Nov. 24, 2001 San Jose Mercury News Law and the Internet: more worries than hopes Stanford University Law Professor Lawrence Lessig has been writing and commenting on legal aspects of the Internet for several years. In 1997, a federal court named him special master in the government's antitrust case against Microsoft, though the software giant later had the appointment vacated. ==========> 01-11-28-SJMerc-UCLAInternerReport.txt========== Posted at 8:05 p.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 David Plotnikoff: Ongoing study tracks Net's impact on American life BY DAVID PLOTNIKOFF Mercury News Yes, this has been a brutal year for the Internet industry -- and it hasn't exactly been a walk in the garden for those who make it their business to study the Internet, either. When the e-commerce sector was in hyper-growth mode, we had a pack of market-research firms studying every twitch of consumer activity and attitude. Most of those firms have drastically curtailed ==========> 01-11-29-SJMerc-NRCBroadband.txt========== Posted at 11:14 a.m. PST Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001 Scientists endorse tax credits for developing high-speed Internet networks WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal research panel on Thursday recommended tax credits and grants to spur deployment of high-speed Internet services for Americans, particularly in rural areas. The report, by the National Research Council, says the value of ``broadband'' Internet access for educational and economic uses is worth federal help, even when telecommunications companies have difficulty justifying the expense. ==========> 01-12-03-SJMerc-MusicNet.txt========== Posted at 3:15 p.m. PST Monday, Dec. 3, 2001 MusicNet to launch on RealNetworks' Tuesday LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three of the world's major record labels and software provider RealNetworks Inc. Tuesday will launch MusicNet, an online subscription venture, the biggest effort by the music industry to distribute music profitably over the Internet. The service will launch on RealNetworks' new RealOne service -- which melds its popular RealPlayer and RealJukebox -- at a price of $9.95 a month, a ==========> 01-12-04-CNET-InternetPromise.txt========== Where Internet promises remain unfulfilled By Jennifer Balderama December 4, 2001 When I was editor in chief of my college newspaper, I wrote this trifle of a column that, fortunately, only five people read. In one edition, in my optimistic naivete, I went so far as to say the Internet might someday be "the savior of journalistic integrity in the United States." ==========> 01-12-11-ComputerWorld-NIPC-DNS.txt========== NIPC urges heightened attention to domain name servers By Jaikumar Vijayan (Dec. 11, 2001) Corporations need to ensure that their domain name servers are fully redundant and geographically dispersed to avoid risking prolonged loss of connectivity to services such as Web browsing, remote log-in and e-mail, the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) has cautioned. In its monthly publication, "Highlights" (download PDF), posted on its Web site ==========> 01-12-11-GaTech-ICANNElections.txt========== "Global Democracy and the ICANN Elections" Special Issue of the Journal info. Available online: http://www.IP3.gatech.edu The seven articles in this issue focus on the global elections held in 2000 for the governing board of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The authors examine the election from such diverse theoretical perspective as democratic theory, social movements, communications governance, global democracy, and Asian development. The ==========> 01-12-11-VerHeinz-EU-ICANN.txt========== EU Plans ICANN Study The head office of the European Union’s Information Organization is planning a study on the work of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The tendering was published in the European Union's gazette in February, said Richard Delmas from the Information Organizations head office at a conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) und World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Genf. ICANN has to make two fundamental decisions next year: In March the ==========> 01-12-12-NetWorld-InternationalDNS.txt========== IETF wraps up foreign-language domain name effort By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World Fusion, 12/12/01 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Internet's main standards-setting body is putting the final touches on a set of specifications that will support foreign-language domain names instead of today's English language derivatives. ==========> 01-12-12-UnknownSource-SamuelsonBroadband.txt========== Broadband's Faded Promise Wednesday, December 12, 2001 By Robert J. Samuelson COMMENTARY. What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar. — Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice President of the United States, 1913-1921 To paraphrase and adjust the math: What this country needs is a really good $500 billion technology — something to reignite popular enthusiasm and the economy. Once upon a time "broadband" communication into America's homes was ==========> 01-12-25-AP-NetCommercial.txt========== Tuesday December 25 6:03 AM ET Commercialization May Limit Internet By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Shannon Burnett's unofficial Web site for ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' fans used to offer video clips and insights into plot and characters. No longer. Corporate lawyers took care of that with a complaint of copyright violation. Burnett removed the material, though she believed she had legal grounds for using them. ==========> 01-12-29-CACommerceNet-NGI.txt========== Next Generation Internet Request for Proposals CommerceNet, with lead funding from the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency - Division of Science, Technology, and Innovation, requests Proposals for the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Application Development Program. California-based businesses, non-profit corporations, and public institutions are eligible to apply. A maximum of $2.5 million in State funds is available for awards. Funded projects are expected to begin in the Spring of 2002. ==========> 02-01-01-TechRevview-W3CLicenseFees.txt========== Web Tolls Ahead? Innovation By Wade Roush January/February 2002 Core software may no longer be free The real force behind the Web, many software developers argue, is that it’s free. What makes the Web truly worldwide, after all, is its interoperability—you can call up virtually any Web page on virtually any device connected to the Internet—and that depends on free software. But now ==========> 02-01-04-WashPost-NationalBorders.txt========== Rise of Internet 'Borders' Prompts Fears for Web's Future By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 4, 2002; Page E01 It is the modern-day equivalent of a border sentry. When visitors try to enter UKBetting.com, a computer program checks their identification to determine where they're dialing in from. Most people are waved on through. Those from the United States, China, Italy and other countries where gambling laws are muddy, ==========> 02-01-07-ACMUbiquity-OnTheInternet.txt========== On the Internet: Thinking in Action Review By Arun Kumar Tripathi Life and learning on the Net through the eyes of a philosopher. On the Internet: Thinking in Action, Hubert Dreyfus, Routledge Press, 2001 [Paperback - 136 pages (March 2001) Routledge; ISBN: 0415228077 On The Internet: Thinking in Action raises the following questions: Can we leave our vulnerable bodies while preserving relevance, learning, reality and meaning? Does life on the Internet achieve Plato's dream of overcoming space ==========> 02-01-08-WashPost-LessigBroadband.txt========== Who's Holding Back Broadband? Tuesday, January 8, 2002 By Lawrence Lessig, Special to The Washington Post As the American economy struggles to get out of recession, an important part of the recovery will be the revival of the country's technology sector. Not long ago, in a speech at a summit on Internet development, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell gave the nation a glimpse of ==========> 02-01-11-WashPost-UDRP.txt========== Domain Dispute Mechanism Works Well - Study By David McGuire, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 11 Jan 2002, 4:18 PM CST The global mechanism for settling disputes over Internet addresses is "functioning satisfactorily," despite lingering concerns about the extent to which arbitrators are honoring free speech rights of address holders, according to a study issued today. ==========> 02-01-12-SJMerc-DGillmor-DomainNames.txt========== Posted at 5:56 p.m. PST Saturday, Jan. 12, 2002 `Google effect' reduces need for many domains BY DAN GILLMOR Mercury News Technology Columnist Over the years, I've registered several Internet domain names -- online identifications that end in .com (or .org, or what have you) -- thinking I might someday want to use them for various projects. Last month, when my domain registrar notified me that it was time to renew one of them, I ignored the notice and let the name lapse. ==========> 02-01-14-SJMerc-TechNet-Broadband.txt========== Posted at 10:18 p.m. PST Monday, Jan. 14, 2002 Tech lobby pushes to make broadband a national priority BY CHRIS O'BRIEN Mercury News A group of Silicon Valley business leaders today will call on the president and Congress to make high-speed Internet access available to every U.S. home and business by 2010. TechNet, the powerful valley-based lobbying group that includes Cisco ==========> 02-01-16-WashPost-LarryRobertsInternerTraffic.txt========== Annual Internet Traffic Growth Still Tripling - Report By Kevin Featherly, Newsbytes. SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 16 Jan 2002, 5:21 PM CST ****Annual Internet Traffic Growth Still Tripling - Report 01/16/02 SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 2002 JAN 16 (NB) -- By Kevin Featherly, Newsbytes. Neither a weakening economy nor the U.S. terrorist attacks has done anything to ==========> 02-01-17-CNET-DomainReg.txt========== Net name registrars contest ICANN fees By Gwendolyn Mariano Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 17, 2002, 4:30 PM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1023-817911.html A fight has broken out between a key Net standards body and Web address administrators in Europe. European domain name registries including Nominet, which runs the popular .uk ==========> 02-01-20-SJMerc-Secuity.txt========== Posted at 6:33 p.m. PST Sunday, Jan. 20, 2002 Despite more security spending, Internet is even more vulnerable NEW YORK (AP) -- Spending on Internet security continues to grow, yet the worldwide supernetwork remains more vulnerable than ever to viruses, break-ins and terrorism. Simply put, hackers are getting smarter, and computer networks are getting more complex and difficult to keep safe. ==========> 02-01-28-ACMUbiquity-WebServices.txt========== WWW: Service Provider By S. Sadagopan Using the Web to deliver IT infrastructure, application development, application hosting, application maintenance and user-end software. Programmability is one of the key notions of computing. With every fundamental component of computer technology, there is programmability -- often paying huge dividends. It started with the programming of processors; it was followed by the ability to ==========> 02-01-30-SJMerc-Langberg-ReplayTV4000.txt========== Posted at 8:20 p.m. PST Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002 ReplayTV a future imperfect DVR BY MIKE LANGBERG Mercury News Personal Technology Editor Sonicblue's new ReplayTV 4000 digital video recorder is a fascinating glimpse of television's future. The future, of course, is a nice place to visit. But you wouldn't want to live there right now. ==========> 02-01-30-SJMerc-Plotnikoff-DomainNameExp.txt========== Posted at 7:33 p.m. PST Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002 Whatever happened to domain-name expansion? BY DAVID PLOTNIKOFF Mercury News While anyone who has an investment in the Internet needs to be concerned about the domain name system, it's the rare individual who can keep track of all the administrative minutiae that governs that system. The business of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a procedural fun house of alphabet-soup committees and interlocking interest ==========> 02-02-02-WashPost-ISC-SecurityInfo.txt========== http://news.com.com/2009-1001-252011.html Internet group plans security-information exchange By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 2, 2001, 12:00 PM PT The Internet Software Consortium, makers of the most popular software for the Internet's critical domain-name service, announced plans this week to create an exclusive information exchange to keep companies and software makers that use ==========> 02-02-03-SJMerc-AdsvsEditorial.txt========== Posted at 8:31 p.m. PST Sunday, Feb. 3, 2002 Line between content and ads not always clear on Internet BY SETH SUTEL Associated Press Looking for a wallpaper design on iVillage.com? No problem. Visitors to this women's lifestyle and advice site can get all the help they want finding wallpaper, so long as it comes from the American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, one of the site's sponsors. ==========> 02-02-06-DavidEssex-InternetVoting.txt========== Experts Veto ‘Net Elections By David Essex February 6, 2002 The Florida election controversy exposed a need for better voting technology. But one year later, researchers say the Internet ain’t it. Well before the 2000 presidential election, government, academics and industry were testing the Internet as a medium for casting and recording votes. The Florida debacle, with its butterfly ballots, contested chads and equipment failures, gave new impetus to this research. But despite the clamor for more ==========> 02-02-07-GlobeandMail-TMandDomainNames.txt========== Brands, free speech clash over domains By MICHAEL GEIST Thursday, February 7, 2002 – Print Edition, Page B21 Although most domain name disputes are primarily a matter of trademark law, recent experience suggests that cases are increasingly moving beyond issues of trademarks toward fundamental questions of freedom of speech. Given the conventional wisdom that the United States provides the world's strongest free speech protections, it is both surprising and noteworthy that ==========> 02-02-11-LATimes-NewTLDs.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000010611feb11.story TECHNOLOGY Newest Suffixes Help to Increase Net's Population By CHRISTINE FREY TIMES STAFF WRITER February 11 2002 The pioneers in cyberspace adopted Internet identities ending in ".net," ".org" ==========> 02-02-14-Reuters-ElecSignatures.txt========== Thursday February 14, 8:20 pm Eastern Time Internet industry pushes more flexible ID method NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Leading Internet security companies and top industry standards-setting bodies have settled on a more flexible way to verify electronic signatures for documents sent over the Web, organizers said on Thursday. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards-setting body founded by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, said that the agreement ==========> 02-02-15-GaTec-InternetPolicyEvent.txt========== The Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Presents: NEW DIRECTIONS IN INTERNET POLICY A Workshop to Examine Civil Liberties, Democratic Governance, Security, and the Public Interest. Featuring US Congressman Bob Barr on "Civil Liberties in Cyberspace" February 15 (Friday); 9:00 AM-6:00 PM ==========> 02-02-21-SJMerc-WebcastRoyalties.txt========== Posted on Thu, Feb. 21, 2002 Royalty rate set for Webcasts By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Federal regulators Wednesday set the rate Internet radio stations must pay for the right to stream music online -- settling a rancorous, four-year licensing dispute between Webcasters and the recording industry. An arbitration panel appointed by the U.S. Copyright Office recommended online ==========> 02-02-24-ICANN-PresReform.txt========== President's Report: ICANN – The Case for Reform 24 February 2002 To the Internet Community: I have now been President of ICANN for just about a year. During that time, I have talked to more people than I can count about ICANN, its accomplishments and its deficiencies, and its future. I have also had the obligation to oversee the actual day-to-day operations of ICANN, and to make the hard decisions about what to do and how to do it in an environment of an incomplete structure and ==========> 02-02-24-ICANN-ReformAnnouncement.txt========== Announcement 24 February 2002 ICANN President Recommends a Roadmap for Reform Marina del Rey, California USA (24 February 2002) At the ICANN Board of Directors retreat held over the weekend of 23 February, President Stuart Lynn proposed a sweeping series of structural reforms for ICANN. These reforms, designed to lead ICANN towards attainment of its core mission, were carefully discussed by the Board. Board directors encouraged Lynn to post the proposed ==========> 02-02-24-ICANNWatch-ICANN-Reform.txt========== Lynn to At-Large and Non-Commercial Interests in ICANN: Drop Dead Posted by michael on Sunday, February 24 @ 17:21:15 MST Contributed by michael ICANN CEO Stuart Lynn today released the official version of the plan Joe Sims was peddling to the European Union last week. We'll post a more detailed commentary in a day or two, but in the mean time suffice it to say that the plan envisages having 5 of 15 Board members selected directly by governments (plus an ex officio GAC member) and the rest by registrars, registries, plus a ==========> 02-02-24-Reuters-ICANNReform.txt========== Sunday February 24, 6:44 pm Eastern Time ICANN chief proposes major overhaul of domain-name body By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The president of the Internet's top standards-setting body proposed a radical restructuring of the organization on Sunday, hoping to settle questions of legitimacy that have dogged it from the start. M. Stuart Lynn, president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ==========> 02-02-24-WashPost-ICANN-Reform.txt========== ICANN President Proposes Sweeping Governance Changes By David McGuire, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 24 Feb 2002, 9:59 PM CST The president of the body that manages the Internet's worldwide addressing system this weekend proposed a sweeping series of reforms that would, if enacted, gut and replace the entity's existing governance structure. At a closed-door meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ==========> 02-02-25-WashPost-ICANNReform.txt========== ICANN President Defends Proposed Reforms By David McGuire, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 25 Feb 2002, 3:54 PM CST Critics of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) bashed a proposal from the group's president to gut and replace the organization's structure with a hierarchy that would give world governments a direct say in managing the Internet's global addressing system. ==========> 02-02-26-CNETNews-Web3D-VRML-X3D-XML.txt========== Bringing 3D to the Web By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 26, 2002, 4:00 AM PT Virtual Reality Modeling Language is back from the dead--again. That's the message coming from this week's Web3D 2002 Symposium (W3D) in Tempe, Ariz., where members of an emerging Web 3D standards group unveiled the first working ==========> 02-02-26-Wired-Declan-ICANNReform.txt========== If ICANN Can't, Who Should? By Declan McCullagh Wired 2:00 a.m. Feb. 26, 2002 PST WASHINGTON -- The Internet's governing body has suddenly been thrown into more turmoil than in any previous time of its four-year history. The imbroglio began late Sunday, when the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers candidly admitted that the group's experiment in ==========> 02-02-27-IETF-ICANN-Reform.txt========== http://vnunet.com/News/1129566 IETF chairman fires broadside at ICANN » James Middleton , 27-02-2002 The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has put the boot into proposals by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for more government involvement. Randy Bush, co-chairman of the IETF, and chief engineer at a number ==========> 02-02-27-SJMerc-InternetMovies.txt========== URL: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2759485.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 27, 2002 Online movies still not ready for prime time By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Perhaps you missed Leonardo DiCaprio's swashbuckling performance in ``The Man in the Iron Mask'' when the movie came to theaters. Or to video. Or to HBO. Now, four years after the film's cinematic release, you can pay $5.99 to ==========> 02-03-03-NAS-CSTB-DNSStudyProspectus.txt========== http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_dns.html Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and Policy Implications In progress Jump to: Scope | Committee Members | Staff | Sponsors March 3, 2002 Invitation to Individuals Worldwide to Provide Input Input received is being posted on the DNS auxiliary site: Responses. Track this study's progress in NAS' Current Projects system Press coverage: Government launches study of Internet domain names [IDG.net; ==========> 02-03-04-WashPost-ICANN-Reform.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174939.html ICANN President: Reforms Not Set In Stone By David McGuire, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 04 Mar 2002, 2:11 PM CST The president of the body that manages the Internet's domain name addressing system late last week said that controversial reforms he has proposed for the organization are not cast in concrete. ==========> 02-03-10-ICANN-MissionStatement.txt========== http://www.icann.org/general/toward-mission-statement-07mar02.htm Toward a Statement of the ICANN Mission Posted: 7 March 2002 Revised: 10 March 2002 Toward a Statement of the ICANN Mission Note: As the dialogue about ICANN reform continues, it is useful to also focus on the ==========> 02-03-10-SFGate-BroadbandApps.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/03/10/fina ncial1305EST0018.DTL&type=tech San Fransico Gate High-speed connections promise lifestyle improvements _ But when? ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer Sunday, March 10, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press (03-10) 10:05 PST NEW YORK (AP) -- ==========> 02-03-12-WashPost-ICANNReformGhana.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175155.html ICANN Chief's Proposal Prompts Debate In Ghana By David McGuire, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 12 Mar 2002, 4:14 PM CST The proposed dismantling and restructuring of the body that manages the Internet's naming system has prompted heated debates among the Internet addressing stakeholders convening in Ghana this week, an observer said today. ==========> 02-03-13-ICANNReform-TauzinLetter.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/14PROT.html?ex=1017164664&ei=1&en=7 e9c4ea658879634 March 14, 2002 Piracy, or Innovation? It's Hollywood vs. High Tech By AMY HARMON Leaders of two of the nation's most prominent industries, entertainment and technology, have begun publicly sniping at each ==========> 02-03-14-Auerbach-ICANNReform-Ghana.txt========== Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:18:06 -0800 (PST) From: Karl Auerbach What kind of NewSpeak Orwellian world was the attached written in? This morning ICANN killed the concept of public participation in ICANN and established in its stead a paternalistic oligarchy. The Internet will now be run by a body that adheres to principles that otherwise died with the era of Queeen Victoria and King Leopold. ==========> 02-03-14-ICANNWatch-ICANNReform-Ghana.txt========== http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=607&mode=thread&order=0 ICANN to At-Large: Drop Dead Date: Thursday, March 14 @ 09:21:52 MST Topic: Membership Issues We've had no time so far to write extended analysis of the news coming out of Accra, but here is a brief report of one piece of breaking news: The ICANN Board has formally ==========> 02-03-14-RIPE-NCC-ICANT.txt========== The RIPE NCC's response to the ICANN reform proposal document. Definitions in brackets [] are inserted by me (Barbara). Dear Stuart, With great interest we have read your latest report "ICANN - The Case for Reform". As we have said numerous times, the RIPE NCC supports the drive to return to ICANN's core tasks, the coordination of Internet resources on a ==========> 02-03-14-SJMerc-ICANNReform-Ghana.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2859339.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 14, 2002 Internet domain-name body agrees on need for reform WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The group that oversees the Internet's domain-name system said Thursday that individual users should have a voice in the organization, but stopped short of opening itself up to global elections. At a meeting in Accra, Ghana, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ==========> 02-03-14-WashPost-ICANNReform2.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175218.html ICANN To Move Forward With Restructuring, Not Elections By David McGuire, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 14 Mar 2002, 11:01 AM CST The body that manages the Internet's worldwide addressing system today voted to begin the process of restructuring itself, apparently abandoning plans to establish a global mechanism that would allow ordinary Internet users to ==========> 02-03-14-WashPost-ICANNReform.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23790-2002Mar13.html Should Geeks, Or Governments, Run the Net? By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 14, 2002; Page E1 Once again, the people who decide how the Internet is supposed to function are not getting along. The Net is alight with e-flames, and people from all over the world are in Accra, Ghana, this week, arguing with the passion of parents ==========> 02-03-15-TheRegister-ICANNRestruct-Dyson.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24443.html The Register ICANN abolishes Net democracy, but Esther steps in By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 15/03/2002 at 12:03 GMT As expected, the domain name quango ICANN yesterday affirmed its commitment to "meaningful participation and representation for individual users" by abolishing the board elections in which you or I could vote for who ==========> 02-03-18-EFF-AuerbachICANNFinances.txt========== http://www.cavebear.com/icann-board/eff-release-mar-18-2002.txt Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release For Immediate Release: Monday, March 18, 2002 Contact: Cindy Cohn Legal Director Electronic Frontier Foundation ==========> 02-03-19-Farber-AuerbachI-CANN-Lawsuit.txt========== http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200203/msg00154.ht ml Subject: IP: "Auerbach's Allegations Off Target" and Auerbach's reply to thepress release From: Dave Farber Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:46:00 -0500 Read both and make up your own mind djf ==========> 02-03-19-Salon-Auerbach-ICANN.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/19/auerbach/print.html Tilting at ICANN Karl Auerbach, elected to the Internet domain-name authority with a mandate from the people, explains why he is suing his own organization. By Damien Cave March 19, 2002 | Karl Auerbach began his tenure at ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, with a mild sense of optimism. By ==========> 02-03-25-BBC-CriticsAttackOpenAccessJournals.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1885000/1885931.stm Monday, 25 March, 2002, 11:18 GMT Critics attack net journal initiative Campaigners want free access to research results By Ivan Noble BBC News Online Critics of a project to set up alternative open-access scientific journals on the internet say the idea is ill-conceived and will undermine quality. ==========> 02-03-26-SJMerc-WirelessInternetHassles.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/2937862. htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 26, 2002 David Lidsky: Why the wireless Web is more trouble than it's worth By David Lidsky Fortune Small Business Muttering to myself in Starbucks. Again. It's not the guy who came in to make himself a venti sugarmilk from the condiments bar that's got me crazy; I am ==========> 02-03-26-Soros-OpenAccesProject-ResearchLiterature.txt========== http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml Budapest Open Access Initiative 1864 signatures have been added to the initiative. Budapest Open Access Initiative An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and ==========> 02-03-29-USACM-ICANN-RIPELetter.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/IG/ICANN_Letter.htm March 29, 2002 Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Chairman Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601 Dear Chairman Cerf: ==========> 02-04-01-NYT-ICANNRestructure.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/01/technology/ebusiness/01DOMA.html April 1, 2002 Plan to Change Internet Group Is Criticized as Inadequate By SUSAN STELLIN The organization responsible for managing the Internet's address system has embarked on a reform effort that ==========> 02-04-02-SJMerc-DG-ICANNReform.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2986450.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 02, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Dot-DNS could be the first step to loosen ICANN's grip on Net By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist The head of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, acknowledged recently that the organization is basically a mess. Finally, there was something ICANN and its legion of critics could agree on. ==========> 02-04-03-SJMerc-DownloadingMovies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/2993216. htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 03, 2002 Mike Langberg: Technology for downloading movies has come a long way By Mike Langberg Mercury News Watching movies delivered legally through the Internet to your personal computer is an idea whose time may never come, but Hollywood is finally getting ==========> 02-04-20-UPenn-Dyson.txt========== http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?catid=9&articleid=542&homepage=y es Esther Dyson on Internet Privacy, Policing, ICANN and Investing Back in the heyday of the Internet in the late 1990s, Esther Dyson was often referred to as the chief guru of the tech world, a reputation enhanced by the publication of her 1997 book, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age. ==========> 02-04-22-EETimes-InternetSecurityIssues.txt========== http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020419S0063 Security gap looms for Internet architects By Bernard Cole, EE Times Apr 22, 2002 (8:29 AM) In many respects the packet-switched, connectionless, Internet protocol-based information superhighway upon which the average consumer is becoming more dependent is very similar to the U.S. mail and is subject to the same threats to security. ==========> 02-04-23-WashPost-Dot-Org-Operator.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176082.html ICANN Seeks Out Dot-Org Operator By David McGuire, Washtech WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 23 Apr 2002, 3:08 PM CST The organization that manages the Internet's global addressing system today kicked off its search for the next steward of "dot-org" - the online neighborhood that that is home to many of the world's nonprofit groups. ==========> 02-04-23-ZDNet-IPv6DemandLacking.txt========== http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2862388,00.html IPv6: Ready when you are By Rob Batchelder, Enterprise April 23, 2002 4:58 PM PT At the beginning of 2002, approximately 30 percent of the Internet's total available address space was in use. During the period from 1995 to 1998, the number of Internet users doubled every six months, but the growth rate has slowed considerably since the turn of the century. ==========> 02-04-24-Ubiquity-Coyle-WebServices-XML.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/f_coyle_1.html XML, Web Services and the Changing Face of Distributed Computing By Frank P. Coyle A new kind of network offers a world of possibilities for moving data and building application architectures centered around common Internet protocols. The face of distributed computing is changing. The client server networks that dominated the 1980s and early 1990s are giving way ==========> 02-04-29-IHT-ICANN-Restructuring.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/56121.htm Copyright © 2002 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com Who can speak for the Internet? More voices would help Zoë Baird Monday, April 29, 2002 Alongside the economic boom times for the tech sector in recent years grew an increasing recognition of the need for new ways to govern the borderless new world brought forth by the Internet. ==========> 02-04-30-WashPost-ICANN-USDOC-Scrutiny.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176234.html Commerce Secretary Vows Scrutiny Of ICANN Reforms By David McGuire, Washtech WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 30 Apr 2002, 7:32 AM CST The U.S. Commerce Department is keeping close tabs on efforts to reform the body that manages the Internet's addressing system and will strive to make sure that those reforms reflect the needs of Internet users, U.S. Commerce Secretary ==========> 02-05-00-Discover-Internet2.txt========== http://www.discover.com/may_02/featinternet2.html DISCOVER Vol. 23 No. 5 (May 2002) Table of Contents Internet 2 A supercharged new network with true tele-presence puts the needs of science first By Brad Lemley Photography by Katharina Bosse ==========> 02-05-05-FinancialTimes-XML-SemanticWeb.txt========== http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3YB6R4V0D Quest for more meaning online The 'semantic web' may help to offload some hard work from human operators, says Richard Poynder Published: May 5 2002 18:03 | Last Updated: May 5 2002 18:56 The world wide web has revolutionised the way in which information can be published and exchanged ==========> 02-05-07-CNETNews-StreamingVideo.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1023-900617.html Net video's obstacle to a steady stream By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 7, 2002, 4:00 AM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1023-900617.html Streaming media companies aim to make Web video as seamless as television, but recent advances in technology may fall short of solving deeper problems with ==========> 02-05-07-SJMerc-EU-VAT-USCompanies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3214367.htm Posted on Tue, May. 07, 2002 EU to levy taxes on U.S., non-European e-commerce BRUSSELS, May 7 (Reuters) - The European Union approved on Tuesday rules that will require U.S. and other non-EU firms to levy value-added tax (VAT) on products such as computer games and software they sell on the Internet to private customers in the 15-nation bloc. ==========> 02-05-10-WashPost-ICANN-ReformLessGovtRep.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2490-2002May10.html washingtonpost.com Internet Governance Body Eases Off Government Involvement By David McGuire Washtech.com Staff Writer Friday, May 10, 2002; 5:23 PM The body that manages the Internet's addressing system appears to be backing away - for now at least - from a proposal that would give world governments ==========> 02-05-12-NandoTimes-PublicDomainInfo.txt========== http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/399236p-3178262c.html Technology: Public domain info under threat, say groups Copyright © 2002 United Press International By SCOTT R. BURNELL, United Press International WASHINGTON (May 12, 2002 10:39 a.m. EDT) - The Internet-powered explosion of easily available data has spawned a backlash of copyright and patent activity that threatens information in the public domain, speakers at ==========> 02-05-13-BusinessWeek-Lessig-FutureEBusiness.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782610.htm MAY 13, 2002 SPECIAL REPORT -- THE FUTURE OF E-BUSINESS Lawrence Lessig: The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over If the media giants have their way, the Net freedom fighter says, content will be rigidly controlled and innovation stifled ==========> 02-05-16-CreativeCommons-SharingInfo.txt========== http://www.creativecommons.org/ You're making a movie and need still images. You're starting out as a photographer and want to spread the word. You're teaching a course and need materials. You've written an article and you want people to analyze it. You're building a website and need graphics. You're a digital artist who wants to collaborate with other artists. You're performing a concert and need a symphony. You've composed a symphony and want people to perform it. How will Creative Commons help you? ==========> 02-05-22-Wired-DotKidsDotUS.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52709,00.html Dot-Kids Heads a Mess of Regs By Declan McCullagh 2:00 a.m. May 22, 2002 PDT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Congress, racing to leave town before the Memorial Day recess, is focusing on Internet regulation like never before. Politicians are scrambling to debate a raft of technology regulations, ranging ==========> 02-05-23-NYT-JPEG2000-Wavelets.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/technology/circuits/23JPEG.html May 23, 2002 Format's Redesign Yields Faster Image Files By JEFFREY SELINGO The compression format that reduces the file size of most photographs for transmission over the Internet is getting a long overdue face-lift this year, which should be a relief for Web users frustrated by lengthy download times and blurry images. It also promises plenty of new features for Web designers. ==========> 02-05-23-Reuters-ICANN-Reform.txt========== http://news.com.com/2102-1023-921867.html ICANN tackles management basics By Reuters May 23, 2002, 3:40 PM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1023-921867.html The group that oversees the Internet's addressing system will meet this weekend to try to sort out its most contentious issues to date: How it should function, and who should participate. ==========> 02-05-23-WashPost-BobKahn-InternetFutures-Wireless.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60488-2002May22.html Visions Of a Wild and Wireless Future By Shannon Henry Thursday, May 23, 2002; Page E01 Robert Kahn, one of the fathers of the Internet, laughs when he hears people describe the network in modern-day terms. Many, he says, see it as being synonymous with AOL. ==========> 02-05-27-Fortune-DysonInterview.txt========== http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207862 TECH@WORK Esther Dyson: Living the Networked Life The pundit who knows everybody sees a future for business in which the more people you connect and interact with, the better you do. FORTUNE May 27, 2002 By David Kirkpatrick ==========> 02-05-27-NYT-OnlineJurisdiction.txt========== May 27, 2002 A Libel Suit May Establish E-Jurisdiction By CARL S. KAPLAN Two years ago, when Stanley Young, a Virginia prison warden, learned that two Connecticut newspapers had written stories about his prison's treatment of inmates from that state, he went to read the four articles on the Internet. He did not much like what he saw. "I was a lot angry," recalled Mr. Young, head of Wallens Ridge State ==========> 02-05-29-CNETNews-InternetInternationalJurisdiction.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1023-927316.html Enforcing laws in a borderless Web By Lisa M. Bowman Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 29, 2002, 4:00 AM PT Former Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle could find himself cuffed if he sets foot on French soil. His alleged crime: Allowing the posting of Nazi collectibles on Yahoo's U.S.-based site--an action Holocaust survivors say violates France's war crimes ==========> 02-05-29-HR4640-FalseInfoRegisterDomainName.txt========== <> Thanks so much for all of your valuable information and insight. The bill definitely has a number -- it is HR 4640. Below, please find its text. To provide criminal penalties for providing false information in registering a domain name on the Internet. (Introduced in House) HR 4640 IH 107th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4640 To provide criminal penalties for providing false information in registering a domain name on the Internet. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 2, 2002 Mr. COBLE (for himself and Mr. BERMAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide criminal penalties for providing ==========> 02-05-29-MediaAccesProj-OpenCompetition-DNS.txt========== NON-PROFITS URGE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: SELECT INTERNET ADDRESS MANAGER THROUGH OPEN COMPETITION An unusually broad coalition of non-profits today called upon the Department of Commerce (DoC) to open to competition the process for selecting who will control the process of how Internet addresses are designed and assigned. Groups as diverse as the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, the more traditionally left-leaning Consumers Union, and free speech advocates such as the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation, urged the Commerce Department to "re-compete" the three agreements under which the ==========> 02-05-29-Slate-MusicSharingServices.txt========== http://slate.msn.com//?id=2066277&device= Post-Napster Future Which music-sharing service is right for you? By Bill Barnes Updated Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 1:32 PM PT Years from now, I hope to plop my grandchildren on my knee and tell them the story of Napster, the service ==========> 02-05-29-Ubiquity-ContentValue-XML.txt========== Reestablishing the Value of Content By Gerry McGovern Everything has a cost, even so-called "free" content. The irony of the current information economy is that much content has lost its value. The Web was ushered in waving the banner, "Information wants to be free." For the Web, and the information economy in general, to advance and mature, we need to reestablish the value of content. ==========> 02-05-30-WashPost-ICANNNeedsCompetitors.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176810.html Critics: ICANN Should Compete For Net Governance Duties By David McGuire, Washington Post WASHINGTON, D.C., 30 May 2002, 8:56 AM CST The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) should be forced to compete for the right to continue managing the Internet's global addressing system, a group of influential public interest groups said ==========> 02-05-31-CPSRCivSoc-ICANNReformRecommendations.txt========== CYBER-FEDERALIST No. 13 31 May 2002 STAYING THE COURSE ON INTERNET PRIVATIZATION Comments on ICANN Reform [1] Civil Society Democracy Project (CivSoc) Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) http://www.civsoc.org The Internet Democracy Project ==========> 02-05-31-ICANN-RestructuringCommitteReport.txt========== http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/recommendations-31may02.htm Recommendations for the Evolution and Reform of ICANN Posted: 31 May 2002 Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform Recommendations for the Evolution and Reform of ICANN I. The ICANN Mission ==========> 02-06-04-Slashdot-RestructuringCommitteReport.txt========== http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/06/04/1652254.shtml?tid=95 Posted by michael on Tuesday June 04, @02:51PM from the top-down dept. JCallery writes "CNN is reporting on the plan drawn up by ICANN's restructuring committee after ICANN decided to abandon direct elections." We had a earlier story about the restructuring plan with ==========> 02-06-06-PCWorld-LiebermanUniversalBroadbandBill.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,101715,00.asp Could Broadband Become the Law? Lieberman's push for universal access draws both support and concern over playing technological favorites. Anne Ju, Medill News Service Thursday, June 06, 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A bill that seeks a universal broadband-access strategy within six months is drawing criticism from some who say that calling such ==========> 02-06-10-BostonGlobe-MassBroadbandSummit-BBAdoptionRate.txt========== http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/tech_innovation/news/0610_broadband.html Broadband talks to address new strategies By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 6/10/2002 BURLINGTON — As more than 200 Internet industry leaders and public officials gather for a "Massachusetts broadband summit" here this morning, US Representative Edward J. Markey is siding with state and federal regulators who see no crisis in the availability of high-speed Internet service, but a failure of ==========> 02-06-11-Yahoo-SenBurns-ControlICANN.txt========== http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020611/pl_nm/tech_icann_dc_2 U.S. Should Control Internet Body, Senator Says Tue Jun 11,12:28 AM ET By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator said he would try to rein in the group that oversees the Internet's traffic system, calling for a more direct U.S. government role in the ostensibly international and independent body. ==========> 02-06-12-BusinessWeek-CableInternet-TieredPricing.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2002/tc20020612_1108.htm JUNE 12, 2002 NEWS ANALYSIS Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers? New pricing plans for broadband use could make downloading pirated music and movies a prohibitively costly habit Jon, a computer programmer, is exactly the kind of music lover the Recording Industry ==========> 02-06-13-Wired-SenateSupportsICANNRestructure.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53159,00.html Senators Weigh ICANN's Future By Joanna Glasner 2:00 a.m. June 13, 2002 PDT Members of an influential Senate subcommittee indicated Wednesday that they would support reorganization of the Internet's chief administrative body. In an afternoon hearing of the Senate's Science, Technology and Space ==========> 02-06-17-NYT-Senate-ICANN-Restructuring.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/technology/17NECO.html June 17, 2002 Questions Surround Domain Names By SUSAN STELLIN ith Congress busy investigating failures within United States intelligence agencies that have national and global consequences, the shortcomings of the organization charged with managing the Internet's address system may seem trivial by comparison. ==========> 02-06-17-WSJ-ICANN-DomainNames.txt========== "Whose Domain Is It Anyway?" Wall Street Journal Online (06/17/02); Dyson, Esther What is at stake in ICANN reform is who should oversee ICANN: the Internet community, the U.S. government as Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) advocates, or a polyglot of national governments, writes Esther Dyson. Today ICANN provides a crucial role as the nexus of the Internet, and yet Dyson ICANN only offers standards of conduct for domain name selling and Internet services, and it remains "weak and powerless." Although ICANN's role needs to be bolstered, ICANN equally needs to remain a "weak" organization, stepping in ==========> 02-06-20-WashPost-ICANN-Restructuring.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14090-2002Jun19.html ICANN, Dotted With Doubts Role as Domain-Name Manager In Danger as Criticism Grows By David McGuire washingtonpost.com Thursday, June 20, 2002; Page E06 Questions about who should control the Internet's complex global addressing system are mounting as the current governing body weighs whether to do away ==========> 02-06-21-WashPost-BusinessGovtImpedeInternetUse.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20822-2002Jun20.html washingtonpost.com Web Thinkers Warn of Culture Clash Internet May Be Stunted By Business, Government By Anick Jesdanun Associated Press Friday, June 21, 2002; Page E05 The Internet's potential for promoting expression and empowering citizens is ==========> 02-06-26-Wired-DenmarkDeepLinkingLawsuit.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53501,00.html Deep Linking's Legal Link on Hold By Farhad Manjoo 11:55 a.m. June 26, 2002 PDT After two days of hearings, a Danish court has delayed making a decision in a closely watched case that could determine the legality of "deep linking" in Denmark and other European Union countries. ==========> 02-06-27-AP-EU-ICANN-Autonomy.txt========== http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020627/ap_wo_en_po/romania_i nternet_oversight_2 Europeans demand independence from U.S.-based Internet overseer Thu Jun 27, 5:19 PM ET By ALISON MUTLER, Associated Press Writer BUCHAREST, Romania - The Internet ( news - external web site)'s key oversight body is coming under fire from Europeans and others who want more independence from the U.S.-based organization. ==========> 02-06-27-SJMerc-InternetJunkie-TieredPricing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3554640.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 27, 2002 Tiered pricing worries Net junkie By Leslie Walker Washington Post My name is Leslie, and I'm a Net-a-holic. Not a recovering one, but an active, unabashed bandwidth hog, consuming all the Internet access I can get from the cable wires in my home. Lately, I'm ==========> 02-06-28-SJMerc-ICANNRestruct-NoIndividualBoardMembers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3563837.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 28, 2002 ICANN leaves ordinary surfer high and dry BUCHAREST, June 28 (Reuters) - The group that oversees the Internet's name system voted on Friday to exclude ordinary Web surfers from its board in a move which critics say allows mainstream interests to tighten their grip on the online world. ==========> 02-06-28-SJMerc-Nader-FTC-SearchEnginesAdPlacement.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3565718.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 28, 2002 FTC says search engines should disclose paid listings more clearly WASHINGTON (AP) - Internet search engines that take money from Web sites in exchange for prominent placement should make that practice clearer to Web users, federal regulators said Friday. Many search engine Web sites, including AltaVista, LookSmart and AOL Search, ==========> 02-06-29-NYT-ICANN-ApprovesReorg.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/technology/29DOMA.html June 29, 2002 Internet Address Group Approves Overhaul By SUSAN STELLIN The group that manages the Internet's address system moved forward with its reorganization process yesterday, approving the outline of a plan that is intended to streamline operations and speed decision-making. ==========> 02-06-30-SFChronicle-WiFiNetworks.txt========== http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/30/BU16195 5.DTL&type=tech Wi-Fi fans Grassroots techies want to build a wireless Internet network across the Bay Area Todd Wallack, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, June 30, 2002 ©2002 San Francisco Chronicle. ==========> 02-07-01-CFA-FCCPoliciesStranglelSPs.txt========== http://www.consumerfed.org/backpage/070102_broadband_release.html ADMINISTRATION'S BROADBAND POLICY WOULD STRANGLE ISPs, DESTROY COMPETITIVE INTERNET MARKETPLACE --Study Shows Historical Lessons Support Continuation of Open Communication Networks -- Washington, D.C.- July 1, 2002: A study released today by the Consumer ==========> 02-07-01-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-LessigZittrainEtc.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/e journal/3580048.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 01, 2002 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 ==========> 02-07-02-Salon-Gilmore-ICANN-ShouldGo.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/print.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. By Damien Cave July 2, 2002 | 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 ==========> 02-07-02-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-FisherCohenEtc.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/e journal/3586324.htm Posted on Tue, Jul. 02, 2002 ILaw, Day Two Posted by Dan Gillmor Notes from the Internet Law seminar, Day Two: (As yesterday, check out the Copytheft blog by Donna Wentworth, who often ==========> 02-07-03-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-BenklerStallmanMatusowLessig.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/e journal/3593653.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 03, 2002 ILaw Day 3 Posted by Dan Gillmor Notes from the Internet Law program at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. Day Three: Yochai Benkler ==========> 02-07-04-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-JohariLessigBenklerFisherGuerreroMcLaughlin.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/e journal/3600823.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 04, 2002 Internet Law, Day 4 Posted by Dan Gillmor Day Four of the Internet Law program at Harvard Law School. As always, keep an eye on the Copyfight site blog of this gathering, as well as Drew Clark's updates. ==========> 02-07-05-SJMerc-DG-HarvardConf-InternetLaw-KangKellyZittrainEdelmanNessonRamasastry.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/e journal/3605977.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 05, 2002 Internet Law, Day 5 Posted by Dan Gillmor Back at Harvard Law School for Day 5 of the Internet Law Program. Notes for Morning Session follow. Here are notes for afternoon session. ==========> 02-07-05-SJMerc-NewsboosterBarred-DeepLinking.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3606498.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 05, 2002 Web site barred from linking to Danish newspaper Web sites COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Challenging the World Wide Web's fundamental premise of linking, a Danish court ordered an Internet news service to stop linking to Web sites of Danish newspapers. Copenhagen's lower bailiff's court ruled Friday that Newsbooster.com was in ==========> 02-07-08-SJMerc-DG-HarvardILawSummary.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/3 622318.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 08, 2002 Control freaks tightening their grip on the Internet By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Do the currently disorganized, decentralized forces of bottom-up creativity have a prayer of countering the highly organized, moneyed ==========> 02-07-09-CNnetNews-Cable-WIFICrackdownt.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1033-942323.html Cable companies cracking down on Wi-Fi By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 9, 2002, 4:00 AM PT Broadband providers are cracking down on popular Wi-Fi networks, threatening to cut service to customers who set up the inexpensive wireless systems and allow others to freely tap into their Internet access. ==========> 02-07-11-SJMerc-ISPsOfferDigitalMusic.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3641813.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 11, 2002 EarthLink hopes to boost broadband demand with digital music service By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Internet providers have finally recognized the true lesson of Napster: that online music will drive broadband adoption faster than you can say, ``Stop, thief!'' ==========> 02-07-16-Unknown-WirelessConsortium-WiFi-ProjRainbow.txt========== Wireless consortium pushes broadband agenda By Ephraim Schwartz July 16, 2002 5:29 pm PT ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE the adoption of high-speed wireless, IBM, Intel, and AT&T are investigating the construction of a national wireless data network that will apparently preclude similar efforts by other industry groups. According to a report published in the New York Times on Tuesday, the scheme, called Project Rainbow, would enable users of handheld and portable ==========> 02-07-29-AP-AuerbachCanSeeICANNBooks.txt========== http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020729/ap_on_hi_te/internet_ body_lawsuit_1 ICANN Member Wins Records Access Mon Jul 29, 4:41 PM ET By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (AP) - A board member for the Internet's key oversight body won the right Monday to inspect records without first agreeing to nondisclosure and other restrictions sought by its management. ==========> 02-07-29-ICANNBlog-Fausett-AuerbachWinsCourtCriticizesICANN.txt========== http://icann.blog.us/stories/2002/07/29/auerbachWinsCourtCriticize.html Auerbach Wins, Court Criticizes ICANN Bret Fausett 7/29/02; 10:01:03 PM. It's hard to imagine a more complete win than what ICANN Director Karl Auerbach received today from Los ==========> 02-07-30-BusinessWeek-WiFi-Issues.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2002/tc20020730_0782.htm JULY 30, 2002 NEWS ANALYSIS The High Hurdles Facing Wi-Fi If overcrowded spectrum isn't destined to crimp its growth, it'll need better technology and regulatory help from the FCC A recent Doonesbury cartoon said it all: ==========> 02-07-30-TheRegister-AuerbachCanSeeICANNBooks.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26441.html ICANN director to see accounts By Andrew Orlowski in London Posted: 30/07/2002 at 10:38 GMT ICANN board member Karl Auerbach has won the right to inspect ICANN's books. In any other corporation, a director encumbered with duties to his ==========> 02-08-03-SJMerc-DG-AuerbackCanLookAtICANNBooks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3792640.htm Posted on Sat, Aug. 03, 2002 ICANN-AuerbackCanLook AT Books By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist NOW HE CAN LOOK: The secretive corporation that guides the Internet's domain-name system has to let a member of its board of directors look at the books and other internal records, a judge ruled earlier this week. ==========> 02-08-05-SJMerc-ChinaJailsNetUser.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3803541.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 05, 2002 China jails politically incorrect Net user 11 yrs HONG KONG, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The Chinese government has sentenced a former policeman to jail for eleven years for downloading ``anti-revolutionary'' materials from the Internet, a human rights group in Hong Kong said on Monday. Li Dawei, 40, was the first person found guilty of subversion for downloading ==========> 02-08-08-CPSRCivSoc-ICANN-CreatingTheIllusionOfLegitimacy.txt========== http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/ CYBER-FEDERALIST No. 14 8 August 2002 Creating the Illusion of Legitimacy Civil Society Democracy Project (CivSoc) Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) http://www.civsoc.org ==========> 02-08-14-SJMerc-IsRegistrarLiable-sex.com-Registration.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3858468.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 14, 2002 Sex.com dispute returns to court VERISIGN'S LIABILITY LATEST ISSUE IN CASE By Chris O'Brien Mercury News The legal saga over rights to the Sex.com Internet address returned to court Tuesday in San Francisco, where a federal appeals court was asked to decide ==========> 02-08-15-AP-Japan-InternetPhoneUseGrows.txt========== Japanese embrace inexpensive Net phone calls TOKYO (AP) — For years, the high cost of phone calls was the biggest obstacle to Internet growth. These days, that curse is proving to be a bit of a blessing. As always-on broadband Internet service becomes more available, towering tariffs for traditional voice calls are encouraging adoption of a technology that has yet to make much headway with consumers elsewhere: voice over Internet. ==========> 02-09-01-SJMerc-DG-OpenAccess-AOLCapitulates.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3982670.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 01, 2002 AOL capitulates, gives up struggle for `open access' By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist The future of information access came closer into focus last week when AOL Time Warner and AT&T agreed to unravel an old business deal in favor of some new arrangements. Needless to say, their customers' needs were scarcely on the ==========> 02-09-08-SJMerc-DG-TenReasonsForInternetSuccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/4029770.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 08, 2002 10 choices that were critical to the Net's success By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist In our modern, corporate culture, the rise of the Internet is a happy accident. In its roots and growth, says Scott Bradner, the Net never had a business model. ==========> 02-09-08-SJMerc-IBM-MovielinkToDeliverMoviesOnline.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4033346.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 08, 2002 IBM getting into movies TECHNOLOGY WILL DELIVER FILMS ONLINE By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News IBM will announce today a deal with five of Hollywood's major studios to provide the underlying technology to deliver motion pictures via the Internet. ==========> 02-09-13-WashPost-ICANNAgreementWillBeRenewed.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13478-2002Sep13.html U.S. Will Renew ICANN's Authority By David McGuire washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Friday, September 13, 2002; 5:41 PM 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. ==========> 02-09-15-SJMerc-DG-IssuesThatWillShapeTheInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4079611. htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 15, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Issues that will shape the Internet By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist It took a series of smart decisions to create the Internet as an open network where innovation could thrive, as I noted in this space a week ago. Now let's ==========> 02-09-16-CIOInsight-Lessig-P2PandSpamVigilantes.txt========== http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article/0,3668,a=31039,00.asp September 16, 2002 A Bounty on Spammers By Lawrence Lessig According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, a vigilante is "a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate)." He or she is "a self-appointed doer of justice." ==========> 02-09-19-CNETNews-SorkinInterview-IP-Privacy-DeepLinking-Spam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2008-1082-958576.html A cybersage speaks his mind By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 19, 2002, 12:00 PM PT For a law professor specializing in the Internet, David Sorkin takes a pretty dim view of cyberlaw. ==========> 02-09-20-DOCNTIA-ICANNAgreementExtended.txt========== http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2002/icann_09192002.htm September 20, 2002 Contact: Clyde Ensslin or Ranjit de Silva, 202-482-7002 Commerce Department, ICANN Amend Internet Domain Name System Management Agreement One year extension includes heightened scrutiny and mandates new quarterly reports The Commerce Department today announced that it is extending for one year its ==========> 02-09-24-Wired-BermanBillDebate.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55294,00.html P2P Pugilists Put Up Their Dukes By Michael Grebb 2:00 a.m. Sep. 24, 2002 PDT WASHINGTON -- In a panel discussion steeped in dogma, adherents on both sides of the Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) debate accused each other of everything from aiding thieves to destroying the Internet. ==========> 02-10-03-LinuxJournal-DocSearls-DigitalHollywoodConfReview-Disconnected.txt========== http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6360 Doc talks about what he learned by attending last week's Digital Hollywood Conference in Beverly Hills. The following article is the text of Doc Searls' SuitWatch newsletter from October 3, 2002. When I showed up at the Digital Hollywood conference in Beverly Hills last week, I didn't expect much in the way of connectivity. Free wireless Net access, now almost ==========> 02-10-07-CNETNews-BrucePerens-W3CAdoptsRoyaltyFreePolicy.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-961092.html Beware of the Internet toll booth By Bruce Perens Special to ZDNet October 7, 2002, 12:53 PM PT The penultimate step in a yearlong battle over patents on Internet standards came last week, when the World Wide Web Consortium Patent Policy Board voted to recommend a royalty-free policy. ==========> 02-10-09-RIPE-RIRBlueprint-InternetAddrMgmt.txt========== http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/regional/nrr-blueprint-20021009.html RIR Blueprint for Evolution and Reform of Internet Address Management October 2002 1. Preamble The ICANN Evolution and Reform activity has been regarded by the RIRs as a timely initiative on the part of ICANN. Not only has this process offered ICANN itself the ability to objectively reassess its objectives and reassess the ==========> 02-10-25-CyberFederalist-ICANNAtLargeOrg-UserVoice.txt========== http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/ Cyber-Federalist No. 15 25 October 2002 THE USER VOICE IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE -- ICANNatlarge.org Civil Society Democracy Project (CivSoc) Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) http://www.civsoc.org The Internet Democracy Project http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/ ==========> 02-10-27-SJMerc-AuerbachLoosesICANNSeat.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/living/4384835.htm Posted on Sun, Oct. 27, 2002 ICANN's contrarian gets the boot By Anick Jesdanun Associated Press SCOTTS VALLEY - Karl Auerbach joined the Internet's key oversight body as a voice of the online public, pledging to transform an organization he considers beholden to vested commercial interests. ==========> 02-10-29-ComputerWorld-ICANNCriticsMayCreateRivalGroup.txt========== http://computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,75485,00.ht ml ICANN critics may create rival Internet administration group By TODD R. WEISS OCTOBER 29, 2002 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit group that runs the Internet's Domain Name System, might be challenged next year for some of its administrative power by a group of dissatisfied top-level ==========> 02-10-29-PersonalTelco-WirelessCommunities-Listing.txt========== http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/WirelessCommunities Wireless Communities are popping up all over the world, here we maintain a list of all of the communities we've managed to find all over the world. If you know of another one please add it to the list. Note: This is a list of community wireless groups who are building free and open networks. If you are a commercial provider we wish you the best of luck but this is not the list for you. Thanks. -- Adam Shand ==========> 02-10-30-WashPost-MDPlansBroadbandBackboneLaunch.txt========== Washington Post Md. Plans Broadband Backbone Launch By Michael P. Bruno washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Wednesday, October 30, 2002; 7:09 AM Maryland officials today will formally launch an Internet backbone network aimed at ensuring access to broadband service for every university, school, police department and any other public-sector organization in the state. ==========> 02-11-04-SJMerc-WiFiInternetFutures.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4 Posted on Mon, Nov. 04, 2002 Miguel Helft: Is Wi-Fi in your Internet future? By Miguel Helft Take a stroll through any major airport these days and you're bound to see them: the haggard business travelers hogging pay phones, laptops propped on a knee, frantically trying to download or send a few e-mails before boarding. ==========> 02-11-06-BTSignsBroadbandPactWithMS.txt========== BT Signs Broadband Pact with Microsoft By Braden Reddall Nov. 6, 2002 LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's dominant fixed-line telecoms operator BT Group Plc. said Wednesday it had signed a formal strategic alliance with U.S. software giant Microsoft to develop more high-speed Internet services. The alliance puts BT on an equal footing with Microsoft's other telecoms partners around the world, South Korea (news - web sites)'s KT Corp. in Asia and Verizon in the United States. ==========> 02-11-07-GlobeAndMail-ICANNTurfWars.txt========== http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20021107/TWG EIS Internet turf war playing out By MICHAEL GEIST Thursday, November 7, 2002 – Print Edition, Page B15 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 ==========> 02-11-07-WashPost-WiFiHeadingForAirSupremcy.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20152-2002Nov6.html Wi-Fi, Heading for Air Supremacy By Leslie Walker Thursday, November 7, 2002; Page E01 You would not be crazy for thinking the "anytime, anywhere" vision of a wireless Internet had faded to "nowhere, never again" after the telecommunications industry meltdown. Who would throw good money after bad? ==========> 02-11-12-NYT-NetworkedWorldsFinalFrontier-TheAirplane.txt========== New York Times A Networked World's Final Frontier: The Airplane By SUSAN STELLIN Nov. 12, 2002 On a recent flight from New York to Oakland, Calif., Madeline Duva worked her BlackBerry pager with the intensity of a pinball player, right up until the second of four announcements from the flight crew reminding passengers that all electronic devices must be turned off. ==========> 02-11-15-SJMerc-CongressApprovesKidsDomainAndWebcastingRoyaltyFees.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4530132.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 15, 2002 Congress Creates Kids' Internet Area DAVID HO Associated Press WASHINGTON - Congress approved legislation Friday to create a safe haven on the Internet for children, where parents can be assured Web sites are free of pornography and other material not suitable for youngsters. ==========> 02-11-18-NYT-Markoff-BusinessesBetOnWirelessInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/technology/18WIFI.html "Businesses, Big and Small, Bet on Wireless Internet Access" New York Times (11/18/02) P. C1; Markoff, John Both large and small companies are investing in wireless Internet technologies such as Wi-Fi, which are being touted as the next major communications advance, promising anytime, anywhere high-speed Internet access. San-Francisco-based Vivato, for example, has a Wi-Fi antenna that more ==========> 02-11-25-NewsFactor-AlternativeDNSs-OpenNIC.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20076.html NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: The Rogue DNS Phenomenon By Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier NewsFactor Network November 25, 2002 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is responsible for allocating and managing IP (Internet Protocol) addresses and ==========> 02-11-26-ScienceDaily-OSUStudy-LossOfHubCitiesCouldCrippleInternet.txt========== http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/11/021126072153.htm Web Site: ScienceDaily Magazine Original Source: Ohio State University Date Posted: 11/26/2002 Loss Of Major Hub Cities Could Cripple Internet, Study Suggests COLUMBUS, Ohio – A terrorist attack or other disaster that destroyed key telecommunications equipment in major cities would disrupt the Internet much like severe storms at airline hubs ties up the nation's air traffic, a new ==========> 02-12-02-FirstMonday-BeyondCouchPotatoes-ContributorsNotConsumers.txt========== http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_12/fischer/index.html Beyond "Couch Potatoes": From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors by Gerhard Fischer The fundamental challenge for computational media is to contribute to the invention and design of cultures in which humans can express themselves and engage in personally meaningful activities. Cultures are substantially defined by their media and tools for thinking, working, learning, and collaborating. New media change (1) the ==========> 02-12-05-OReilly-Auerbach-ICANNOutOfControl.txt========== http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/12/05/karl.html Published on The O'Reilly Network (http://www.oreillynet.com/) Karl Auerbach: ICANN "Out of Control" by Richard Koman 12/05/2002 Editor's note: Strong forces are reshaping the Internet these days. To understand these forces--governmental, ==========> 02-12-05-Weinberger-OpenSpectrumProvidesGreaterConnectedness.txt========== http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/framing_openspectrum.html Why Open Spectrum Matters The End of the Broadcast Nation David Weinberger [1] self@evident.com, www.evident.com Last updated: 12.5.02 The End of the Broadcast Nation ==========> 02-12-11-SJMerc-DG-AustralianCourtSaysOKToLibelSuitThere.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4719322.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 11, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Australian court's upside-down Internet ruling By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist The judges of the High Court of Australia must be some of the most obtuse people on the planet. ==========> 02-12-12-G2BGroup-WeblogsAndPR.txt========== http://www.g2bgroup.com/rmrr0106.htm Dec 12, 2002, Interview w/ Ragan's Media Relations Report Used by permission 1) Have weblogs become a media outlet that need to be "monitored" by PR people? Why? Yes, for three principal reasons: ==========> 02-12-12-NYT-InteractiveAds-MoviePostersThatTalkBack.txt========== December 12, 2002 Movie Posters That Talk Back By MICHEL MARRIOTT New York Times MOVIE posters - paper-and-ink enticements that can be traced to the days of nickelodeons - have over the decades become so commonplace in theater lobbies that they have practically faded into the wallpaper for millions of American moviegoers. Noticed, maybe, yet never really seen. ==========> 02-12-13-SJMerc-DirectTVToShutDownInternetService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4734875.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 13, 2002 Hughes to shut down high-speed Internet service NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hughes Electronics Corp. , the top U.S. satellite television operator, said Friday it would shut down its loss-making high-speed Internet business, three days after it and rival EchoStar Communications Corp. pulled the plug on their proposed $18 billion merger. ==========> 02-12-15-SJMerc-OnLineSimsNewWrinkle.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4743882.htm Posted on Sun, Dec. 15, 2002 Online play to add new wrinkle to curiously compelling `Sims' By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News The bestselling computer game of all time isn't about winning the Super Bowl, repelling an invading force or indulging any other adolescent-boy fantasy. ==========> 02-12-16-InfoWorld-ICANNPlansNewSponsoredTLDs.txt========== December 16, 2002 12:46 AM ICANN board okays plan for new top-level domains By Joris Evers AMSTERDAM -- AMSTERDAM (12/16/2002) - More sponsored top-level domain (TLD) names are coming to the Internet, but it is unclear how many and how soon, the organization that manages the Internet's domain name space said Sunday. ==========> 02-12-17-Wired-ICANNPlansNewSponsoredTLDs.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56879,00.html ICANN to Add Three New Domains By Joanna Glasner 02:00 AM Dec. 17, 2002 PT The announcement from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that it will add three new top-level domains to the Net's root servers leaves technology policy watchers with a lingering question: ==========> 02-12-18-PubInterestReg-AdvCommForDotOrg.txt========== http://publicinterestregistry.org/about/council.html FORMATION OF PUBLIC INTEREST REGISTRY .ORG ADVISORY COUNCIL In October 2001, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) selected the Public Interest Registry (PIR) as the registry operator for .ORG beginning in 2003. PIR is a new not-for-profit organization, established by the Internet Society (ISOC), envisioned to serve as a benchmark for registry services that are operated in the interest of the public and that are ==========> 02-12-20-NYT-Markoff-BushAdminProposesInternetMonitoringSystem.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/technology/20MONI.html December 20, 2002 Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet By JOHN MARKOFF and JOHN SCHWARTZ The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable ==========> 02-12-20-Wired-TerroristsUnlikelyToDamageNet.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,56935,00.html Terrorists on the Net? Who Cares? By Noah Shachtman 02:00 AM Dec. 20, 2002 PT To all those Chicken Littles clucking frantically about the imminent threat of a terrorist attack on U.S. computer networks, a new report says: Knock it off. ==========> 03-01-00-CACM-ITResearchAndInnovationInEGovernment.txt========== Digital government: IT research, innovation, and e-government William L. Scherlis, Jon Eisenberg January 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 1 Over the past few years, the basic outline of an e-government vision has emerged, and government has taken promising steps to deploy e-government services. Much remains to be done, however, both in implementing e-government services and in developing new technologies and concepts, if the e-government vision is to be broadly realized. A recent study by the National Research ==========> 03-01-00-ColumbiaJournalismRev-DG-InteractiveJournalism.txt========== HERE COMES 'WE MEDIA' Tech-Savvy Readers Want In on the Conversation BY DAN GILLMOR In 1999, Jane’s Intelligence Review, the journal widely followed in national security circles, wondered whether it was on the right track with an article about computer security and cyberterrorism. The editors went straight to some experts — the denizens of Slashdot, a tech-oriented Web site — and ==========> 03-01-00-Money-HighResPhotosFavoriteBroadbandApp.txt========== What’s Hot for 2003 Tech Enthusiast Brian L. Clark Money, January 2003, p.111 [Deleted] Broadband Still puttering along the Web at 56Kbps (or less)? Then this is the year to go ==========> 03-01-00-NetAction-TheFutureOfTheInternetAndCommunication.txt========== http://www.netaction.org/futures/scenarios-all.html Our Stake in Cyberspace The Future of the Internet and Communication As We Know It By Judi Clark NetAction Advisory Board Member Introduction The future is uncertain. A useful tool for looking into the ==========> 03-01-01-CIOInsight-Internet2ProvidesMegaBandwidth.txt========== http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,3959,841026,00.asp January 1, 2003 Mega-Bandwidth Gets Real By Gary A. Bolles Advanced networking technologies are being used today in universities and R&D labs far from the average corporation. But they're making their way to your company. Are you ready? ==========> 03-01-02-Philly-TechBarriersToWebsites.txt========== http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/technology/4855863.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 02, 2003 Internet users find barriers to sites at school, work, library Governments, firms, universities and ISPs put up fences. Some do it by design. Others, however, do it unintentionally. By Anick Jesdanun Associated Press On the Internet, you can learn about virtually anything. You can seek ==========> 03-01-06-DaveWiner-Weblogs.txt========== http://davenet.userland.com/2003/01/06/firstEssayOfTheYear First essay of the year Mon, Jan 6, 2003; by Dave Winer. First essay of the year I still owe you an essay to kick off the new year. ==========> 03-01-06-SJMerc-MoreEUUsersWillingToPayForContent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4884503.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 06, 2003 Net users shake off stingy ways, pay for content LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Internet's reputation as a haven for freeloaders is beginning to lose some meaning as research released on Monday suggested the majority of Western European online users are willing to pay for digital content. ==========> 03-01-08-SJMerc-DG-TheReadWriteWeb.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/ January 08, 2003 The Read-Write Web • posted by Dan Gillmor 01:36 PM Dave Winer's First (DaveNet) Essay of the Year is about many things, but it may boil down best to what he says in the first section: " The Web uniquely wants to be used by everyone, not ==========> 03-01-08-ZDNet-RootServerDDoSAttacks.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-979650.html Keeping ahead of DNS attacks By Paul Mockapetris Special to ZDNet January 8, 2003, 9:12 AM PT COMMENTARY--The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organizations ==========> 03-01-09-SJMerc-SonyExec-TVsWillBeCommunicationsHub.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4914877.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 09, 2003 Sony executive envisions reborn TV By Dean Takahashi Mercury News LAS VEGAS - Keynote speeches at the Consumer Electronics Show are as notable for what they don't say as what they do. In the case of Kunitake Ando, president and chief operating officer of Sony, ==========> 03-01-09-SJMerc-TiVoToConnectToInternetAsHub.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4907881.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 09, 2003 TiVo makes a new play as hub for high-tech living room By Sam Diaz Mercury News TiVo makes a move to take the lead in the battle to control the high-tech living room today as it announces a handful of new services at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ==========> 03-01-09-ZDNet-ExtensibleResourceIdentifier-XRI-BetterThanURL.txt========== http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2128387,00.html Can the URL be improved? 10:04 Thursday 9th January 2003 Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com OASIS is setting up a technical committee to look at ways of improving Web addresses to make it easier for developers to locate Web services ==========> 03-01-13-InfoWorld-UNWorldSummitOnInfoSociety.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/13/030113hnwsis.xml UN summit could spark Net regulation talks By Martyn Williams January 13, 2003 6:08 am PT TOKYO -- A major United Nations summit on the information society due to take place in December could be the spark for international talks on regulations covering cyberspace ==========> 03-01-14-SJMerc-CompaniesToWorkOnSeamlessCell-InternetInterface.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4945623.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 14, 2003 Tech companies to collaborate on wireless approach CHICAGO (Reuters) - A seamless wireless communications network -- one that would allow users of cell phones to stay constantly connected on different communications networks -- could become a reality under an agreement announced by three companies Tuesday. ==========> 03-01-19-Weinberger-OpenSpectrumFAQs.txt========== http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/OpenSpectrumFAQ.html Open Spectrum FAQ version 1.0 1.19.03 1) This sounds like a pretty geeky, technical topic. Why should I care? Imagine that every American had the same access to the public airways as broadcasters ==========> 03-01-21-ITManagement-TeleworkingCausesITHeadaches.txt========== http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/1572431 Teleworking Boom Causing IT Headaches January 21, 2003 By Sharon Gaudin The office is awfully quiet these days. That's because half of American workers are toiling away offsite at least part of the time. They're working from home, from a hotel room ==========> 03-01-21-SJMerc-DG-ProvidersMightControlInternetContent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5002309.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 21, 2003 Dan Gillmor: Internet content in peril in non-competitive world By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist As competition bogs down for high-speed Internet access in the United States, prices are rising. This helps explain why it costs much more for people here to subscribe to cable-modem or digital subscriber line ==========> 03-01-27-Yahoo-InternetGainingSomeRulesAndLaws.txt========== http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030127/72/36uix.html Monday January 27, 11:10 AM E-Commerce Report: Taming The Frontier -- The Internet Was Going To Be A Place Without Rules, Without Borders; Well, Guess What? By Michael Totty DON'T LOOK NOW, but the freewheeling days of the Internet are coming to an end. Since its infancy, the Net has been seen as a place independent of the ==========> 03-01-28-PCMag-Dvorak-MeteredInternetWouldSolveManyProblems.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,842647,00.asp January 28, 2003 Meter the Internet By John C. Dvorak This will be the most unpopular column I've ever written, but someone has to write it. Web service should be metered and users should pay for the amount of service they ==========> 03-01-30-NewsFactor-IssuePutVoiceOverInternetOnHold.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20615.html NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Why Voice over IP Is on Hold By Vincent Ryan NewsFactor Network January 30, 2003 Slow adoption of devices that allow users to place calls over the open Internet is due partly to ==========> 03-01-30-OpenContentNetwork-Introduction.txt========== http://open-content.net/ Introduction The Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to help deliver large, freely-downloadable content using peer-to-peer technology. The network is essentially a huge "virtual web server" that links together thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out over-burdened web sites. Using various web browser plug-ins, users can download open source and ==========> 03-01-30-SJMerc-InternetUsersWatchLessTV.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5071191.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 30, 2003 The Net is cutting into TV time, study finds By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Television executives have more to fear than a future filled with gross-out reality shows. The Internet is rapidly eroding television viewing hours and emerging as a powerful information medium in its own right, according to ==========> 03-01-31-UCSD-InfrastructuresOfDigitalDesignConference.txt========== http://infrastructures.ucsd.edu/ The Infrastructures of Digital Design: Thinking/Building/Living Call for Participation / Confirmed Speakers / Tentative Schedule / Sponsors / Call for Participation / The Infrastructures of Digital Design: Thinking/Building/Living University of California, San Diego Friday, January 31st – Sunday, February 2nd, 2003 ==========> 03-02-00-CACM-UnderstandingTheScoiotechnicalAspectsOfInternetGrowth.txt========== Anticipating internet diffusion Amitava Dutta, Rahul Roy February 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 2 Understanding the sociotechnical aspects of Internet growth helps anticipate Internet diffusion, even in countries with vastly different socioeconomic conditions and telecommunication infrastructures. The Internet has meant new opportunities for communication and coordination ==========> 03-02-04-Newsweek-3NewBooks-TheoryAndPracticeOfTheInternet.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/868591.asp?0dm=N214T&cp1=1 The Theory and Practice of the Internet Three books ask: Is there a comprehensive theory of the Web? And if so, does it do us any good? Feb. 4 — Often when I’m giving a speech, someone in the audience asks what they can read to get a handle on the Internet. It’s always been tough to answer: I read constantly about ==========> 03-02-05-HillNews-CongressCommUnveilTechPriorities.txt========== http://www.hillnews.com/news/020503/priorities.aspx House and Senate committees unveil high-tech priorities By Jeff Dufour As the 108th Congress picks up steam, the House and Senate committees responsible for telecommunications and technology issues have revealed their top priorities for the coming year. "We will have an ambitious telecom agenda" this year, said Ken Johnson, ==========> 03-02-06-OxfordUniv-ShapingTheFutureOfTheInternet.txt========== http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/code/ Shaping the Future of the Next Internet Thursday, 6th February 2003 Registration | Background | Agenda | Speakers | Logistics A one day public conference organised by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, and the Oxford Internet Institute, ==========> 03-02-06-SJMerc-CalifControllerBacksInternetSalesAndAccessTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5125967.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 06, 2003 California controller backs Net tax By Mary Anne Ostrom and Dan Reed Mercury News State Controller Steve Westly said Thursday that he has been asked by Gov. Gray Davis to develop new Internet tax policies. ==========> 03-02-08-Shirky-PowerLawDeterminesBlogPopularity.txt========== http://shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality First published February 8, 2003 on the 'Networks, Economics, and Culture' mailing list. Version 1.1: Changed 02/10/03 to point to the updated "Blogging Ecosystem" project, and to Jason Kottke's work using Technorati.com data. Added appendix pointing to David Sifry's "Technorati Interesting Newcomers" list, which is in part a response to this article. ==========> 03-02-12-SJMerc-DG-BlogsAndNanoPublishingPushJournalism.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5163515.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 12, 2003 Dan Gillmor: `Nano publishing' pushing the boundaries of journalism By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): ==========> 03-02-13-CNETNews-USDOCBacksENUM-MergesInternetAndPhoneNumbers.txt========== http://news.com.com/2102-1033-984591.html U.S. backs merging Net, phone numbers By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 13, 2003, 6:15 PM PT WASHINGTON--The Bush administration is lending its support to an international proposal to map telephone numbers to Internet addresses. ==========> 03-02-13-Wired-PhysicistsSetInternetSpeedRecord.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57625,00.html Data Flood Feeds Need for Speed By Katie 02:00 AM Feb. 13, 2003 PT Scientists can break records just like athletes, but new speed and data-transfer milestones in high-performance computing may prove to be more than just fodder for the record books. ==========> 03-02-14-Wired-Andreessen-BrowserAndInternetFutures.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57661,00.html Conversation With Marc Andreessen By Joanna 02:00 AM Feb. 14, 2003 PT It's been 10 years since Marc Andreessen and colleagues at the University of Illinois launched Mosaic, the first browser to navigate the World Wide Web. ==========> 03-02-15-CornellU-SelfishRoutingSlowsTheInternet.txt========== http://www.newswise.com/articles/2003/2/SELFISH.CNS.html Cornell University 15-Feb-03 "Selfish Routing" Slows the Internet Library: SCI Keywords: INTERNET CYBERSPACE E-MAIL COMPUTER SCIENCE Description: Just as in traffic jams, "Selfish routing" slows down everyone on the Internet, including those who try to find faster routes, according to Cornell University computer scientists. ==========> 03-02-16-SJMerc-DG-GoogleBuysBloggerFirmPyra.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5195814.htm Posted on Sun, Feb. 16, 2003 Dan Gillmor: Google buys Pyra in big boost for blogging By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Weblogs are going Googling. Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra ==========> 03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt========== http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78729,00.html Congress Preps Tech Agenda Monday, February 17, 2003 By Liza Porteus WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers continue to pursue their high-tech agendas, having introduced about 20 tech-related bills in the first week of the new Congress alone and seeking dozens of new rules on piracy, privacy and security, among other issues. ==========> 03-02-21-BBC-IsGoogleTooPowerful-BloggingIsNotJournalism.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2786761.stm Last Updated: Friday, 21 February, 2003, 11:43 GMT Is Google too powerful? Is it time to set up Ofsearch, a regulator of search engines asks technology consultant Bill Thompson Everyone's favourite search engine now owns the world's most popular ==========> 03-02-25-PCWorld-CerfSaysEverythingWillBeInternetEnabled.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109528,00.asp Cerf's Upbeat on Net's Future Next: Surf Mars, wire the kitchen, merge with the phone. Stephen Bell, Computerworld New Zealand Online Tuesday, February 25, 2003 Open-source software could be part of the solution to the "digital divide," according to Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. ==========> 03-02-28-Computerworld-TETFCreatesAntiSpamResearchGroup-ARSG.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,789 38,00.html IETF creates antispam research group By TODD R. WEISS FEBRUARY 28, 2003 Source: Computerworld As spam problems worsen for businesses and consumers, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is going on the offensive by creating a ==========> 03-03-04-NewsFactor-IPv4ToIPv6ChangeIsSlow.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20902.html NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Time for a New Internet Protocol? By Vincent Ryan NewsFactor Network March 4, 2003 "You can run IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time. We expect a very long period of coexistence in the ==========> 03-03-04-PCMag-Dvork-UCLAStudyShowsInternetDecreasesTVWatching.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,909781,00.asp March 4, 2003 Internet vs. Hollywood By John C. Dvorak The UCLA Center for Communication Policy recently completed its third survey on Internet behavior, summarized in a report titled "Surveying the Digital Future: Year Three." Clear trends are emerging as Internet use stabilizes, and some ==========> 03-03-06-BBC-Internet2TransferReaches923MBSec.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2822333.stm Net speed record smashed By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute ==========> 03-03-06-Computerworld-InternetTrafficToDoubleEachYear.txt========== Computerworld IDC: Internet traffic to keep doubling each year By David Legard, IDG News Service MARCH 06, 2003 The amount of information transmitted globally over the Internet will continue to double each year over the next five years, according to research released yesterday by IDC. In 2002, the traffic volume was 180 petabits per day (1 petabit equals 1 ==========> 03-03-09-ICANNWatch-TwomeysPastActionsBadNews.txt========== http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1720226&mode=thread Why the Twomey Rumor Is Bad News posted by michael on Sunday March 09 2003, @12:05PM The Washington Post reports that Paul Twomey is the leading pick to become the new ICANN CEO. There are several reasons why the Twomey rumor is bad news. But none of them is because he's a former government official: Knee-jerk reactions that a former government official shouldn't run ICANN ==========> 03-03-09-SJMerc-BlogsSuccessHeraldsBigFuture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5354264.htm Posted on Sun, Mar. 09, 2003 Success of Weblogs Heralds Big Future MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - The online diaries known as Weblogs, or "blogs," seemed like a lot of inconsequential chatter when they surfaced a few years ago. ==========> 03-03-10-WorldOfEnds-WhatTheInternetIs.txt========== http://www.worldofends.com/ World of Ends What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else. by Doc Searls and David Weinberger World Of Ends Last update: 3.10.03 ==========> 03-03-12-CircleID-ProposalForCollaborativeInternetManagementStructure.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/articles/2577.asp CircleID / POLICIES Thinking Outside The ICANN Box: Creating A Prototype Based On Internet Experience - Part II March 12, 2003 By Ronda Hauben My proposal "The Internet an International Public Treasure" ("Public Treasure") offers a means of creating a prototype for an international ==========> 03-03-12-CNETNews-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOnP2P.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028-992371.html Congress cracks down on P2P porn By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 12, 2003, 5:30 PM PT The U.S. Congress is targeting peer-to-peer networks again--and this time politicians aren't fretting over music and software piracy. ==========> 03-03-13-NewsFactor-Internet2SpeedRecordReallyAboutLowLatency.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20986.html NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Who Cares About the Fastest Internet Ever? By Tiernan Ray NewsFactor Network March 13, 2003 The latest land-speed record in Internet transmission was all about networking smarter, not faster. ==========> 03-03-13-SJMerc-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOnP2P.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/5384049. htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 13, 2003 GAO stumbles across T&A on P2P By John Paczkowski After weeks of painstaking investigative work and analysis, the General Accounting Office (GAO) and the House Committee on Government Reform were ==========> 03-03-13-WashPost-GAOReportFindsPornographyWidelyAvailableOnP2P.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17695-2003Mar12.html Pornography Prevalent on File-Sharing Services By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 13, 2003; Page E01 Popular Internet services that allow computer users to swap music and video clips also are an easy and free-flowing conduit for pornography, including images of minors, ==========> 03-03-15-SeattlePI-NewYahooStreamingMediaMayImpactRealNetworks.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/112665_yahoo15.shtml Saturday, March 15, 2003 Yahoo! streaming media service will compete with RealNetworks By DAN RICHMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Yahoo! Inc. on Monday will introduce Platinum, a streaming-media subscription service that will challenge the well-entrenched leadership of Seattle's RealNetworks Inc. ==========> 03-03-15-SJMerc-KnuthRefusesToUseEmail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5399791.htm Posted on Sat, Mar. 15, 2003 Mike Langberg: Computer experts and e-mail strategy By Mike Langberg Mercury News Overwhelmed by the crush of electronic mail, cell-phone calls, instant messages, Web sites and other technological demands on our ever-diminishing reservoir of free time? ==========> 03-03-16-USAToday-NewServicesFulfillBroadbandNetPromises.txt========== USA Today Broadband Net begins to fulfill its promise By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY March 16, 2003 Broadband Internet has finally flipped into the mainstream, and that will have a big impact on consumers, as well as tech and media companies. The past week brought a wave of announcements in broadband high-speed Internet via cable or DSL. ABC unveiled ABC News Live, a 24-hour Internet ==========> 03-03-17-CNN-IETF-AntiSpamResearchGroupMeets.txt========== http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/17/halting.spam.ap/index.html Redesigning the Net to save it from spam SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- To stem the unrelenting tidal wave of unsolicited, unwanted e-mail, people and companies are going to extraordinary lengths -- at considerable expense. They mask their e-mail addresses, install filters, create white lists of ==========> 03-03-17-SJMerc-AOLDialUpCustomersGoElsewhereForBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5411873.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 17, 2003 AOL efforts to woo broadband customers off to a mixed start NEW YORK (AP) - Ben Yrungaray grew up on America Online. But when he decided to upgrade to high-speed Internet service, he went elsewhere. ``AT&T Broadband had all the features that I needed and it was less ==========> 03-03-18-NewsFactor-ICANNDoesNotServeInternetUsers.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21032.html The Net's Faltering Democracy By Simson Garfinkel March 18, 2003 When ICANN's board of directors amended its bylaws last December, it eliminated elections and instituted an advisory committee-at-large whose members -- chosen by other committees -- lack ==========> 03-03-18-SJMerc-RotariansUseInternetToHelpPeopleInGhana.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5418801.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 18, 2003 Mike Cassidy: Internet fosters social change in Ghana By Mike Cassidy Mercury News These are not good times for the Internet economy. The Internet itself, on the other hand, is alive, well and changing the ==========> 03-03-19-WashPost-AustrlianTwomeyToLeadICANN.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51668-2003Mar19.html Australian Tapped To Run Internet Group David McGuire washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Wednesday, March 19, 2003; 7:28 AM Australian entrepreneur Paul Twomey will lead the organization that manages the Internet's global addressing system, becoming the first non-U.S. citizen to do so. ==========> 03-03-20-CNETNews-Twomey-ICANNToReachOutToAllStakeholders.txt========== "ICANN Ready to Chart a New Course?" CNet (03/20/03); Pearce, James Incoming ICANN CEO Paul Twomey sees ICANN's primary mission as reaching out to all Internet stakeholders in order to involve them in the ICANN process, especially stakeholders from less-developed countries. ICANN will move forward with fulfilling its obligations under the U.S. Department of Commerce's memorandum of understanding to build itself globally. Twomey ==========> 03-03-20-NewsFactor-Internet2-StillReseachProject.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21047.html NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Whatever Happened to Internet2 - And Why You Can't Touch It By Vincent Ryan NewsFactor Network March 20, 2003 High performance is crucial for Internet2 because its major selling point is a lack of network ==========> 03-03-20-ZDNet-NewICANNHeadPromisesGreaterOpenness.txt========== http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2132226,00.html New ICANN head promises greater openness 11:58 Thursday 20th March 2003 James Pearce, ZDNet Australia The Internet addressing authority has been criticised as secretive, but new president Paul Twomey says the organisation is to turn over a new leaf ==========> 03-03-24-InfoWeek-CompaniesBringingEmailToFactoryWorkers.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030321S0009 E-Mail For Everyone March 24, 2003 Companies are experimenting with low-cost, stripped-down E-mail that all employees--from bank tellers to factory workers--can access By Tony Kontzer Ken Mitchell, a shift manager at Mannington Mills Inc.'s commercial flooring plant, relies on E-mail to ==========> 03-03-26-Reuters-ConsumerGroupsSeekProbeOfCableTyingPrices.txt========== Reuters Internet Report Consumer Groups Seek Probe of Cable Tying Prices Wed Mar 26, 7:29 PM ET By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer groups on Wednesday charged that cable companies were gouging customers who only subscribe to high-speed Internet service but not cable television, and asked antitrust enforcers to investigate. ==========> 03-03-31-MassHihTech-HarvardToBeginStudyOfBlogs.txt========== http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_ID=62207 Blogs step up in stature as Harvard begins study 03/31/2003 08:25 AM By Elizabeth Dinan Blogs have the reputation of being self-absorbed, do-it-yourself publishing primarily for slackers. But no more, because the blog is now Ivy League. ==========> 03-04-00-DLib-OCLC-EvolutionOfThePublicWeb.txt========== http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/lavoie/04lavoie.html D-Lib Magazine April 2003 Volume 9 Number 4 ISSN 1082-9873 Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web 1998 - 2002 Edward T. O'Neill, oneill@oclc.org, Brian F. Lavoie, lavoie@oclc.org, Rick Bennett, ==========> 03-04-03-TheRegister-BlogsAndGoogleSpreadSecondSuperpowerConcept.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30087.html Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed... in 42 days By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 03/04/2003 at 12:12 GMT This year marks the 100th anniversary of George Orwell's birth, and the writer who best explained the power of language on politics would be amazed what can be done with the Internet. ==========> 03-04-04-SJMerc-GoogleToProvidePaidSearchingToAmazon.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5558456.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 04, 2003 Google to provide paid listings to Amazon DEAL IS `NEXT STEP' IN CONNECTING CONSUMERS WITH CONTENT By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News Continuing the rapid expansion of its search and advertising network, Google said Thursday that it will provide paid listings and search features ==========> 03-04-07-CNETNews-Altair-SonyTVWillDisplayVidoeFromInternet.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/995467.htm Monday, April 07, 2003 FROM CNET NEWS.COM Sony TV would grab streams from the Net The company is developing a plasma screen TV set that's intended to tune in streaming video from home networks and the Internet as easily as regular TV programs, sources say. ==========> 03-04-07-IMPlanet-AOLAsksFCCToLiftIMRestrictions.txt========== http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/2176631 AOL Asks FCC to OK Video IM April 7, 2003 By Christopher Saunders America Online (Quote, Company Info) has asked the Federal Communications Commission to drop a two-year-old restriction on the media conglomerate's development of broadband-based video instant messaging and other advanced services. ==========> 03-04-07-USAToday-AOLAsksFCCToLiftIMRestrictions.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2003-04-07-aol2_x.htm Posted 4/7/2003 8:16 PM AOL seeks to lift restriction on advanced IM By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY AOL Time Warner has asked federal regulators to lift a major condition placed on the 2001 merger that created the media conglomerate, saying it's hampering AOL's push into broadband services. ==========> 03-04-07-Wired-BloggerAdmitsPostingWithoutPermission.txt========== http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,58346,00.html Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying By Daniel Forbes 02:00 AM Apr. 07, 2003 PT Like any number of webloggers trying to make their mark with commentary on the war in Iraq, Sean-Paul Kelley knew geography and career experience didn't favor him. ==========> 03-04-14-GAOReport-P2PProvideAccessToChildPornography.txt========== http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03351.pdf GAO Report "File Sharing Programs: Peer-to-Peer Networks Provide Ready Access to Child Pornography", characterizes the Internet, specifically mentioning "broadband" as the leading source of child pornography. Also thought that SIGGRAPH might be interested in the hearing that the Full House Government Reform Committee held yesterday "Stumbling onto Smut the Alarming ==========> 03-04-15-Counterpane-DOSAttackUsingTheUSPS.txt========== http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0304.html April 15, 2003 by Bruce Schneier Founder and CTO Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. schneier@counterpane.com Copyright (c) 2003 by Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Automated Denial-of-Service Attack Using the U.S. Post Office ==========> 03-04-16-InternetSeeks-Dow-JonesonesTestsIMForPremiumContent.txt========== http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8800174 Dow Jones Tests IM For Premium Content Delivery By Tony Kontzer, InformationWeek Instant messaging continues its march toward becoming a widely accepted information medium. In the latest expansion of business uses for IM, Dow Jones & Co. is experimenting with the technology as an emerging channel for delivering ==========> 03-04-17-Forbes-AOLsBusinessProblems.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/2003/04/17/cx_ds_0417simons.html Double Take AOL's Wobbly World Wide Wow David Simons, 04.17.03, 7:00 AM ET The tagline of America Online's new marketing campaign for broadband is "Welcome to The World Wide Wow." Sharon Stone is the spokeswoman. More appropriate vocally and otherwise would be Time Warner's hapless Elmer Fudd. ==========> 03-04-17-NYT-PewReport-MillionsHappyToStayOffline.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/technology/circuits/17shun.html "Eluding the Web's Snare" New York Times (04/17/03) P. F1; Hafner, Katie Results from the Pew Internet and American Life Project's 2002 survey show that 42% of American adults still do not regularly use the Internet despite many of them being able to if they chose to do so. Project director Lee ==========> 03-04-18-SJMerc-PewReport-MillionsHappyToStayOffline.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5664487.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 18, 2003 Millions in U.S. are content with life offline By Mark Schwanhausser Mercury News Even as the Internet has become an integral part of American life, concerns have lingered that a large segment of the population is being left out. But a new study suggests the reason might not be what researchers have long thought. ==========> 03-04-21-SJMerc-EstoniaEmbracesInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5681941.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2003 Estonia blazes Internet trail TALLINN, Estonia (AP) -A crumpled piece of paper taped on the locked door of a bank branch at 125 Parnu Street provides the evidence: Closed. It's a common sight along this capital's streets. But it's not a sign of financial calamity. ==========> 03-04-23-CircleID-Auerbach-ICANNReportSaysLittleNew.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/articles/2591.asp Brownian Motion And ICANN's Latest Status Report To The United States April 23, 2003 By Karl Auerbach Brownian motion is the ceaseless random movement of particles suspended in a warm fluid. The particles move because they are buffeted by random collisions with molecules and atoms speeding this ==========> 03-05-07-InternetNews-W3CBlessesSOAP1-2.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2202471 May 7, 2003 W3C Blesses, Proposes SOAP 1.2 By Clint Boulton SOAP Version 1.2, whose progress had been hindered last year by intellectual property concerns, has advanced to the next crucial stage in its rite of passage, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced Wednesday. ==========> 03-05-12-NWFusion-Internet2-ResearchActivitiesOnCampus.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0512specialfocus.html Internet2 becoming a big net on campus Building a faster, safer 'Net. By Denise Pappalardo Network World, 05/12/03 Its purpose is not to drive revenue growth, but to find better ways of getting the most out of a very fast IP backbone. ==========> 03-05-13-ACMUbiquity-CitationsProvideQuality.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_rushinek_2.html What Makes a Publisher Important? By Avi Rushinek and Sara Rushinek Maximization of Internet Citations Methodology What makes a computer journal important? To answer this question, we suggest an approach based on a forensic expert witness testimony and computer litigation support -- an approach that ==========> 03-05-13-ACMUbiquity-WWWTurnsThinkersIntoClickers.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_thirunarayanan_8.html From Thinkers to Clickers: The WorldWide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human By M.O. Thirunarayanan Tick-tock, time clicking away (Please do not click on any links until you finish reading this paper) The statement, "We think, therefore we are," has long served as a definition of the essence of being human. Our human ability for ==========> 03-05-15-CNETNews-AntiSpamPlan-IdentifyOpenRelays.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1001868.html Feds prime new antispam weapon By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 15, 2003, 11:08 AM PT Federal and state law enforcement agencies pledged to take an aggressive new approach to fighting spam: identifying "open relay" mail servers that serve as conduits for massive quantities of junk e-mail. ==========> 03-05-15-ORHandS-InternetGrewTooFastToBePerfect.txt========== http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/ohs-wgo051503.php Public release date: 15-May-2003 Contact: Sydney Clevenger clevenge@ohsu.edu 503-748-1546 Oregon Health & Science University What's going on with the Internet? ==========> 03-05-18-SJMerc-DG-SKoreanCitizenReportersChangingJournalism.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5889390.htm Posted on Sun, May. 18, 2003 Dan Gillmor: A new brand of journalism is taking root in South Korea By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist SEOUL - Lee Bong-Ryul has a day job as an engineer at a semiconductor company. In his spare time, he's helping to shape tomorrow's journalism. ==========> 03-05-19-DigFreeDomNet-CanICANNServeUnderdevCountries.txt========== http://dfn.org/news/internet/icann-ldc.htm Can ICANN meet the needs of "less developed" countries? by Shravanti Reddy, Digital Freedom Network (May 19, 2003) On World Telecommunications Day last Saturday, the question of the digital divide—the difference between the so-called "developed" and "less developed" countries in terms of the availability and use of new information and communications technologies, particularly regarding access and use of the Internet—was one of the ==========> 03-05-20-AppleAAC-AdvancedAudioCoding-MPEG-4.txt========== http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/aac/ Because of its exceptional performance and quality, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is at the core of the MPEG-4 specification and is the new audio codec of choice for Internet, wireless, and digital broadcast arenas. AAC provides audio encoding that compresses much more efficiently than older formats such as MP3, yet delivers quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio. AAC was developed by the MPEG group that includes Dolby, ==========> 03-05-21-CNETNews-W3CAdoptsNoPatentPolicy-Almost.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1008800.html W3C makes patent ban final By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 21, 2003, 1:17 PM PT The Web's leading standards body on Tuesday finalized a patent policy banning the use of most royalty-bearing technology in its technical recommendations, an issue that sparked a clash between open-source advocates and software makers. ==========> 03-05-27-CNETNews-NewP2PToolsOfferImprovements.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-1009742.html File swapping shifts up a gear By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 27, 2003, 4:00 AM PT A new generation of peer-to-peer tools is finding its groove on the Internet, spelling tougher times ahead for movie studios' attempts to quell online piracy. ==========> 03-05-30-SJMerc-AOL-MS-SettlementMayBoostDigContent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5977149.htm Posted on Fri, May. 30, 2003 End of browser battle may boost digital content By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News The decision by Microsoft and AOL Time Warner to patch up their legal differences and join forces to promote digital Content could speed the delivery ==========> 03-05-30-TheReg-TheNatureOfBloggers.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30954.html Most bloggers 'are teenage girls' - survey By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 30/05/2003 at 12:21 GMT Over to Poland, where some hard statistics have emerged to help answer the question "are most bloggers teenage girls, or simply middle-aged men who write like teenage girls?" ==========> 03-06-13-Reuters-DODPlansMoveToInternet2.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2927228 Fri June 13, 2003 03:38 PM ET By Marisa Navarro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department said on Friday it planned to link its high-tech weaponry, battlefield sensors and other communications systems to an upgraded Internet operating system within five years. ==========> 03-06-15-SJMerc-DG-TheFutureOfPublishning.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001095.shtml#001095 June 15, 2003 The Future of Copyright, Publishing, Privacy • posted by Dan Gillmor 03:11 AM • permanent link to this item We're on an island in Helsinki's harbor, at a restaurant in a restored building that once held cannon emplacements. The occasion is a half-day gathering ==========> 03-06-16-ICANNWatch-ICANNBoardStackedWithInsiders.txt========== http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/1750242&mode=thread Nomcom Stacks Board With Insiders (plus Corporate Executives) posted by michael on Monday June 16 2003, @07:58AM Back when ICANN had open elections, the people who jumped through all the artificial hoops and managed to vote picked some dissident representatives like Karl Auerbach and Andy Mueller-Maguhn. ==========> 03-06-17-ITWorld-W3C-Unicode-MoveToHeadOffCodeClash.txt========== http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1179/030617w3c_unicode/ W3C, Unicode move to head off character clash IDG News Service 6/17/03 David Legard, IDG News Service, Australia Bureau The Unicode Technical Committee and the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Internationalization Working Group jointly issued a technical report Friday that clarifies areas of conflict between the two standards. ==========> 03-06-19-SJMerc-DG-CableAndPhoneNoGoodAsISPs.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001104.shtml#001104 June 19, 2003 When Telecom Monopolists Assert Their Law • posted by Dan Gillmor 12:40 AM • permanent link to this item Salon: Salon.com Technology | When spam filters go bad. Trying to block junk mail, my cable modem company installed a system that prevented me from getting my ==========> 03-06-24-CNETNews-OfficialDeniesShortageOfIPAddresses.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028-1020653.html Exec: No shortage of Net addresses By John Lui Special to CNET News.com June 24, 2003, 6:04 PM PT The idea that there is an Internet address shortage looming in Asia or any part of the world is "misinformation," according to a senior executive at the body responsible for Internet addresses in the Asia-Pacific region. ==========> 03-06-26-ComputerWorld-DNSInventorLooksAtFuture.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1667269876&fp=16&fpid=0 Inventor looks to DNS's past, future Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service 26/06/2003 12:59:08 Paul Mockapetris is surprised that the DNS (Domain Name System) hasn't changed more in the 20 years since he invented it, but he doesn't expect it to run out of steam any time soon. ==========> 03-06-26-InternetNews-Verio-FirstISPInUSToOfferIPv6.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/2228151 June 26, 2003 Verio Brings Its IPv6 to North America By Dan Muse While widely deployed in Europe and Asia, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)— the next generation platform for Internet data traffic — hasn't been offered on a large scale in North America. Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, hopes to change that. ==========> 03-06-26-NAIPv6Summit-DODToRequireIPv6.txt========== http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/030626/054991.html Press Release Source: North American IPv6 Global Summit Defense Department Will Require IPv6 Compliance, Says DoD's John Osterholz Thursday June 26, 3:43 pm ET Citing National Security Concerns, Osterholz Says $30 Billion DoD IT Budget Will Only Buy Network Technologies That Are IPv6-Compliant Starting in October 2003, With Full Integration by 2008 ==========> 03-06-27-TechWorld-ICANNIntrosNewFramework.txt========== http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=220 27 June 2003 ICANN introduces new framework Public given greater say By Scarlet Pruitt, IDG news service After coming under heavy criticism in the past for not giving individual users enough voice in how it runs the Internet, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) wrapped up its meeting in Montreal this week having ==========> 03-06-29-NYT-GooglePlusWiFiEqualsGod.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/opinion/29FRIE.html OP-ED COLUMNIST Is Google God? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Since 9/11 the world has felt increasingly fragmented. Reading the papers, one senses that many Americans are emotionally withdrawing from the world and that the world is drifting away from America. The powerful sense of integration that the go-go-globalizing 1990's created, the sense that the world was shrinking ==========> 03-07-06-NJStarLeg-PlanetLab-ExperimentalNetOverlay.txt========== http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/business-4/105746004743050.xml Researchers tinker with tangled Webs Sunday, July 06, 2003 BY KEVIN COUGHLIN Star-Ledger Staff Sometimes, the Web is a victim of its own popularity. When the Federal Trade Commission launched its "Do Not Call" registry to stymie telemarketers last month, so many Internet users tried to sign up online, the site lurched to a ==========> 03-07-06-USAToday-ConsumerVoiceOverIPArrives.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-06-netphone_x.htm Posted 7/6/2003 10:49 PM Calling via Internet has suddenly arrived By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY Mark Jaffe of St. Louis recently threw caution to the wind and ditched his trusty SBC Communications local phone service in favor of an offering from an Internet phone start-up called Vonage. ==========> 03-07-07-NWFusion-OnlyBigPlayersSupportIPv6.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0707ipv6.html Big players push IPv6, but masses still resist By Phil Hochmuth and Tim Greene Network World, 07/07/03 When the dominant maker and a powerful buyer of network gear - Cisco and the Pentagon - insist the time has come for IPv6, some might see it as marching orders for the industry. ==========> 03-07-08-NWFusion-IBM-MS-PublishWebServicesSpec.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0708ibmmsspec.html IBM, Microsoft publish Web services identity spec By John Fontana Network World Fusion, 07/08/03 IBM and Microsoft on Tuesday published the fifth of an eventual seven specifications that will work in unison to help corporations deploy secure and interoperable Web services. ==========> 03-07-08-WebcastersAlliance-LetterOfConcernToRIAA.txt========== http://www.webcasteralliance.com/modules/news/article.php?item_id=93 WA Announcements : Webcaster Alliance Letter to RIAA Posted by Ann Gabriel on 2003/7/9 2:05:05 Tel: 650.814.7688 Fax: 650.618.2700 perry@lexanalytica.com July 8, 2003 Steven M. Marks, Esq. ==========> 03-07-09-CNETNews-IBM-MS-PublishWebServicesSpec.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-1024013.html?tag=fd_top Web services spec invites controversy By Stephen Shankland and Matt Hines Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 9, 2003, 6:14 AM PT A Web services security specification, introduced this week by IBM and Microsoft, could emerge as a rival to the existing Sun Microsystems-backed Liberty Alliance Project. ==========> 03-07-09-OJR-Rheingold-SmartMobloggingFutures.txt========== http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1057780670.php Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism But futurist Howard Rheingold says the ultimate democratization of the media will not be about technological advances; rather, it will entail upholding old-fashioned standards to earn viewers' trust. Howard Rheingold Posted: 2003-07-09 Editor's Note: On July 5, a few dozen mobile bloggers -- Web publishers who ==========> 03-07-09-WebcastersAlliance-AllegesRIAAAnticompetitive.txt========== http://www.webcasteralliance.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=94 Webcaster Alliance, Inc. Alleges RIAA Anticompetitive Conduct Posted by Ann Gabriel on 2003/7/9 2:10:36 WA Announcements Webcaster Alliance, Inc. Alleges Anticompetitive Conduct in the Internet Radio Market (For Immediate Release) Las Vegas, NV July 9, 2003 - Webcaster Alliance, Inc. announced today its' concerns about anticompetitive conduct in the market for ==========> 03-07-12-CNET-AkamaiSaysServersHamperInternetPerformance.txt========== http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2137115,00.html Internet can be upgraded 'without boosting backbone' Simon Sharwood, CNET Asia July 12, 2003 Akamai chief scientist Tom Leighton says performance of the Internet can be improved without adding any new backbone capacity. Speaking in Sydney, where he today addressed the Fifth International Congress ==========> 03-07-14-CIOUpdate-NewInternetArchitectures.txt========== http://www.cioupdate.com/trends/article.php/2234781 Trends Point Toward New Internet Architecture By Michael Singer July 14, 2003: Better security, IP telephony, wireless networking, storage area networks, packet switching and VPNs are all causing a big shift in vendor focus to enterprises. If you thought the first 20 years of Internet networking advancements were ==========> 03-07-14-RethinkResch-SoundtrackOnlyOnITunes.txt========== http://www.rethinkresearch.biz/free_page_view.asp?crypt=%B3%9C%C2%97%8B%80%86%AF %BC%C2%88%97rxv Tuesday 15 July, 2003 Look! No CD - Landmark deal for Apple iTunes Published: Monday 14 July, 2003 Something this week slipped by as a snippet in most news coffers but strikes Faultline as a huge landmark in web delivered content. Apple iTunes will take a piece of music, as it happens it is the rights for the soundtrack ==========> 03-07-15-Mozilla-MozillaFoundationAnnounced.txt========== http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-foundation.html MOZILLA.ORG ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION TO LEAD OPEN-SOURCE BROWSER EFFORTS America Online Pledges $2 Million to Help Launch Independent Non-Profit Industry Leaders Reaffirm Support for Mozilla Mountain View, CA, July 15, 2003 – Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open source development, today announced the launch of a new foundation that will continue to promote the development, distribution and ==========> 03-07-23-ACMUbiquity-CoalitionForNetworedInfo-CNI.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/c_lynch_1.html Check out the New Library Clifford Lynch on information creation, management and organization in the digital environment. July 23, 2003 Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of ==========> 03-07-24-CBROnline-DNSRootSystemInRapidExpansion.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/5DE36DC58161CFA180256D6D0018CA0F DATE: 24/07/2003 DNS Root System in Rapid Expansion By Kevin Murphy The internet's domain name system root server constellation is about nine months into a rapid expansion beyond the original 13 server sites, with the Internet Software Consortium leading the charge. ==========> 03-07-24-Forbes-YoungPeopleSpendMoreTimeOnInternet.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/execpicks/newswire/2003/07/24/rtr1037488.html Youth spend more time on Web than TV-study Reuters, 07.24.03, 6:08 PM ET NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - Teenagers and young adults spend more time on the Internet than watching television, indicating a shift in media consumption for a demographic prized by advertisers, said a new study released on Thursday. The survey of 2,618 people, aged 13 to 24, was conducted by independent ==========> 03-07-28-CNETNews-IPv6NotNeededInUS.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1033_3-5055803.html U.S. shrugs off world's address shortage By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 28, 2003, 4:00 AM PT As much of the world nears an Internet address crunch, North America stands as an island apart, threatening to fragment plans for the biggest overhaul of the Web in decades. ==========> 03-07-28-NetWorld-NewUsesForDNS.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0728dns.html DNS is busting out all over New uses continue to be found for 20-year-old 'Net technology. By John Fontana Network World, 07/28/03 After 20 years as one of the cornerstones of the Internet, DNS is being tapped to revolutionize corporate supply chains, IP telephony, real-time communications and security. ==========> 03-07-28-VeritasSW-EmailProblemsStressWorkplace.txt========== http://www.veritas.com/news/press/PressReleaseDetail.jhtml?NewsId=60415 Press Release: For Immediate Release E-mail Difficulties Place Businesses at Risk, Cause Work Stress, and Jeopardize Jobs One-third of CIOs and IT managers surveyed say a week without e-mail is more traumatic than stressful life events such as getting divorced MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., - July 28, 2003 - Research sponsored by VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS), the leading storage software provider, reveals ==========> 03-07-31-SJMerc-InternetGamblingBill-LoopholeClosed.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6430012.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 31, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Senate committee closes loophole in Internet gambling bill WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate committee approved legislation Thursday that would ban illegal gambling on the Internet and closed a potential loophole that the Justice Department has said could actually legalize gambling in states where it is now prohibited. ==========> 03-07-31-WashPost-SenBurnsChallengesICANN.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10169-2003Jul31.html Senator: ICANN Crucial To 'Net Security A lack of public accountability in the group that manages the Internet's worldwide addressing system poses "great dangers" to national security, a key senator said today. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) said that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) must be more accountable to the public in order to ==========> 03-08-01-CNETNews-CanSMTPStopSpam.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5058610.html End of the road for SMTP? By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 1, 2003, 4:00 AM PT The protocol that has defined e-mail for more than two decades may have a fatal flaw: It trusts you. ==========> 03-08-01-InfoWorld-SenateToldICANNNeedsReforms.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/01/HNicanncritics_1.html Critics tell Congress ICANN needs reforms Group still needs to include regular Internet users in its decisions By Grant Gross, IDG News Service August 01, 2003 WASHINGTON - Critics of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) told a U.S. Senate subcommittee Thursday that the organization that manages the Internet DNS (domain name system) may be making improvements, but it still needs to improve its efforts to include regular Internet users in its ==========> 03-08-03-SJMerc-DG-UsingVoiceOverInternet-VoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6448467.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 03, 2003 New ring: voice calls over Net By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist In the past month, I've done my part to undermine a monopoly. How? By making phone calls. ==========> 03-08-04-CNETNews-RSSBloggingSWIssues.txt========== http://news.com.com/2009-1032-5059006.html Dispute exposes bitter power struggle behind Web logs By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 4, 2003, 4:00 AM PT As commercial interests have increasingly dominated the Internet, Web logs have come to represent a bastion of individual expression and pure democracy for millions of bloggers. ==========> 03-08-05-InSight-XML-Problems-MultipleLanguages.txt========== http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/internet/webservices/0,39020460,39115499-1,00.htm XML: Extremely critical or exhaustingly complex? Andrew Donoghue ZDNet UK August 05, 2003, 16:45 BST XML is a language to define languages -- a meta-language. Gartner defines it as "a toolset to define building blocks for data identifiers." ==========> 03-08-05-USAToday-SBCPlans6KWiFiSitesBy2006.txt========== USA Today SBC plans 6,000 Wi-Fi sites by '06 By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY Wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, is expected to land another big backer Wednesday as SBC Communications announces hundreds of locations by year's end and 6,000 by 2006. SBC's plan is yet another sign that big telecom companies aim to take control of the emerging technology, which has largely been dominated by small ==========> 03-08-06-SJMerc-DG-UsersPreferDSL.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6469237.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Loathing for the U.S. cable industry has not abated By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): They'll take DSL: The J.D. Power and Associates research firm says DSL, or ==========> 03-08-06-SJMerc-DG-VoIPTermsOfDisservice.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6469237.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC VoIP Terms of Disservice By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Terms of disservice: In Sunday's column, I talked about why I've moved to VoIP, ``voice over Internet Protocol,'' for my domestic and international long-distance phone calls. As I noted then, I chose Packet8 over Vonage for ==========> 03-08-07-SJMerc-FreeWorldDialup-AlternativePhoneService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech nology/6478062.htm Posted on Thu, Aug. 07, 2003 story:PUB_DESC FWD tries to offer free phone service TELEPHONE GIANTS, AUTHORITIES OPPOSE PLAN By Marcelo Rodriguez Special to the Mercury News Jeff Pulver was fascinated with ham radio as a teenager. He still is. ==========> 03-08-07-SJMerc-VoIP-AlternativePhoneService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6478054.htm Posted on Thu, Aug. 07, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Leaving the phone company out of the loop ADVANCES IN INTERNET TELEPHONY SLASH BILLS AND IRK BELLS By Marcelo Rodriguez Special to the Mercury News When veterinarian Tom Tribolet moved to Buenos Aires to try his hand as a thoroughbred racehorse trainer six years ago, staying in touch with his sons in ==========> 03-08-12-Salon-CableInternetShouldBeRegulated.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/08/12/net_neutrality/index_np.html Keeping the Net neutral A coalition of big-name tech companies -- Microsoft, Amazon, eBay and others -- wants the feds to make sure that cable companies don't ruin the broadband Internet. By Farhad Manjoo Aug. 12, 2003 | When you ask Gerry Waldron, a prominent Washington attorney, why he's pushing hard to have the government regulate cable Internet services, ==========> 03-08-13-BusStd-DNSCanBeEnhanceSecurity.txt========== http://www.business-standard.com/ice/story.asp?Menu=119&story=20692 DNS inventor says cure to net identity problems is right under our nose Published : August 13, 2003 Meet Paul Mockapetris. He may not be an industry celebrity like Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, or Linus Torvalds, but he should be. Mockapetris was a key figure in the development of the Domain Name System, the ==========> 03-08-17-SJMerc-DG-RSS-NewsreaderSW-Blogs.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6553262.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 17, 2003 story:PUB_DESC New wave of newsreader software makes sense of the Web By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Every morning I learn the latest from a variety of news organizations, Weblogs, newsletters and other online information sources. But I don't use my e-mail program or go surfing from Web site to Web site. ==========> 03-08-20-ACMUbiquity-ChangingRoleOfUnivLibraries.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i25_henry.html Redefining the Role of the Library Chuck Henry on how academic libraries can survive and have purpose in a fluid environment. Chuck Henry is Vice President and CIO at Rice University, and also University Librarian, in charge of academic technology, university library and digital library initiatives. ==========> 03-08-20-ACMUbiquity-OnlineLearning.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i25_downes.html Public Policy, Research and Online Learning By Stephen Downes E-learning is more than a new way of doing the old thing. Its outcomes can't be measured by the traditional process. I recently attended a meeting of planners and policy analysts here in Ottawa and so I have some thoughts fresh in my mind. ==========> 03-08-20-ACMUbiquity-WebServicesGrid.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i25_foxetal.html Towards Dependable Grid and Web Services By Geoffrey Fox, Shrideep Pallickara, Marlon Pierce and David Walker A proposed solution to the likely problems that will occur as service complexity increases Grid and Web Services ==========> 03-08-23-SJMerc-DG-IsThisTheEndOfEmail.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001297.shtml#001297 August 23, 2003 The End of E-Mail? posted by Dan Gillmor 11:42 AM This has been a hellish week for users of e-mail, thanks to an ugly combination consisting of a conscience-less worm-writer, users' gullability and yet another demonstration of Microsoft's preference for profits over user security. To say that it could have been worse, however true that is, doesn't make what happened ==========> 03-08-25-SJMerc-CompetitionInTargetedAdMarket.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6614054.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 25, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Net giants battle for targeted ad market By Matt Marshall Mercury News The little Mountain View company called Google soared to fame after Netizens fell in love with its simple, efficient search engine. But that's only half the story. ==========> 03-08-28-TheReg-WebcastersHitRIAAWithAntitrustSuit.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32524.html Webcasters slap RIAA with antitrust suit By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 28/08/2003 at 02:17 GMT The Webcaster Alliance has filed a suit against the Recording Industry Association of America and five major record labels for anti-competive behavior. The case arises from a deal last year, details of which were first reported by The Register, between a handful of small webcasters and the RIAA to ==========> 03-09-01-CircleID-TheImportanceOfIPv6.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/242_0_1_0 Rediscovering the Internet Sep 01, 2003 By Bob Frankston I wrote a guest column for ZDNet last month on the importance of IPV6. I fear that the Internet has been devolving into a recreation of the old smart networks with a lot of perverse complexity in the infrastructure. The latest calls for protection from all that bad stuff only adds to my concern since the ==========> 03-09-02-AusITNews-ICANN-TwomeyInterview.txt========== http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,7110424%5E15391%5E%5Enbv%5E, 00.html Networking the net lobby Simon Hayes SEPTEMBER 02, 2003 WHEN businessman and former National Office for the Information Economy head Dr Paul Twomey was appointed to head ICANN, the controversial governing body for domain names, he inherited the unenviable task of bringing together thousands of argumentative internet lobbyists. Twomey aims ==========> 03-09-05-WSJ-DirectingMistypedURLsToSearchEngines.txt========== # Internet Companies See Value in Misaddressed Web Traffic" Wall Street Journal (09/05/03) P. B1; Wingfield, Nick Internet companies, including AOL Time Warner and Microsoft, are banking on mistyped addresses to improve their business revenue by directing users to their search engines, which then display advertisements for products and services. Meanwhile, VeriSign officials say they are developing a program to direct "trash traffic" to Internet sites of the company's choosing, but technology experts are concerned that the redirecting efforts of Internet companies could result in clogged pathways and other problems. If VeriSign is ==========> 03-09-12-GovExec-USDOCUrgedToGetICANNToCorrestWhoisDatabase.txt========== http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0903/091203nj2.htm GovExec.com Logo Daily Briefing September 12, 2003 Commerce under pressure to clean up giant Web database By William New, National Journal A little-known global database of Web site owners has grown into a significant worldwide cyber-crime tracking device—and a major source of concern to privacy ==========> 03-09-12-MSNBC-WirelessWebCouldAidInEmergencies.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/965670.asp?cp1=1 Wireless webs to cope with a crisis Center develops tools to address emergencies in post-9/11 era Paul Kolodzy, director of the Wireless Network Security Center at the Stevens Institute of Technology, talks about the Canobeam optical transmission camera mounted atop the physics building on the campus. By Brian Bergstein ASSOCIATED PRESS ==========> 03-09-16-ACMUbiquity-IsChildInternetAccessARisk.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i29_shoniregun.html Is Child Internet Access a Questionable Risk? By Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun and Andrew Anderson The unlimited and pervasive use of the Internet by young people raises many concerns about child safety. What solutions are available and why aren't they being used? ==========> 03-09-17-SJMerc-HouseBansInternetAccessTax.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6794251.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 17, 2003 story:PUB_DESC House permanently bans taxes on Internet access WASHINGTON (AP) - Connections to the Internet would remain tax-free under a bill the House passed Wednesday. The legislation, passed with bipartisan support, makes permanent a ban on taxing Internet connections. A temporary ban on the taxes, first enacted in ==========> 03-09-18--SJMerc-HouseBansInternetOnlyTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6801893.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 18, 2003 story:PUB_DESC House passes ban on Net-only taxes MORATORIUM WOULD BECOME PERMANENT UNDER BILL By Heather Fleming Phillips Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday that would make permanent a 5-year-old ban on Internet-only taxes, such as levies on ==========> 03-09-18-SJMerc-IBMDevelopsWebFountainDataMiningAndDiscoveryTool.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6800514.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 18, 2003 story:PUB_DESC IBM to market Web data tool SOFTWARE AIMS TO MAKE SENSE OF INFORMATION ON INTERNET By Dean Takahashi Mercury News A software tool from IBM will enable customers to search mountains of data on the Web and find out, for instance, what the buzz is about a new product or ==========> 03-09-19-AITP-StatementOnVerisignTLDHijacking.txt========== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept 19, 2003 CONTACT: Charles Oriez coriez@denveraitp.org AITP Statement on Verisign Top Level Domain Hijacking On September 16, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) extended the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s authority to manage ==========> 03-09-19-BBC-ScientistsOverloadInternetWithData.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3093294.stm Net struggles with data overload By Mark Ward BBC News Online technology correspondent Jodrell Bank telescope, BBC Radio astronomy generates huge amounts of data Most home net users would love to have a link that can handle gigabits of data every second. ==========> 03-09-22-CNETNews-VeriSignUnderFireForRedirectingInvalidWebAddresses.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5080384.html VeriSign stands firm on domain redirect Last modified: September 22, 2003, 6:07 PM PDT By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com VeriSign said Monday that it would not abandon its decision to point unassigned domain names at its Web site, but representatives did say the company would form a technical committee later this week to look into the problems caused by ==========> 03-09-23-CompWorld-VerisignIgnoresICANN-FacesSuit.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/webservices/story/0,1 0801,85244,00.html?from=imutopicheads VeriSign ignores ICANN, faces new suit over Site Finder The chairman of Internet Engineering Task Force called Site Finder 'technically stupid' Story by Paul Roberts SEPTEMBER 23, 2003 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - Internet infrastructure company VeriSign Inc. yesterday rejected a request from ICANN to suspend a service that ==========> 03-09-23-ITMagmt-Berners-LeeDiscussesSemanticWeb.txt========== http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/erp/article.php/3081191 Berners-Lee Talks Up Semantic Web September 23, 2003 By Thor Olavsrud What if the World Wide Web were one giant database, linking both human readable documents and machine readable data in a way useful to both mankind and machine? It would be the future of the Web espoused by Tim Berners-Lee, father of the ==========> 03-09-23-NewsFactor-VeriSignUnderFireForRedirectingInvalidWebAddresses.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22344.html VeriSign Under Fire for SiteFinder By Jay Wrolstad NewsFactor Network September 23, 2003 "VeriSign's charter to act as the .com and .net registry was never intended to let them manipulate the domain-name routing system for their own profit," says Go Daddy president Bob Parsons. ==========> 03-09-23-TheReg-VeriSignInternalMemoJustifiesRedirectService.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32973.html Users 'vote with their mouses' for Site Finder By John Leyden Posted: 23/09/2003 at 10:58 GMT MemoWatch Russell (AKA Rusty) Lewis, general manager of VeriSign's Global Registry Services has been busy with his pen lately. At the weekend he wrote to ICANN declining the Net governing body's request to suspend VeriSign's controversial Site Finder service. ==========> 03-09-24-LehighU-JohnPatrickDiscussesInternetFutures.txt========== http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=16609 Author, alumnus discusses Internet future By Jennifer Iwinski News Writer 9/24/2003 Author and Internet guru John Patrick, ’67, told Lehigh students about the future of the Internet last Tuesday in Rauch’s Perella Auditorium. ==========> 03-09-24-SJMerc-DG-VerisgnThumbsNoseAtInternetGovernance.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6847574.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 24, 2003 story:PUB_DESC VeriSign thumbs its nose at corporate governance By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): VeriSign's tricks: Try this: Launch your Web browser. In the box at the top ==========> 03-09-28-SJMerc-DG-InternetHasGoodGuysAndBadGuys.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/6881523.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 28, 2003 story:PUB_DESC In the Wild West of the Internet, there are good guys and bad guys By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Several weeks ago, a friend, David Weinberger, and I launched a small, non-commercial Web site. We called it ``WordPirates'' (www.wordpirates.com), the purpose of which was to remind people how some good words in our language ==========> 03-09-30-ECommTimes-VersighIgnoresICANNRequestToSuspendNewService.txt========== http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31710.html VeriSign Ignores Request To Suspend New Service By David McGuire September 30, 2003 ICANN Chairman Vinton G. "Vint" Cerf, one of the Internet's founders, said it would be in nobody's interest to take control of .com away from VeriSign, but ICANN may face an all-or-nothing choice of whether to revoke VeriSign's contract. ==========> 03-10-01-CircleID-DysonReportExaminsDNSActiveRegistries.txt========== # Online Registries: The DNS and Beyond" CircleID (10/01/03); Dyson, Esther Esther Dyson has completed a report examining ICANN and the DNS in relation to all the developing active registries in the digital sphere, and a CircleID piece highlights some of the report's findings. Dyson contends that registries offer the most straightforward process for identifying, monitoring, and cross-referencing information, and are becoming more known in the computing sector. Groups need to monitor a greater amount of data within and outside of their own operations and are, in some cases, interested in going beyond a ==========> 03-10-01-InfoWorld-ToughIssueFaceWorldNetSummitMeeting.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/01/HNinfosociety_1.html Tough issues face Information Society summit After agreement of key documents was blocked at September's negotiations, major clash expected in December By John Blau, IDG News Service October 01, 2003 Delegates attending the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva in December can look forward to another major clash over several contentious issues that blocked agreement of two key documents during a ==========> 03-10-01-StanfordU-ResearchProjectToRevampInternet.txt========== http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/october1/mckeown-101.html Stanford Report, Oct. 1, 2003 Research team set to revamp Internet BY DAWN LEVY The Internet needs a revolution -- not a mere evolution -- in its infrastructure. Scaling it up will not be enough to keep up with growing demand or to accommodate emerging technologies. Major changes are needed in the highways that convey information around the world and the backroads that carry ==========> 03-10-03-AmericaNetwork-AnalystSaysIPv6NotNeeded.txt========== http://www.americasnetwork.com//americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=716 50 ANALYSIS: Do we need IPv6? October 3, 2003 By: John C. Tanner America's Network Weekly One of the traditional drivers of IPv6 adoption has always been the lack of sufficient address space in IPv4 in the upcoming world of ubiquitous ==========> 03-10-03-ICANN-ICANNContinuesToDemandVerisignDisbandWildcardService.txt========== http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-03oct03.htm Advisory 03 October 2003 Advisory Concerning Demand to Remove VeriSign's Wildcard On 15 September 2003, VeriSign unilaterally instituted a number of changes to the .com and .net Top Level Domain zones, including the deployment of a "wildcard" service. VeriSign's wildcard creates a registry-synthesized address record in response to lookups of domains that are not otherwise present in the ==========> 03-10-03-ICANN-TwomeyLetterToVeriSignReNewService.txt========== http://www.icann.org/correspondence/twomey-to-lewis-03oct03.htm Letter from Paul Twomey to Russell Lewis 3 October 2003 Russell Lewis Executive Vice President, General Manager VeriSign Naming and Directory Services 21345 Ridgetop Circle LS2-3-2 Dulles, VA 20166-6503 ==========> 03-10-03-Verisign-VerisignWillTemprorarilySuspendNewService.txt========== http://www.verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031003.html VeriSign Site Finder Service Update VeriSign Will Temporarily Suspend Web Navigation Service in Order to Continue to Work With Internet Community Towards a Long-Term Implementation MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - October 03, 2003 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced that it will temporarily suspend ==========> 03-10-04-SJMerc-VerisignWillTemprorarilySuspendNewService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6931740.htm Posted on Sat, Oct. 04, 2003 story:PUB_DESC VeriSign to suspend Site Finder service ICANN INSISTS PROGRAM BE SHUT DOWN By Aaron Davis Mercury News VeriSign said Friday that it will suspend its controversial new Internet address search service after the regulatory body overseeing the Net's domain ==========> 03-10-04-TheReg-VerisignWillTemprorarilySuspendNewService.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33212.html ICANN demand sees VeriSign pull SiteFinder By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 04/10/2003 at 03:27 GMT VeriSign has pulled its controversial SiteFinder application after ICANN demanded in a formal statement and letter that the company shut it down by Saturday or face the consequences. ==========> 03-10-05-SJMerc-DG-BlogOpensWritingCareerForExActor.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6938070.htm Posted on Sun, Oct. 05, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Blog has become former actor's portal into new career By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Wil Wheaton is not, repeat not, Wesley Crusher. Wheaton, 31, isn't sorry he played the role of the brainy but somewhat annoying ==========> 03-10-06-CircleID-SomeISPsBlockedVerisignSiteFinder.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/303_0_1_0_C/ The Aftermath: How ISPs Responded to Site Finder Around the World Oct 06, 2003 By Benjamin Edelman During the 2+ weeks for which Site Finder was operational, a number of ISPs took steps to disable the service. A study just released reveals details and analysis, including specific networks disabling Site Finder during its operational period. For example, China blocked the traffic at its backbone, and ==========> 03-10-06-CNETNews-VerisignExecSaysICANNActionThreatensNetInnovation.txt========== http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5086769.html?tag=nefd_acpro CNET News.com -- Tech News First Innovation and the Internet October 6, 2003, 1:43 PM PT By Mark McLaughlin VeriSign's decision to launch a new Site Finder service that gives Internet users tools and options when they mistype a domain name has spurred a debate about the future of the Internet. It is a debate worth having, because at the ==========> 03-10-06-SJMerc-AppealsCourtSaysInternetIsTelecom.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6948010.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Appeals court overturns FCC cable broadband decision SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A federal appeals court opened the door Monday to additional rules on high-speed Internet access over cable television lines, overturning a Federal Communications Commission decision that kept competitors locked out of the cable systems. ==========> 03-10-06-SJMerc-DG-VerisignOffersArrogantExcusesForSiteFinder.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001394.shtml#001394 October 06, 2003 VeriSign's Arrogant Excuses for Tinkering with the Net I'm on a conference call with VeriSign, which controls the .com and .net databases and was using its control to hijack mistyped user URL entries to its own advertising-laden search page. The company grudgingly pulled down the Site Finder system last week after the Internet community pounded the company for its arrogance. ==========> 03-10-07-InfoWarrior-VerisignBringsFUDToDebateOverNetInnovation.txt========== http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2003-04.html Spinning SiteFinder: FUD, brought to you by VeriSign Richard Forno 7 October 2003 www.infowarrior.org (c) 2003 by Richard Forno. Permission granted to reproduce in entirety with this notice intact. After significant public and regulatory opposition, and in danger of being ==========> 03-10-08-Yahoo-IBMDevelopsWebFountainDataMiningAndDiscoveryTool.txt========== http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1509&ncid=738&e=11&u=/afp/200309 18/tc_afp/us_tech_ibm Wed, Oct 08, 2003 IBM hopes new generation of super search platform will bring in bucks Thu Sep 18, 4:25 AM ET Add Technology - AFP to My Yahoo! LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US technology giant IBM unveiled an advanced new search mechanism capable of extracting minute data from among billions of Web pages ==========> 03-10-14-Wired-InternetArchiveProjSeeksDMCAExemptionToPreserveOldSoftware.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60770,00.html Fighting to Preserve Old Programs By Daniel Terdiman 02:00 AM Oct. 14, 2003 PT Brewster Kahle wants the world to know that old software is an important part of our cultural history and -- like books, films and other media -- should be preserved. ==========> 03-10-15-CBR-DNSRootServerSecurityImprovementNeeded.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/165c8acb5f79bb5780256dc50018bddd Trouble Grows at the Internet's Root By Kevin Murphy There's a conflict brewing at the root of the internet, between those who are trying to make the network more resilient, and VeriSign Inc, which says this can best be achieved if we get rid of the non-profits and commercialize the infrastructure. ==========> 03-10-15-CNETNews-VerisignWillGiveNoticeBeforeActivatingRedirectService.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html?tag=nefd_top VeriSign to revive redirect service? By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5092133.html Story last modified October 15, 2003, 5:23 PM PDT VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial and ==========> 03-10-15-UPI-InternetIsIndispensableAndVulnerable.txt========== http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031014-111239-5894r The Web: Indispensable but not impervious By Gene J. Koprowski UPI Technology News Published 10/15/2003 8:11 AM This is the first in a series of UPI articles examining the current state and future prospects of the global communications and data network known as the Internet. ==========> 03-10-16-NYU-Weblogs-ARadicalFormOfJournalism.txt========== http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2003/10/16/radical_ten.html October 16, 2003 What's Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism? These ten things, for starters. Got others? Hit the comment button. People have been telling me I ought to write shorter posts. That's what works, they say. That's what web cruisers expect, they say. In general, I don’t listen to them. But here I am trying.... ==========> 03-10-20-BusWeek-VerisignExecClaimsNetInnovationThreatened.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc20031020_0549.htm OCTOBER 20, 2003 NOTHING BUT NET By Alex Salkever Beyond the Verisign vs. ICANN Battle Their conflict over Verisign's now-suspended Site Finder service points to a bigger problem: The Net's archaic infrastructure ==========> 03-10-20-DCInet-IPv6PilotNetworkLaunched.txt========== http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3095951 Task Force Deploys IPv6 Pilot Network By Roy Mark October 20, 2003 The North American IPv6 Task Force (NAv6TF) announced Monday the launch of North America's largest Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) pilot network. Known as Moonv6, it is being deployed to provide the North American market with strong validation for IPv6 through testing and demonstrating the technology's ==========> 03-10-24-Wired-SpammersAttackWebLogs-Blogs.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60912,00.html Spammers Clog Up the Blogs By Chris Ulbrich Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60912,00.html 02:00 AM Oct. 24, 2003 PT If the maturity of a Web technology can be measured by the amount of attention spammers pay to it, then blogging has definitely come of age. ==========> 03-10-29-CBR-IsThereAShortageOfIPv4AddressSpace.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/5854c60922d65b3480256dce001e3e65 DATE: 29/10/2003 IP Address Shortage? What IP Address Shortage? By Kevin Murphy While interest in Internet Protocol version 6 has been growing significantly this year, there's still a great deal of space left in IPv4, the much smaller address space that IPv6 will one day supplant, despite reports to the contrary. ==========> 03-10-30-Economist-MaybeITUShouldOverseeICANN.txt========== # Time for UN Intervention?" Economist (10/30/03) Vol. 369, No. 8348, P. 59 ICANN, which recently held public board meetings in Tunisia, is confronting difficult issues of change due to shifts in the Internet sector in the five years since ICANN's establishment. These changes include the crumbling of the domain name selling business, increased involvement of governments in Internet regulation, and ICANN's own troubles managing these issues. ICANN and VeriSign, which controls the .com and .net databases, are at odds over VeriSign's SiteFinder service, which ICANN pressured VeriSign to shutter. The controversy, ==========> 03-11-03-SFChron-UCN-USCResearchersToModelTheInternet.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/03/BUG D42O8E41.DTL Building a crash-test Internet Researchers will assess vulnerability Carrie Kirby, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, November 3, 2003 A team of UC Berkeley and University of Southern California professors has received a $5.46 million grant to build one of the most realistic models of the Internet ever created -- and then wreck it with debilitating hacker attacks. ==========> 03-11-04-CircleID-SuggestionMadeToAllowRegistrantsToPostOwnWhoisData.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/361_0_1_0_C/ An Unsanctioned Whois Database By: Karl Auerbach Nov 04, 2003 Mark Jeftovic of easyDNS Technologies Inc. has posted an item on ICANN's "GNSO" registrars' mailing list titled "unsanctioned Whois concepts". In that item he suggests that the control and actual publication of contact information about a domain be put into the zone file itself, a file maintained ==========> 03-11-04-FourMiLab-Walker-GovtAndMediaCanControlInternet.txt========== http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle. by John Walker September 13th, 2003 Revision 4 -- November 4th, 2003 imprimatur 1. The formula (=`let it be printed'), signed by an official licenser of the press, authorizing the printing of a book; hence as sb. an ==========> 03-11-04-WashPost-DNSRootServersStillVulnerableToDDoSAttacks.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61714-2003Nov4.html 'DDoS' Attacks Still Pose Threat to Internet By David McGuire washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Tuesday, November 4, 2003; 8:49 AM On October 21, 2002, people around the world cruised through cyberspace the way they do every day -- bidding on auctions, booking airline reservations, sending e-mail -- all the while unaware that someone was working overtime to try to ==========> 03-11-07-CircleID-BBCErrsInReportingLackOfIPv6NetAddresses.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/369_0_1_0_C/ Bad Journalism, IPv6, and the BBC Nov 07, 200 By Andrew McLaughlin Here's a good way to frighten yourself: Learn about something, and then read what the press writes about it. It's astonishing how often flatly untrue things get reported as facts. ==========> 03-11-07-SJMerc-BanOnInternetAccessTaxesStallsInSenate.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7208982.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 07, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Permanent ban on Internet access taxes stalls in Senate WASHINGTON (AP) - A drive to permanently ban Internet access taxes stopped dead in the Senate on Friday, stuck in a clash over whether the legislation would shear millions from the budgets of state and local governments. The problem arose over the definition of ``Internet access'' -- services that ==========> 03-11-13-INetWeek-NewDNSSecurityNearlyCompleteByIETF.txt========== http://www.internetweek.com/security02/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16100056 Standard For Securing Domain Name System Nears Finalization By Antone Gonsalves An international standards body is close to releasing a security mechanism for authenticating data moving across the Internet, making it more difficult for people dispensing spam, viruses and worms to remain anonymous. DNS-Sec, which stands for domain name system-security, is under development by ==========> 03-11-13-OnlineJourRev-InternetRevolutionInChina.txt========== http://www.ojr.org/ojr/world_reports/1068766903.php China's Internet Revolution The rapid spread of Internet cafes, wireless phones and online chat has given the Chinese unprecedented freedom of expression and access to "unofficial" information. But the government recently seized control of the Internet cafes and is making other moves to reign in those new freedoms. Mark Glaser Posted: 2003-11-13 ==========> 03-11-17-NWFusion-IETFSlowlyMovingFaster.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117ietf.html IETF's quest to be quicker moves slowly By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World, 11/17/03 MINNEAPOLIS - Eighteen months after acknowledging pervasive organizational and productivity problems, the Internet Engineering Task Force continues to search for remedies designed to bring important network standards to market sooner. ==========> 03-11-19-CircleID-WSIS-WhatIsWorldSummitOnInfoSocAbout.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/376_0_1_0_C/ What is WSIS Getting At? By: Susan Crawford From CircleID Ruling The Net November 19, 2003 Bret Fausett points us to this article about the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) plans for a December meeting in Geneva. Attacks on ICANN are coming from several different directions, and the list of concerns ==========> 03-11-19-NatlPost-USInfluenceOnICANNTooStrong.txt========== http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=DC2076BE-9514-4C97-8424-6EA1D0B8D 896 Web regulator too American, UN to hear 'ICANN has to go': Developing countries say U.S. has too much influence on Internet Isabel Vincent National Post Wednesday, November 19, 2003 ==========> 03-11-21-InfoWorld-VerisignAndOthers-ControlOfTheInternet.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/21/46FEtrouble_1.html The threat to universal Internet connectivity Can -- and should -- blockers, spammers, and domain name overlords be stopped? By David L. Margulius November 21, 2003 On Sept. 15, 2003, engineers at verisign pressed a button and launched SiteFinder, a service that directed Web users who mistyped .com or .net Web addresses to a VeriSign search engine rather than the usual “page not found” error message. ==========> 03-11-21-SJMerc-InternetLooseningMediaControlInChina.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7319207.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003 Internet Loosening Media Control in China PATRICK CASEY Associated Press NEW YORK - China's government has long controlled the information its citizens receive through official media, but that may end as the Internet burrows deeper into the fast-changing communist country, a Chinese Internet expert says. ==========> 03-11-22-NatPost-UNTryingToControlInternetAtWorldSummit.txt========== http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id=24a4b9bd-9084-4dc2-829b-299 ba2a9073c Keep Kofi away from the Internet Robert Fulford National Post Saturday, November 22, 2003 Like bureaucrats everywhere, the people running the UN believe above all in the growth of their power. This winter, undeterred by their failures in ==========> 03-11-23-BusWeek-2004InternetAndTelecomPredictions.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2003/tc20031223_1093_tc047.htm DECEMBER 23, 2003 • Editions: Edition Preference NOTHING BUT NET By Alex Salkever Where the Net Is Heading in 2004 O.K., your guess is probably as good as mine, but I have a column to write -- and at this time of year that means one thing: Predictions ==========> 03-11-23-NYT-FreeNetInfoComesWithCostsLikeSpyware.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/business/yourmoney/23free.html November 23, 2003 When Free Isn't Really Free By JOHN SCHWARTZ Is there any sweeter word? Its promise of something for nothing, and its underlying connotation of liberation, put a spring in the step and make the world seem a better place. ==========> 03-11-24-NetWorldNews-IETFWorksOnInternationalizeEmail.txt========== # "IETF Ponders Internationalized E-Mail" Network World Newsletter (11/24/03); Marsan, Carolyn Duffy Several proposals for establishing internationalized email standards have been submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which met earlier this month to discuss the issue. "We need to decide if we want a multi-lingual Internet with English as one language or an English language Internet with some capability for handling other scripts," notes IETF leader John Klensin, who rejects proposals in which non-English speaking users are forced to communicate to one another in English. "My belief is that if we don't deal with the ==========> 03-11-24-SJMerc-TechSavyPreferInternetAndCellPhones.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7337477.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 24, 2003 Study: Tech savvy prefer using mobile phones, Internet By Kristi Heim Mercury News Seattle Bureau The home telephone and the television set are starting to look just sooo 20th century. ==========> 03-11-24-TheReg-ITUWorldSummitOnInfoSociety.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34163.html Will December make or break the Internet? By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 24/11/2003 at 14:57 GMT There are always defining moments in anything’s lifetime and the Internet is no exception. A meeting in Geneva on 10-12 December promises to be one of them - to define ==========> 03-11-24-WashPost-ArchivistsTryToSaveWebReferences.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8730-2003Nov23.html On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral Electronic Archivists Are Playing Catch-Up in Trying to Keep Documents From Landing in History's Dustbin By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 24, 2003; Page A08 It was in the mundane course of getting a scientific paper published that ==========> 03-11-28-LATimes-ManyAbandonedInternetSites.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-deadwood28nov28,1,35710.story?coll=la-head lines-business Deadwood Finds an Eternal Electronic Life on the Web Abandoned sites on the Internet run the gamut from training regimen 'updates' to promoting long-past election campaigns From Associated Press November 28, 2003 After Ajay Powell quit smoking and decided to run the Honolulu Marathon in ==========> 03-12-00-CACM-PageJacking-DirectedToTheWrongPage.txt========== Virtual extension: Deceived: under target online Stefano Grazioli, Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa December 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 12 Suppose you're trying to access your favorite search engine. You haven't bookmarked it, so you type "google.com" in your browser. Accidentally, you mistype "gogle.com" instead. Your browser brings you to a page that looks just like Google's but is connected to a competitor's search engine. At the bottom of the page there is some small print warning that the site you're viewing is ==========> 03-12-00-IEEESpectrum-Morpheus-DecentralizedP2PRaisesIssues.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/dec03/1203nfile.html Morpheus Falling? IEEE Spectrum December 2003 Decentralized second-generation file-sharing services raise issues that only the U.S. Supreme Court or Congress can resolve By Roger Parloff ==========> 03-12-00-Syllabus-DigitalTrendsFor2004.txt========== http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8574 Syllabus Magazine Tracking the Digital Puck into 2004 Kenneth C. Green "Legend has it that when Wayne Gretsky was asked why he was so successful as a hockey player he responded by saying that he always tried to skate to where the puck was going to be, not to where it was. ==========> 03-12-01-NWFusion-ISPsTryIPv6.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/isp/2003/1201isp1.html North American ISPs trial IPv6 By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World ISP News Report Newsletter, 12/01/03 ISPs in the U.S. are starting to test services that support IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. But advocates of the next-generation Internet technology say it may take until the year 2007 before U.S.-based multinationals are ready to deploy production IPv6 networks. ==========> 03-12-01-TorontoStar-ITUWorldSummitToLookAtRoleOfGovernment.txt========== http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic le_Type1&c=Article&cid=1070193663412&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851 Dec. 1, 2003. 01:00 AM Think Web's virtually government free? Think again MICHAEL GEIST LAW BYTES The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which will be held next week in Geneva, promises to be one of the most interesting technology-related ==========> 03-12-02-DetNews-Internet2TakesShapeInMichigan.txt========== http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0312/03/c01-339799.htm Tuesday, December 2, 2003 John M. Galloway / Special to The Detroit News Internet2 staff members in Ann Arbor watch a presentation from Washington given by chief information architect George H. Brett II. Internet2 takes shape in Michigan Ann Arbor group works to improve Web for future uses By Charles E. Ramirez / The Detroit News John M. Galloway / Special to The Detroit News ==========> 03-12-03-CompBusRev-ITU-ICANNClashDelayed.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/cbrnews/bc8e237c85cc917180256df100382083 Computer Business Review DATE: 03/12/2003 ITU and ICANN Clash May Be Delayed By Kevin Murphy The International Telecommunications Union is expected to finally come to a general consensus on internet governance at a meeting in Geneva next week, after toning down controversial proposals that would have had it take a ==========> 03-12-04-Salon-RSS-NoHassleNewsReader.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2003/12/04/rss/index_np.html That 1994 feeling RSS delivers a long-promised Internet dream -- getting you the information you want from the people you want without hassle or bother. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Scott Rosenberg Dec. 4, 2003 | ==========> 03-12-07-NYT-NationsChafeAtUSInfluenceOverInternet.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/technology/08divide.html Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over Internet By JENNIFER L. SCHENKER International Herald Tribune Published: December 8, 2003 ARIS, Dec. 7 - Paul Twomey, the president of the Internet's semi-official governing body, Icann, learned Friday night what it feels like to be an outsider. ==========> 03-12-08-CompWorld-NextGenInternetProjects.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,87788,00.html On its way: A new Internet Researchers are building a new Net, one layer at a time. Future Watch by Lucas Mearian DECEMBER 08, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Researchers developing the next incarnation of the Internet say it will be faster, more reliable and more secure. Moreover, it will be self-aware and able to determine the best way to deliver data and services. ==========> 03-12-08-SJMerc-BroadcastersLeftOutOfITUWorldSummit.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7442224.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 08, 2003 Broadcasters feel left out of contentious Internet summit GENEVA (AP) - The representatives of 192 nations expected here this week for summit on the Internet's future are neglecting vital issues tied to TV and radio, say international broadcasters who are holding a parallel meeting. Organizers said the four-day media gathering that begins Tuesday is turning out ==========> 03-12-08-WashTimes-USDefeatsBidToPutInternetUnderUNControl.txt========== http://www.washtimes.com/world/20031208-125717-6682r.htm U.N. control of Web rejected By John Zaracostas SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Dec. 8, 2003 GENEVA — The United States, backed by the European Union, Japan and Canada, has turned back a bid by developing nations to place the Internet under the control of the United Nations or its member governments. ==========> 03-12-09-TechNewsWorld-SomeConcernedITUPlansInternetTakeover.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32340.html UN Takeover of Internet? Some Are 'Not Amused' By Jennifer L. Schenker December 9, 2003 Twomey, reached by mobile phone outside the conference room, said: At ICANN, anybody can attend meetings, appeal decisions or go to ombudsmen, and here I am outside a UN meeting room where diplomats most of whom know little about the technical aspects are deciding in a closed forum how 750 million people should ==========> 03-12-10-InfoWeek-ContentForumHelpsDevelopBusinessModels.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16700059 Standards Body Seeks To Help Content Owners Develop Flexible Business Models Dec. 10, 2003 The Content Reference Forum's goal is to enable interoperability that will let consumers more easily access the content they want and share it with others. By Tony Kontzer Despite the glut of digital content available on the Internet, a host of barriers--such as the wide array of software formats and device types used to ==========> 03-12-10-ITU-WSIS-WorldSummitOnInfoSociety.txt========== http://www.itu.int/wsis/ WSIS: THE WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY FIRST PHASE: GENEVA, 10-12 DECEMBER 2003 The World Summit on the Information Society is held in two phases. The first phase of WSIS takes place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003. It will address the broad range of themes concerning the Information Society and adopt a Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action. The second phase will take place in Tunis hosted by the ==========> 03-12-11-AusBroadCo-WSIS-WorldSummitOnInfoSociety.txt========== http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1007577.htm Internet summit opens in Geneva. 11/12/2003. ABC News Online Last Update: Thursday, December 11, 2003. 7:31am (AEDT) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe listens to speeches at the World Summit on the Information Society. (AFP) Australian Broadcasting Co. Internet summit opens in Geneva Leaders have gathered in Geneva for a UN-sponsored summit that aims to help ==========> 03-12-11-Reuters-GlobalizingInternetBringsProblems.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3977774 Globalizing Internet Brings Unexpected Problems Thu December 11, 2003 10:51 AM ET By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' push to transform the developing world into tech-ready nations could partly backfire, delegates to an IT summit aimed at bridging the "digital divide" said on Thursday. ==========> 03-12-11-SJMerc-InternetSummitParticipantsAskToSeeTheMoney.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7469780.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 11, 2003 Net summit participants ask: Where's the money? GENEVA (AP) - Delegates to a U.N. summit this week argued that spreading information technology more equitably can hasten cures for such developing world ills as poverty, AIDS, poor education and high child mortality. Their stated goal is to get the Internet, telephones and other communications ==========> 03-12-12-InfoWorld-WSIS-WorldSummitOnInfoSociety.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/12/HNwsisushead_1.html WSIS - Head of US delegation talks shop US influence holds sway at Geneva meeting By John Blau, IDG News Service December 12, 2003 Many eyes have been fixated on the U.S. delegation during the three-day World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) here in Geneva and, in particular, during the numerous rounds of difficult preparatory talks. ==========> 03-12-14-CNETNews-XMLFinallyGettingRecognition.txt========== http://news.com.com/2010-7345-5121763.html XML--Rodney, are we there yet? December 14, 2003, 6:00 AM PT By William Ruh After initially creating a lot of buzz in the late days of the dot-com boom, XML seemed in danger of becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of the technology world. Now, it appears that XML might finally be getting the respect it deserves in the marketplace. ==========> 03-12-15-NWFusion-EarlyAdoptersSayIPv6EasyToImplemet.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215ipv6.html?net IPv6 fears seen unfounded Early adopters report transition has been easier, less expensive than predicted. By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World, 12/15/03 ARLINGTON, VA. - Early adopters of IPv6 say deployment of this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol is significantly easier than expected and costs less than anticipated. ==========> 03-12-16-CircleID-ALookAtICANNsAttemptToCultivateNetDemocracy.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/398_0_1_0_C/ The End of the Experiment Dec 16, 2003 By John Palfrey An abstract from John Palfrey's recent paper that takes a critical look at ICANN's attempt in cultivating global Internet democracy. Amidst a firestorm of debate, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ==========> 03-12-22-MSNBC-NetCouldBecomeToolOfGovtAndCorporations.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3606168&p1=0 A Net of Control Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works Christoph Niemann for Newsweek By Steven Levy Newsweek International Issues 2004 - Picture, if you will, an information infrastructure that ==========> 03-12-22-SanMateoCtyTimes-UNWorldSummit-InternetGlobalization.txt========== http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87%257E11271%257E1846454,00.ht ml Article Last Updated: Monday, December 22, 2003 - 2:58:30 AM PST U.N. summit asks how to globalize Internet Web's content caters overwhelmingly to Western tastes, languages By Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press San Mateo County Times GENEVA -- Rahul Dewan typed "India" into the search box of an online stock ==========> 03-12-22-WSJ-NetGrowthMayRequireRevolution.txt========== # "Growth of the Internet May Take Nothing Short of a Revolution" Wall Street Journal (12/22/03) P. B1; Gomes, Lee Upgrading the Internet so that 100 million U.S. households can access it at 100 Mbps--over 100 times faster than most high-speed home connections today--is the goal of the "100 by 100" consortium organized by four major universities and other research centers with a $7.5 million National Science Foundation grant. But achieving such a scheme hinges on a contentious debate about whether Internet technology should follow a "revolutionary" or "evolutionary" path. Carnegie Mellon University Professor Hui Zhang argues that an evolutionary ==========> 03-12-23-CNETNews-2003TechLawReview.txt========== http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-5131781.html Unexpected twists in Internet law December 23, 2003, 4:00 AM PT By Doug Isenberg Internet law in 2003 was full of surprises, with Congress passing an antispam bill, the courts blessing pop-up advertising, the music industry losing lawsuits and the Supreme Court finally upholding an Internet law. ==========> 03-12-24-Salon-TopInternetStoriesOf2003.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/12/24/year_in_review_2003/index_np.html The return of the Internet In 2003, Howard Dean scored big with the Web, while India took advantage of online communications to grab thousands of white-collar jobs from the West. The Net, it turns out, still matters. Editor's note: Every year, Salon's Technology & Business staff rounds up the biggest stories of the previous 12 months. ==========> 03-12-29-Wired-WishListsFor2004.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61726,00.html The Fantasy and Reality of 2004 By Michelle Delio 02:00 AM Dec. 29, 2003 PT Fling dishes or flaming furniture out the window, fire off celebratory gunfire, jump off chairs, ring bells, beat drums, clutch silver as the clock strikes midnight or sweep bad juju out of the house with a kitchen broom -- these are some of the ways people welcome in the New Year. ==========> 04-01-00-CACM-TrustBuildingAndConsumerHealthPortals.txt========== Trust-building measures: a review of consumer health portals Wenhong Luo, Mohammad Najdawi January 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 1 Health Web sites are employ a medley of trust-building approaches. But does a definitive formula exist for winning consumer trust? A common reason consumers use the Internet is to search for health-related information. A survey found that 52 million Americans sought health information ==========> 04-01-00-Discover-InternetMayPermitTruePopulism.txt========== http://www.discover.com/issues/jan-04/departments/emerging-technology/ Emerging Technology Internet-Era Democracy Can the World Wide Web give ordinary people a shot at true populism? By Steven Johnson DISCOVER Vol. 25 No. 01 | January 2004 | Technology Presidential campaigning is being swept into a new era by the Internet, which is emerging as a political power tool. Howard Dean, for example, has risen from ==========> 04-01-00-IEEESpectrum-IBMsWebFountain-DataAnalysisEngine-XML.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jan04/0104comp1.html A Fountain of Knowledge 2004 will be the year of the analysis engine By Stephen Cass The great strength of computers is that they can reliably manipulate vast amounts of data very quickly. Their great weakness is that they don’t have a clue as to what any of that data actually means. ==========> 04-01-00-Wired-101WaysToSaveTheInternet.txt========== http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/internet.html January 2004 101 Ways to Save the Internet By Paul Boutin Where's a superhero when you need one? The Net, which once seemed so invincible, is under attack by the forces of evil. Viruses knock servers to their knees. Spammers hijack our inboxes. Hackers and identity thieves menace our collective security and personal privacy. ==========> 04-01-01-Syllabus-Internet2Commons-DistibutedEngrCollaboration.txt========== http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8715 Syllabus Magazine The Internet2 Commons: Supporting Distributed Engineering Collaboration By Thomas A. Finholt Jerome F. Hajjar Erik C. Hofer Andrei M. Reinhorn This article originally appeared in the 1/1/2004 Issue of Syllabus ==========> 04-01-04-SJMerc-DG-P2PUsedLegallyToDistributeSoftwareAndData.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7870990.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 04, 2004 Preserving peer-to-peer networks is essential By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com/blog): ==========> 04-01-05-NWFusion-PrivateResearchNetOpensFirstLink.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0105nlr.html Research net set to fly By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World, 01/05/04 The network research community is building an $80 million nationwide optical network that advocates say is the most ambitious and promising test bed since the creation of Arpanet - the Internet's precursor - in the late 1960s. ==========> 04-01-07-IndepDig-ComputersWillBeEverywhere.txt========== http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=478649 The ultimate global network Within 20 years computers will be everywhere, and they'll all be talking to each other. Daunting? Not if we're prepared, says a group of British scientists. Richard Sarson reports 07 January 2004 You may think that computers have taken over most aspects of your life. But you ain't seen nothing yet. It's predicted that in 20 years' time, "there will be ==========> 04-01-07-TechRev-IPv6WillMakeNetSlowerAndLessSecure.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel010704.asp Internet 6.0 The next version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, will supply the world with addresses by the trillions. Too bad it will also make the Net slower and less secure. By Simson Garfinkel The Net Effect January 7, 2004 ==========> 04-01-07-USAToday-AllNetProblemsCanBeSolvedWithoutGovernmentInvolvement.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-01-08-downes_x.htm Posted 1/7/2004 9:22 PM Internet cleans its own house By Larry Downes Now is the winter of our Internet discontent: the blight of spam, annoying pop-up ads and disturbing privacy invasions. The avalanche of consumer complaints has spurred the government to respond. ==========> 04-01-09-SJMerc-CubaTightensControlOverInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7674007.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 09, 2004 Cuba tightens control over Internet HAVANA (AP) - Cuba tightened its controls over the Internet on Friday, prohibiting access over the low-cost government phone service most ordinary citizens have at home. The move could affect hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Cubans who illegally ==========> 04-01-11-WashPost-HoneypotsCatchEvilDoers.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5056-2004Jan9.html We Can Trap More Crooks With a Net Full of Honey By Michael Schrage Sunday, January 11, 2004; Page B01 The site looks temptingly authentic. Its pictures are graphic, the kind that would immediately appeal to a pedophile. A customer cruising the Net for kiddie porn would want to double-click to see more. But wait. Before he touches the mouse, he's compelled to ask himself: Is this online offer for real? Or is this ==========> 04-01-13-NewsFact-CompaniesDebateUseOfP2P.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=To_P_P_or_Not_To_P_P_&story_id =22986 To P2P or Not To P2P? By Mike Martin SCI:TECH January 13, 2004 3:47PM "In a corporate environment, P2P backup makes a lot of sense, because I essentially know that my colleague down the corridor or on the other side of ==========> 04-01-15-BusWire-W3CPublishedCapabilitiesProfile-CC-PP.txt========== http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ne wsId=20040115005340&newsLang=en January 15, 2004 10:01 AM US Eastern Timezone World Wide Web Consortium Publishes CC/PP 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation; W3C's New Standard Profiling Language Aids in Delivering Web Content to Broad Range of Devices http://www.w3.org/--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2004--The World Wide Web ==========> 04-01-20-MSNBC-RootServerPhysicalSecurityLiesInObscurity.txt========== http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4009568/ Fort N.O.C.'s The heart of Internet security lies in obscurity Technicians monitor Internet traffic in a Verisign network operating center. A new center has recently gone operational and will replace the one seen here. By Brock N. Meeks Reporter MSNBC Updated: 8:52 p.m. ET Jan. 20, 2004 ==========> 04-01-21-ACMUbiquity-ChangingWaysWeUseTheInternet.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i46_downes.html 2004: The Turning Point An overview of some of the issues that will change the way we use the Internet By Stephen Downes Jan. 21, 2004 I am usually hesitant to write predictions of the future, not because I think it's risky (I have a great deal of confidence in what follows) but because it's hackneyed. Especially at this time of the year, everybody is making ==========> 04-01-22-NYT-NewMethodOfBookmarkingSuperior.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/circuits/22next.html January 22, 2004 WHAT'S NEXT Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites By LISA GUERNSEY ELECTRONIC bookmarks were supposed to answer the problem of Web-site recall. If you came across a site that you expected to need in the future, you simply added it to your Favorites list in Internet Explorer for safekeeping. With an ==========> 04-01-25-SJMerc-DG-Wikipedia-VolunteerEncyclopediaMarks200000thEntry.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7793099.htm Posted on Sun, Jan. 25, 2004 Online reference to reach milestone By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Sometime in the next few days or weeks, one of the world's most comprehensive online reference sites will publish its 200,000th article. More accurately, one of the site's contributors will publish the article. ==========> 04-01-31-DaytonDailyNews-Internet2HasCommercializationIssues.txt========== http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/business/daily/0201futurehurdles.htm l High-speed internet's hurdles still considerable Technological, economic, human problems to overcome By Adam Jones Cox News Service Saturday, January 31, 2004 WASHINGTON -- When Justin Bland surfs the Web in his dorm room at George ==========> 04-02-02-SJMerc-InternetRadioStillAlive.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech nology/7854663.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 02, 2004 Internet radio on the go RECORDING SOFTWARE, DEVICES ADD PORTABILITY, TIME SHIFTING By Sam Diaz Mercury News A few weeks back, a woman called a local radio station to say goodbye to the ==========> 04-02-05-Astronomy-GooglePointersSwampWebsite.txt========== http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/quatjulia/google.html Using Google? (Reading Slashdot? The followup story) Looking for images of quaternion fractals? On the 3rd of February 2004, this page (or rather the page that was here) was swamped by requests and the server subsequentially failed. The reason was traced to Google introducing a fractal looking logo (see below), which when clicked, performed an image search for "julia" and "fractal". The two most ==========> 04-02-05-Slashdot-GooglePointersSwampWebsite.txt========== http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/05/0019218.shtml?tid=126&tid=149&tid=95&tid=9 9 Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site ==========> 04-02-17-PCMag-CanEmailSurvive.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1464011,00.asp Can E-Mail Survive? February 17, 2004 By Cade Metz Last year was not a good year for e-mail. In spring 2003, the steady flow of unsolicited and unwanted messages reached a tipping point. According to Postini, a California company whose e-mail– filtering service processes 150 to 200 million messages a day, spam finally accounted for more than half of all ==========> 04-02-17-SJMerc-GoogleAdds1BMorePagesToIndex.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7975055.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 17, 2004 Google Adds 1B More Pages to Web Index MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - Online search engine leader Google Inc. added an additional 1 billion pages to its Web index Tuesday, increasing its breadth by about one-third as it girds for tougher competition from Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft ==========> 04-02-22-LWeinstein-VeriSignICANNSuitAboutNetGovernance.txt========== http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200402/msg00279.ht ml 26 Feb 2004 14:41:28 -0800 From: Lauren Weinstein [IP] : VeriSign sues ICANN This falls squarely into the "reap what you sow" category. Many of us (including yourself) have been warning for years that the current Internet "governance" situation vis-a-vis ICANN (and VeriSign) was untenable, but ==========> 04-02-23-CircleID-Franfston-ItsConnectivityNotTheInternet.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/499_0_1_0_C/ It's About Connectivity Not The Internet! By: Bob Frankston From CircleID Exploring Frontlines February 23, 2004 I've been trying to avoid writing about the Internet as such. With as "At the Edge" I'm looking at larger issues but can't escape writing more directly about the Internet. ==========> 04-02-23-EWeek-CongressToReviewTechAgenda.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1539542,00.asp Congress to Review Tech Agenda February 23, 2004 By Caron Carlson Congress faces a relatively brief session this year, with the autumn election portending a timely adjournment, but several IT issues will demand lawmakers' attention. The top contenders will be cyber-security, Internet taxes and spyware. ==========> 04-02-25-TechRev-RelievingP2PNetworkCongestion.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_hadenius022504.asp Relieving Peer-to-peer Pressure Traffic from peer-to-peer programs like Kazaa and Skype floods the Net. Now we see products that are aimed at channeling the traffic better. Guess who’s behind them. By Patric Hadenius February 25, 2004 As the music downloading frenzy continues unabated, Internet service providers ==========> 04-02-26-SJMerc-VerisignFileAntitrustSuitAgainstICANN.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8049773.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 26, 2004 Internet addressing giant sues oversight body NEW YORK (AP) - The company that runs the bulk of the Internet's addressing system sued the medium's key oversight body Thursday, saying its slow and inconsistent decisions impede innovation. ``It's a culmination of our efforts over the last few years to gain a clear and ==========> 04-02-27-ITWorld-VeriSignICANNSuitAboutNetGovernance.txt========== http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/040227verisignicann/ VeriSign sues ICANN over delay in services IDG News Service 2/27/04 Grant Gross, IDG News Service, Washington Bureau VeriSign Inc. filed a lawsuit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Thursday, accusing the organization of overstepping its contractual authority and improperly attempting to regulate VeriSign's business. ==========> 04-02-27-SJMerc-AOLDiscontinuesBundledBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8059373.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 27, 2004 AOL discontinues bundled broadband offering NEW YORK (AP) - America Online Inc. has quietly stopped offering a complete broadband package, requiring subscribers to instead obtain their high-speed Internet connections directly from a cable modem or DSL provider. The reversal in strategy stands as another black mark against the purported ==========> 04-02-27-SJMerc-VeriSignICANNSuitAboutNetGovernance.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8059759.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 27, 2004 Net governance at issue in VeriSign's suit against ICANN NEW YORK (AP) - On its face, the latest showdown between the company that runs much of the Internet's core and the organization that oversees key aspects of the global network is a basic contractual dispute. But whatever a federal court in Los Angeles decides could have broad ==========> 04-03-00-BusCommRev-ENUM-TelephoneNumberToIPaddressMapping.txt========== http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/2004/03/p26.asp VOICE-DATA CONVERGENCE Public ENUM—How Important Is It? from the March 2004 issue of Business Communications Review, pp. 26–30 by Sandra L. Borthick, BCR’s senior editor Beneath such visible matters as the FCC’s planned decision on whether to regulate public VOIP lurks another policy issue—the matter of U.S. involvement in ENUM, short for the electronic number mapping between PSTN and IP addresses. ==========> 04-03-00-TechRev-SearchBeyondGoogle.txt========== * "Search Beyond Google" Technology Review (03/04) Vol. 107, No. 2, P. 34; Roush, Wade Google's enormous success with its search engine--and its apparent inability to develop a follow-up innovation momentous enough to sustain the company's market dominance--is encouraging Microsoft and other companies to invent their own tools that could eventually capture a good portion of Google's revenue. The breakthrough technology that makes Google so successful, the PageRank algorithm, scores Web pages according to the number of other pages they are linked to, but critics note that this does not mean the most popular ==========> 04-03-01-ITWorld-DomainRegistrarsSueICANNAndVeriSign.txt========== http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/040301registrars/ Domain registrars sue ICANN, VeriSign IDG News Service 3/1/04 Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau One day after being sued by VeriSign Inc. over delays in approving a new service for back-ordering Internet domain names, the organization that controls the Internet's domain naming system is now being sued by a group of eight domain name registrars seeking to stop the new services' implementation, this ==========> 04-03-02-INetNEws-ICANNMeetsToDiscussIssues.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3320211 Internet News ICANN Fleshes Out Global Ambitions By Jim Wagner March 2, 2004 The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) continues its tri-annual get-together in Rome this week, as Internet enthusiasts, big-name corporations and government entities discuss the organization's plans ==========> 04-03-03-SJMerc-GeorgiaMayTryOnlineLotterySales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8097046.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 03, 2004 Georgia could be first state to try online lottery sales ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia lawmakers are considering creating a first-in-the-nation online lottery that would allow people to buy a ticket without having to stop in at a convenience store or a gas station. ``We're trying to target a market that may not be part of the lottery now -- ==========> 04-03-04-CompWorld-InstantMessagingFollowingEmailHistory.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,908 01,00.html E-mail's past could point to future of instant messaging Panelists at an IM conference predict standardization -- eventually News Story by Fred O'Connor MARCH 04, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - To understand instant messaging today, users should look at the history of e-mail, panelists said yesterday at the Instant Messaging Planet Conference in Boston. ==========> 04-03-05-Wired-BloggersBorrowFromEachOtherWithoutAttribution.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62537,00.html Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious By Amit Asaravala 02:00 AM Mar. 05, 2004 PT The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of information between ==========> 04-03-08-CompWorld-NewsDeliveryWillBePersonalizedAndInteractive.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,90810,00.html Future of News Delivery Stories that are personalized, interactive and multimedia. Future Watch by Linda Rosencrance MARCH 08, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - In the 2002 movie Minority Report, a passenger on a subway train gets constantly updated news on a flexible, translucent, portable flat-panel device that he carries with him. ==========> 04-03-08-IntlHeraldTrib-ICANNFacesPressures.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/509038.html Copyright © 2002 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com External forces chip away at Internet’s overseer Chris Oakes IHT Monday, March 8, 2004 After years of criticism, Icann — the organization spun off by the U.S. government to oversee the smooth flow of the world’s dot-com addressing system — is still trying to prove that it has the world’s interests at heart. ==========> 04-03-08-MktWire-IPv6TaskForceStartsNextTestingPhase.txt========== http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=64093 North American IPv6 Task Force Kicks Off Next Phase of Moonv6 World's Largest Multi-Vendor IPv6 Network to Be Permanently Deployed Market Wire DURHAM, NH -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/08/2004 -- The North American IPv6 Task Force, a sub-chapter of the IPv6 Forum dedicated to the advancement and propagation of IPv6 in the North American continent, announced that the second phase of testing on Moonv6, the world's largest multi-vendor IPv6 network, ==========> 04-03-08-SJMerc-ML-PursuingEmailFreedom.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech nology/8133359.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 08, 2004 Pursuing e-mail freedom? Let me show you the way By Mike Langberg Mercury News Drum roll please. I'm here to unfurl the E-Mail Declaration of Independence. ==========> 04-03-10-InetNews-GroupAppliesForMobileTopLevelDomain.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3324121 March 10, 2004 Nokia, Microsoft Want Mobile Domain Names By Jim Wagner Internet News Some of the biggest names in the mobile communications industry are banding together to create a registry for Web pages built specifically for access by mobile devices. ==========> 04-03-11-HebrewUniv-ScientistCoDirectingInternetOfTheFutureResearch.txt========== http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/communication_media/report-26792. html 11.03.2004 Hebrew University Scientist Co-Directing European Research Project for Internet of Future As the volume of “traffic” on the Internet grows at an enormous rate – estimates are that it is doubling every year – scientists in several countries have begun working to measure this incremental growth and to devise methods for ==========> 04-03-12-ZDNet-MSMAndHotmailAvailabilityProblems.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-5172979.html?tag=nl MSN Messenger, Hotmail on the fritz By Robert Lemos CNET News.com March 12, 2004, 3:50 PM PT Microsoft is investigating customer complaints that both MSN Messenger and Hotmail have been intermittently inaccessible since Friday morning, a representative said. ==========> 04-03-15-CIOMag-BusinessStartToUseVoIP.txt========== http://www.cio.com/archive/031504/et_article.html Mar. 15, 2004 Issue of CIO Magazine IT Phone Home Under Development As the world awakens to voice over IP, some CIOs already are reaping the benefits. BY MATT VILLANO TELECOMMUNICATIONS | Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) has been poised for its breakout since 1998. Now, after years of fits and starts, numerous ==========> 04-03-15-P2PNet--StateAGsTakeOnP2P.txt========== http://p2pnet.net/story/981 Did MPAA write Lockyer letter? March 15, 2004 p2pnet.net News:- Any doubts that Hollywood works hand-in-glove with America's law-makers can now be dispelled if a draft letter from California attorney general Bill Lockyer to fellow state AGs is genuine. Either it came from MPAA lobbyist Vans Stevenson, who reports directly to MPAA ==========> 04-03-15-SJMerc-PornographerDonatesWhitehouseURLToUSGovt.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8193844.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 15, 2004 Pornographer donates WhitehouseKids.com address to U.S. government WASHINGTON (AP) - The owner of the Whitehouse.com pornography Web site has donated a similar Internet address to the government, a move he said would ensure that children don't inadvertently stumble into one of the Internet's seedier neighborhoods. ==========> 04-03-15-SJMerc-StudiosOfferMovieTeasersOnWeb.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8172962.htm?noCache=1085087851983 Posted on Mon, Mar. 15, 2004 Movie teasers take to smaller screens By MARIA ELENA FERNANDEZ Los Angeles Times In the never-ending quest for a box-office splash, movie marketers are testing a new variation of an old concept -- the "sneak preview." ==========> 04-03-15-TechNewsWorld-NCStateResearchersDevelopNewNetProtocol-BIC-TCP.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33130.html Scientists Develop Breakthrough Internet Protocol By Kirk L. Kroeker TechNewsWorld March 15, 2004 "TCP was originally designed in the 1980s when Internet speeds were much slower and bandwidths much smaller," said Injong Rhee, associate professor of computer science at North Carolina State University. "Now we are trying to apply it to ==========> 04-03-15-TheReg-StateAGsTakeOnP2P.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/36269.html State Attorney - the MPAA's man - urges P2P ban By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 15/03/2004 at 22:40 GMT The Register The democratic veneer over the business of buying the legislation you want has never looked thinner. California's State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has been caught acting as a public relations front for Hollywood's big money copyright ==========> 04-03-15-Wired-StateAGsTakeOnP2P.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62665,00.html?tw=wn_culthead_5 P2P in the Legal Crosshairs By Xeni Jardin 02:00 AM Mar. 15, 2004 PT Is California's attorney general preparing a legislative assault on peer-to-peer file sharing? A draft letter purportedly circulated by Bill Lockyer to fellow state attorneys ==========> 04-03-16-EWeek-W3CFinalizesInternetVoiceStandards.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1549910,00.asp W3C Finalizes Internet Voice Standards March 16, 2004 By Darryl K. Taft The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday announced that it has published two key pieces of the Speech Interface Framework— VoiceXML 2.0 and the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification. ==========> 04-03-16-NYT-StateAGsTakeOnP2P.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/technology/16peer.html March 16, 2004 States May Be Aiming at Web File Sharing By JOHN SCHWARTZ The New York Times State attorneys general may be gearing up for action against Internet file-sharing companies, with lobbyists in the movie industry helping to write the declaration of war. ==========> 04-03-16-SJMerc-StateAGsTakeOnP2P.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8198724.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 16, 2004 Letter hints at possible new file-sharing scrutiny from attorneys general LOS ANGELES (AP) - Companies behind software used by millions to swap music, movies and other files online could be the target of warnings or even legal action by U.S. attorneys general, according to a letter apparently drafted by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. ==========> 04-03-18-CNETNews-VintCerf-WhoShouldGovernTheNet.txt========== http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5174043.html Who should govern the Net? By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 18, 2004, 4:00 AM PST Who should run the Internet? It's no longer merely an academic question. Since 1998, responsibility for ==========> 04-03-22-CNETNews-IPv6TaskForceStartsCompletesTestingPhase.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5177463.html Next Net moves forward By Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 22, 2004, 4:10 PM PST The next generation of the Internet, known as Internet Protocol version 6, took another big step toward commercialization, as its second phase of testing in North America wrapped up last week. ==========> 04-03-22-SJMerc-GoogleToAddSocialNetworkToSearch.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5177233.html Google to find place for Orkut network in search By Michael Kanellos CNET News.com March 22, 2004, 12:19 PM PT SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--Search giant Google will integrate an online social network created by one of its engineers into its search services, perhaps within a year, according to CEO Eric Schimdt. ==========> 04-03-23-SJMerc-GoogleToAddSocialNetworkToSearch.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8254698.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 23, 2004 Google to meld social site into search engine By Matt Marshall Mercury News When Google engineer Orkut Buyukkokten launched a social networking Web site called Orkut a few months ago, Google said it had no plans to integrate the company into its search engine. ==========> 04-03-24-CNETNews-SonyLibriEBookUsesPhillipsEInkTech.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1041-5178854.html Sony e-book to be written in electronic ink By Richard Shim Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 24, 2004, 4:33 PM PST Consumer electronics giant Sony is using electronic ink in its new e-book, marking one of the first consumer applications of the next-generation display technology. ==========> 04-03-24-ExtremeTech-SonyLibriEBookUsesPhillipsEInkTech.txt========== http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1553471,00.asp Sony To Market Electronic Ink March 24, 2004 By: Mark Hachman Extreme Tech Sony Electronics said late Tuesday night that it plans to offer an e-book for sale in Japan this April, utilizing a display that approximates the style of newsprint. ==========> 04-03-24-SJMerc-MSNewsJunkieSelectsOnlyNewInfoInWebSearches.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8263165.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 24, 2004 All the news that's fit for searching MICROSOFT PROJECT FILTERS OUT REPETITIVE INFORMATION By Kristi Heim Mercury News Seattle Bureau SEATTLE - Eric Horvitz is an admitted news junkie. But like most Web surfers, he's been getting an overdose of the same information. ==========> 04-03-25-FinTimes-ICANNChiefCallsForFewerLanguageBarriers.txt========== http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=040325000965 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY: Why internet needs to break down the language barriers By Chris Nuttall Financial Times; Mar 25, 2004 Sex, spam and Catalonia; the concerns of Paul Twomey, the man who controls the internet's naming conventions, are diverse indeed. Mr Twomey is president and chief executive of ICANN, the Internet Corporation ==========> 04-03-26-CNETNews-UNWantsGreaterSayInInternetGovernance.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5179694.html United Nations ponders Net's future By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 26, 2004, 4:00 AM PST UNITED NATIONS--The United Nations wants a big piece of the Internet. At a summit here this week, delegates from around the world gathered to take a ==========> 04-03-26-SJMerc-Gates-TechWillChangeAdvertising.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8287221.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 26, 2004 Microsoft's Gates: Technology will change advertising REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - It's time to stop taking TV addicts for granted, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told advertising executives on Friday. For years, advertisers depended on the prototypical couch potato who sat through commercials while waiting for the next television show to arrive on the ==========> 04-03-26-SJMerc-ICANNDefendsItselfAtUNMeeting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8286842.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 26, 2004 ICANN defends its stewardship of the Net UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.S. government-sanctioned organization that oversees the Internet's all-important ``telephone book'' defended its work Friday as diplomats and computer companies considered a greater role for the United Nations. ==========> 04-04-01-NYT-SurroundSoundForDigitalMerdiaFiles.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/technology/circuits/01next.html April 1, 2004 WHAT'S NEXT All the World's a Soundstage as Audio Formats Evolve By SEÁN CAPTAIN New York Times DESPITE the ultramodern aura of devices that play compressed digital music files, from the Apple iPod player to the Rio Karma, they all share one ==========> 04-04-01-SDTimes-Berners-Lee-W3CFutureWork.txt========== http://www.sdtimes.com/news/099/story3.htm The Next Job for the W3C April 1, 2004 — The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, is one of the powerful levers that moves the Internet. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee in October 1994 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with CERN, the organization has developed and extended key technology standards such as HTTP, HTML and XML. ==========> 04-04-01-WorldPressFreedomComm-AdvocatesICANNRetainSomeRole.txt========== # "WPFC Releases Position Paper on Internet Governance" World Press Freedom Committee (04/01/04) On March 10, 2004, the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) released a position paper on Internet governance in preparation for the second World Summit on the Information Society, which will be held in Tunis, Tunisia, in November 2005. Some countries have proposed that the United Nations (UN) take over a measure of responsibility for Internet governance. The WPFC position paper advocates that ICANN retain some sort of role in any new governance system led by the UN. ICANN has refrained from weighing in on controversial Internet content such as ==========> 04-04-05-TorontoStar-WorldResistsUniversalWebLaws.txt========== http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T ype1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1081116610792 Apr. 5, 2004. 01:00 AM World resists one-size-fits-all Web laws Canadian file-sharing ruling an example Toronto Star Business must adapt to legal `melting pot' MICHAEL GEIST LAW BYTES ==========> 04-04-06-NeuZurchZeit-SwissDiplomatIsUNChoiceToBrokerInternetTalks.txt========== http://www.nzz.ch/2004/04/06/english/page-synd4846506.html 6. April 2004, 23:45, Swissinfo Swiss diplomat leads debate over policing the web Neue Zürcher Zeitung The United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, has chosen Swiss diplomat, Markus Kummer, to broker international talks on who should police the web. In an interview with swissinfo, Kummer said his first task was to establish a ==========> 04-04-06-PCWorld-InternetCommonsCongressDiscussedIssues.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115551,00.asp Internet Congress Convenes Activists rally to promote fair use, free speech, privacy, and other issues. PC World Grant Gross, IDG News Service Tuesday, April 06, 2004 The politically minded group of people meeting recently near Washington, D.C. weren't wearing enough navy suits and power ties to be confused with Congress, ==========> 04-04-08-InetNews-W3CDocObjModelSpecApprovedForInteroperability.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3337571 April 8, 2004 W3C Advances Specs For Web Interoperability By Sean Michael Kerner InternetNews The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has approved Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core and Load and Save specifications as official W3C recommendations, a move that stamps out vestiges of the browser wars and makes way for Web ==========> 04-04-09-TheFeature-DevelopmentOfInterplanetaryInternet.txt========== http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100521 Spaced Out on the Interplanetary Internet By David Pescovitz Fri Apr 09 05:00:00 GMT 2004 The Feature Interplanetary telecommunication needs an upgrade. That's the aim of the Interplanetary Internet, an effort to extend the capabilities of cyberspace to outer space. And while a ".mars" address is quite a few years off, the latest ==========> 04-04-10-SJMerc-VeriSignAccusesICANNOfOverstepping.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8401704.htm Posted on Sat, Apr. 10, 2004 VeriSign in fight with Net regulator FIRM CONTENDS ICANN HAS OVERSTEPPED AUTHORITY By Dan Lee Mercury News VeriSign, which runs the master directories for ``.com'' and ``.net'' addresses, is locked in a legal battle with the group that oversees the ==========> 04-04-12-Wired-GopherInternetServersStillActive.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62988,00.html Gopher: Underground Technology By Lore Sjöberg 02:00 AM Apr. 12, 2004 PT Back in 1992, when "yahoo" was something cowboys yelled and "ebay" was just pig Latin, the University of Minnesota developed a new way of looking at data on the Internet. Their protocol, called "gopher" after the UMN mascot, allowed archivists to present the mishmash of information in a standard format, and ==========> 04-04-14-SJMerc-BloombaSWSearchesEmail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8427536.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 14, 2004 `The Google of e-mail' START-UP TOUTS BLOOMBA'S SEARCHING TOOL By Michael Bazeley Mercury News You probably don't think much about your e-mail, except maybe when it doesn't work. ==========> 04-04-15-AmerNet-MobileTLDMeansInternetOnHandheldDevicesHasFailed.txt========== http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=9232 9 Mobile industry embroiled in domain debate April 15, 2004 By: Nancy Gohring America's Network The recently announced initiative to create a mobile Internet domain may be an indication that technologies aimed at translating Web sites on the fly for ==========> 04-04-15-CSMon-Weblogs-TheBloggingScene.txt========== http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0415/p14s02-stin.html from the April 15, 2004 Blogs: Here to stay - with changes By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor They're hip. Influential. Out there. By one estimate, there are 2 million of them posted on the Internet around the world talking about everything from knitting patterns to the war in Iraq. But as blogs - or personal weblogs - move into the limelight, they're also coming under closer scrutiny. And the ==========> 04-04-16-CompWorld-UNRoleInInternetGovernance.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1154471473&fp=16&fpid=0 Internet governance debate heats up Stephen Bell, IDGNet New Zealand 16/04/2004 08:52:58 The debate on future governance of the internet is heating up, with a United Nations ICT taskforce convening a “global forum” late last month on the subject and those prominent in the IT and political worlds having plenty to say around the edges. ==========> 04-04-16-OReilly-WhyGmailIsGoodAndInternetFutures.txt========== http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4707 The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus by Tim O'Reilly Apr. 16, 2004 There has been a rash of recent editorials about privacy concerns with Google's gmail service. A number of organizations have asked Google to voluntarily suspend the service. One California legislator has gone so far as to say she plans to introduce a bill to ban it. This is nuts! A number of things to ==========> 04-04-18-TheReg-TheFutureOfWeblogging.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/18/blogging_future/ The Register The future of Weblogging By Nico Macdonald (nico@spy.co.uk) Published Sunday 18th April 2004 21:01 GMT The rise of Weblogging has been a cold shower for the complacent mass communication industries. Although the Weblogging pioneers are due much praise, their own rhetoric deserves examination, and they could also raise their sights ==========> 04-04-19-CenForRegEffect-ICANN-WhyIsTechManagerARegulator.txt========== http://thecre.com/icann/govern-19apr2004.htm Why Does A Technical Manager Function As A Regulator? Center for Regulatory Effectiveness April 19, 2004 Unlike ICANN, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) responded graciously, promptly and substantively to inquiries from the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE) regarding governance of the internet. ==========> 04-04-19-SJMerc-Gmail-AVeryGoodWebMailService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8465749.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 19, 2004 E-mail gets a makeover GOOGLE RAISES THE STAKES WITH TOP-NOTCH GMAIL By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Google has been catching flak from all sides lately over its plans to launch an e-mail service that scans people's messages for advertising purposes. ==========> 04-04-21-SJMerc-DG-BlogsMaturingAndBecomingMoreUseful.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8481937.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 21, 2004 Weblogs gaining maturity, becoming more useful By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Weblogs are growing up. Last weekend, several hundred members of the ``blogosphere'' got together at ==========> 04-04-21-SJMerc-VeriSignSettlesSuitOverSexDotCom.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8481990.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 21, 2004 VeriSign settles Sex.com lawsuit DOMAIN NAME OWNER MAY GET $15 MILLION By Chris O'Brien Mercury News VeriSign will pay about $15 million to settle a lawsuit that claims it improperly transferred the Sex.com domain name. ==========> 04-04-26-SJMerc-ProvidersEnhanceIM-CompetitivePressures.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8524640.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 26, 2004 Companies Launch War Over Web Messaging ANICK JESDANUN Associated Press NEW YORK - Instant-messaging software has evolved into the latest weapon in a fierce battle among major Internet companies to reap revenues off whatever you do, wherever you go online. ==========> 04-04-27-SJMerc--IndianaCountyToUseWebForK-8SummerSchool.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8532113.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 27, 2004 Indiana County OKs Web for Summer School Associated Press COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. - Whitley County students won't have to leave home to take summer school classes this year - they can learn over the Internet. The change will allow students in kindergarten through eighth grade to work at ==========> 04-04-27-Wired-NETiProjectHopesToCollectUersInternetStatistics.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63180,00.html NETI to Examine Net's Strengths By Michelle Delio 02:00 AM Apr. 27, 2004 PT Georgia Tech researchers want you -- and your computer. They want to figure out how to make the Internet faster and more reliable, but to do that they need to gather data from tens of thousands of personal ==========> 04-04-28-TheReg-ECSaysItHasFaithInICANNIfChangesAreMade.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/28/ec_icann_warning_shot/ EC tells Europe and ICANN to make peace By Kieren McCarthy (kieren@kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk) Published Wednesday 28th April 2004 10:27 GMT The Register The ever-present issue of who gets to run the Internet is coming to a head and the European Commission has made it clear it wants the arguments sorted out sooner rather than later. ==========> 04-04-29-CNETNews-i2hubBringsFileSwappingToInternet2.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1027-5202107.html File-swapping gets supercharged on student network By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified April 29, 2004, 3:42 PM PDT A new file-trading network has sprung up on Internet2, the university network that offers researchers and students a way to communicate at blazing speeds while avoiding the ordinary Internet's data traffic jams. ==========> 04-05-01-AmerNet-IPv6PicksUpSteamInUS.txt========== http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=9368 7 Making up for lost time on IPv6 Awaiting the next Internet boom, with a little help from the Department of Defense May 1, 2004 By: Robert Poe America's Network ==========> 04-05-05-NewSci-KnowItAllSeachEngineSearchesMultiplePages.txt========== http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/ns-scg050504.php Public release date: 5-May-2004 Contact: Claire Bowles claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-207-331-2751 New Scientist Single click generates lists to end all lists USING search engines to compile a list- like the top 50 greatest blues ==========> 04-05-05-VancouverSun-ENUMWouldCombineInternetAndPhoneNumbers.txt========== http://www.canada.com/search/story.html?id=29eb6719-05cf-4f2f-a137-472934d6d4c8 Internet addresses, phone numbers could soon be interchangeable consultant: 'It's the blob that ate Chicago' Peter Wilson The Vancouver Sun May 5, 2004 VANCOUVER - Within two to three years, your Internet address could become your phone number. ==========> 04-05-06-NYT-IRC-InternetRelayChatRoomsBecomingHomeToIPPirates.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/technology/circuits/06chat.html May 6, 2004 The Internet's Wilder Side By SETH SCHIESEL The New York Times IT was just another Wednesday on the sprawling Internet chat-room network known as I.R.C. In a room called Prime-Tyme-Movies, users offered free pirated downloads of "The Passion of the Christ'' and "Kill Bill Vol. 2.'' In the ==========> 04-05-06-WebIndia-KnowItAllSeachEngineSearchesMultiplePages.txt========== http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=37486&cat=Science 'Know It All' could leave Google grogle eyed! Washington May 06, 2004 4:44:22 PM IST Compiling a list usually takes a lot of time and effort, as one has to visit several web pages and type in several combinations. But a new Search engine called "knowItAll" which is currently under construction at the University of Washington hopes to change all that and make the task as easy as a single click of the mouse. ==========> 04-05-12-Wired-InterviewWithWWW2004ConfChairStuartFeldman.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63419,00.html The Unfolding Saga of the Web By Michelle Delio 02:00 AM May. 12, 2004 PT NEW YORK -- The questions never seem to change, but sometimes the answers do. Next week many of the men and women who brought us the Internet will gather in New York City for WWW2004, the 13th World Wide Web Conference. They will debate ==========> 04-05-13-AP-VeriSignSuitAgainstICANN.txt========== http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/technology/8660740.htm Posted on Thu, May. 13, 2004 Hearing set in VeriSign's challenge to ICANN NEW YORK (AP) - When the company under contract to run much of the Internet's core decided last fall to launch a new online search service, it saw an opportunity to help lost Web surfers find their way. ==========> 04-05-14-CircleID-DRIS-DomainResorceIntegrationSystem-AdjunctToDNSToAidSearches.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/588_0_1_0_C/ Will DNS Rescue the Future of Search? May 14, 2004 | From CircleID Exploring Frontlines By Wang Liang Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China have started work on a project based on a distributed information retrieval system that promises to address future search engine scalability issues that are believed to be inevitable as the Internet continues to expand. ==========> 04-05-17-InfoWeek-ReimbursementABigIssueInTelemedicine.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300885 E-Health On The Horizon Better broadband connections, aging baby boomers, and a lack of nurses are increasing the use of remote medical care, diagnosis, and monitoring By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek May 17, 2004 In the Boston area, home health-care nurses use digital cameras to take photos of patients' skin wounds and surgery incisions. The nurses transmit those ==========> 04-05-17-TorontoStar-DevelopedNationsUrgedToShareInternetGovernance.txt========== http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T ype1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1084745406955 May 17, 2004. 01:00 AM West urged to share Internet governance Toronto Star MICHAEL GEIST LAW BYTES Last December, thousands of politicians and technology experts converged on ==========> 04-05-20-Reuters-WWW2004ConfLooksAtWebForSavingAllPersonalData.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5209471 WWW Conference Mulls Web as Personal Memory Store Thu May 20, 2004 03:23 PM ET By Eric Auchard NEW YORK (Reuters) - Imagine being able to record every interesting conversation you have ever held in your life, not to mention all the photos and writing you have done. ==========> 04-06-00-PFIR-Conf-PreventingTheInternetMeltdown.txt========== PFIR Conference Announcement "Preventing the Internet Meltdown" Spring/Summer 2004 Los Angeles, California, USA --------------------------------- March 6, 2004 ==========> 04-06-03-Wired-MoreSophisticatedEmailSystemsNeeded.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63692,00.html The Changing Face of E-Mail By Amit Asaravala 02:00 AM Jun. 03, 2004 PT SAN JOSE, California -- Information overload will drive e-mail into the ground unless software vendors act now and make major changes to the 30-year-old technology, warned a leading Internet expert Wednesday. ==========> 04-06-15-CompWorld-UNFormsWorkingGroupOnInternetGovernance.txt========== http://computerworld.com.sg/pcwsg.nsf/unidlookup/80D31EDEAF440F0548256EAC000DE59 6?opendocument UN favours change in Internet governance Moves are afoot at the United Nations (UN) that could decide the way the Internet is run worldwide in the future. By Stephen Bell CAIRO – Moves are afoot at the United Nations (UN) that could decide the way the Internet is run worldwide in the future. The secretary of the UN's new ==========> 04-06-26-NewSci-P2PEasesBBCMediaDownloads.txt========== # "Sharing Lightens the Download" New Scientist (06/26/04) Vol. 182, No. 2453, P. 26; McCarthy, Kieren The entertainment industry has doggedly pursued sanctions against peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks and their users, arguing that this must be done to stave off a digital piracy explosion of epidemic proportions. But this attitude may change with the success of projects proving that P2P is a highly efficient and cost-effective tool for large-scale data distribution. The BBC will test its P2P-based Interactive Media Player (iMP) software for downloading and watching TV broadcasts via a broadband Internet connection over the next three ==========> 04-07-00-IEEEInternetComp-WirelessGrids-DistributedResourceSharing.txt========== http://dsonline.computer.org/0407/f/w4gei.htm From the Jul./Aug. 2004 issue of IEEE Internet Computing GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Wireless Grids: Distributed Resource Sharing by Mobile, Nomadic, and Fixed Devices Lee W. McKnight and James Howison • Syracuse University Scott Bradner • Harvard University Wireless grids, a new type of resource-sharing network, connect sensors, mobile ==========> 04-07-08-TheReg-ICANNChangingForBroaderAppeal.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/08/icann_budget/ How the world is learning to love ICANN By Kieren McCarthy (kieren at kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk) Published Thursday 8th July 2004 12:13 GMT The Register In case you aren't aware, how the Internet is run and will be run for future generations will be decided in the next 26 months. When a three-year "memorandum of understanding" (MoU) between the US government and the Internet ==========> 04-07-12-NewSci-MovieAndSoftwareP2PSharingOvertakingMusic.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996139 Movie and software file sharing overtakes music 17:32 12 July 04 NewScientist.com news service Music no longer accounts for the majority of traffic on internet file-sharing networks, according to a new study. It suggests file traders now swap more video and software content. ==========> 04-07-13-CNETNews-MovieP2PMovingFromKazaa.txt========== http://news.com.com/Survey:+Movie-swapping+up,+Kazaa+down/2100-1025_3-5267992.ht ml Survey: Movie-swapping up; Kazaa down By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5267992.html Online movie trading is skyrocketing, but onetime leader Kazaa is tumbling in use, according to a new worldwide survey of file-swapping traffic from network ==========> 04-07-14-IntlHeraldTrib-ICANNToDiscussAuctionsToOverseeInternetAddressing.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/529268.html Debate over auctions for Internet addresses Jennifer L. Schenker/IHT IHT Wednesday, July 14, 2004 Control over .net could change in 2005 PARIS Should auctions determine who controls the rights to oversee the Internet addressing system? ==========> 04-07-15-BaltoSun-RSSPutsUsersInControlOfDownloadingInfo.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-bz.rss15jul15,0,5508445.story The Internet funnel Matchmaker: RSS finds the latest Web entries of interest to a user. By Tricia Bishop Sun Staff July 15, 2004 They're multiplying on the Internet like a bad case of measles: little orange buttons - seemingly innocuous and often marked with the letters "RSS." ==========> 04-07-19-SJMerc-VoIPGrowsButHasDisadvantages.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9192121.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 19, 2004 VoIP on the verge AS NET PHONE SERVICE GROWS, USERS NEED TO KNOW DRAWBACKS By John Woolfolk Mercury News For home-office telecommuters, parents with chatterbox teenagers and transplants keeping in touch with folks back East, the Internet may be the ==========> 04-07-19-TheReg-ICANNFaultedOverFinances.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/19/icann_crunch_meeting/ ICANN crunch meeting begins By Kieren McCarthy (kieren at kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk) Published Monday 19th July 2004 18:12 GMT The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN (http://www.icann.org)) has completed the first day of its crunch meeting in Kuala Lumpur that will decide the overseeing organisation's fate. ==========> 04-07-20-Wired-UsersCorrectingPoorlyDesignedWebsites.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,64253,00.html 02:00 AM Jul. 20, 2004 PT CARDIFF, Wales -- "If you want a job done properly, do it yourself," the saying goes. Web users frustrated by poorly designed sites are increasingly applying that logic to the Net. Many who are fed up with high-profile design mess-ups are taking it upon themselves to publicly correct conspicuous corporate faux pas, right under ==========> 04-07-22-CNETNews-SenHatchWantsToBanP2PNetworks.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5280384.html Senator wants to ban P2P networks By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com July 22, 2004, 2:55 PM PT The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary said Thursday that a ban on file-trading networks is urgently required but agreed to work with tech companies concerned that devices like Apple Computer's iPod would be imperiled. ==========> 04-07-22-Verizon-VerizonIntroducesVoiceWingVoIPService.txt========== http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200407/msg00211.ht ml FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2004 Verizon Rings in Next Generation of Voice Services with VoiceWing Broadband Phone Service Verizon Beats the Competition With Most Extensive Commercial Launch of Residential Voice-Over-IP in America, Offering It Nationally With Area Codes ==========> 04-07-23-SJMerc-InternetTVBetterThanAlaCarteCableAndSatellite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9224062.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 23, 2004 Forget a la carte cable idea; the future is in Internet TV By Mike Langberg Mercury News Everyone resents the high cost of cable TV, which has gone up three to five times faster than the inflation rate in the last five years. And we're all forced to buy big packages of 50 or 100 channels to get the five or ten we ==========> 04-07-24-SJMerc-DG-BloggersGetPressCredentialsAtDemocraticConvention.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/9 233579.htm Posted on Sat, Jul. 24, 2004 Let's welcome political bloggers at convention By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist A modern national political convention is theater. Candidates are actors and delegates are props, with the media serving mostly as stenographers and, in a ==========> 04-07-27-MalaysiaStar-DNSNeedsNonLatinScriptToBeTrulyInternational.txt========== http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/7/27/itfeature/8512779&sec =itfeature Tuesday July 27, 2004 Finding a way to make the Net truly global BY CHARLES F. MOREIRA Malaysia Star THE Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) meetings in Kuala Lumpur last week were the first ever to incorporate discussions on ==========> 04-07-30-CircleID-InterviewWithUNHeadOfWGOnInternetGovernance-Kummer.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/print/708_0_1_0/ Interview with United Nations Head Secretariat of WGIG By: CircleID Reporter From CircleID Internet Governance July 30, 2004 Markus Kummer, Executive Coordinator, Secretariat of the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance, is a career diplomat, who has served as eEnvoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern since April 2002. His main tasks include ==========> 04-07-31-EWeek-InaugralMSAcademicConferenceOnEmailAndSpam.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1629929,00.asp Academics Enlist in Spam Battle July 31, 2004 By Matt Hicks EWeek MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Watch out spammers. Academic researchers are raring for battle. ==========> 04-08-01-SJMerc-ExcerptsFromWeTheMediaByDanGillmor.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/9 294934.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 01, 2004 We the media The Internet has made it possible for ordinary citizens to gather, create and disseminate news, shaking up traditional notions of journalism. Mercury News Technology Columnist Dan Gillmor explores this idea and its ramifications in his new book, ``We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the ==========> 04-08-02-NetWorkWorld-NetworkOperatorsUrgedToDisableP2PToDecreaseLoad.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/080204p2ptraffic.html P2P drag on nets getting worse By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World, 08/02/04 Peer-to-peer traffic has reached an all-time high across the Internet, bringing with it heightened security and legal threats for companies that fail to rid their networks of these popular applications. ==========> 04-08-04-OnLineJournalismRev-WSJOnlineSupportsBloggers.txt========== http://ojr.org/ojr/business/1091660781.php Dear Bloggers: Media Discover Promotional Potential of Blogosphere The Wall Street Journal Online is promoting one story per day outside its subscription wall to bloggers. NYTimes.com is boosting the number of RSS feeds it offers. Media companies are starting to work with -- instead of against -- the blogosphere. Mark Glaser Posted: 2004-08-04 On Line Journalism Review ==========> 04-08-06-TheReg-DemsPutBloggersOnDisplay.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/06/breakfast_blogger_humiliation/ Blogging 'cruelty' allegations rock post-DNC calm By Andrew Orlowski (andrew.orlowski at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 6th August 2004 00:43 GMT The Register Allegations of cruelty to Webloggers have surfaced after the Democratic Convention last week. Around 30 Webloggers were invited to join 15,000 accredited media at the political convention, and in the build-up, the ==========> 04-08-08-InetGov-TheInternetGovernanceProject-SyracuseU-GaTech.txt========== http://www.internetgovernance.org/ Internet Governance Project Syracuse University, Georgia Institute of Technology The Internet Governance Project (IGP) is an interdisciplinary consortium of academics with scholarly and practical expertise in international governance, Internet policy, and information and communication technology. The Project is conducting research on and publishing analysis of Internet governance. ==========> 04-08-24-CNETNews-Internet2Update.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-5321053.html Internet2: 2004 and beyond By Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified August 24, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT Internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman doesn't let a little thing like a few thousand miles stand in the way of reaching his students. ==========> 04-08-25-ACMUbiquity-TechnologyCanHelpSmallCollegesCompete.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i26_larson.html Log on, Learn, Earn Credits By weaving technology into the fabric of academic culture, Jon H. Larson forwards the idea that a small college can compete with larger institutions in the area of using technology for learning purposes. Jon H. Larson is President of Ocean County College in Toms River, New Jersey, an institution actively advancing the cause of information technology in an ==========> 04-08-26-EWeek-USCourtDismissesVerisignAntitrustLawsuitAgainstICANN.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1640104,00.asp Court Dismisses VeriSign's Case Against ICANN By Matt Hicks August 26, 2004 A federal judge on Thursday dismissed VeriSign's antitrust lawsuit challenging the authority of the Internet's main oversight body. The judge ruled that VeriSign Inc. could not prove its core antitrust claim ==========> 04-08-29-SJMerc-DG-LawsuitsAgainstAdvertisingOnLineGambling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9528193.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 29, 2004 Hypocritical attitude on gambling By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist A classic example of audacity is the man who kills his parents and asks for clemency on the grounds that he's an orphan. A few weeks ago, a California gambler who lost a bundle online joined a lawsuit against search engines that ==========> 04-08-31-USACM-UNMovingForwardWithWorkingGroupOnInternetGovernance.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.8 (August 31, 2004) ================================================ [6] UNITED NATIONS MOVING FORWARD WITH WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE The United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has announced that it will hold a meeting on the establishment of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), a group whose creation was agreed upon at the WSIS's December 2003 meeting. Among other things, the WGIG is to be involved with developing a working definition of ==========> 04-09-16-Earthlink-AnnouncesSIPShare-StandardsBasedDistributedNetworking.txt========== http://www.research.earthlink.net/p2p/ SIP Beyond Voice and Video Standards-based Distributed Networking from EarthLink Research and Development Last modified: Thu Sep 16 09:26:19 PDT 2004 Introducing EarthLink SIPshare EarthLink SIPshare, a simple, SIP-based proof-of-concept content sharing application, demonstrates the viability of SIP as a protocol over which ==========> 04-09-20-CompBusRev-InternetGovernanceAtUNsWGIGMeetingInGeneva.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2997C172-8203-48DA-A759-FEBC1C769 346 Internet governance under spotlight in Geneva 20 Sep 2004, 09:45 GMT - Representatives of governments, companies and other organizations will meet in Geneva today to set up the group that will lay the groundwork for the United Nations' entry into the field of internet governance. Computer Business Review ==========> 04-09-20-RalDurNBC17-BroadbandUsersKnowMoreAboutUnimportantStuff.txt========== http://www.nbc17.com/technology/3745153/detail.html Broadband Users Know More, Not Important Stuff, Study Says POSTED: 1:47 pm EDT September 20, 2004 People who use a fast Internet access also tend to be more social than those who use the dial-up method, a University of Michigan study shows. Broadband users, however, are no more engaged than dial-up users in discussions about important political developments. ==========> 04-09-24-ZDNet-Dyson-PublicBeingLeftOutOfUNsInternetPlans.txt========== http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39167851,00.htm Public 'left out' as governments plot Internet regulation Graeme Wearden ZDNet UK September 24, 2004, 16:45 BST Individual Internet users are being frozen out of a key debate on the future governance of the Internet, Web visionary Esther Dyson warned on Friday. ==========> 04-09-27-NetWorld-IPv6ExpertSeesAdoptionGrowingButSlowly.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704ipv6qa.html IPv6 expert sees adoption growing . . . slowly By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World, 09/27/04 For a decade, network executives have been awaiting the arrival of IPv6, an upgrade to the current version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4. IPv6 promises a dramatically larger addressing scheme as well as enhanced security and easier administration. Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan recently interviewedJim ==========> 04-09-28-CircleID-ReportOnUNInternetGoverneanceMeeting04-03-25.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/769_0_1_0_C/ Fifth Publication of the UN ICT Task Force Series By: CircleID Reporter From CircleID Internet Governance September 28, 2004 The following is the introductory excerpt from the United Nations ICT Task Force's recently published "Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration". This publication offers a collection of works from the March 2004 meeting. ==========> 04-09-29-SJMerc-TurnerSelectsAkimboToDistributeTVOverInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9787865.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 29, 2004 Akimbo lands Net TV programs By Dawn C. Chmielewski San Jose Mercury News Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System will distribute some of its best-known shows through Akimbo, a San Mateo start-up that plans to deliver video to television over the Internet. ==========> 04-09-30-IndianaBus-WebExpertsAtRoseHulmanWebFuturesConference.txt========== http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?id=11887&print=1 Rose-Hulman Conference to Feature World Wide Web Creators 9/23/2004 10:30:43 AM Inside Indiana Business Robert Cailliau, who collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee to create the World Wide Web, and software authority Ted Nelson, who coined the word and shaped the concept of hypertext will be among an international group of computer pioneers who will discuss the impact and the future of the Web at a conference Sept. ==========> 04-09-30-USACM-InternetGovernanceProjectIssuesReportOnInternetGovernance.txt========== =================================================== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.9 (September 30, 2004) =================================================== The Internet Governance Project (IGP)--a collaboration between Syracuse University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Centre for Comparative and International Studies of the University of Zurich, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology--has issued a report analyzing the current state of Internet governance, and calling upon the United Nations to make fundamental decisions to safeguard the functioning of ==========> 04-09-30-WashPost-AkamaiStrivesForASaferSpeedierInternet.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59806-2004Sep29.html Akamai Strives For a Safer, Speedier Net By Leslie Walker Thursday, September 30, 2004; Page E01 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. It was dark and eerily quiet here Monday in the network command center of Akamai Technologies Inc., an unusual company whose mission of easing Internet traffic jams gives it a clear view of what's happening on the Internet. ==========> 04-10-04-CircleID-ICANNPlanForNewTLDsNotSufficient.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/771_0_1_0_C/ The Need to Keep Congress Fully Informed By: Bruce Levinson From CircleID Internet Governance October 04, 2004 The MOU between the Department of Commerce and ICANN includes a series of specific milestones that the corporation is required to accomplish by certain specified dates. One of the specific requirements placed on ICANN by the agency ==========> 04-10-05-InfoWorld-UbiquitousNeworkSocietyNearInJapan.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/05/HNubiquitous_1.html Ubiquitous network society 'around the corner' More than half of Japan's Internet subscribers use broadband By Paul Kallender, IDG News Service October 05, 2004 CHIBA, JAPAN -- For Kunio Nakamura, president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., the much-discussed era of the ubiquitous network society, is "just around the corner." And with Japan in the vanguard, much of the world that is already networked will be online, anywhere, anytime, for anyone, by 2010, he ==========> 04-10-06-TechRev-ManyPositiveUsesForP2P.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_garfinkel100704.asp Peer-to-Peer Comes Clean They're not just for file-sharing anymore: P2P networks are transmitting phone calls, blocking spam, backing up hard drives, and spreading scholarship. Technology Review By Simson Garfinkel October 6, 2004 Despite ongoing efforts to blackball it, peer-to-peer technology is fast ==========> 04-10-08-BBC-VisionariesSpeculateOnWebFuture.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3725884.stm Visionaries outline web's future BBC Published: 2004/10/08 09:39:24 GMT Universal access to all human knowledge could be had for around $260m, a conference about the web's future has been told. The idea of access for all was put forward by visionary Brewster Kahle, who ==========> 04-10-08-SJMerc-LuminariesDiscussWebFuturesAtWeb2point0Conference.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9866954.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 08, 2004 web 2.0 conference Bigwigs discuss Web's next incarnation By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Internet luminaries, big thinkers and developers gathered for three days in San Francisco this week to discuss what the next generation of the Web will look ==========> 04-10-11-Wired-UNWorldSummitPlansForNetsFuture.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65254,00.html Nations Plan for Net's Future By Wendy M. Grossman Wired 02:00 AM Oct. 11, 2004 PT National governments, with input from nongovernmental organizations, are laying the groundwork for a new internet governance structure. ==========> 04-10-12-CompBusRev-ICANNSelectsAdditionalDirectors.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=4A23F2D4-8864-49F0-93B8-B82CBD4A2 5C0 ICANN bulks up board in face of UN moves Computer Business Review 12 Oct 2004, 09:54 GMT - The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers has selected two people to join its board of directors, both of whom appear to be strategic picks aimed at helping ICANN fight off moves by the UN in Internet governance. ==========> 04-10-13-EWeek-ApprovedICANNBudgetDoublesSpending.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1675964,00.asp ICANN Settles Budget Battle October 13, 2004 By Matt Hicks EWeek After months of debate and negotiations, the overseer of the Internet's domain-name system has gained approval for a budget that doubles its spending. ==========> 04-10-18-CircleID-InternationalizingTopLevelDomainNames.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/783_0_1_0_C Internationalizing Top-Level Domain Names: Another Look By: John Klensin From CircleID Internationalized DN October 18, 2004 A paper by Dr. John C. Klensin, former Vice President of Internet Architecture at AT&T, a Distinguished Engineering Fellow at MCI WorldCom, and Principal Research Scientist at MIT. This paper has been reproduced with kind permission ==========> 04-11-02-Panos-AfricaCallsForGreaterRoleInInternetGovernance.txt========== http://allafrica.com/stories/200411020428.html Africa Calls for More Cyber-Rights PANOS (London) November 2, 2004 Posted to the web November 2, 2004 By Gumisai Mutume London THE INTERNET, developed as an instrument of US military defence, has long been ==========> 04-11-04-CircleID-VintCerf-InternetGovernanceNeedsToBeBetterDefined.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/795_0_1_0_C/ Does the Internet Need to be Governed? By: Vinton Cerf From CircleID Internet Governance November 04, 2004 In its earlier years, the Internet was simply a tool for the research and education community to explore new ways of sharing computing power, software, and information by way of electronic mail (which became a popular application ==========> 04-11-11-CircleID-UNEstablishesWorkingGroupOnInternetGovernance.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/800_0_1_0_C United Nations Establishes Working Group on Internet Governance By: CircleID Reporter From CircleID Internet Governance November 11, 2004 Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the members of the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance, which is to prepare the ground for a decision on this contentious issue by the second phase of the World Summit on ==========> 04-11-11-InfoWeek-VerisignCompetitorsBidForRunningDotNetDomain.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=52601031 Internet's .Net Goes Out For Bid VeriSign's management contract for the domain expires next summer and several companies are ready to compete for it By Larry Greenemeier, InformationWeek Nov. 11, 2004 With management responsibilities of the .net domain soon to be up for grabs, several groups are positioning themselves to snatch the domain from its current ==========> 04-11-13-NewSci-CheritonProposesRadicalExtensionAsAlternativeToIPv6.txt========== # "How to Mend a Broken Internet" New Scientist (11/13/04) Vol. 184, No. 2473, P. 46; O'Brien, Danny Stanford University computer science professor David Cheriton warns that the Internet will soon play a crucial role in the operation of virtually every critical communication network, and give enemies the opportunity to inflict potentially catastrophic economic damage through cyberattacks. In addition to inadequate security, the Internet is suffering from a shortage of IP address space, a problem that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been trying to rectify with the development and deployment of IP version 6 (IPv6); ==========> 04-11-16-AusITNews-ICANNPlansToGoPrivate-NoRoleForUN.txt========== http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11393890%5E15442%5E%5Enbv%5E1530 6-15320,00.html No role for UN in ICANN Simon Hayes NOVEMBER 16, 2004 Australian IT THE global domain name governing body has warned off the UN, saying it will operate as a private organisation when its agreement with the US Department of ==========> 04-11-16-InetNews-RecentIPv6TestSuccessful.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3436451 November 16, 2004 IPv6 Shooting For The Moon By Sean Michael Kerner IPv6 (define), the next generation Internet protocol, has successfully undergone the third phase of a test regimen across a test network known as Moonv6. ==========> 04-11-17-InetNews-W3CConsidersInternetAccessByMobileDevices.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3437051 November 17, 2004 W3C Eyes Mobile Web Initiative By Clint Boulton Internet News Firm in its resolve that more and more users will access the Internet with mobile devices, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said it is considering a new effort to make Web access on a mobile device as easy it is on a personal ==========> 04-11-19-SJMerc-CongressesPassesBanOnInternetAccessTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10226876.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 19, 2004 Congress renews ban on Internet access taxes San Jose Mercury WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress acted Friday to block state and local governments from taxing connections that link consumers to the Internet for the next three years. ==========> 04-11-20-Economist-UNInternetWGDebatesGovernanceIssues.txt========== # "World V Web" Economist (11/20/04) Vol. 373, No. 8402, P. 65 The 40 appointed delegates of the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance met for the first time this week to discuss the definition of Internet governance, the role of government and international organizations in the administration of the Internet, and other issues ranging from cyber-crime to the cost of bandwidth. The establishment of the working group, which is made up of government representatives and members of "civil society," reflects the dissatisfaction many countries have with the current state of Internet ==========> 04-11-20-TheReg-ICANNProposesItselfAsInternetOverseer.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/20/icann_pitches_internet_future/ ICANN pitches the internet's future By Kieren McCarthy (kieren at kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk) Published Saturday 20th November 2004 22:46 GMT ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - which oversees the Internet in all its manificent lunacy, has just published a Strategic Plan (http://www.icann.org/strategic-plan/strategic-plan-16nov04.pdf), in which it ==========> 04-11-22-NetWorld-ExChairReviewsIETF.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/112204alvqanda.html Outgoing IETF chair reflects, looks ahead By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World, 11/22/04 Cisco Fellow Harald Alvestrand is stepping down in March as chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet's premier standards-setting body. Alvestrand led the IETF for four years as the all-volunteer group of network engineers reeled from overwhelming workloads that stretched from the height of ==========> 04-11-26-ITWeb-ICANNToTackleInternetPolicy.txt========== http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2004/0411261023.asp?S=Legal%20View&A=LE G&O=FRGN ICANN to tackle Internet policy BY PAUL VECCHIATTO, ITWEB CAPE TOWN CORRESPONDENT [Cape Town | ITWeb, 26 November 2004] - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Cape Town next week will expose South Africans to the Internet's international flavour, with many issues expected to have a direct impact on the country. ==========> 04-11-29-Salon-NewTechnologiesWillRedefinePublicSpaces.txt========== # "Urban Renewal, the Wireless Way" Salon.com (11/29/04); Baker, Linda Forecasters believe Wi-Fi, global positioning system (GPS) locators, pervasive networking, and other new technologies will redefine public spaces by adding a digital dimension to life on the streets. The increasing linkage between computer science and urban design is being driven by several trends, including the public sphere's status as one of the few domains still unconquered by the tech industry; the emergence of technology small enough and applications big enough to enable computing in public spaces; and virtual reality's failure to ==========> 04-11-30-CircleID-ProblemsUsingTranslationToInternationalizeTLDs.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/814_0_1_0_C/ Examining the Proposed Internationalization of TLDs By: James Seng From CircleID Internationalized DN November 30, 2004 Last month, John Klensin wrote an article published here on CircleID regarding Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Top Level Domains (TLD). Based on his Internet Draft, John suggests using language translation in the application for ==========> 04-11-30-USACM-UNWorkingGroupOnInternetGovernanceMeets.txt========== =================================================== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.11 (November 30, 2004) =================================================== [5] U.N. WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE MEETS The United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) met at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in late November in a round of consultations open to all governments and stakeholders. The WGIG is tasked with making recommendations on Internet governance to the World ==========> 04-12-02-CSMon-IsItTimeForTheInternetToChange.txt========== http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1202/p13s02-stin.html December 02, 2004 edition The tangled Internet: Is it time for a new one? By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor By some counts, the Internet turned 35 years old this fall. But far from entering middle age, it seems to be growing into a rebellious teenager who has no idea what he will be when he grows up. ==========> 04-12-02-Economist-P2PWouldDecentralizeInternet.txt========== # "In Praise of P2P" Economist (12/02/04) Vol. 373, No. 8404, P. 35 Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology is the Internet evolved, say proponents who also worry about legal concerns. The music recording industry has already successfully shut down Napster and is currently lobbying to outlaw P2P technology; movie and music firms have also asked the Supreme Court to hold P2P software firms liable for copyright infringement committed using their products; and the Justice Department has suggested P2P networks could be used by terrorists. Yet P2P innovation continues as small firms and open-source ==========> 04-12-03-CircleID-MeaninglessTLDsWouldSolveProblems.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/819_0_1_0_C/ Cornucopia: A Radically Different Approach to TLDs By: The Famous Brett Watson From CircleID Top-Level Domains December 03, 2004 Much of the discussion about proposed TLDs centres around domain names as a form of classification: ".mobi" for mobile device content, ".kids" for ==========> 04-12-05-Pew-Report-ArtistsAndMusciansEmbraceInternet-WorryAboutCopyright.txt========== http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/142/report_display.asp 12/5/2004 | Report | Mary Madden Pew Internet Artists, Musicians and the Internet: They have embraced the internet as a tool that helps them create, promote, and sell their work. However, they are divided about the impact and importance of free file-sharing and other copyright issues. The first large-scale surveys of the internet’s impact on artists and musicians reveal that they are embracing the Web as a tool to improve how they make, ==========> 04-12-06-Wired-Report-ArtistsAndMusciansEmbraceInternet-WorryAboutCopyright.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65927,00.html Study: Musicians Dig the Net By Katie Dean 02:00 AM Dec. 06, 2004 PT Musicians believe the internet is an essential tool to help create and market their work, but at the same time more than half of artists say file sharing of unauthorized copies of music should be illegal, according to a new report. ==========> 04-12-06-YubaNet-Report-ArtistsAndMusciansEmbraceInternet-WorryAboutCopyright.txt========== http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_15912.shtml Artists, Musicians Are Enthusiastic Internet Users: They Believe Internet Helps Them Make, Sell Their Work Author: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Published on Dec 6, 2004, 06:19 The first large-scale surveys of the internet's impact on artists and musicians reveal that they are embracing the Web as a tool to improve how they make, market, and sell their creative works. They eagerly welcome new opportunities ==========> 04-12-08-SJMerc-MercoraBroadcastsMusicOverP2P.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10366020.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 08, 2004 Start-up's peer-to-peer broadcasting legally sound By Dawn Chmielewski Mercury News It's hardly news that millions of people use Internet file-swapping networks for free, unfettered access to music. A Santa Clara start-up called Mercora has found a way to deliver just that -- while complying with the letter of ==========> 04-12-15-CNETNews-GlobalInternet-InternationalizedDomainNames.txt========== http://news.com.com/Is+the+Internet+truly+global/2010-1038_3-5491681.html Is the Internet truly global? By Winston Chai CNET Story last modified Wed Dec 15 09:56:00 PST 2004 The Internet is home to a wealth of multilingual content, but are its doors still locked by an English key? ==========> 04-12-16-CNETNews-UnnoticedFeeCouldRaiseInternetDomainNameCosts.txt========== http://news.com.com/Net+domain+costs+on+the+rise/2100-1038_3-5492467.html Unnoticed fee could raise Net domain costs CNET News By Declan McCullagh Story last modified Thu Dec 16 04:00:00 PST 2004 Internet users may soon be required to pay an additional annual fee for each domain name they own, thanks to a virtually unnoticed requirement that will begin to take effect next year. ==========> 04-12-16-ECommTimes-ICANNStandsToReapWindfallFromNewDomainFee.txt========== http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/ICANN-Stands-To-Reap-Windfall-from-New-Domai n-Fee-39044.html ICANN Stands To Reap Windfall from New Domain Fee By Keith Regan E-Commerce Times 12/16/04 1:31 PM PT In the short term, the tax could add US$4 million annually to ICANN's coffers, an amount that could skyrocket to more than $30 million if it is extended to ==========> 04-12-16-ITWorld-NewTopLevelDomainNamesComing.txt========== http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2336/nls_ecommerce_domain041216/ New domain names coming ITworld.com, Ecommerce in Action 12/16/04 James Lewin, ITworld.com If you're looking for an Internet domain name, you'll soon have several new options. Plans are in motion to add at least four new top-level domains (TLDs), including .post, .travel, .jobs and .mobi. ==========> 04-12-16-PennStateMcKee-UsingWebBrowsingHabitsForFutureNavigation.txt========== http://live.psu.edu/story/9448 Research at Penn State McKeesport focuses on human-Web interaction Thursday, December 16, 2004 McKeesport, Pa. -- No one can argue that the Internet, Web browsers and search engines have all made a significant impact on how people function both at work and at home. Whether composing an academic paper or shopping for holiday gifts, the Internet has become the world’s most widely used research vehicle. ==========> 04-12-20-CompBusRev-ITUChiefTargetsICANN.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=7BB966AD-2017-4673-A034-AA0083A2E 492 ITU chiefs target ICANN turf Computer Business Review 20 Dec 2004, 09:49 GMT - Senior people at the International Telecommunications Union are pushing for reforms that would see it take over management of the internet's naming and addressing systems from the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers. ==========> 05-01-10-NYT-ManyDifferentViewsOfInternetFuture.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/technology/10pew.html?oref=login January 10, 2005 The Internet's Future? It Depends on Whom You Ask By TOM ZELLER Jr. The NY Times New topics inspire trips to the crystal ball like technology, although hasty predictions have often only provided future generations with quotes for cocktail party chat. ==========> 05-01-10-SJMerc-ManyDifferentViewsOfInternetFuture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10609302.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 10, 2005 Widespread attack on Web likely, Net experts believe PANEL RESPONDS TO PREDICTIONS IN PEW SURVEY By Michael Bazeley Mercury News The Internet will fall victim to a ``devastating attack'' sometime in the next decade, and governments will use networked devices to increase their ==========> 05-01-18-CircleID-UNMayBeProposingToLimitInternetFreeSpeech.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/899_0_1_0_C/ Preventing A New World Internet Order By: Bruce Levinson From CircleID Internet Governance January 18, 2005 If anyone needs another reason why the UN should not be in charge of the internet, they need look no further than the upcoming UNESCO conference on "Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace." The United Nations Education Scientific ==========> 05-01-23-Pew-InternetSearchersConfidentSatisfiedTrustingUnawareAndNaive.txt========== http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/146/report_display.asp Search Engine Users: Internet searchers are confident, satisfied and trusting – but they are also unaware and naïve 1/23/2005 | Report | Deborah Fallows Pew Internet Internet users are extremely positive about search engines and the experiences they have when searching the internet. But these same satisfied internet users are generally unsophisticated about why and how they use search engines. They ==========> 05-01-24-SearchEngineWatch-InternetSearchersConfidentSatisfiedTrustingUnawareAndNaive.txt========== http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3462911 Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless By Chris Sherman, Associate Editor Search Engine Watch January 24, 2005 The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. ==========> 05-01-24-SJMerc-BlogsChallengeTraditionalMedia.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10722818.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 24, 2005 Memo to media establishment: Ignore blogs at your peril By Frank Bajak AP Technology Editor San Jose Mercury CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The managing editor of The New York Times threw down the gauntlet as she stared across a big O-shaped table at the prophets of blogging. ==========> 05-01-26-TGC-Internet2CompletesKeyMilestoneInHOPIInitiative.txt========== http://www.tgc.com/breaking/2357.html The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / January 26, 2005 Internet2 Announces Key Milestone In Its HOPI Initiative The Internet2 Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) initiative announced its design for a national network testbed infrastructure that, once built, will serve as a foundation for cutting-edge experimentation and a model for the next generation of Internet2's network architecture. As a part of its ==========> 05-02-10-InetNews-ControversySurroundsICANNSelectionOfDotNetAdministrator.txt========== # "ICANN's .Net Evaluator Under Scope" InternetNews.com (02/10/05); Wagner, Jim ICANN is standing by its appointment of Telcordia Technologies to the task of designating the next administrator of the .net domain, despite the company's indirect connections to two of the five bidders for the domain. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), Telcordia's parent company, once had controlling interest in Network Solutions, the registrar company that was acquired by current .net administrator VeriSign in 2000. SAIC has since sold all of its shares in VeriSign and has no direct connection to the registrar, ==========> 05-02-15-ACMUbiquity-ConciseGuideToMajorInternetOrganizations.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i5_simoneli.html A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies Source: Ubiquity, Volume 6, Issue 5, (February 15 - February 22, 2005) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity The bodies responsible for the Internet's protocols and parameters can be said to steer the Internet in a significant sense. This document, by Alex Simonelis of Dawson College in Montreal, is a summary of those bodies and their most important characteristics. ==========> 05-02-22-SJMerc-BloggersBecomeObsessedWithTheirBlogs.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10961508.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 22, 2005 Bloggers' Internet obsession By K. Oanh Ha Mercury News Amy Sherman recently woke up at 4 a.m. in a panic. Why wasn't her food blog getting as much traffic as others? ==========> 05-02-22-WorldNet-DevelopingNationsWantUNToGovernInternet.txt========== http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42982 THE NEW WORLD DISORDER U.N. to control use of Internet? Developing countries want global body to govern cyberspace Posted: February 22, 2005 © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations. ==========> 05-03-00-InfoToday-InternetGovernanceWillBeHotTopicAtNextWorldSummit.txt========== # "Internet Governance Issue Heats Up as Next World Summit Nears" Information Today (03/05) Vol. 22, No. 3, P. 22; Ashling, Jim The second phase of the conference of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is scheduled for Nov. 16-18 in Tunisia, and is a follow-up to the December 2003 gathering in Geneva. The first phase produced the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action, and has resulted in the undertaking of nearly 1,200 activities by governments and other stakeholders. For example, the United States has embarked on a Joint Federal Rural Wireless Outreach Initiative to spur the growth of broadband wireless services in rural ==========> 05-03-14-CNETNews-ResearchersAttackMetcalfLawOnNetworkValue.txt========== http://news.com.com/Researchers+Metcalfes+Law+overshoots+the+mark/2100-1033_3-56 16549.html Researchers: Metcalfe's Law overshoots the mark By Stephen Shankland CNET News Story last modified Mon Mar 14 16:58:00 PST 2005 Two University of Minnesota researchers have written a paper arguing that Metcalfe's Law, a rule of thumb that computes the value of communication ==========> 05-03-24-SJMerc-NewWebSitesArchieveDataToBeShared.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11219984.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 24, 2005 New Web sites to store public's digital content FREE SERVICES HELP SHARE MEDIA By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Tapping into a growing interest in so-called grass-roots media, two Web sites launched this week that aim to become repositories and clearinghouses for a ==========> 05-03-26-BBC-NewIETFChairDiscussesInternetFutures.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4368387.stm Rolling out next generation's net BBC News Published: 2005/03/26 22:47:54 GMT The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start. "In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population," the new ==========> 05-03-28-SJMerc-EvaluatorRecommendsVeriSignToRunNetDomain.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11254718.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 28, 2005 VeriSign poised to retain operation of '.net' domain San Jose Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - VeriSign Inc. is poised to run the Internet's third most popular suffix for the next six years despite concerns the company already exerts significant control over how people send e-mail and find Web sites. ==========> 05-03-28-SJMerc-GroksterAndFCCCasesKetToInternetFuture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11251123.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 28, 2005 Internet's future hangs in balance with two cases Mercury News Editorial From its inception, the Internet has thrived on openness and competition. It's those forces that have allowed it to develop into a hotbed of innovation and emerge as the most powerful communications and commerce medium the world has ever known. ==========> 05-03-29-CNETNews-UN-ITUWantsMoreControlOverInternet.txt========== http://news.com.com/The+U.N.+thinks+about+tomorrows+cyberspace/2008-1028_3-56439 72.html The U.N. thinks about tomorrow's cyberspace By Declan McCullagh Story last modified Tue Mar 29 04:00:00 PST 2005 CNET News The International Telecommunication Union is one of the most venerable of bureaucracies. Created in 1865 to facilitate telegraph transmissions, its ==========> 05-03-29-USAToday-EvaluatorSelectsVeriSignToRetainOperationOfNetDomain.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-03-29-verisign-retains_x.htm Posted 3/29/2005 11:52 AM Updated 3/29/2005 12:21 PM VeriSign poised to retain operation of '.net' domain By Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press USA Today NEW YORK — VeriSign is poised to run the Internet's third most popular suffix for the next six years despite concerns the company already exerts significant control over how people send e-mail and find Web sites. ==========> 05-03-29-ZDNet-IPv6AdoptionRateIsMixed.txt========== http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/rupertgoodwins/0,39020691,39192571,00.htm IPv6 addresses its problems Rupert Goodwins ZDNet UK March 29, 2005, 11:35 BST IPv6 has long been a solution in search of a problem. Now, pressure from two directions may help it fulfil its promise Something is happening in IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol that’s ==========> 05-03-31-NewSci-ReportUrgesChangesToDNSToImproveSecurity.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7218 Revamp for web navigation system urged 18:02 31 March 2005 NewScientist Celeste Biever The system the internet relies on to direct web traffic needs to be revamped to thwart spammers and identity thieves, concludes a report released on Thursday. ==========> 05-03-31-SJMec-NRCFinishesInternetTrafficStudyAfterSevenYears.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11276453.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 31, 2005 U.S. finishes Internet study Congress requested in 1998 San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - Talk about turning in your homework late: The government just finished a report on Internet traffic that Congress requested seven years ago. Lawmakers had demanded the $1 million federal study, ultimately called ==========> 05-04-00-InfoToday-ThousandOfPatentsOnInternetTechnology.txt========== http://www.infotoday.com/IT/apr05/pike.shtml Patenting the Internet by George H. Pike Information Today April 2005 Virtually every window of time can be identified by its technological advances. The industrial revolution of the 1800s gave way to the transportation revolution of the early 1900s. The development of synthetics such as nylon and ==========> 05-04-06-InetGovProj-ProposalForStructuralReformOfICANN.txt========== ********************************************************* [Accessed 4/6/2005] The Internet Governance Project announces a new policy analysis: "WHAT DO TO ABOUT ICANN: A PROPOSAL FOR STRUCTURAL REFORM" www.InternetGovernance.org ==========> 05-04-08-SJMerc-ICANNApprovesDotJobsAndDotTravelTLDs.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11347237.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005 ICANN approves two new domain names San Jose Mecury News NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency gave final approval Friday to two new Internet suffixes -- ``.jobs'' for the human resources community and ``.travel'' for the travel industry. ==========> 05-04-11-CompBusRev-Cerf-NotSureNewTLDsProven.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=A181F531-D5E0-4A65-97B7-D79B9647E 1D2 Dot-what redux - ICANN still searching for answer Computer Business Review 11 Apr 2005, 09:56 GMT - The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers on Friday approved two new top-level internet domains, but chairman Vint Cerf expressed that he is not completely satisfied that the experiment in adding domains to the internet has ==========> 05-04-11-EWeek-UnMustEarnInternetGovernanceRole.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1784677,00.asp U.N. Must Earn Net Role By eWEEK Editorial Board April 11, 2005 Opinion: The United Nations must prove its worthiness for a seat at the table of Internet governance. The United Nations' working group on Internet governance meets in Geneva next week to continue its work to define how it thinks the Internet should be run ==========> 05-04-15-SJMerc-ComcastInternetServiceOutage.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11401067.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 15, 2005 Internet outages annoy Comcast customers By Dan Lee Mercury News Cable provider Comcast said Thursday that it was working on technical problems that caused a series of outages in recent days for many of the 7 million people who subscribe to its high-speed Internet service. ==========> 05-04-15-SJMerc-InternetGrowthThreatensNewspapers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11405786.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 15, 2005 Internet's growth, innovation threatens newspapers San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Craig Newmark already has tormented newspapers by creating a Web site where anyone can post ads at little or no cost, capturing an ever-growing share of the classified advertising market that had been one of the industry's most dependable sources of revenue. ==========> 05-04-18-SJMerc-AreBlogsJournalism.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11426073.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 18, 2005 Blogs as news? Let readers decide DEBATE OVER FUTURE OF JOURNALISM CONFUSES THE MESSAGE WITH MEDIUM By Richard Craig San Jose Mercury News Blogs are the best thing that's ever happened to journalism. Or they're going to kill it. One or the other. ==========> 05-04-18-SJMerc-GoogleThreatensNonEnglishWeb.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11426078.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 18, 2005 Letting the Net speak for itself FEARS OF AN 'ANGLO-SAXON' TAKEOVER OF THE ONLINE WORLD ARE UNFOUNDED By Geoffrey Nunberg San Jose Mercury News Summoning the indignation to which only the French language can give pure expression, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, the director of the French national library, ==========> 05-04-18-UPI-SomeSayICANNTooHeavyHanded.txt========== http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=10300AGIJ3RY Some Say ICANN Too Heavy-Handed UPI April 18, 2005 4:11PM Domain approval has been an issue since at least 2002. Of the 191 domain names proposed that year -- when .com, .org and .net had been the only domain suffixes on the block -- ICANN approved a mere seven, rejecting bids for .mobile by Nokia, .health by the World Health Organization, and .travel by the ==========> 05-04-20-GovtTech-UNHoldsThirdMeetingOnInternetGovernance.txt========== http://www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=93725 UN Panel on Internet Governance Opens Third Meeting Apr 20, 2005 By News Staff Governemnt Tech Spam, network security, cyber crime, the roles and responsibilities of all actors involved in Internet governance, and measuring the adequacy of existing arrangements are on the agenda of the third meeting of the United Nations-backed panel meeting in Geneva to examine Internet-related issues. ==========> 05-04-23-P2PForums-Rodi-AVeryDecentalizedP2PSystem.txt========== http://www.p2pforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=91419 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:21 pm IntegrityP2P's Interview with Rodi Developer Larytet By Vivacious IP2P R&D Team April 23, 2005 Have you been following filesharing news? If you have you're aware that the music and movie industries are hard at work trying to stamp out innovation and ==========> 05-04-25-CircleID-ITU-TProposesNewIPSystemThatRecognizesCountries.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/1049_0_1_0_C/ The Geography of Internet Addressing By: Paul Wilson From CircleID IP Address & Beyond April 25, 2005 The ITU-T has proposed a new system of country-based IP address allocations which aims to satisfy a natural demand for self-determination by countries; however, the proposal also stands to realign the Internet's frontiers onto ==========> 05-04-26-AusIT-CerfSaysNetProtocalChangesAreComplex.txt========== http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15059746%5E24172%5E%5Enbv%5E2416 9,00.html Net becomes domain of its cofounder Stuart Kennedy APRIL 26, 2005 Australian IT EVERY New Year's eve, net heads should raise their glasses and take a swig in honour of Vint Cerf, who co-authored the TCP/IP protocol that is fundamental to ==========> 05-04-27-Bayosphere-DanGilmoreMovesToBayosphere.txt========== http://bayosphere.com/ Welcome to Bayosphere Submitted by Dan Gillmor on Wed, 2005-04-27 23:27. Dan Gillmor: The promise of the Internet was simple, but incredibly powerful: to be a medium through which we could connect and collaborate, for mutual benefit. It's happening. As the Net matures, we are learning to write as easily and fluently as we read. ==========> 05-04-28-SJMerc-BahrainRequiresLocalWebsitesToRegister.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11512867.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 28, 2005 Bahrain's decision to register Web sites criticized San Jose Mercury News MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - All Web sites operating in Bahrain must register with the country's Information Ministry under a new government mandate that has provoked protests from an international watchdog for press freedom. ==========> 05-05-03-TheReg-CentrChiefCriticizesICANN.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/03/centr_icann_exchange_letters/ Global poker game for the internet goes on By Kieren McCarthy (kieren at kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk) Published Tuesday 3rd May 2005 11:14 GMT The Register A new front has opened up in the global battle for control of the internet, with a heated exchange of letters between two of the main players. ==========> 05-05-09-SJMerc-WiredOnlineJournalistUsedFakeSources.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11603987.htm Posted on Mon, May. 09, 2005 Review finds fault with online journalist's stories San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - An investigation over the sourcing and accuracy of news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading Internet news site concluded that the existence of dozens of people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed. ==========> 05-05-11-Business2-DNS-StressedOutAndOverworked.txt========== http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1060086,00.html The Dangers of a Stressed-Out, Overworked DNS By Om Malik, May 11, 2005 Business2 On May 7, Google (GOOG), perhaps the most indispensable online utility, went offline. Its dependents were immediately complaining in every forum they could find about their lack of access to search tools, Gmail accounts, and Google News. When Google came back online, after a mere 15 minutes, a quick ==========> 05-05-24-NetWorld-USShowsLittleInterestInIPv6.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/052405-ipv6-survey.html Survey: Little U.S. interest in next-generation Internet By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, 05/24/05 Network World IT decision-makers in U.S. businesses and government agencies want better Internet security and easier network management, but few see the next-generation Internet Protocol called IPv6 as helping them achieve their goals, according to a survey released Tuesday by Juniper Networks. ==========> 05-05-31-CircleID-PhilosophicalCaseForExpandingDomainNameSpace.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/article/1100_0_1_0_C/ The Philosophical Case for Expanding the Domain Name Space By: Gavin Brown From CircleID Top-Level Domains May 31, 2005 At the December 2004 ICANN meeting in Cape Town, Vint Cerf said this to the Public Forum: ==========> 05-06-01-SJMerc-ICANNApprovesXXXDomainForPornSites.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/11790710.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 01, 2005 ICANN approves new 'xxx' addresses for porn sites San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internet's primary oversight body approved a plan Wednesday to create a virtual red-light district, setting the stage for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses ending in ``xxx.'' ==========> 05-06-02-ICANNWatch-ProblemsWithXXXDomain.txt========== http://www.icannwatch.org/articles/05/06/02/1339259.shtml ICANN .xxx posted by michael on Thursday June 02 2005, @05:30AM Talk about decisions that come out of nowhere with no public discussion or warning: ICANN advances the .xxx domain name. Read the official press release or the CNN story. But most of all, read Lauren Weinstein's commentary, which seems to me to get ==========> 05-06-03-ZDNet-UN-ITUTryingToGetControlOfInternetFromICANN.txt========== http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5730589.html A battle for the soul of the Internet By Elliot Noss, Special to ZDNet Published on ZDNet News: June 3, 2005, 5:19 AM PT With little fanfare, there is a battle going on for the soul of the Internet. The United Nations and the ITU (International Communications Union) are trying to wrest control of domain names, the DNS and IP addresses from ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). This battle manifests itself ==========> 05-06-06-NetWorld-IowaStateBuildsModelInternet.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/060605widernet.html Internet security . . . writ very small Miniature version of the 'Net used to assess security schemes. By Ellen Messmer, Network World, 06/06/05 Like a ship in a bottle, the Internet-Simulation Event and Attack Generation Environment is a miniature version of the real thing: It's the vast Internet shrunk to fit onto a high-speed LAN on the floor of a building in a research park adjacent to the Iowa State University campus in Ames. ==========> 05-06-07-OutLaw-ECMullsWhoShouldGovernInternet.txt========== http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=europeancommission1118147757&area=ne ws European Commission mulls who should govern the internet Out-Law 07 June 2005 The European Commission yesterday set out its priorities for a forthcoming international summit on developing the information society. Top of the agenda is the question of internet governance, currently in the control of US-based ==========> 05-06-10-ChronHigherEd-EducationGroupsUrgeUSGovtBroadbandInternet.txt========== "Education Groups Urge Federal Government to Promote High-Speed Internet Access" Chronicle of Higher Education (06/10/05) Vol. 51, No. 40, P. A27; Kiernan, Vincent A higher-education coalition whose members include Educause and the Internet2 high-speed-network consortium issued a statement last week in which they argued for amendments to federal telecommunications law to expand the scope and accessibility of high-capacity broadband Internet connections throughout the country. What is needed, the group said, is a national initiative to make the Internet capable of handling billions of bits of data each second, and ensure ==========> 05-06-10-SJMerc-VintCerfTalksAboutTheInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11863590.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 10, 2005 Vint Cerf still a proud papa By Mike Langberg Mercury News Vint Cerf is often called ``the father of the Internet,'' and he talks about his virtual offspring with paternal pride. ==========> 05-06-11-SFChron-InternetFoundersToGetACMTuringAward.txt========== http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/11/BUG41D6SHQ1.DTL Internet founders to be honored with computing's 'Nobel' Two men developed data transmission standards in the 1970s Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, June 11, 2005 SF Chronicle Vinton Cerf is a senior vice president at MCI and chairma... Robert Kahn is chief executive of the Corporation for Nat... ==========> 05-06-16-TheReg-MSResearchersBetterP2PFileSharingSystem-Avalanche.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/16/filesharing_microsoft/ Enter Avalanche: P2P filesharing from Microsoft By Lucy Sherriff (lucy.sherriff at theregister.co.uk) Published Thursday 16th June 2005 15:51 GMT The Register Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent ==========> 05-06-17-FedCompWeek-NSFFundsNextGenerationInternetRequirements.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/article89293-06-17-05-Web NSF backs next-gen Internet plans "U.S. dominates supercomputing, but for how much longer?" [Federal Computer Week, May 9, 2005] NSF Award Abstract BY Aliya Sternstein Published on Jun. 17, 2005 The National Science Foundation is now funding an Internet pioneer to develop ==========> 05-06-17-PCWorld-MSAvalanche-NewP2PApplication.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121427,00.asp Microsoft Builds Its Own Peer-to-Peer App System, called Avalanche, is similar to the BitTorrent file swapping service. James Niccolai, IDG News Service Friday, June 17, 2005 Researchers at Microsoft's labs in Cambridge, England, are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs, and software applications to end ==========> 05-06-23-ZDNet-Farber-WebIsHazardousAndPoliticiansAreWorriedAboutControl.txt========== http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,39238289,00.htm Net guru predicts another 10 'wild' years By Eileen Yu, ZDNet Asia 23/6/2005 SINGAPORE--The Web is turning into a hazardous environment, and there should be more tech-savvy politicians in government today so that better legislation can be established, says an industry-renowned Internet guru. ==========> 05-06-27-FedCompWeek-NSFSeeksInternetResearchAgenda.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/article89386-06-27-05-Print NSF seeks broad Internet research agenda Some science officials say it's time to rethink the Internet's architecture NSF backs next-gen Internet plans [FCW.com, June 17, 2005] NSF to fund digital government [FCW.com, May 2, 2005] BY Aliya Sternstein Published on Jun. 27, 2005 Federal Computer Week ==========> 05-06-29-CNETNews-USGovtBehindInShiftingToIPv6.txt========== http://news.com.com/Feds+slacking+in+shift+to+next-generation+IPv6/2100-1028_3-5 768937.html Feds slacking in shift to next-generation IPv6 By Anne Broache CNET News Story last modified Wed Jun 29 17:19:00 PDT 2005 WASHINGTON--The federal government is hoping to shift all of its computers to run on the next-generation Internet by 2008, but so far only the Defense ==========> 05-06-29-NYT-WebContentByAndForTheMasses.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/29content.html June 29, 2005 Web Content by and for the Masses By JOHN MARKOFF NY Times SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 - When Caterina Fake arrives at the end of a plane flight, she snaps a photo of the baggage carousel with her camera phone to assure her mother, who views the photo on a Web page minutes later, that she ==========> 05-06-30-NTIA-USPrinciplesOnInterentDNSAndAddressingSystem.txt========== http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/USDNSprinciples_06302005.htm U.S. Principles on the Internet’s Domain Name and Addressing System NTIA June 30, 2005 The United States Government intends to preserve the security and stability of the Internet’s Domain Name and Addressing System (DNS). Given the Internet's ==========> 05-06-30-SJMerc-USWillNotCedeControlOfInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12026041.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 30, 2005 U.S. won't cede control of Internet's key computers San Jose Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. government will indefinitely retain oversight of the main computers that control traffic on the Internet, ignoring calls by some countries to turn the function over to an international body, a senior official said Thursday. ==========> 05-06-30-USACM-KahnAndCerfPresentedWith2004TuringAward.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.6 30 June 2005 ============================================================= [7] CERF AND KAHN PRESENTED WITH ACM'S 2004 A.M. TURING AWARD ACM presented its 2004 A.M. Turing Award to Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn at the annual ACM Awards Banquet this month in San Francisco. The two innovators won ==========> 05-06-30-WashPost-USWillNotCedeControlOfInternet.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001178. html U.S. Won't Cede Control of Net Computers By ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press Thursday, June 30, 2005; 6:51 PM Washington Post NEW YORK -- The U.S. government will indefinitely retain oversight of the main ==========> 05-06-30-Wired-NSFWorkingRequestingProposalsOnNewInternet.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,68004,00.html Net Pioneer Wants New Internet By Mark Baard 02:00 AM Jun. 29, 2005 PT Wired One of the fathers of the internet wants to be a daddy again. David Clark, who led the development of the internet in the 1970s, is working ==========> 05-07-01-SJMerc-USDecidesToRetainControlOverInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12035429.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 01, 2005 U.S. decision on Internet's key computers raises concerns Associated Press San Jose Mercury News A decision by the United States to indefinitely retain oversight of the main computers that control Internet traffic drew concerns Friday from foreign officials, many of whom want an international body in charge instead. ==========> 05-07-04-BusWeek-VintCerf-InterplanetaryInternet.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_27/b3941021.htm?chan=db JULY 4, 2005 Online Extra: Vinton Cerf: On to "InterPlaNet Protocol" Vint Cerf: Next Stop, Mars The Internet pioneer is working on interplanetary communication Thirty-two years ago, computer scientists Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn sat together at a hotel in Palo Alto, Calif., and scribbled out on a yellow legal pad the software code that gave rise to the Internet. Transmission Control ==========> 05-07-05-TheReg-ICANNEuropeanStafferQuits.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/05/icann_euro_chief/ The Register ICANN's man in Europe bows out By Kieren McCarthy (kieren at kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk) Published Tuesday 5th July 2005 11:16 GMT Internet overseeing organisation ICANN still has problems but it will come out of the UN's upcoming review into Internet governance with flying colours, the organisation's man in Europe, Paul Verhoef has predicted on the eve of his ==========> 05-07-11-EWeek-DomainKeysIdentifiedMailSpecSubmittedToIETF.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1835589,00.asp New E-Mail Authentication Spec Submitted to IETF By Paul F. Roberts July 11, 2005 E Week A group of leading technology companies that includes Microsoft Corp., IBM, Yahoo Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. has submitted a new e-mail authentication standard to the Internet Engineering Task Force for consideration, eWEEK has ==========> 05-07-13-NYT-InternetArchiveSuedOverInvolvementInTrademarkSuit.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/technology/13suit.html? July 13, 2005 Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit By TOM ZELLER Jr. NY Times The Internet Archive was created in 1996 as the institutional memory of the online world, storing snapshots of ever-changing Web sites and collecting other multimedia artifacts. Now the nonprofit archive is on the defensive in a legal ==========> 05-07-18-TheReg-ICANNsTwomeyDelieversInternetVision.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/18/twomey_interview/ ICANN prez delivers internet vision By Kieren McCarthy (kieren at kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk) Published Monday 18th July 2005 15:34 GMT The Register Interview In his most revealing interview since taking charge of internet overseeing organisation ICANN in March 2003, president Paul Twomey has accused governments looking to subsume ICANN into a UN body as "living in a political ==========> 05-07-25-SJMerc-PewInternet-ManyUsersDoNotUnderstandInternetTerms.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12217458.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 25, 2005 Many Internet users lagging on lingo By Ellen Lee Knight Ridder, San Jose Mercury News Most Internet users know the difference between Internet spam and the popular canned ham. But the vast majority don't know the terms ``phishing,'' ``podcasting'' and ``RSS feeds,'' according to a recently released study. ==========> 05-07-28-MSNBC-FreeSpeechAdvocatesDecryTunsiaLocationForUNInternetSummit.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8715638/ U.N. Internet summit draws rights groups' fire Free speech advocates assail choice of Tunisia as site for ‘info society’ talks Michael Moran Senior correspondent MSNBC July 28, 2005 A United Nations organization created to settle disputes between the world’s ==========> 05-07-28-RedHerring-UNSaysItIsNotSeekingToGovernInternet.txt========== http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=12961&hed=U.N.+Not+Seeking+to+Govern+Ne t+ U.N. Not Seeking to Govern Net U.N. officials say Internet governance is unlikely to shift. July 28, 2005 Technology Daily The United Nations’ recent examination of Internet governance does not portend a wholesale shift of control to the international body, the chief of the ==========> 05-07-28-SJMerc-PewStudy-InternetWovenIntoTeenagersLives.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12245985.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 28, 2005 Study: Internet woven into teens' lives By Michelle Quinn Mercury News The Internet has become the very air teenagers breathe. More teenagers today go online to shop, get news, play games and, of course, ==========> 05-07-30-NewSci-UNWorkingGroupCallsForIntenetGovernanceToPassFromUS.txt========== # "Calls to End U.S. Domination of the Internet" New Scientist (07/30/05) Vol. 187, No. 2510, P. 22; Marks, Paul The U.N.'s Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) wants control of the Internet to pass from the U.S. Department of Commerce to an international coalition of governments, companies, and civilian entities. The Commerce Department holds the keys to the Internet through the Domain Name System's (DNS) master root server, which is based in the United States; this effectively gives America absolute authority over changes to the master root server file. WGIG executive coordinator Markus Kummer says this is worrisome for some WGIG ==========> 05-07-31-USACM-UNWorkingGroupOnInternetGovernanceIssuesReport.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.7 31 July 2005 ============================================================= [7] U.N. WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE ISSUES REPORT The U.N. Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) recently issued its final report. The group was created by the Secretary-General of the United Nations ==========> 05-08-01-WashTimes-TwomeyCommentsOnInternetGovernance.txt========== http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050731-095649-4929r.htm The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Who should run the Internet? By John Zarocostas SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published August 1, 2005 Special correspondent John Zarocostas interviewed Paul Twomey, president and ==========> 05-08-03-PCMag-ConsumersViewOfInternetsFutire.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1843287,00.asp The Net's Next 10 Years ARTICLE DATE: 08.03.05 By Sebastian Rupley PC Magazine Just ten years after Netscape went public, the Internet has woven its way into the social fabric and the rhythms of our personal and working lives. In fact, most of us find it impossible to imagine life without the Web. For one thing, ==========> 05-08-05-SJMerc-ICANNReassignsIraqDomainNameToNewGovernment.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12314495.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 05, 2005 ICANN reassigns Iraq domain to new government San Jose Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency has quietly authorized Iraq's new government to manage its own domain name, allowing for the restoration of Internet addresses ending in ``.iq.'' ==========> 05-08-05-Wired-WebDesignInnovationsPromiseNewEraOfInternetBasedSoftwareApps.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68403,00.html You Say You Want a Web Revolution By Ryan Singel Wired 02:00 AM Aug. 05, 2005 PT The Netscape threat that led Microsoft to wage the browser war and cross swords with antitrust regulators around the world is -- at long last -- poised to become reality. ==========> 05-08-09-WiFiPlanet-FCCSuggestsConsumersOpenWebsuteAccess.txt========== http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3526361 FCC: 'Net Neutrality' For All By Roy Mark August 9, 2005 WiFi Planet Remember the dreaded "walled gardens," where closed-system broadband providers would decide what content would be delivered over their high-speed pipes? The end of the Internet as we know it? ==========> 05-08-17-TomsHdwe-SlowProgressInDomainNameTransferPasswords.txt========== http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050817_141236.html Can a simple password stop domain name hijacking? By Wolfgang Gruener, Senior Editor Tom's Hardware Guide August 17, 2005 - 14:12 EST Marina del Rey (CA) - According to an ICANN report released last month, the most effective means for attacking the integrity of networks without necessarily even using a computer- identity fraud for hijacking registered ==========> 05-08-22-NetworkWorld-SuggestionForInternetGovernance-NotIETF.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/082205johnson.html A proposal for governing the 'Net Network World By Johna Till Johnson and Johna Till Johnson, Network World, 08/22/05 Johna Til Johnson Networking people tend to be unusually interested in politics and effective governance strategies. That's because networking is the art and science of making many disparate entities cooperate for the common good - which also ==========> 05-08-26-GovTech-USSenColemanDenouncesUNInternetGovernanceReport.txt========== http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/96401 Senator Coleman Denounces U.N. Internet Governance Report Aug 26, 2005 By News Staff Government Technology U.S. Senator Norm Coleman recently submitted a statement into the Congressional Record denouncing a final report issued by the United Nations' Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) which suggested that the U.N. assume global governance of the Internet. Since its inception and creation in the United ==========> 05-08-26-Wired-NSFBacksGlobalEnvironmentForNetworkingInvestigations.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68667,00.html NSF Preps New, Improved Internet By Mark Baard Wired 02:11 PM Aug. 26, 2005 PT The National Science Foundation is backing a major initiative that could lead to a completely new internet architecture, with built-in security measures and support for ubiquitous sensors and wireless communications devices, among other ==========> 05-08-29-CNN-TheFutureOfTheInternet.txt========== http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/29/internet.future/index.html The Internet: What lies ahead? By Daniel Sieberg CNN Aug. 29, 2005 (CNN) -- "The Internet will be the CB radio of the '90s." It's easy to laugh now. A recent Wired magazine article on the Internet's "10 years that changed the world" credits the statement to an ABC TV executive in ==========> 05-08-31-TheReg-VintCerfOnTheInterpanetaryInternet.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/31/vint_cerf_interview_two/ TechScape: Vint Cerf on the InterPlanet By Bill Robinson (feedback at theregister.co.uk) Published Wednesday 31st August 2005 13:01 GMT The Register Interview In the second of TechScape’s three exclusive interviews with Vint Cerf, Bill Robinson investigates the story of the InterPlanet (http://www.ipnsig.org/) (or Interplanetary Internet as it is sometimes called). ==========> 05-08-31-USACM-CerfAndKahnTuringAwardLectureFocesesOnInternetImpact.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.8 31 August 2005 ============================================================= [4] TURING AWARD LECTURE FOCUSES ON INTERNET'S IMPACT Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn gave a lecture titled “Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and Future Possibilities.” The Turing ==========> 05-09-00-ProgFreedom-PoliticizationOfICANN-XXXDomainCaseStudy.txt========== http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/ps/ps1.10xxx.html The Politicization of ICANN and the Domain Name System: The ".xxx" Case Study Progress Snapshot Release 1.10 September 2005 by Solveig Singleton and Adam Thierer [1] Progress & Freedom Foundation While it's hardly perfect, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ==========> 05-09-09-ChronHigherEdu-HybridOpticalAndPacketInfrastructureTestbedForFasterInternet.txt========== # "Not the Internet You Know" Chronicle of Higher Education (09/09/05) Vol. 52, No. 3, P. A31; Kiernan, Vincent To address the growing need for fast networks capable of transmitting vast amounts of information in the scientific community, networking researchers are working to create a faster offshoot of the existing Internet2 limited to academic applications. The project, Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure Testbed (HOPI), could eventually result in faster consumer connections and possibly lead to the development of the next Internet. To meet the continually ==========> 05-09-09-RIAAAndMPAAJoinInternet2AsCorporateMembers.txt========== http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-09-200 5/0004103849&EDATE= MPAA and RIAA Join Internet2 Motion Picture and Recording Industry Associations to Collaborate with Consortium to Study Advanced Content Distribution Technologies ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium led by the research and higher education community, today announced that the Motion Picture Association of America ==========> 05-09-14-InfoWorld-HandleSystemProjectsGridDomainNameSystem.txt========== http://weblog.infoworld.com/gridmeter/archives/2005/09/what_would_a_gr.html September 14, 2005 What Would a Grid Domain Name System Look Like? InfoWorld Another interesting new area for grid security is the growing discussion around developing a handle system for the grid. This Handle System could be an alternative implementation that you could use ==========> 05-09-14-Wired-PermissionRequiredToAccessWouldImpactOpenInternet.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68850,00.html Open Internet, We Hardly Knew Ye By Jennifer Granick Wired 02:00 AM Sep. 14, 2005 PT Hurricane Katrina tore families away from their homes and from each other. And with the Gulf Coast in chaos, electricity out and cell-phone towers down, people in far-flung places across the United States turned to the robust, ==========> 05-09-16-SJMerc-ICANNPostponesXXXDomainDecision.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12663701.htm Posted on Fri, Sep. 16, 2005 ICANN puts off .xxx domain decision NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency approved a domain name for the Catalan language Thursday while deferring final action on creating a red-light district on the Internet through a ``.xxx'' suffix. Creating the ``.cat'' suffix for individuals, organizations and companies that ==========> 05-09-16-Wired-ICANNPostponesXXXDomainDecision.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68878,00.html Decision Deferred on Porn Domain Associated Press Wired 07:57 AM Sep. 16, 2005 PT The internet's key oversight agency approved a domain name for the Catalan language Thursday while deferring final action on creating a red-light district on the internet through a ".xxx" suffix. ==========> 05-09-19-WorkKnow-TheBroadbandExplosion-ATrulyInteractiveWorld.txt========== http://workingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4990&t=technology The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World September 12, 2005 When true broadband arrives, everything will change—work, play, and society—say professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley. What a truly interactive world will look like is the subject of their new book The Broadband Explosion. Sep. 19, 2005 Issue by Sara Grant, Publications Coordinator, HBS Working Knowledge ==========> 05-09-29-ABCNews-USRejectsCallsForUNToTakeOverInternetGovernance.txt========== http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1171626 ABC News U.S. Insists on Keeping Control of Web U.S. Insists on Keeping Control of Internet Governance, Official Says By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER Associated Press Writer The Associated Press Sep. 29, 2005 - A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the ==========> 05-10-05-NYT-HighSpeedInternetCouldChangeTheWayWeLiveANdCompute.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/technology/techspecial/05markoff.html October 5, 2005 The Time Is Now: Bust Up the Box! By JOHN MARKOFF New York Times San Diego COMPUTING is breaking out of the beige box. Millions of miles of fiber-optic ==========> 05-10-05-ZDNet-InternetGovernanceConernsMoreThamGovernments.txt========== http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/features/stories/128919.html Net governance concern wider industry, observers say Cordelia Lee, ZDNet Asia, October 05, 2005 Everyone, not just governments, has a part to play in ensuring the future growth and development of the Internet, industry observers say. During the recent Global Public Policy Conference held in Malaysia, Markus ==========> 05-10-12-TheGuardian-EUSaysInternetCouldFallApartUnlessGovernanceIssuesResolved.txt========== http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1589902,00.html EU says internet could fall apart Developing countries demand share of control US says urge to censor underlies calls for reform Richard Wray Wednesday October 12, 2005 The Guardian A battle has erupted over who governs the internet, with America demanding to ==========> 05-10-20-CNETNews-BushOpposesUNControlOfInternet.txt========== http://news.com.com/Bush+administration+opposes+U.N.+Net+control/2100-1028_3-590 5586.html Bush administration opposes U.N. Net control By Declan McCullagh CNET News Story last modified Thu Oct 20 18:33:00 PDT 2005 WASHINGTON--In a sign that traditionally obscure discussions about Internet control have taken on new prominence, President Bush broached the topic in a ==========> 05-10-24-CNETNews-SenColemanIntrosResolutionToKeepUNAwayFromInternet.txt========== http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5900690.html Senator: Keep U.N. away from the Internet By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com By Declan McCullagh [Accessed Oct. 24,2005] A new resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet. ==========> 05-10-24-NetWorld-IETFEmbracesCryptoTechnologies.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/102405widernetcrypto.html Deciphering the world of crypto IETF opens its arms to lesser-known algorithms such as SEED and GOST. By Ellen Messmer, Network World, 10/24/05 Illustration It's the computational magic for scrambling data to keep it secret, and in the U.S., the best-known cryptographic algorithms go by names such as Triple-DES and AES. ==========> 05-10-24-Reason-IsICANNSoMuchBetterThanUNControlOfInternet.txt========== http://www.reason.com/links/links102405.shtml The Root of the Problem The what's missing in the debate over U.S. vs. U.N. control of the Net Julian Sanchez Reason Oct. 24, 2005 The Internet, in John Perry Barlow's famously purple description, is a happy anarchy "naturally independent" of government; it is an "act of nature and it ==========> 05-10-24-SJMerc-ICANNSettlesWithVeriSignOverSiteFinderService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12986003.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 24, 2005 ICANN announces settlement in VeriSign dispute Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency said Monday it had tentatively agreed to settle a longstanding dispute with VeriSign Inc., a company that exerts significant control over how people find Web sites and send e-mail. ==========> 05-10-24-SJMerc-TooManyInternetContributorsLowersQualityOfContent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12984186.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 24, 2005 An Internet fed mostly by amateurs is frightening By Mike Langberg Mercury News Silicon Valley has its share of would-be utopians. Along with others around the world, they are working overtime to build an online community where the Internet makes everyone equal. ==========> 05-10-25-Auerbach-ICANNVeriSignAgreementMostlyLeadsToIncreasedDomainNameTax.txt========== http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000202.html CaveBear Blog, Thoughts and Commentary by Karl Auerbach Locus ab auctoritate est infirmissimus ("The argument from authority is the weakest.") -- Thomas Aquinas Who Really Installs New Top Level Domains? October 25, 2005 About That Settlement - An Increase in the Domain Name Tax I'm very briefly skimming the ICANN-Verisign settlement papers. I'm reading it ==========> 05-10-25-NYT-ICANNSettlesWithVeriSignOverSiteFinderService.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/technology/25internet.html October 25, 2005 Overseer of Net Addresses Ends Dispute With VeriSign By JOHN MARKOFF NY Times PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 24 - Icann, the Internet agency that oversees the assignment of network addresses, has settled a messy dispute with VeriSign, a security and services firm that controls the .com and .net network domains. ==========> 05-10-26-TheReg-ICANNPresSaysVeriSignAgreementMeansNewEraOfInternet.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/26/twomey_icann_verisign_deal/ ICANN prez welcomes new era of internet By Kieren McCarthy (kieren at kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk) Published Wednesday 26th October 2005 13:28 GMT The Register The deal struck between ICANN and VeriSign in a meeting late on Monday has welcomed in a "new era" of the internet, president and CEO of ICANN, Paul Twomey told us last night. ==========> 05-10-27-Wired-Web2.0SitesHaveInformationCredibilityProblems.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69366,00.html Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show By Xeni Jardin Wired 02:00 AM Oct. 27, 2005 PT Spam, scams and scatterbrains -- the same problems that plagued the old internet are cropping up again in a new wave of technologies known collectively as Web 2.0. ==========> 05-10-28-LATimes-ManArrestedForStealingDomainNameByForgery.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-sex28oct28,0,4207242.story?c oll=la-story-footer&track=morenews Hijacker of 'Sex.com' Is Arrested By Richard Marosi and Joseph Menn Los Angeles Times Staff Writers October 28, 2005 SAN DIEGO — Four years after dodging a $65-million court judgment by fleeing the country, former online-porn mogul Stephen Michael Cohen was arrested by ==========> 05-10-28-SJMerc-ManArrestedForStealingDomainNameByForgery.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13023161.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 28, 2005 Man accused of stealing sex.com domain arrested in Mexico Mercury News SAN DIEGO (AP) - A man accused of stealing a pornographic Web site and making millions of dollars from it was arrested by Mexican authorities. Stephen Michael Cohen, 57, was taken into custody Thursday as he applied for a ==========> 05-10-31-USACM-USResistingUNPressureOnInternetGovernance.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.10 31 October 2005 ============================================================= [6] U.S. RESISTING U.N. PRESSURE ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE Tension continues to mount between the United States and the United Nations regarding the U.S. role in Internet governance in the remaining days before a ==========> 05-11-00-CommACM-ACallForAPublicDomainSpeechWeb.txt========== Call for a public-domain SpeechWeb Richard A. Frost November 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 11 All that's missing is innovative use of existing technology and the encouragement of public participation. Imagine using your cell phone to navigate through a network of hyperlinked speech applications as rich and diverse as the visual applications on the ==========> 05-11-00-EETimes-MetcalfOnTheInternet-SecurityAndSpam.txt========== http://www.eetasia.com/ARTICLES/2005NOV/C/2005NOV_INT_WK4.HTM Ethernet's inventor sounds off By Patrick Mannion EE Times Nov. 2005 So, what about Bob? Engineer-scientist, early Internet developer, Ethernet inventor, entrepreneur, pundit, a man who eats his own words-and, now, a venture capitalist: Bob Metcalfe has seen it all in 40 years on the front lines ==========> 05-11-00-InfoToday-LibrariesInTheInternetAge.txt========== http://www.infotoday.com/online/nov05/morville.shtml Ambient Findability: Libraries at the Crossroads of Ubiquitous Computing and the Internet By Peter Morville Information Today Vol. 29 No. 6 — Nov/Dec 2005 Have you heard of Delicious Library? If not, it’s worth checking it out. Delicious Library is a social software solution that transforms an iMac and ==========> 05-11-03-NetWorld-InternetGovernanceProjSuggestsICANNDenationalization.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/110305-icann.html Group suggests a 'denationalization' of ICANN By John Blau, IDG News Service, 11/03/05 Network World Several academics are suggesting a "denationalization" of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization responsible for running the Internet, as a way to end an escalating scrap in government circles over U.S. control of the Internet. ==========> 05-11-03-NetWorld-USAndBusinessSayChangingInternetGovernanceWouldSlowInnivation.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/110305-internet-governing.html U.S. businesses: New Internet governance not needed By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, 11/03/05 NetworkWorld U.S. business and government officials were united Thursday in their opposition to recent proposals to create an international Internet governing body, saying it could slow innovation and limit online choices. ==========> 05-11-07-BusWeek-ATTCEOPlansToChargeHighBandwidthProvidersToUseNetwork.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/@@n34h*IUQu7KtOwgA/magazine/content/05_45/b3958092.h tm NOVEMBER 7, 2005 Online Extra: At SBC, It's All About "Scale and Scope" CEO Edward Whitacre talks about the AT&T Wireless acquisition and how he's moving to keep abreast of cable competitors SBC Telecommunications' financial performance of late hasn't been much to write home about. For the third quarter, it just reported flat earnings of $1.2 ==========> 05-11-07-Reuters-EUOptimisticOverWiderInternetGovernance.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-11 -07T230212Z_01_WRI782889_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-EU.xml EU optimistic over wider governance of Internet Mon Nov 7, 2005 6:02 PM ET11 By Huw Jones BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission hopes a meeting next week will come up with an agreement to allow governments more direct influence over the domain name system that guides traffic around the Internet. ==========> 05-11-08-GoogleBlog-VintCerfSupportsNetNeutrality.txt========== http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/vint-cerf-speaks-out-on-net-neutrality.ht ml Vint Cerf speaks out on net neutrality Google Blog 11/08/2005 01:21:00 PM Posted by Alan Davidson, Washington Policy Counsel, DC office Congress is holding a hearing tomorrow, Wednesday, November 8th, on "network neutrality" and a big new telecommunications bill affecting the Internet. Vint ==========> 05-11-14-NYT-ControlOfTheInternetNotPossibleSomeSay.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/business/14register.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1132 074909-tJVnjjHd2do/BsX3H6/bVA November 14, 2005 Control the Internet? A Futile Pursuit, Some Say By JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13 - Working with Pentagon funds in the 1960's and 1970's, a small group of designers created a pioneering research network called the Arpanet and a software framework that could let an unlimited number of ==========> 05-11-16-ITU-PhaseTwoOfWorldSummitOnTheInfoSociety.txt========== http://www.itu.int/wsis/ Phase Two Of World Summit on the Information Society International Telecommunications Union Nov 16, 2005 The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is held in two phases. The first phase of WSIS took place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003, where 175 countries adopted a Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action. The second phase will take place ==========> 05-11-16-NYT-ACompromiseOfSortsOnInternetControl.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/technology/16net.html November 16, 2005 A Compromise of Sorts on Internet Control By VICTORIA SHANNON NY Times TUNIS, Wednesday, Nov. 16 - Representatives from the United States and nations that had sought to break up some of its control over the Internet reached an accord on Tuesday night that leaves the supervision of domain names and other ==========> 05-11-16-SJMerc-CompromiseLeavesContinuesUSInternetOversight.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13180104.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 16, 2005 U.S. oversight of Net will continue under compromise Mercury News TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - A U.N. technology summit opened Wednesday after an 11th-hour agreement that leaves the United States with ultimate oversight of the main computers that direct the Internet's flow of information, commerce and dissent. ==========> 05-11-16-SJMerc-VintCerfPromotesNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13182584.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 16, 2005 Internet pioneer sounds alarm on threats to broadband By Mark Cooper Mercury News As Vinton Cerf, ``the father of the Internet,'' accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House last week, at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings on a bill -- an ==========> 05-11-16-Wired-USMaintainsControlOfInternet.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69592,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 U.S. Maintains Control of Net By Kevin Poulsen Wired 09:28 AM Nov. 16, 2005 PT TUNIS, Tunisia -- Negotiators working late into the night Tuesday shook hands on a deal that creates a new U.N.-sponsored global forum to explore problems like spam and cybercrime, while leaving the United States firmly in control of ==========> 05-11-17-Yahoo-ITUReportSaysMachinesWillBeBiggerInternetUsersThanHumans.txt========== http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051117/wl_afp/unsummititonlineinternetfuture_05111 7122039 Machines and objects to overtake humans on the Internet: ITU Thu Nov 17, 7:55 AM ET Yahoo TUNIS (AFP) - Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users' movements and habits, the UN's telecommunications agency predicted. ==========> 05-11-18-CompWorld-IPv6ReadyIsForUse.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;75779762;fp;2;fpid;4 Pv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is ready for consumption Dahna McConnachie, 18/11/2005 10:02:18, ComputerWorld IPv6 is not a pipedream. Founder of the IPv6 Forum Latif Ladid took time out from the IPv6 summit in Canberra to talk to Computerworld about why the new Internet Protocol is a pie to be consumed here and now. IPv6 has been talked about for years - is it still a pie in the sky or is it ==========> 05-11-18-SJMerc-WSISMeetingLeavesInternetControlStillAnIssue.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13203988.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 18, 2005 Tech summit ends with Internet control still an issue Mercury News TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - The United States, in a fit of bravado and confident smiles, claimed victory this week in the contest to keep control of the computers crucial for directing Internet traffic. ==========> 05-11-21-CNETNews-RootServerOperators-TheRealPowerBehindTheInternet.txt========== http://news.com.com/Root+servers+The+real+Net+power/2008-1028_3-5961465.html Root servers: The real Net power By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: November 21, 2005, 4:00 AM PST TUNIS, Tunisia--Delegates from third-world nations spent much of last week at a United Nations summit here railing against the Bush administration's alleged control of the Internet. ==========> 05-11-21-CompBusRev-ITUChiefSeesCountriesGoingSeparatelyOnInternet.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D486ADD3-2587-4568-881B-29ADC7A65 C9C ITU head foresees internet Balkanization 21st November 2005 By CBR Staff Writer The internet could look very different in a few years' time, with various countries splintering off into their own locally managed internets, the head of the International Telecommunications Union suggested on Friday. ==========> 05-11-21-CompWorld-JohnGageSuggestsNetSummitOfEngineers.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1299339211 Sun exec calls for a Net summit of engineers John Blau, IDG News Service 21/11/2005 08:32:06 John Gage, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and its chief researcher, begun pitching an idea to a few other big technology companies present at the United Nations-hosted Internet summit in Tunis: How about a global gathering for technical people shaping the Internet? ==========> 05-11-22-StanfordCIS-CourtRejectsJurisdictionBasedOnWebsite.txt========== http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets/vol_3_no_3/003614.shtml Illinois District Court rejects personal jurisdiction over California newspaper based solely on their website Stanford - CIS Nov. 22, 2005 Plaintiffs Bo Jackson (“Jackson”) and Ellen Coleman brought an action initially in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, alleging defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress in response to an ==========> 05-11-23-CompBusRev-OppositionToDotComDomainPriceIncrease.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=A784F389-5300-4C71-9175-2E5EAE628 61B Opposition mounts to .com price hike 23rd November 2005 By Kevin Murphy Computer Business Review A proposed deal that would let VeriSign Inc double the wholesale price of a .com domain by 2012 is coming under increasing amounts of criticism from ==========> 05-11-24-WashPost-TechCompaniesInFavorOfNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112302200. html Renewed Warning of Bandwidth Hoarding By Jonathan Krim Thursday, November 24, 2005; D01 Washington Post A couple of years ago, a group of big technology companies got together and issued a public alarm about the future of the Internet: ==========> 05-11-28-StanfordCIS-NetNeutralityAndTheFutureOfTV.txt========== The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) and The Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) Network Neutrality & the Future of Television Tim Wu Professor, Columbia University Monday November 28, 2005 Television's now-dominant business model is under attack from all directions. Telephone companies, Apple, Netflix, Tivo and even TV stations all want to ==========> 05-11-28-Yahoo-ICANNLooksAtSingleLetterDomainNames.txt========== http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_hi_te/single_letter_domains_5 Agency Weighs Single-Letter Web Addresses By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet WriterMon Nov 28, 9:39 PM ET Although Internet domain names may be getting longer or more complex as Web sites creatively squeeze into the crowded ".com" address space, most single-letter names like "a.com" and "b.com" remain unused. That may soon change as the Internet's key oversight agency considers lifting restrictions on the simplest of names. ==========> 05-11-29-SJMerc-DomainNameBrokersSueVeriSignOverAntiCompetitivePractices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13285820.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 29, 2005 Antitrust lawsuits filed against VeriSign, ICANN Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - Companies that sell and broker Internet domain names have filed two lawsuits against VeriSign Inc. and its oversight agency, accusing them of price-fixing and other anti-competitive practices. ==========> 05-11-29-TechRev-VanHowelingInternet2Interview.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Search/wtr_15937,308,p1.html Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Next-Generation Networks Today’s Internet is like “second-class mail,” but solutions exist, says Doug Van Houweling, CEO of Internet2. By David Talbot Technology Review What if a privileged few could buy the best possible Internet technology -- ==========> 05-11-30-SJMerc-DomainNameBrokersSueVeriSignOverAntiCompetitivePractices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13292300.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 30, 2005 Domain name dispute in court BROKERS ALLEGE ANTITRUST ACTIONS BY OVERSIGHT AGENCY By Anick Jesdanun Associated Press NEW YORK - Companies that sell and broker Internet domain names have filed two lawsuits against VeriSign and its oversight agency, accusing them of ==========> 05-11-30-USACM-ICANNRetainsInternetGovernanceRole.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.11 30 November 2005 ============================================================= [7] ICANN RETAINS INTERNET GOVERNANCE POSITION In a fairly last-minute deal before the start of November's much-heralded and controversial World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) event in Tunis, ==========> 05-12-00-ACM-NSFGENI-NewNetworkArchitecturesToBalancePrivacyAndAccountability.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/storypage_2.cfm?ci=december_2005&story=7& CFID=62317540&CFTOKEN=99677198 Future Internet Initiative Announced at SIGCOMM 05 ACM MemberNet, Dec. 2005 ACM's SIGCOMM 2005 conference, held in Philadelphia on August 24, was the venue for news of a major initiative to promote new network architectures that balance privacy and accountability, and pave the way for a future Internet. The initiative, known as GENI (Global Environment for Networking Investigations) is ==========> 05-12-01-CompBusRev-SecureDNSFacesResistance.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=5CB02292-1149-4657-BA91-3F67AA4C9 1B5 Secure DNS faces resistance 1st December 2005 By CBR Staff Writer The deployment of DNSsec, an enhancement to the domain name system that could protect against certain types of phishing and pharming attacks, is still facing skepticism and resistance from those who would be involved in implementing it. ==========> 05-12-01-EashPost-BellSouthWantsToChargeWebsitesForSpeed.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002109. html Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 1, 2005; D05 A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service ==========> 05-12-01-Reuters-NoDecisionYetOnXXXDomain.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-12 -01T201327Z_01_FLE172792_RTRUKOC_0_US-PORN.xml No decision yet on Internet domain for sex sites Thu Dec 1, 2005 3:13 PM ET162 Reuters By Allan Dowd VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - The fate of the proposed .xxx Internet domain for sex sites, which has drawn fire from U.S. conservative groups, ==========> 05-12-01-SJMerc-EUExpectsRushForEUDomainName.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13303255.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 01, 2005 EU expects a rush for .eu domain name Mercury News BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union expects a surge of applications next week when its ``.eu'' regional domain name opens for registration. ``I expect a real rush, several hundred thousand in the first few days,'' EU ==========> 05-12-01-TheReg-ICANNKillsXXXDomain.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/01/icann_kills_xxx/ ICANN kills .xxx porn domain But where's the pressure come from? By Kieren McCarthy in Vancouver Published Thursday 1st December 2005 20:48 GMT The Register The proposed .xxx porn domain has been kicked into the long grass just days before it was due to meet final approval. ==========> 05-12-01-TimesOnline-XXXDomainRemovedFromICANNAgenda.txt========== http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1899588,00.htmlimes Online Porn domain left in limbo From Kieren McCarthy in Vancouver Times On Line December 01, 2005 Controversial plans to create the Internet domain .xxx purely for pornography have been dropped just days before they were due to receive approval. ==========> 05-12-01-WashPost-BellSouthChiefWantsToChargeForWebSpeed.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002109. html Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 1, 2005; D05 A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service ==========> 05-12-05-FreeNetProj-ImprovementsMadeToFreenet.txt========== http://freenetproject.org/ 5th December, 2005: Major new version of Freenet in progress (updated) FreeNet "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation ==========> 05-12-07-CNETNews-GAO-ICANNShouldDeterFraudulentDomainRegistrationInfo.txt========== http://news.com.com/ICANN+told+to+clamp+down+on+dodgy+domain+names/2100-1038_3-5 986553.html ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain names By Greg Sandoval CNET News Story last modified Wed Dec 07 17:15:00 PST 2005 More than 8 percent of all Internet domain names are registered with false or incomplete information, according to a U.S. government study into the ==========> 05-12-15-WashPost-IntenetSuccessDueToAccess.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402360. html Trying to Take Ownership By Jonathan Krim Thursday, December 15, 2005; D01 The Washington Post A frequently served bromide in Washington these days is that the Internet became its hulking, life-altering self because it was never regulated. ==========> 05-12-15-ZDNet-USNeedsToAcknowledgeInternetIsIntenational.txt========== http://www.zdnetindia.com/insight/commentary/stories/131646.html Net goes beyond U.S. domain It's time for the U.S. government to wake up to a new cyber reality--one that is inherently global and depends on an international audience to continue functioning. Eileen Yu, December 15, 2005 ZDNet, India One of the most hotly debated issues today revolves around who should hold the ==========> 05-12-19-TechRev-TheInternetIsBroken.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Networks/wtr_16051,258,p1.html Monday, December 19, 2005 The Internet Is Broken The Net's basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It's time for a clean-slate approach, says MIT's David D. Clark. Technology Review By David Talbot ==========> 05-12-20-TechRev-TheInternetIsBroken.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16055,258,p1.html Tuesday, December 20, 2005 The Internet Is Broken -- Part 2 We can't keep patching the Internet’s security holes. Now computer scientists are proposing an entirely new architecture. By David Talbot Technology Review This article -- the cover story in Technology Review’s December-January print ==========> 05-12-21-CNETNews-ECommerceSitesAndISPsProtestTieredBroadbandPricing.txt========== http://news.com.com/Playing+favorites+on+the+Net/2100-1028_3-6003281.html Playing favorites on the Net? By Anne Broache and Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: December 21, 2005, 4:00 AM PST Broadband providers and e-commerce companies, historic allies on many political fronts, are finding themselves butting heads over federal legislation that could change the way either side does business. ==========> 05-12-21-CNETNews-ExpectedBillWOuldAllowTieredIntenetPricing.txt========== http://news.com.com/Playing+favorites+on+the+Net/2100-1028_3-6003281.html Playing favorites on the Net? By Declan McCullagh CNET News Story last modified Wed Dec 21 04:00:00 PST 2005 Broadband providers and e-commerce companies, historic allies on many political fronts, are finding themselves butting heads over federal legislation that could change the way either side does business. ==========> 06-01-06-WSJ-TelcosWantToCollectProviderFeesForFastConnections.txt========== # "Phone Companies Set Off a Battle Over Internet Fees" Wall Street Journal (01/06/06) P. A1; Searcey, Dionne; Schatz, Amy; Young, Shawn BellSouth, AT&T, Verizon, and other large phone companies want to collect fees from Internet content providers for fast access to high-quality music, movies, and other material that is sent over their telecommunications networks. Providers that pay such fees would find their user transactions prioritized, which means consumers would be able to access content faster. Network operators are attempting to prioritize Internet traffic amid rising consumer demand for the reliable delivery of phone service, real-time video games, and video. ==========> 06-01-08-IntlOpenInternetCoalition-ForAnOpenInternet.txt========== http://www.ioic.net January 8, 2006 A Letter to the Internet Community IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition "For an Open Internet" The marvel that is the Internet is under an increasing barrage of policy, regulatory, and related technologically-enabled attacks against its fundamental open-access, "end-to-end" operational ==========> 06-01-09-TechWebNews-DeploymentOfIPv6Debated.txt========== http://www.techweb.com/wire/networking/175802799 IPv6: World's Largest Technology Upgrade On Deck By Laurie Sullivan, TechWeb News January 09, 2006 (1:59 PM EST) Bugs, spam, viruses, software security issues, quality of service and more have spurred experts to push for commercial deployment and government reform on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). ==========> 06-01-13-SJMerc-ManyStudentsPreferOnlineClasses.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13620799.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 13, 2006 Just steps from campus, some students still prefer classes online By Justin Pope AP Education Writer Andy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., so commuting to class isn't the problem. But he doesn't like lectures much, isn't a morning person, and wants time during the ==========> 06-01-16-MktWatcht-BellSouthWantsToChargeWebsitesForSpeed.txt========== http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B02432D2D-1EE0-4037-A15F-54B748 D6CF26%7D&siteid=mktw&dist= BellSouth wants new Net fees By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch Last Update: 4:40 PM ET Jan. 16, 2006 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- BellSouth Corp. confirmed Monday that it is pursuing discussions with Internet content companies to levy charges to reliably and speedily deliver their content and services. ==========> 06-01-16-NetWorld-IETFTurns20.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/011606widernetietf.html IETF hums along at 20 Standards body has had its quirky moments. By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 01/16/06 From a notorious striptease by Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to a fist-pumping, table-jumping brawl about cryptography policy, the Internet's premier standards-setting body has had its share of big moments. ==========> 06-01-17-NewsRect-BellSouthWantsToChargeWebsitesForSpeed.txt========== http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060117/NEWSREC0103/60117 0304/1018/NEWSREC0203 BellSouth venture causes controversy By Michelle Jarboe Staff Writer, News & record Article published Jan 17, 2006 A new endeavor by BellSouth could slash the time it takes computer users to download movies, games and other large Internet files. ==========> 06-01-18-NetWorld-Cerf-InternetGrowthWillComeFromAsia.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/011806-cerf.html Cerf: Internet growth will come from Asia By Jay Gillette, NetworkWorld.com, 01/18/06 HONOLULU - At the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s 28th conference here, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf declared that major Internet growth will now come from Asia, which represents 56% of the world’s population. Advertisement: ==========> 06-01-19-WSJ-InternetAlternativesDevelopedInProtestToUSControl.txt========== # "In Threat to Internet's Clout, Some Are Starting Alternatives" Wall Street Journal (01/19/06) P. A1; Rhoads, Christopher Though the Internet has been without significant competition for more than a decade, infrastructure developments in other parts of the world have led to the creation of rival systems, such as Chinese and Arab suffixes written in the characters of their native languages, inaccessible to the rest of the world. Germany has developed a system as a political protest to the Bush administration's foreign policy. The current Internet contains 264 suffixes, or roots, administered by ICANN, which operates under the Commerce Department, ==========> 06-01-22-CanadaPress-UsersQuicklyDecideWebsiteWorth.txt========== http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=2d91544e-4e2c-41bb-9652-03 305b5c26b4&k=28577 Web surfers decide a site's worth in fraction of a second: study Angela Pacienza, Canadian Press Published: Sunday, January 22, 2006 TORONTO (CP) - Graphic designers have long known the importance of good looks for things like ad copy and book covers. ==========> 06-01-22-KCStar-ManySayInternetNeedsRedoingForBetterSecurity.txt========== http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/13681958.htm Posted on Sun, Jan. 22, 2006 To build a better Net Many say cyberspace is in need of rethinking and repair, becoming as perilous as it is valuable By SCOTT CANON The Kansas City Star “It’s an arms race out there, and the criminal element is finding new ways to ==========> 06-01-22-WashPost-TelcosWantToChargeWebsitesForSpeed.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012100094. html The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet The Washington Post By Christopher Stern Sunday, January 22, 2006; B01 Do you prefer to search for information online with Google or Yahoo? What about bargain shopping -- do you go to Amazon or eBay? Many of us make these kinds of ==========> 06-01-23-RedHerring-WorldSummitEndsWithNoChangeForICANNRole.txt========== # "Fighting for Control" Red Herring (01/23/06) Vol. 3, No. 2, P. 14 The recent World Summit on Information Society in Tunisia focused on ICANN's role as the central clearinghouse for domain addresses and the perceived notion that the organization is merely a surrogate of the United States government. Though calls were made from the international community to bring oversight of the Internet under the aegis of the United Nations, the summit ended with an endorsement of the current model. In this interview with Red Herring, Paul Twomey, the first non-U.S. citizen to lead ICANN, says the controversy has ==========> 06-01-25-Pew-PeopleUseInternetToInteractWithEachOther-Summary.txt========== http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Internet_ties.pdf PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT 1615 L ST., NW – SUITE 700 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 202-419-4500 http://www.pewinternet.org/ The Strength of Internet Ties The internet and email aid users in maintaining their social networks and provide pathways to help when people face big decisions ==========> 06-01-25-Pew-PeopleUseInternetToInteractWithEachOther.txt========== http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=172 The Strength of Internet Ties: The internet and email aid users in maintaining their social networks and provide pathways to help when people face big decisions Pew Internet 1/25/2006 | MemoReport | John Horrigan, Jeffrey Boase, Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman The internet helps maintain people's social networks, and connects them to ==========> 06-01-26-SJMerc-PeopleUseInternetToInteractWithEachOther.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13715914.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 26, 2006 Internet allowing users to interact By Crayton Harrison DALLAS MORNING NEWS DALLAS - The Internet has failed to turn us all into nerds. Despite the fears of some prognosticators in the Web's early days, we are not ==========> 06-01-30-FinTimes-ATTCEO-ContentProvidersMustPayForBandwidth.txt========== http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3ced445e-91c5-11da-bab9-0000779e2340.html AT&T chief warns on internet costs By Paul Taylor in New York Published: January 30 2006 23:58 | Last updated: January 30 2006 23:58 Financial Times Ed Whitacre, AT&T’s chairman and chief executive, warned on Monday that internet content providers that wanted to use broadband networks to deliver high-quality services such as movie downloads to their customers would have to ==========> 06-01-30-SJMerc-ICANNPlacesConditionsOnVeriSignPriceIncreases.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13749929.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 30, 2006 New settlement places conditions on '.com' price hikes Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - VeriSign Inc. must meet certain conditions in order to fully raise fees for ``.com'' domain names under a new tentative settlement reached with the Internet's main oversight agency. ==========> 06-02-00ACMNetWorker-NoNeutralPositionsOnNetNeutrality.txt========== ACM netWorker, Volume 10, Number 2 (2006), Pages 18-25 Net neutrality? there's nothing neutral about it, By Aaron Weiss One thing is clear: The erosion of Net Neutrality principles will destroy the Internet as we know it... or, depending on your perspective, the enforcement of Net Neutrality principles will destroy the Internet as we know it. Pick your poison? The long-simmering debate over what role network operators including the Bell and cable companies should or should not play in squeezing their bandwidth for profit is quickly raging into a full-on boil. ==========> 06-02-00-CACM-WhoShouldGovernTheInternet.txt========== Viewpoint: Who should govern the internet? Nanda Kumar, Abbe Mowshowitz February 2006 Communications of the ACM, Volume 49 Issue 2 Failing to share control, the U.S. risks driving disaffected countries to establish their own competing, independent root servers, thus creating parallel Internets. Sooner or later the U.S. will have to share oversight of Internet management ==========> 06-02-00-CommACM-WhoShouldGovernTheInternet.txt========== Viewpoint: Who should govern the internet? Nanda Kumar, Abbe Mowshowitz February 2006 Communications of the ACM, Volume 49 Issue 2 Failing to share control, the U.S. risks driving disaffected countries to establish their own competing, independent root servers, thus creating parallel Internets. Sooner or later the U.S. will have to share oversight of Internet management ==========> 06-02-00-DLibMag-AResearchLibraryBasedOnTheInternetArchive.txt========== http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february06/arms/02arms.html D-Lib Magazine February 2006 Volume 12 Number 2 A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive William Y. Arms, Selcuk Aya, Pavel Dmitriev Computer Science Department, Cornell University wya@cs.cornell.edu, sa286@cornell.edu, dmitriev@cs.cornell.edu, Blazej Kot ==========> 06-02-00-NetWorker-ComprehensiveLookAtNetNeutrality.txt========== netWorker Volume 10, Number 2 (2006), Pages 18-25 Net neutrality? there's nothing neutral about it Aaron Weiss One thing is clear: The erosion of Net Neutrality principles will destroy the Internet as we know it... or, depending on your perspective, the enforcement of Net Neutrality principles will destroy the Internet as we know it. Pick your poison? The long-simmering debate over what role network operators including the Bell and cable companies should or should not play in squeezing their ==========> 06-02-02-PCWorld-TelecomCompaniesAgainstNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,124558-c,adsvisitortracking/article.html Tech.gov: A Gated Internet The companies who build and control the Internet's pipes want to control the content over those pipes, too. Anush Yegyazarian, PC World Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:00 AM PST You fire up your computer and want to watch some clips of yesterday's game. You go to your favorite sports Web site, but pages are taking forever to load. ==========> 06-02-06-GigaOm-NetNeutralityNotOptionalFeature.txt========== http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/net-neutrality-not-an-optional-feature-of-internet/ Net Neutrality Not An Optional Feature of Internet Posted in Wired + Guest Columns Posted on February 6th, 2006 Gigaom The Senate Commerce Committee is currently holding hearings on Net Neutrality. Webcast . The Bells are not be directly represented, cable companies views will be shared by Kyle McSlarrow, NCTA President and CEO. Walter McCormick, ==========> 06-02-07-AP-TelcosAndCableCosStateTheirCaseForChargingForBandwidth.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13814426.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 07, 2006 Phone, cable companies face off with Google over Internet access WASHINGTON (AP) - Internet giant Google said Tuesday that the wide variety of Web sites might shrink if broadband providers like AT&T start charging companies for premium access to high-speed networks. The Bell companies promised members of the Senate Commerce Committee that they ==========> 06-02-07-CNETNews-WithoutNetNeutralityConsumersMayPayTwice.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-6035906.html Without 'Net neutrality,' will consumers pay twice? By Marguerite Reardon CNET Networks Story last modified Tue Feb 07 04:00:00 PST 2006 The debate over whether broadband providers should be allowed to prioritize the traffic they carry and to charge companies to ship data via their networks is about to get its second airing in Washington. ==========> 06-02-07-PCWorld-CerfAsksForInternetNeutralityLaw.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124654,00.asp 'Father of the Internet' Asks for Internet Neutrality Law Vinton Cerf says Congress should pass law forbidding discrimination against competing Web services. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Tuesday, February 07, 2006 WASHINGTON -- The man often called the father of the Internet told U.S. lawmakers today that the future of the Internet is at risk if Congress does not ==========> 06-02-07-Senate-CerfAsksUSSenateForInternetNeutralityLaw.txt========== http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/cerf-020706.pdf Prepared Statement of Vinton G. Cerf Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Google Inc. U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Hearing on “Network Neutrality” February 7, 2006 ==========> 06-02-08-CNETNews-BroadbandTelecomLawRewritePlannedFor2006.txt========== http://news.com.com/Broadband+law+rewrite+planned+for+2006/2100-1028_3-6036677.h tml Broadband law rewrite planned for 2006 By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Wed Feb 08 10:14:21 PST 2006 WASHINGTON--A senior Republican congressman on Wednesday said his committee hopes to propose a "comprehensive" overhaul of the nation's telecommunications ==========> 06-02-08-NetWorld-USGovernmentGoingSlowOnIPv6.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/020806-ipv6-federal-government.html Feds back go slow approach on IPv6 By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 02/08/06 IPv6 advocates looking for the U.S. federal government to make a major financial commitment to the next-generation of the Internet’s main communications protocol will be disappointed with the findings of a new report from the Department of Commerce. ==========> 06-02-08-WSJ-NetNeutralityDebateHeatsUpInSenateHearing.txt========== 'Net Neutrality' Debate Heats Up at Senate Hearing Wall Street Journal (02/08/06) P. B7; Brown, Emily Ann Several Internet companies and Google are urging Congress to pass a law that would ban telecommunications networks from charging consumers more for some services and controlling what they can get off the Internet. The "net neutrality" debate has been heating up for some time now after some phone companies suggested they plan to bill companies for delivery of specific Internet services while Congress is considering amending the 1996 telecommunications act. Net neutrality is the idea that network operators ==========> 06-02-13-Wired-TheBitTorrentEffect-ProfileOfBramCohen.txt========== http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html The BitTorrent Effect Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video-on-demand, just click here. By Clive Thompson [Accessed Feb. 13, 2006] "That was a bad move," Bram Cohen tells me. We're huddled over a table in his ==========> 06-02-15-InetNews-OppositionToICANN-VeriSignDeal.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3585456 February 15, 2006 Opposition to ICANN/VeriSign Proposal Grows By Sean Michael Kerner Internet News Eight of the world's largest domain registrars have sent an open letter to ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf, stating their formal opposition to the revised proposition with VeriSign for continued control of the Internet registry. ==========> 06-02-20-TheReg-GlobalInternetGovernance-AnUneasyTruce.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/20/igf_truce/ Global net tussle reaches uneasy truce By Kieren McCarthy Published Monday 20th February 2006 15:06 GMT The Register Governments, business, academia and civil society have reached an uneasy truce at the end of two days of meetings over the creation of a new global body for the internet. ==========> 06-02-27-CompBusRev-USDOCToPutIANAControlOutForBid.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=7E2E81F6-83D7-445A-8208-F807A93D2 946 IANA up for grabs? 27th February 2006 By Kevin Murphy Computer Business Review Online The US government wants to hear from organizations interested in running some of the internet's key resources, including the master lists of IP address space ==========> 06-02-28-USACM-CerfCautionsCongressForNetNeutrality.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.2 28 February 2006 ============================================================= CERF CAUTIONS CONGRESS ON INTERNET FAST LANES Members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee met this month for a hearing into so-called “Net Neutrality,” the range of issues ==========> 06-03-01-AP-ICANNAndVeriSignAgreeOnDotComFeeHikes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13990839.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 01, 2006 Deal reached on .com domain price hikes NEW YORK (AP) - The board of the Internet's main oversight agency has approved a deal under which VeriSign Inc. must meet some conditions in order to raise fees for ``.com'' domain names. VeriSign, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., operates the servers that ==========> 06-03-01-CommentWire-ChinaMayHaveSetUpNonICANNDNSRootSystem.txt========== http://www.commentwire.com/article_news.asp?guid=5ED9C6E7-B128-4CEC-BFD9-A86456D 858BB China Splits from the Internet? Probably Not 1st March 2006 By Kevin Murphy Comment Wire China may have today divorced itself from the internet's American-run authoritative domain name system, if a report from that nation is accurate. ==========> 06-03-02-CompWorld-TechGroupsUrgeCongressToKeepNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legislation/story/0,108 01,109135,00.html Tech groups urge Congress to keep net neutrality The message: Consumers, not network providers, should choose which sites and services they use News Story by Grant Gross MARCH 02, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - More than 60 technology companies, consumer advocates and trade groups are urging a U.S. House of Representatives committee ==========> 06-03-05-SJMerc-FewerNewInternetUsers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14028023.htm Posted on Sun, Mar. 05, 2006 Holdouts manage to resist Net's lure By Mike Langberg Mercury News Brace yourself for a shock: There are people in the United States who don't see any reason to use the Internet. ==========> 06-03-06-AP-DigitalUniverse-PBSForTheInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14028263.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 06, 2006 Web site aims to build nonprofit research storehouse SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - It's a lofty ambition -- the Internet equivalent of the Public Broadcasting Service, a user-supported resource that pays top academics to create authoritative maps, articles and links to third-party content related to virtually any scholarly topic. ==========> 06-03-07-SJMerc-ATTBellSouthDealThreatensNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14039224.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 07, 2006 AT&T merger poses Web threat BELLSOUTH DEAL UNDERSCORES NEED TO PRESERVE `INTERNET NEUTRALITY' Mercury News Editorial As AT&T continues to reassemble the scattered pieces of the empire dismantled in the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell, the notion that government regulators would set up road blocks, or even speed bumps, on the path to its $67 billion takeover of ==========> 06-03-09-Economist-CanACleanSlateRedesignOfTheInternetEverBeInplemented.txt========== http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5571596 Reinventing the internet Mar 9th 2006 From The Economist print edition Networking: New initiatives aim to overhaul the internet. But how can a “clean slate” redesign ever be implemented? IF A planet-wide data network, akin to the internet, were built on Mars, what would it look like? That might sound like a silly question, but it raises an ==========> 06-03-10-NetWorld-NSF-GENIProjectForNewInternet.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/031006-geni.html 'New Internet' moves one step forward Experts gather to discuss next-generation Internet. By Denise Pappalardo, Network World, 03/10/06 About 120 folks are gathering Friday at a town hall meeting to discuss the future of a fairly new initiative called the Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI). ==========> 06-03-13-NetWorld-IETFTakingOn911ProblemWithVoIP.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/031306specialfocus-911-voip.html IETF taking on 911 problem within VoIP PROGRESS REPORT: ECRIT By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 03/13/06 The Internet engineering community is making progress on the thorny issue of how best to route emergency communications such as 911 calls over the Internet. Advertisement: ==========> 06-03-13-SJMerc-GoogleAndMSAndYahooAimToKeepYouWithThem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14088102.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 13, 2006 Langberg: Keeping you in the Big 3 playgrounds By Mike Langberg Mercury News Google, Microsoft and Yahoo no longer aim to confine you in a ``walled garden'' -- the online equivalent of a gated community where you only use the owner's services. ==========> 06-03-14-Wired-PushingTheInternetIntoSpace.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70377-0.html?tw=wn_technology_4 Pushing the Internet Into Space By Joanna Glasner 02:00 AM Mar, 14, 2006 EST Wired Currently, it can take about 40 minutes to relay information from a Mars rover to a NASA scientist -- a rather amazing feat, considering the data has between 100 million and 400 million kilometers to travel. ==========> 06-03-15-CNETNews-NetNeutralityDebateHeatsUp.txt========== http://news.com.com/Debate+heats+up+over+Net+neutrality/2100-1037_3-6049863.html Debate heats up over Net neutrality By Marguerite Reardon CNET Networks Story last modified Wed Mar 15 12:33:44 PST 2006 SAN JOSE, Calif.--Speculation that the two biggest phone companies in the country, AT&T and Verizon Communications, are planning to create a tiered Internet system that would require big bandwidth hogs like Google or Yahoo to ==========> 06-03-16-AP-ICANNToLookAtUsingDNSNameServersToAttackWebsites.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14113570.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 16, 2006 Internet panel to consider defenses against new attacks WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internet's primary oversight body will consider defensive measures against a new variety of powerful electronic attacks that can overwhelm Web sites and disrupt e-mails by exploiting the computers that help manage global Internet traffic. ==========> 06-03-16-AP-UsingDNSNameServersToAttackWebsites.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14113570.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 16, 2006 Computer researchers warn of powerful new Internet attacks WASHINGTON (AP) - A new variety of unusually powerful Internet attacks can overwhelm popular Web sites and disrupt e-mails by exploiting the computers that help manage global Internet traffic, according to security researchers. First detected late last year, the new attacks direct such massive amounts of ==========> 06-03-16-TheReg-RegistrarsUrgeRejectionOfICANNVeriSignAgreement.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/16/registrars_reject_verisign_contract/ Registrars urge rejection of VeriSign's .com deal By OUT-LAW.COM Published Thursday 16th March 2006 11:01 GMT Nineteen internet companies, including Network Solutions, have asked ICANN’s Board of Directors to reconsider a controversial agreement giving VeriSign control of the .com top-level domain until 2012. ==========> 06-03-17-CIOBlogs-WhoOwnsTheInternetAndNetNeutrality.txt========== http://blogs.cio.com/node/209 Net Effect By Ben Worthen Cioblogs Who owns the Internet? We have a map that shows you. Friday, March 17, 2006 What is this ball of colors? It is the North American Internet, or more specifically a map of just about every router on the North American backbone, ==========> 06-03-20-CNETNetworks-MoreGroupsSupportNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/Push+for+Net+neutrality+mandate+grows/2100-1028_3-6051062.ht ml Push for Net neutrality mandate grows By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Mon Mar 20 07:03:37 PST 2006 The American Association of Retired Persons, better known as the AARP, may be more famous for its lobbying muscle on pension plans and Medicare, but now it's ==========> 06-03-21-AP-CEOSaysATTPlansNoThreatToNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14153748.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 21, 2006 AT&T CEO plays down threat to Net neutrality LAS VEGAS (AP) - Ed Whitacre Jr., the chief executive of AT&T Inc., dismissed critics who say its planned merger with BellSouth Corp. will form a near-monopoly for Internet access and give it the clout to dictate terms to Web sites if they want to remain reachable. ==========> 06-03-21-CNETNews-CEOSaysATTWouldNotBlockAccess.txt========== http://news.com.com/AT38T+chief,+FCC+chair+clarify+on+Net+neutrality/2100-1034_3 -6052239.html AT&T chief, FCC chair clarify on Net neutrality By Marguerite Reardon CNET Networks, Story last modified Tue Mar 21 16:47:52 PST 2006 LAS VEGAS--AT&T CEO Edward Whitacre, whose comments initially ignited the debate over whether new laws were needed to preserve network neutrality, said ==========> 06-03-21-ZDNet-CEOSaysATTWouldNotBlockAccess.txt========== http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6052239.html AT&T chief, FCC chair clarify on Net neutrality By Marguerite Reardon ZDNet LAS VEGAS--AT&T CEO Edward Whitacre, whose comments initially ignited the debate over whether new laws were needed to preserve network neutrality, said here on Tuesday that fears his company and other big network providers would block traffic on their networks are overblown. ==========> 06-03-22-AP-PewStudy-OnlineNewsPopularOnBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14161949.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 22, 2006 Study: Online news popular on broadband ANICK JESDANUN Associated Press NEW YORK - Americans with high-speed Internet connections at home are far more likely than dial-up users to go online for news, a new study finds. ==========> 06-03-23-FinTimes-NetNeutralityVisionGettingInWayOfSensibleDebate.txt========== https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=http://technews.acm.org /&location=http%3A//news.ft.com/cms/s/76d85cb6-ba11-11da-9d02-0000779e2340.html The net neutrality dogfight shaking up cyberspace By Patti Waldmeir Published: March 23 2006 02:00 | Last updated: March 23 2006 02:00 Financial Times From the beginning of internet time, those who love the net have tried to pretend that the laws of nature, economics and geography - not to mention human ==========> 06-03-27-InfoWorld-ICANNThreeYearPlanUndergoesScrutiny.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/03/27/76848_HNicann_1.html ICANN's 3-year plan under scrutiny at meeting The draft addresses 10 key challenges ICANN faces By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service March 27, 2006 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking to refine its master plan for the next three years at its international meeting in Wellington, New Zealand, ICANN Chief Executive Officer and President Paul ==========> 06-03-27-NetWorld-ICANNTestbedForInternationalizedDomainNamesMayBeTooLate.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/032706-icann-internationalized-domain-name s.html Native language domains threaten 'Net ICANN test bed for internationalized domain names hailed, called long past due. By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 03/27/06 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has announced plans to run a test bed for internationalized domain names this summer. But experts say ICANN's test bed may be too late for the domain name industry, which is under ==========> 06-03-28-SJMerc-ShieldingKidsFromOnlinePredators.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14204920.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 28, 2006 Shielding kids from online sex predators By Edwin Garcia Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - If parents notice that an older MOSS or MOTOS is asking for their child's A/S/L for OLL, they'd better have a serious F2F with the kid ASAP. ==========> 06-03-29-TeleOnline-FarberCallsForSmallGroupToDiscussNetNeutrality.txt========== http://telephonyonline.com/regulatory/news/Net_Neutrality_Farber_032906/ Technologist proposes Net neutrality solution By Carol Wilson Telephony Online Mar 29, 2006 9:16 AM A former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission is calling for a fact-based solution to the Net neutrality issue, to be determined by a neutral group of experts, meeting out of the glare of the current hype. ==========> 06-03-29-WashPost-InternetFirmsWantFCCToEnforceNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032801664. html Internet Firms Want FCC to Enforce Net Neutrality House Bill Would Limit Agency's Authority By Arshad Mohammed Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 29, 2006; D04 Internet companies yesterday criticized legislation that would give the Federal ==========> 06-03-31-WashTimes-USSlowToAdoptIPv6.txt========== http://washingtontimes.com/business/20060330-100831-5571r.htm U.S. slow to switch to new Web protocol By Dan Caterinicchia THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published March 31, 2006 The U.S. risks falling behind other countries in the race to switch to the next generation of the Internet. The federal government must move to the new Internet protocol by 2008, and ==========> 06-04-01-MSNBC-PlansForXXXDomainShelved.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12098039/ Plans for .xxx pornography web domain shelved Financial Times By Richard Waters in San Francisco Updated: 3:12 a.m. ET April 1, 2006 A plan for a new internet "domain" for pornography has once again been shelved, dealing another blow to the US-backed addressing system that acts as the glue holding together the unified global internet. ==========> 06-04-04-Bus2-FormerFCCChairWarnsAgainstNaivetteOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2006/04/powell_warns_ne.html Powell Warns Net Neutrologists Not to Be Naive Business 2.0 Blog [Accessed April 4, 2006] Former FCC chairman Michael Powell is up on the stage at the Freedom to Connect conference right now, and he warns the tech elite crowd here not to be naive about the dangers of asking Congress for legislation on Net Neutrality. As he explains: ==========> 06-04-04-USACM-NetNeutralityProponentsExpressConcernOverLegislation.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.3 4 April 2006 ============================================================= [4] PROPONENTS OF "NET NEUTRALITY" EXPRESS CONCERN OVER NEW LEGISLATION As Congress considers revamping the Telecommunications Act of 1996, one of key issues it is debating is "net neutrality." This term refers to the ==========> 06-04-05-CNETNews-RepBartonNowFavorsFCCFlexibilityOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/Net+neutrality+advances+on+Capitol+Hill/2100-1034_3-6057789. html Net neutrality advances on Capitol Hill By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks Story last modified Wed Apr 05 07:01:41 PDT 2006 A rift in Washington over Internet regulation is showing signs of mending, with a key politician signaling that stiffer federal regulation of broadband ==========> 06-04-05-TheReg-HouseSucommitteeDefeatsNetNeutralityAmmendment.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/05/network_neutrality/ Net neutrality bid fails By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Wednesday 5th April 2006 22:12 GMT The Register A legislative bid to prevent US network operators from introducing discriminatory pricing for their own services has been defeated at the sub-committee phase in the lower house. ==========> 06-04-06-CNET-RepublicansDefeatNetNeutralityProposal.txt========== http://www.news.com/Republicans-defeat-Net-neutrality-proposal/2100-1028_3-60582 23.html Republicans defeat Net neutrality proposal, By Declan McCullagh CNET, Apr 06 06:54:34 PDT 2006 A partisan divide pitting Republicans against Democrats on the question of Internet regulation appears to be deepening. A Republican-controlled House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Wednesday ==========> 06-04-07-ARushToRegisterNewEUDomainNames.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14289702.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 Europeans rush to register new '.eu' domain names BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Some 300,000 Europeans rushed to register their new ``.eu'' domain names in the first hour of being able to sign up for the new Internet addresses, officials said Friday. By midday, registrations had exceeded 550,000. ==========> 06-04-07-SJMerc-LetTelcoAndCableCompeteForTVViewers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14289656.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 Let phone and cable firms compete for TV viewers INTERNET VIDEO IS GOOD FOR MARKETPLACE, BUT SERVICE MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ALL Mercury News Editorial When telephone companies upgrade their aging networks so they can deliver super-fast Internet access and television-quality video, consumers stand to benefit. Consider what happened when Verizon launched its TV service in Keller, ==========> 06-04-07-SJMerc-TheNeedForNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14289652.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 Congress turns a deaf ear to need for Internet neutrality Mercury News Editorial Just as lawmakers in Congress are pushing a bill that could increase competition in video and high-speed Internet services, they're willing to allow phone and cable companies to subvert that competition. ==========> 06-04-08-DemoMedia-FormerClintonOfficialJoinsATTBackedAntiNetNeutralityGroup.txt========== http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=23 Digital Destiny, Jeff Chester on the media beat, April 8th, 2006 Mike McCurry Joins AT&T’s Campaign for a Monopoly Internet Former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry is now part of an AT&T backed “coalition” working on a huge public interest rip-off. AT&T, as we know, is opposed to an open, competitive, and democratic Internet. Now they have used their clout to get McCurry–named as the coalition “co-chair”– to be a part of their “Hands Off the Internet” front group. AT&T wants to make sure that no ==========> 06-04-10-AP-MySpacePostsAdsAimedAtOnlineSafety.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14310589.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 10, 2006 MySpace.com to post ads aimed at promoting online safety LOS ANGELES (AP) - Popular online social networking hub MySpace.com on Monday said it will begin displaying public service ads aimed at educating its users, many of them teens, about the dangers posed by sexual predators on the Internet. MySpace, a division of NewsCorp., enables computer users to meet any of more ==========> 06-04-12-CompWorldNZ-ICANNToldCommunicationLackMightLeadToAlternativeNetworks.txt========== http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/29F692A182E58144CC25714900017D68 Lack of communication from ICANN could prove fatal By Stephen Bell, Wellington | Wednesday, 12 April, 2006 ComputerWorld, NZ A delegate to the public session with ICANN’s board at last month’s Wellington meeting warned that a lack of communication from the board might lead to the rise of alternative public networks with more responsive governing bodies. ==========> 06-04-14-AP-ICANNConsidersDOTtelDomainForContactInfo.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14344640.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 14, 2006 ICANN mulls .tel domain for contact info NEW YORK (AP) - Reaching out and touching someone used to be as simple as dialing a string of numbers. But now there are home, cell and work phone numbers from which to choose, and sometimes work extensions to remember. There are also e-mail addresses -- at ==========> 06-04-14-USAToday-ICANNConsideringTelDomainForContactInfo.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2006-04-14-tel-name_x.htm Internet agency considers domain name to organize contacts Posted 4/14/2006 5:36 PM ET By Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press USAToday NEW YORK — Reaching out and touching someone used to be as simple as dialing a string of numbers. But now there are home, cell and work phone numbers from which to choose, and sometimes work extensions to remember. There are also ==========> 06-04-16-CompWorldNZ-Cerf-GovernentsToParticipateInInternetGovernance.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,11 0598,00.html Cerf: Governments to participate in, not dominate, Net New gTLDs, character sets, security issues call for cooperation News Story by Stephen Bell APRIL 16, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD NEW ZEALAND) - Some internet users and administrators see increased input by governments into the public policy aspects of the internet as worrying, but ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf views it as a ==========> 06-04-17-Salon-ATTPlansToChargeProvidersExtraForBroadbandAccess.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/04/17/toll/index_np.html The corporate toll on the Internet Salon, April17, 2006 Telecom giant AT&T plans to charge online businesses to speed their services through its DSL lines. Critics say the scheme violates every principle of the Internet, favors deep-pocketed companies, and is bound to limit what we see and hear online. By Farhad Manjoo ==========> 06-04-18-ICANN-CallForDirectorNominations.txt========== http://www.icann.org/committees/nom-comm/ ICANN Nominating Committee Updated 18 April 2006 Formal Call for Statements of Interest and Suggestions for Candidates * Committee's Charge * Code of Ethics * Committee Documents * Committee Announcements ==========> 06-04-20-CircleID-VintCerfsKeynoteAtDomainRoundtable.txt========== http://www.circleid.com/posts/vint_cerf_keynote_domain_roundtable/ Vint Cerf's Keynote at Domain Roundtable Posted by DomainNameWire on Apr 20, 2006 Circle ID I had the pleasure of eating breakfast with Vint Cerf, chairman of ICANN’s board and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, prior to his keynote address this morning. It was great to discuss some of the issues domainers are facing with regards to registrar practices, expiring domains, etc. directly with Cerf. ==========> 06-04-24-CNETNewst-UnlikelyCoalitionVoicesOppositionToHouseBill.txt========== http://news.com.com/New+group+aims+to+save+the+Internet/2100-1034_3-6064384.html New group aims to 'save the Internet' By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Mon Apr 24 12:24:05 PDT 2006 Days before a congressional committee is set to vote on an overhaul of the nation's telecommunications policy, a broad coalition of media, consumer and Internet groups has organized behind a dramatic tagline: "Save the Internet." ==========> 06-04-24-SaveTheInet-StrangeBedfellowsUniteToSaveInternetl.txt========== http://www.savetheinternet.com/=press1 Strange Bedfellows Unite to Save the Internet Diverse coalition launches national campaign to stop Congress from gutting Network Neutrality -- the First Amendment of the Internet Save the Internet WASHINGTON -- April 24, 2006 -- The SavetheInternet.com Coalition today launched a campaign to defend the free and open Internet from a bill being voted on in the House of Representatives beginning this week. ==========> 06-04-24-SaveTheInet-UnlikelyCoalitionVoicesOppositionToHouseBill.txt========== http://www.savetheinternet.com/ Gun owners, librarians unite against Bells? From Telephony online: A diverse and perhaps unlikely group of political activists and associations assembled today to voice opposition to a U.S. House bill... Posted April 24, 2006 Save the Internet Internet Freedom is under attack. Congress is pushing a law that would abandon ==========> 06-04-25-AP-InternetUsersHitsNewHigh.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14435224.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 26, 2006 Internet population hits new high NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. online population has hit an all-time high: 73 percent of adults, or 147 million, now use the Internet. The figures represent an increase from 66 percent, or 133 million adults, in January 2005, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. ==========> 06-04-26-AP-IntelJoinsLobbyingForNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14435353.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 26, 2006 Intel joins lobbying for Net neutrality law NEW YORK (AP) - Intel Corp. has waded into the debate over the future of the Internet, joining major Web companies in supporting legislation that would force Internet service providers to treat all traffic equally. AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., the country's largest Internet ==========> 06-04-26-AP-Internet2PlansBigIncreaseInBandwidth.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14435709.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 26, 2006 Internet2 plans big boost in bandwidth NEW YORK (AP) - By sending data using different colors of light, operators of the ultrahigh-speed Internet2 network are hoping to boost capacity by as much as 80-fold to enable researchers to connect telescopes around the world and perform other bandwidth-intensive tasks. ==========> 06-04-26-ChronHighEd-Internet2PlansBigSpeedImprovement.txt========== http://chronicle.com/free/2006/04/2006042601t.htm Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Internet2 Unveils Plans for an Improved Version of Its Academic High-Speed Network By VINCENT KIERNAN The Chronicle of Higher Education Leaders of the Internet2 academic-computing consortium unveiled plans on Tuesday for a new national academic fiber-optic network that would become ==========> 06-04-26-InetNews-HouseCommLooksAtAntitrustIssuesInNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3601666 April 26, 2006 Net Neutrality Debate Heats Up By Roy Mark Internet News WASHINGTON - Looking at possible antitrust implications of having telecoms and cable companies controlling 99 percent of U.S. broadband connections, a special task force of the House Judiciary Committee took up network neutrality. ==========> 06-05-00-CornellU-DNSNamingSystemIsNotSecure.txt========== http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/dnssurvey.pdf Perils of Transitive Trust in the Domain Name System Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin G¨ un Sirer Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 May 2006 Abstract The Domain Name System, DNS, is based on nameserver delegations, which introduce complex and subtle depen- ==========> 06-05-04-ALA-SupportCongMarkeyBoucherEshooNetNeutralityBill.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 15, Number 49 May 4, 2006 =20 In This Issue: Action Needed on Net Neutrality Bill ==========> 06-05-04-PCWorld-ProposedUSLawWouldPromoteInternetTVButNotNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125615-c,internetlegalissues/article.html Tech.gov: A Gated Net, the Sequel A proposed federal law would make it easier for telecom firms to offer IPTV. But it would not prevent other content from ending up in the Net's slow lane. Anush Yegyazarian, PC World, May 04, 2006 12:00 AM PDT Congress has made it a priority to reform telecommunications rules during this Congressional year; the last big overhaul was in 1996. The House of Representatives will soon be voting on one of the first telecom reform bills to ==========> 06-05-05-ChronHigherEd-NetNeutrality-FightForTollFreeInternet.txt========== The Fight for a Toll-Free Internet Chronicle of Higher Education (05/05/06) Vol. 52, No. 35, P. A39; Foster, Andrea L. The hot-button "network neutrality" issue is of critical concern to academic institutions, who fear that broadband providers' preferential treatment of certain types of content could hurt their efforts to deliver education and collaborate on research over the Internet. Colleges are lobbying Congress to require telecom companies to allow any kind of Web content or network applications, including those that rival their own offerings, to pass through ==========> 06-05-05-USACM-NetNeutralityAmmendmentDefeated.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.3 5 May 2006 ============================================================= [4] "NET NEUTRALITY" AMENDMENT DEFEATED The House Commerce Committee considered and passed legislation to update some of the nation's telecommunications laws in late April. One of the key ==========> 06-05-05-WSJ-CerfAndDysonDiscussInternetsFuture.txt========== http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB114597841180135354.html May 5, 2006 Pundits Discuss the Internet's Future May 5, 2006 Wall Street Journal In the past 10 years the Internet has emerged as a global network that enables instant communications and borderless commerce. The popularity of blogs and the roll out of high-speed wireless connections have already begun to reshape the ==========> 06-05-08-CornellUniv-SurveyOfDNSSecurity-VulnerableAndBaluableAssets.txt========== http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/dnssurvey.html A Survey of DNS Security: Most Vulnerable and Valuable Assets Cornell UNiversity May 8, 2006 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: ==========> 06-05-10-CNETNews-SenInouyeFavorsNetNeutralityRegulations.txt========== http://news.com.com/Democratic+senator+wants+Net+neutrality+regulations/2100-102 8_3-6070494.html Democratic senator wants Net neutrality regulations By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Wed May 10 11:12:37 PDT 2006 WASHINGTON--In a move that could presage a Net neutrality debate in the U.S. Senate, an aide to a key Democrat endorsed on Tuesday new laws regulating ==========> 06-05-10-ICANN-BoardVotesAgainstSponsoredXXXDomain.txt========== http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10may06.htm ICANN Board Votes Against .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain Agreement ICANN 10 May 2006 Marina del Rey, California, 10 May 2006: Today, ICANN's Board of Directors voted against a proposed agreement for a .XXX. Sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD). The application was proposed by the ICM Registry. ==========> 06-05-12-CompBusRev-FightForDotXXXNotOverYet.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=20324D32-0376-4062-BCEF-E89D07757 0AF Fight for .xxx not over yet? 12th May 2006 By Kevin Murphy Computer Business Review ICANN has played down the role that the conservative US government had in its decision to reject a plan to launch a porn-only internet domain, while the ==========> 06-05-12-SCrawfors-XXXDomainDecisionIsNewLowPointForICANN.txt========== http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/5/12/1952807.html A low point by Susan Crawfors on Fri 12 May 2006 12:36 PM EDT The XXX decision on Wednesday by ICANN's board, which voted 9-5 to reject the XXX contract, represents a low point for ICANN. I am a member of ICANN's board, and I voted in favor of the agreement. Here is the statement I made in connection with the vote on Wednesday afternoon: ==========> 06-05-13-AGIPNEWS-ICCWarnsCountriesThatCreatingOwnDomainNameSystemCouldDestabilizeInternet.txt========== http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=3046&lang=en AGIPNEWS3046 13/5/2006 09:34 GMT Fragmented Domain Names Could Destabilize Internet - ICC Warns PARIS - The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) warned that designs by China and other countries to create their own domain name systems for locating data on the Internet exposes the Internet to new risks that could destabilize it if technical and logistical issues are not urgently addressed. ==========> 06-05-14-AP-ISPsFearInternetCantHandleHeavyVideoLoad-ProposeCharges.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14579901.htm Posted on Sun, May. 14, 2006 High-def could choke Internet, ISPs fear PETER SVENSSON Associated Press NEW YORK - Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there. ==========> 06-05-15-Newsweek-GovernmentsExercisingMoreControlOverInternet.txt========== http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12666393/site/newsweek/ The Internet Splits Up The Web changed the world. Politics is now changing it back. By Rana Foroohar Newsweek International May 15-22, 2006 issue - Sometimes it's tough to remember what life was like before the Internet. In those long-ago-seeming days, phone calls were expensive, document-shipping frequent, and we actually had to troll for random ==========> 06-05-18-CNETNews-TelecomHardwareProvidersOpposeNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6073629.html?part=rss&tag=6073629&subj=news Hardware firms oppose Net neutrality laws By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks Story last modified Thu May 18 09:33:42 PDT 2006 The political debate in Washington over the concept known as Net neutrality just became a lot more complicated. ==========> 06-05-18-DemoMedia-ReadingsOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/netneutrality.html Protect the Net No Private Toll Road Democratic Media [Accessed May18, 2006] Industry White Papers Reveal Corporate Plans for the Broadband Internet Alcatel, "Broadband Applications Fueling Consumer Demand" (PDF) Read how the phone industry is being urged to make money from "Streamies" and ==========> 06-05-18-PubKnow-InternetFreedomAndNondiscriminationActOf2006.txt========== http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/hr5417-109.pdf 109TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R.  To amend the Clayton Act with respect to competitive and nondiscriminatory access to the Internet. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for himself and ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on  ==========> 06-05-19-CNETNews-BillWouldRequireNetNeutralityInFederalAntitrustLaws.txt========== http://news.com.com/Politicos+propose+new+action+on+Net+neutrality/2100-1028_3-6 074108.html Politicos propose new action on Net neutrality By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Fri May 19 05:27:18 PDT 2006 WASHINGTON--The push for new laws mandating Net neutrality principles appears to be gaining steam on Capitol Hill. ==========> 06-05-19-CNETNews-MusicianMobyStumpsForNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/Musician+Moby+raises+voice+for+Net+neutrality/2100-1028_3-60 74096.html?tag=nl Musician Moby raises voice for Net neutrality By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Fri May 19 09:38:45 PDT 2006 A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. ==========> 06-05-19-CNETNews-SeveralNetNeutralityBillsIntroduced.txt========== http://news.com.com/Net+neutrality+field+in+Congress+gets+crowded/2100-1028_3-60 74564.html Net neutrality field in Congress gets crowded By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Fri May 19 18:21:59 PDT 2006 U.S. senators have unveiled their latest effort at legislating Net neutrality principles, marking the second such proposal this week and the sixth this year. ==========> 06-05-19-InfoWeek-ICMRegistryFightsForXXXDomain.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188100694 Internet Registry Fights For .XXX Domain It's not just about porn--supporters of .XXX say the decision to reject the domain is an example of the U.S. exerting too much influence over Internet policy. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek May 19, 2006 06:00 PM (This story was updated May 22) ==========> 06-05-20-WashPost-USRenewsICANNContractForInternetOversight.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901684. html U.S. Renews Contract for Oversight Of Internet Commerce Dept. Role Scrutinized By Arshad Mohammed Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, May 20, 2006; D01 The Bush administration plans to renew its exclusive contract with the Internet ==========> 06-05-21-IntlHeraldTrib-LingeringConcernOverXXXDomain.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/21/business/net22.php International Herald Tribune Sex, politics and the Internet By Victoria Shannon International Herald Tribune SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2006 PARIS 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 ==========> 06-05-23-ACMUbiquity-TheNetNeutralityDebate.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i20_neutrality.html ACM Ubiquity Volume 7 , Issue 20 May 23, 2006 - May 29, 2006 M. E. Kabay The Net Neutrality Debate by M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP Cause for Alarm? ==========> 06-05-24-WSJOnline-ShouldTheNetBeNeutral.txt========== http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB114839410026160648-M3wlxcUPk357fsGi HNM3BsUiCKY_20060622.html May 24, 2006 Should the Net Be Neutral? May 24, 2006 Wall Street Journal Online The "net neutrality" debate has reached a fever pitch as Congress mulls legislation that would allow Internet service providers to charge Web sites for ==========> 06-05-25-ArsTech-NetNeutralityBillPassesHouseJudiciaryCommittee.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060525-6921.html Strict Net neutrality passes House Committee, but fate is rather uncertain Ars Technica 5/25/2006 7:36:30 PM, by Ken Fisher The House Committee on the Judiciary today approved the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act (HR 5417) in a vote of 20-12. This particular 'Net neutrality bill would make it an antitrust violation to "block impair, discriminate or interfere with anyone’s services or applications or content," ==========> 06-05-25-Reuters-NetNeutralityBillPassesHouseJudiciaryCommittee.txt========== http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=12339373&src =rss/technologyNews House Judiciary passes Internet access measure Thu May 25, 2006 05:41 PM ET Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved legislation aimed at preventing high-speed Internet network providers from discriminating against unaffiliated services, content and applications. ==========> 06-05-28-NYT-Berners-LeeOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/opinion/28sun3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin May 28, 2006 Editorial Observer Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End By ADAM COHEN The New York Times The World Wide Web is the most democratic mass medium there has ever been. Freedom of the press, as the saying goes, belongs only to those who own one. ==========> 06-05-30-InternetSociety-HowAnInternetStandardEvolves.txt========== http://www.isoc.org/tools/blogs/ietfjournal/?p=66#more-66 Article published in Volume 2 Issue 1 (Spring 2006), May 30th, 2006 The Evolution of an Internet Standard Internet Society By Geoff Huston Note: This article does not attempt to provide an authoritative definition of IETF process; for that, the reader is referred to IETF process documents and discussions. It reflects the author’s personal perspective and experiences. ==========> 06-05-31-IntlHeraldTrib-AConversationOnTheWorldWideWeb.txt========== http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/technology/2006/05/30/and_now_the_answers/ Digital Dialogue Contributors to this conversation include Thomas Crampton, Paris-based reporter for the International Herald Tribune; James Connell, deputy technology editor; and Victoria Shannon, technology editor. Update 31 May, 2006 And now, the answers ==========> 06-05-31-IPDemo-ATTCEOReversesPlansToChargeHighBanwidthProviders.txt========== http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001612ed_whitacre_no_packet_prioritization_f or_us.php Ed Whitacre: No Packet Prioritization for Us Posted by Cynthia Brumfield at May 31, 2006 08:57 AM IPDemocracy AT&T Chairman Ed Whitacre spoke this morning at Sanford C. Bernstein and Company’s Strategic Decisions Conference and raised more questions than he answered. Along with the usual optimistic assessment of the company’s future, ==========> 06-06-00-CDT-PreservingTheEssentialnternet.txt========== http://www.cdt.org/speech/20060620neutrality.pdf Center for Democracy and Technology Preserving the Essential Internet June 2006 PRESERVING THE ESSENTIAL INTERNET June 2006 “Network neutrality” – or, more precisely, “Internet neutrality” – is perhaps the most prominent and contentious issue in Internet and telecommunications policy today. Proponents of nondiscrimination requirements for providers of ==========> 06-06-00-DWeitzner-TheNeutralInternet-Background.txt========== http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2006/06/neutralnet.html The Neutral Internet: An Information Architecture for Open Societies, June 2006 Daniel J. Weitzner Principal Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory This document on the Web [http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2006/06/neutralnet.html] [PDF] Overview ==========> 06-06-00-IEEESpectrum-WillAlternativeNetsFragmentTheInternet.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun06/3675 Could the Internet Fragment? By: J. R. Minkel, IEEE Spectrum, June 2006 Alternative Nets raise the specter of balkanization Logging onto the Internet is billed as a universal experience. Yet for years, below the radar of most people’s online experience, there have been sets of Internet domain names accessible to some people but not to everyone. Before the introduction of an official .biz domain, an independent .biz had existed for ==========> 06-06-00-NewAtlantis-ACentristProposalOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/13/atkinsonweiser.htm Summer 2006 A Third Way on Network Neutrality The New Atlantis Robert D. Atkinson and Philip J. Weiser It is not often that a relatively technical telecommunications policy issue receives as much attention as “network neutrality.” The central question is whether broadband network providers—for example, cable and telephone ==========> 06-06-02-Farber-CommonSenseAboutNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200606/msg00014.ht ml COMMON SENSE ABOUT NETWORK NEUTRALITY Interesting People June 2, 2006 Is the Internet about to implode? Listening to the rhetoric coming out of Washington, D.C. about “network neutrality,” you would think so. Various businesses and interest groups forecast the death of the Internet as we know ==========> 06-06-08-ALA-ActionNeededOnHouseNetNeutralityVote.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 15, Number 60 Date: June 8, 2006 In This Issue: IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED on Network Neutrality amendment in H.R. 5252 -- the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006 (COPE). ACTION NEEDED: TODAY, ALL library advocates are asked to take immediate action and ==========> 06-06-08-CNET-DomainNameRegistrationPriceIncreasesUnderFire.txt========== http://news.com.com/Domain+name+price+hikes+come+under+fire/2100-1030_3-6081336. html Domain name price hikes come under fire By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks Story last modified Thu Jun 08 03:53:09 PDT 2006 WASHINGTON--A dispute over the cost of Internet domain names has spilled over onto Capitol Hill, where allegations of monopolization and unreasonable price ==========> 06-06-08-ECommTimes-MomentumBuildsForGlobalInternetRegulation.txt========== http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/OO23frNKykZRV0/Momentum-for-Global-Internet- Regulation-Mounting.xhtml OPINION: Momentum for Global Internet Regulation Mounting By Gene J. Koprowski E-Commerce Times, 06/08/06 5:00 AM PT "There are many non-technical aspects of Internet governance that would benefit from multi-stakeholder input at an international level. These include how to eradicate spam and how to prevent cybercrime," said Chris Disspain, chief ==========> 06-06-08-WashPost-Lessig-NoTollsOnTheInternet.txt========== http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/OO23frNKykZRV0/Momentum-for-Global-Internet- Regulation-Mounting.xhtml OPINION No Tolls on The Internet Washington Post By Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney Thursday, June 8, 2006; A23 Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It ==========> 06-06-09-ALA-HouseVotesAgainstNetNeutrality.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 15, Number 61 Date: June 9, 2006 In This Issue: House Votes Against Net Neutrality, Threatening Right To Equal Access Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006 (COPE), a wide-ranging telecommunications bill that includes provisions that would ==========> 06-06-09-CNETNews-HouseVotesAgainstNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6081882.html?part=rss&tag=6081882&subj=news House rejects Net neutrality rules By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks Story last modified Fri Jun 09 14:40:45 PDT 2006 The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign ==========> 06-06-09-LATimes-HouseVotesAgainstNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-fi-neutral9jun09,1,7146091.stor y?coll=la-headlines-business-enter House Vote Is Mixed on Internet A bill that would boost competition among service providers passes, but a provision barring special treatment fails. By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times Staff Writer June 9, 2006 WASHINGTON — The House approved legislation late Thursday that would make it ==========> 06-06-09-NYT-HouseVotesAgainstNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/washington/09telecom.html?_r=1&oref=slogin June 9, 2006 House Backs Telecom Bill Favoring Phone Companies By STEPHEN LABATON The New York Times WASHINGTON, June 8 — The House of Representatives approved the most extensive telecommunications legislation in a decade on Thursday, largely ratifying the policy agenda of the nation's largest telephone companies. ==========> 06-06-09-SJMerc-NetNeutralityMeansAStupidInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/14781013.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 09, 2006 Network neutrality? Welcome to the stupid Internet By Tom Giovanetti San Jose Mercury News Fast forward a few years to 2009. You're in the living room, watching the big game in high definition on your new Internet-connected IPTV, while separately recording tonight's episode of your favorite TV show. Your spouse is in the ==========> 06-06-09-WashPost-HouseVotesAgainstNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060802087. html House Votes to Ease Cable TV Licensing for Phone Companies By Arshad Mohammed Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 9, 2006; D02 The House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill making it easier for phone companies to offer video programming, bringing consumers a step closer to ==========> 06-06-12-Google-InSupportOfNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality: Google [Accessed June 12, 2006] The Internet as we know it is facing a serious threat. There's a debate heating up in Washington, DC on something called "net neutrality" – and it's a debate that's so important Google is asking you to get involved. We're asking you to take action to protect Internet freedom. ==========> 06-06-12-WashPost-NetNeutralityProAndCon.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100707. html The Internet's Future Congress should stay out of cyberspace. The Washington Post Monday, June 12, 2006; A20 THE SENATE will hold hearings tomorrow on "net neutrality," the idea that the pipes and wires that form the Internet should treat all content equally. An ==========> 06-06-14-BBC-DomainNameSystemWillEventuallyBereplaced.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5073180.stm Rewriting the net address books By Mark Ward, Technology correspondent, BBC News website Story from BBC NEWS:, Published: 2006/06/14 12:01:56 GMT If you created something that is used billions of times every day by millions of people, you might expect it to be around for a long time to come. Yet Dr Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the net's Domain Name System (DNS), ==========> 06-06-14-SaveTheInternet-InternetDiscriminationAlreadyExists.txt========== http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/ Net Discrimination in Disguise June 14th, 2006 by tkarr There’s a pervasive myth that there has been no Internet content discrimination by the large phone and cable companies. “That is simply untrue, ” writes Matt Stoller of BlogPAC. Stoller points to Cox Cable, which for three months has blocked their customers ==========> 06-06-17-SaveTheInternet-HowTheThreatToInternetFreedomAffectsYou.txt========== http://www.savetheinternet.com/=threat How does this threat to Internet freedom affect you? Save The Internet [Accessed 6/17/2006] * Google users—Another search engine could pay dominant Internet providers like AT&T to guarantee the competing search engine opens faster than Google on your computer. * Innovators with the "next big idea"—Startups and entrepreneurs will be ==========> 06-06-19-ITWeek-DomainNameSystemDNSDefencesNeedStrengthening.txt========== http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/analysis/2158577/why-dns-defences-bolstering Interview: Why DNS defences need bolstering Nominum’s Albert Gouyet explains how enterprises can protect their DNS servers Phil Muncaster, IT Week 19 Jun 2006 IT Week: As vice-president of marketing for Domain Name System [DNS] server specialist Nominum, can you describe the security threats in this field? Albert Gouyet: Network naming and addressing is now being used as the vector in ==========> 06-06-20-CompWorld-TwoAlternateNetNeutralityProposals.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9001313 Groups push alternate net neutrality proposals A U.S. Senate committee plans to take up the issue on Thursday Grant Gross June 20, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- In an effort to advance the net neutrality debate in the U.S. Congress, two groups have offered their own proposals to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing Internet ==========> 06-06-21-CNET-ICANNNeedsToClampDownOnDomainNameAndWhoisAbuse.txt========== http://news.com.com/ICANN+needs+to+clamp+down+on+domain+name+abuse/2010-1030_3-6 084970.html ICANN needs to clamp down on domain name abuse By Doug Isenberg, CNET Networks, Story last modified Wed Jun 21 05:15:38 PDT 2006 While Congress continues to consider the merits of so-called Net neutrality, an even more soporific but vital Internet legal issue looms, with ramifications for every business online and every user of the World Wide Web: What is the ==========> 06-06-22-TheReg-ICANNMeetingHasManyIssuesToDiscuss.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/22/icann_marrakesh_preview/ Will the internet die in September? By Kieren McCarthy Published Thursday 22nd June 2006 13:33 GMT ICANN Marrakech There will be much to discuss (http://www.icann.org/meetings/marrakech/) at ICANN's Marrakech meeting which kicks off this Saturday, but one question rises about all others: what will happen to the internet on 30 September 2006? ==========> 06-06-26-WeeklyStandard-StartUsingTheEminentDomainThreatForTheInternet.txt========== http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12348&R=EC CBA034 Give Me Bandwidth . . . No one to root for in the net neutrality debate. by Andy Kessler, The Weekly Standard 06/26/2006, Volume 011, Issue 39 FINDING IT HARD TO UNDERSTAND the "net neutrality" debate? On one side are the hip, cool, billionaire web service companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, and even ==========> 06-06-28-AP-NetNeutralityMeasureLosesInSenateCommittee.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14927128.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 28, 2006 Net neutrality measure loses in Senate committee on tie vote WASHINGTON (AP) - A massive effort by Internet users to prohibit telephone and cable companies from providing better service and prices to preferred customers failed to get through a Senate committee on Wednesday. After three days of debate, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation ==========> 06-06-28-JRobertson-USSenatePanelNarrowlyRejectsNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3328982859 June 28, 2006 21:27:39 EDT Net Neutrality went down, and I for one am glad to see that: James Robertson A U.S. Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon.com that had made enacting them a top political priority this year. ==========> 06-06-28-NetWorld-NJTelecomUpd-CoalitionFormedToFightProposedNetNeutralityRules.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/1999/0628opencable.html More trouble for AT&T cable plan Big rivals enter fight to open cable nets to all. By David Rohde, Network World, 06/28/99 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Already reeling from ISP-inspired legal assaults on its broadband cable access strategy, AT&T is bracing for a new blow: A group of regional Bell operating companies is launching its own attack. ==========> 06-06-28-ZDNetBlogs-SenateCommitteeVoteOnNetNeutralityMeansEndOfInternet.txt========== http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/index.php?p=149 June 28, 2006 Saying "goodbye" to the Net Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe @ 9:10 pm The Senate Commerce Committee, splitting 11 to 11 and therefore rejecting compromise language, set the stage for a carrier-controlled Internet. If the bill passes the Senate and is signed by the President, you can kiss the Net you know "goodbye." Farewell, open networks and open standards. Soon every packet ==========> 06-06-29-TechWeb-NetNeutralityBattleShiftsToFullSenate.txt========== http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/189700141;jsessionid=SM04FWBIN1TUKQSNDLPSKHSCJU NN2JVN June 29, 2006 (6:19 PM EDT) Net Neutrality Battle Shifts To Full Senate By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb Technology News The battle over Net neutrality has shifted from a Senate panel, where a bill to force Internet service providers to maintain a level playing field was rejected, to the full Senate, where an even bigger battle may be brewing. ==========> 06-07-00-EduCause-LessonsLearnedForTheFutureInternet.txt========== http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0640.asp EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 4 (July/August 2006): 16–25. Lessons for the Future Internet: Learning from the Past Michael M. Roberts Mike Roberts has been active in EDUCAUSE and its predecessor organizations for more than thirty years. In 1987, he opened EDUCOM's networking policy office in Washington, D.C., and helped coordinate successful efforts to develop federal support for Internet technology. He was one of the founders of Internet2 and ==========> 06-07-07-IfoWorld-CompaniesOnBothSidesOfNetNeutralitySayTheirFuturesAreAtStake.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/07/07/28NNnetneutral_1.html Battle lines drawn over Net neutrality Ranks are joined on either side of traffic prioritization issue By Grant Gross, IDG News Service July 07, 2006 As the U.S. Congress argues the pros and cons of network neutrality, many companies doing business on the Internet say their very futures may be at stake. ==========> 06-07-11-Amazon-BookRev-TheGordianKnot-PoliticalGridlockOnTheInformationHighway.txt========== http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262140616/104-6730999-3877537?redirect=true The Gordian Knot : Political Gridlock on the Information Highway by W. Russell Neuman, Lee W. McKnight, Richard Jay Solomon [Accessed July 11, 2006] As social, political, and business forces struggle to come to terms with new communications technology, innovation doesn't progress--it freezes up. This sociopolitical and economic gridlock is what Neuman, McKnight, and Solomon are calling the "Gordian Knot." The authors examine how similar gridlock has ==========> 06-07-14-CompBusRev-UNToProposeGlobalInternetCouncil.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=3DAB967F-10AC-4EE0-A090-82CEE5244 52A UN to propose global internet council 14th July 2005 By Kevin Murphy ComputerBusinessReview Online The United Nations and the US are set to come to blows with the publication next week of a UN report that will recommend the US's internet governance ==========> 06-07-14-ITWire-AustralianAppointedICANNCorporateAffairsVP.txt========== http://www.itwire.com.au/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4964&pop=1&p age=0&Itemid=127 Aussie steps into ICANN hot seat By Stuart Corner, IT Wire Friday, 14 July 2006 Australian corporate affairs specialist, Paul Levins has been appointed as the first VP of corporate affairs for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at a time when the US Government is in the throes of a ==========> 06-07-15-TheReg-AlmostAllCommentersTellUSToEndInternetOversightRole.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/15/ntia_inquiry_results/ US government told to take its hands off internet By Kieren McCarthy, The Register Published Saturday 15th July 2006 22:50 GMT The United States government has been told to end its oversight role of the internet during its own consultation exercise over the future of net governance. In a stark result, over 87 percent of those that commented on the US's ==========> 06-07-17-CompWorld-InternetPioneersDebateNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9001821 Internet pioneers debate net neutrality Farber, Cerf throw down on opposite sides of charged issue Grant Gross Today’s Top Stories or Other Infrastructure Stories July 17, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- A net neutrality law isn't needed because the U.S. already has antitrust laws that would keep broadband carriers from acting in an uncompetitive manner, ==========> 06-07-25-PCWorld-ICANNAcknowledgesIsHasNotHelpedAfrica.txt========== http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;210562251;fp;2;fpid;1 ICANN turns sights on Africa Michael Malakata, IDG News Service 25/07/2006 08:31:16 Officials at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) acknowledge that they have failed to help Africa develop its information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, and are looking to set up outreach efforts on the continent. ==========> 06-07-27-BaltimoreSun-NetNeutralityProponentsWantFreeRide.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.internet27jul27,0,6525204.s tory?coll=bal-oped-headlines Don't let Internet bullies stifle reform By Mike McCurry and Christopher Wolf Baltimore Sun, Originally published July 27, 2006 WASHINGTON // Congress is considering legislation to bring greater consumer choice and control to the cable TV industry by reforming our outdated cable franchising system and allowing new competitors into the video marketplace. ==========> 06-07-27-CompWorld-InternetGovernanceExpertsDebateICANNControlOverDNS.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9002038 Experts weigh prospect of full DNS control by ICANN Some say it's time for the U.S. government to step back Juan Carlos Perez July 27, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Internet governance experts argued yesterday for and against having the U.S. government hand over the technical coordination and management of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) ==========> 06-07-27-TheReg-USGovtConcededThatItCannotRemainUltimateAuthorutyOverInternet.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/27/ntia_icann_meeting/ United States cedes control of the internet - but what now? By Kieren McCarthy Published Thursday 27th July 2006 08:54 GMT In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. ==========> 06-07-27-TheReg-USGovtUnlikelyToConcededThatItCannotRemainUltimateAuthorutyOverInternet.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-icann27jul27,1,7129638.story?coll=la-hea dlines-technology U.S. Unlikely to Yield Web Oversight Yet Federal officials seem inclined to extend a deadline for privatizing control of the Internet's address system. By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, July 27, 2006 WASHINGTON — The federal government appeared unlikely to relinquish oversight of the system for assigning and managing website domain names after a Commerce ==========> 06-08-01-TechDirt-WillYoiPayGooglesBandwidthBills.txt========== http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060801/0219252.shtml Mike McCurry: Will You Pay Google's Bandwidth Bills For The Rest Of This Year? TechDirt, Aug. 1, 2006 We've already covered how much dishonesty there is in the network neutrality debate -- often involving editorial pieces in major newspapers penned by lobbyists. In almost every case, those editorials aren't just misleading, they include flat out lies. Broadband Reports points us to the latest, written by Mike McCurry, who runs a lobbying effort funded by AT&T. He's written up an ==========> 06-08-06-eWeek-UsersAreForgottenStakeholdersInTheNetNeutralityIssue.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1999848,00.asp The Four Faces of Net Neutrality By Wayne Rash August 6, 2006m eWeek The debate over net neutrality is expected to pick up again in the fall, but users remain the forgotten stakeholders. While big telecommunications players duke it out with the likes of Google and Yahoo, here's a look at four differing views. ==========> 06-08-10-SJMerc-NetNeutralityRegulationsNotNeeded.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15243328.htm Posted on Thu, Aug. 10, 2006 Regulations for Net still not warranted despite latest outcry By David L. Cohen, San Jose Mercury News As telecom legislation wades through the Senate, a small but vocal and well-financed band of Internet giants -- led by Google and Microsoft -- has been pushing for sweeping new Internet regulations that they call ``network neutrality.'' They say that without such regulations, broadband providers will ==========> 06-08-12-NewSci-IsTheInternetSupposedToBeFair.txt========== http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19125645.000.html Who said the internet was fair? Celeste Biever New Scientist, Magazine issue 2564, 12 August 2006 FOR those who fear for the internet's future as an information highway to which everyone has equal access, these are worrying times. "Without a clear policy preserving the neutrality of the internet and without tough sanctions against those who would discriminate, [it] will be forever changed for the worse," ==========> 06-08-17-NYT-ICANNRenewsContractWithDeptOfCommerce.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/technology/17icann.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, August 17, 2006 Internet Domain Agency Renews U.S. Contract By VICTORIA SHANNON The agency that supervises Internet domain names, Icann, has renewed its contract with an arm of the United States Department of Commerce to administer the technical workings of the global computer network. ==========> 06-08-18-NCState-UsersConfusedAboutLegitimateDomainNames.txt========== http://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/06_08/133.htm Domain Names Can Leave Net Users in Tangled Web, Study Finds [Accessed Aug. 18, 2006] In a world of e-mail spam and Internet scams, it’s often difficult to discern fact from fiction in cyberspace. Some Internet users can’t distinguish a real Web site from a fake one based on its domain name, and some users also said they would be more trusting of information found on sites they thought were real, but were really fictitious. ==========> 06-08-22-AP-MSFilesSuitsAgainstCybersquatters.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15334467.htm Posted on Tue, Aug. 22, 2006 Microsoft hits back at 'cybersquatters' with lawsuits NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) -- Microsoft Corp. said it has filed three lawsuits against ``cybersquatters,'' in an effort to fight back against a surge of online trademark infringement by people seeking profit from pay-per-click advertising. ==========> 06-08-22-CompWorld-FTCToExamineNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9002649 FTC to examine Net neutrality Majoras calls advocates sincere in their concerns Grant Gross, ComputerWorld August 22, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- The Federal Trade Commission has formed an Internet Access Task Force to examine whether Net neutrality advocates' fears of large broadband providers blocking or slowing Web content from ==========> 06-08-23-SDAAsia-CanUSControlOverInternetBeUntangled.txt========== http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/psecom,id,524,srn,2,nodeid,4,_language,Sing apore.html Can US Control Over the Web be Untangled? By Priya George SDA-Asia, Aug. 23, 2006 The US government has renewed its contract with the Internet overseeing company,ICANN, leading to hot debates and diametrically opposed viewpoints. Internet users from outside the US have criticised the move, saying the … ==========> 06-08-26-ScienceNews-MakingSenseOfTheInternetsStructure.txt========== http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060826/mathtrek.asp Making Sense of the Web's Structure Ivars Peterson Science News, Aug. 26, 2006 Over the last 20 years, the World Wide Web has grown from a modest research project into an immense, seemingly chaotic repository of information and a novel, wide-ranging medium of communication. ==========> 06-09-00-Peha-BalancedNetNeutralityPolicy.txt========== 34th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Sept. 2006 The Benefits and Risks of Mandating Network Neutrality, and the Quest for a Balanced Policy Jon M. Peha1 Carnegie Mellon University ==========> 06-09-00-TelecomPolicyRschConf-TheBenefitsandRisksOfManatingNetNeutrality.txt========== Draft of paper to appear in Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Sept. 2006 The Benefits and Risks of Mandating Network Neutrality, and the Quest for a Balanced Policy Jon M. Peha1 Carnegie Mellon University Abstract ==========> 06-09-01-CNET-CongressLikelyToPutNetNeutralityAndBroadbandLegislationOnBackBurner.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Name=legislation_regulation&articleId=9002951&taxonomyId=70 Net neutrality, broadband legislation on back burner Packages unlikely to pass, say some observers Grant Gross, ComputerWorld September 01, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Congress may take another crack at Net neutrality and related broadband legislation when it returns from a month-long recess next week, but some observers aren't laying odds on either package ==========> 06-09-01-CNET-NetNeutralitySupportersRallyIn25Cities.txt========== http://news.com.com/Net+neutrality+fans+rally+in+25+cities/2100-1028_3-6111489.h tml?tag=nefd.top Net neutrality fans rally in 25 cities By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Fri Sep 01 04:43:22 PDT 2006 With Congress still dispersed for its August recess, advocates of Net neutrality laws this week took to knocking on office doors of U.S. senators in ==========> 06-09-06-CNET-VistaSupportForIPv6CouldPutLoadOnDNSServers.txt========== http://news.com.com/Will+Vista+stall+Net+traffic/2100-1016_3-6112338.html?tag=ne fd.lede Will Vista stall Net traffic? By Joris Evers CNET Networks, Story last modified Wed Sep 06 14:19:25 PDT 2006 Thanks to new directory software, Windows Vista could put a greater load on Internet servers. But experts disagree over whether we're headed for a prime-time traffic jam or insignificant slowdown. ==========> 06-09-13-CNET-NetNeutralityBillMayDieThisYear.txt========== http://news.com.com/Net+neutrality+bill+may+die+this+year/2100-1028_3-6115016.ht ml?tag=nefd.top Net neutrality bill may die this year By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Wed Sep 13 06:16:40 PDT 2006 WASHINGTON--A rift over Net neutrality is the No. 1 issue holding up a massive communications bill and could cause it to be derailed this year, the chairman ==========> 06-09-13-Reuters-USLikelyToKeepControlOfInternetNameSystem.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-09 -13T214939Z_01_N13460161_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-ICANN.xml U.S. likely to keep control of Internet name system Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:49pm ET160 By Joel Rothstein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. State Department official on Wednesday said that the United States should retain control of the Internet domain naming system and not relinquish it at the end of September when the current agreement ends. ==========> 06-09-18-CompWorld-VerisignAndCriticsPrepareForICANNSenateHearing.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Name=legislation_regulation&articleId=9003416&taxonomyId=70&intsrc=kc_top VeriSign, critics prepare for ICANN Senate hearing There's acrimony in the air after Network Solutions accusations Grant Gross September 18, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- A VeriSign Inc. official defended its contract to operate the .com domain Monday, after Network Solutions accused the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) of not requiring ==========> 06-09-23-AP-USDeptOfCommerecePlansToExtendICANNOversight.txt========== http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2469039 U.S. Agency to Extend Oversight of ICANN, the Organization That Handles Domain Name Policies By DAN CATERINICCHIA The Associated Press [Accessed Sept. 23, 2006] WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday it will extend its oversight of the California organization that handles domain name policies, while finding ways to improve the group's accountability and transparency. ==========> 06-09-24-BBC-PewStudySaysInternetWillBeLowCostAndThrivingIn2020.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5370688.stm Internet's future in 2020 debated The internet will be a thriving, low-cost network of billions of devices by 2020, says a major survey of leading technology thinkers. BBC News, 2006/09/24 The Pew report on the future internet surveyed 742 experts in the fields of computing, politics and business. ==========> 06-09-27-NYT-NetNeutralityIsNewChallengeForTimBerners-Lee.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/technology/circuits/27neut.html September 27, 2006 'Neutrality' Is New Challenge for Internet Pioneer By JOHN MARKOFF, The New York Times SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE was a software programmer working at the CERN physics research laboratory in Switzerland in the 1980’s when he proposed the idea of a project based on hypertext — linking documents with software pointers. ==========> 06-09-29-AP-USDeptOfCommerceGivesICANNThreeYearExtensionAndPromisesMoreHandsOffApproach.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15640438.htm Posted on Fri, Sep. 29, 2006 U.S. officially gives ICANN 3-year extension on Internet oversight WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Commerce Department promised Friday to take more of a hands-off approach to the Internet as it extended for three years its oversight of a California organization that handles network-address issues. Internet registrars, some foreign governments and other critics of the Internet ==========> 06-09-30-NYT-USGovtLoosensControlOverICANN.txt========== http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2006-10-oct/oct-02-2006.html The New York Times, September 30, 2006 U.S. Loosens Its Control Over Web Address Manager By VICTORIA SHANNON The Commerce Department agreed yesterday to loosen its control over the agency that manages the Internet address system, a move that experts called a big step toward private-sector control. ==========> 06-10-00-BusCommRev-ExpertSaysFutureWebInnovationWillBeBasedOnP2P.txt========== P2P: The Next Wave of Internet Evolution Business Communications Review (10/06) Vol. 36, No. 10, P. 48; Waclawsky, John G. Motorola chief software architect John Waclawsky writes that future Web-based innovation and development will center around peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays. With P2P, new services and technology-facilitated experiences can be quickly, easily, and cheaply delivered to edge devices on a wide array of networks across the globe, and the opportunity is immense when one considers that there could be a personal area network (PAC) for every person on Earth, in addition ==========> 06-10-03-BBC-IntlForumDiscussesInternetsFuture.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6087174.stm World discusses internet future By Darren Waters, Technology editor, BBC News website, Athens, Oct. 3, 2006 The future of the net is the ambitious topic under discussion at the first global Internet Governance Forum, being held in Athens over the next five days. It has been set up by the UN to give governments, companies, organisations and individuals space for debate. ==========> 06-10-04-CNET-DomainNameSystemNotSecure.txt========== http://news.com.com/Neither+safe+nor+secure+on+the+Internet/2010-7345_3-6122351. html Neither safe nor secure on the Internet By Jerry L. Archer, Published: October 4, 2006, 4:00 AM PDT CNET News Most of us don’t like speed limits, but we accept the rules of the road because they represent the reasonable application of oversight and practical insight. ==========> 06-10-04-CompWorld-ICANNOversightRemainsTenseTopicInternationally.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9003873 ICANN oversight remains tense topic internationally Continued U.S. hold on group questioned Juan Carlos Perez, ComputerWorld October 04, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Internet governance experts remain divided over last week's decision to extend the U.S. government's oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), with some ==========> 06-10-11-BBC-ExpertWarnsInternetCouldBecomeBrokenIntoSeparateNetworks.txt========== http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6037345.stm Warning over 'broken up' internet By Darren Waters Technology editor, BBC News website Published: 2006/10/11 08:53:02 GMT The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned. ==========> 06-10-13-ISTResults-MappingTheGlobalInternet.txt========== http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Feat ures/ID/88670 Monster jellyfish? Mapping the global internet The internet works like a jelly fish with nodes and tendrils ISTResults, 13 Oct 2006 By developing novel methods to map and model the internet, even visualising it as a jellyfish, the EVERGROW project is challenging conventional thinking and offering new insights into how best to route future network traffic. ==========> 06-10-23-AP-NetNeutralityWouldGetWarmReceptionInDemocraticCongress.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15830373.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 23, 2006 'Net neutrality' would get warm reception in a Democratic Congress WASHINGTON (AP) - A Democratic takeover on Capitol Hill would be good news to those who say the government should prohibit telecommunications giants from playing favorites with Internet content. The idea, known as ``network neutrality,'' is about preventing those who ==========> 06-10-26-AP-IntlernationalDisputeOverUSControlOfInternetAppearsUnlikelyToBeResolved.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15855343.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 26, 2006 U.S. control of Internet remains touchy DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press ATHENS, Greece - An international dispute over U.S. control of the Internet appears unlikely to be resolved even as state envoys, regulators and technology experts convene next week to discuss the network's future. ==========> 06-10-29-IntlHeraldTrib-PoliticsARiskToInternetDomainNameSystem.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/29/business/net.php 'Gambits' are a risk to Internet domain system By Victoria Shannon International Herald Tribune SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 PARIS Vinton Cerf, a communications expert known as a father of the Internet, said Sunday that he feared the network's addressing system would break down if "political gambits" by international groups or national agencies interfere with plans to expand the languages used in domain names. ==========> 06-10-30-AP-EUOfficialPraisesUSCommittmentToReduceOversightOfInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15886249.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 30, 2006 EU exec praises ICANN work on Internet DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press VOULIAGMENI, Greece - A top EU official praised the United States' commitment to pull back from its historic oversight of the Internet as a worldwide conference on the network's future opened Monday. ==========> 06-10-30-MacLeans-InternetOffersPoorQualityContent.txt========== http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/life/article.jsp?content=20061030_135406_13540 6 October 30, 2006 Pornography, gambling, lies, theft and terrorism: The Internet sucks Where did we go wrong?, STEVE MAICH, MacLeans They're all still down there, out of sight and all but out of mind -- hundreds of millions of miles of hair-thin strands of glass, strung beneath the streets of every city, under farm fields, suburbs, deserts, and strewn across the ocean ==========> 06-11-01-AP-ICANNWarnsCreatingMoreWebAddressInNonLatinAlphabetsCouldBreakInternet-2.txt========== http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4303049.html Nov. 1, 2006, 12:43PM Care Urged With Language Domain Names By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press Writer, © 2006 The Associated Press VOULIAGMENI, Greece — The organization that oversees global Internet functions warned Wednesday that a mistake in a creating more Web addresses using non-Latin letters could "permanently break the Internet." ==========> 06-11-01-AP-ICANNWarnsCreatingMoreWebAddressInNonLatinAlphabetsCouldBreakInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15903541.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 01, 2006 ICANN warns mistake on non-English Web addresses could 'permanently break Internet' VOULIAGMENI, Greece (AP) - The organization that oversees global Internet functions warned Wednesday that a mistake in a creating more Web addresses using non-Latin letters could ``permanently break the Internet.'' ==========> 06-11-01-GlobeAndMail-CanadianCableCompanyVideotronWantsContentProvidersToPayMore.txt========== http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061101.gtvideotron01/BNStor y/Technology Posted AT 7:29 AM EST ON 01/11/06 Videotron lobbying for Internet ‘transmission tariff' ALEXANDER PANETTA, Globe and Mail OTTAWA — With video and music downloads gobbling up Internet bandwidth at an ever-expanding pace, cable company Videotron is pushing for content providers like movie studios to share some of the cost to expand broadband pipelines. ==========> 06-11-02-AP-WorldInternetConfEndsWithPromiseAndConcerns.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15913311.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 02, 2006 World Internet conference ends with promise and concerns VOULIAGMENI, Greece (AP) - The first U.N.-hosted conference on the Internet ended with promise of breakthrough technologies to accelerate online access in developing countries and concerns of growing government interference globally. Key participants said Thursday that the four-day meeting had at least helped ==========> 06-11-02-Canton-CanadianCableCompanyVideotronWantsContentProvidersToPayMore.txt========== http://www.canton.elegal.ca/archives/2006/11/#000927 November 2, 2006 Videotron calls for tariff on content providers Posted by David Canton at 8:04 AM Videotron, a Quebec based ISP and cable TV operator, was quoted in newspaper articles yesterday as calling for a tariff on content providers such as Apple and Amazon. Videotron thinks the content providers are getting a free ride. ==========> 06-11-02-NetworkWorld-IETFChairSpeaksOutOnVPNsAndP2PSIP.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110206-ietf-chairman-qna.html Of VPNs and peer-to-peer SIP: IETF chair speaks out By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 11/02/06 Some of the Internet’s greatest technical minds will gather next week in San Diego to debate how best to plug security holes and design new services for the Internet. More than 1,200 network engineers are expected to attend the Internet Engineering Task Force’s 67th meeting. Network World Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan interviewed IETF chairman Brian Carpenter, a distinguished ==========> 06-11-02-RobHyndmanl-CanadianCableCompanyVideotronWantsContentProvidersToPayMore.txt========== http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/11/02/videotron-on-the-abcs-of-pricing-bandwidth/ robhyndman.com - http://www.robhyndman.com - Videotron on the ABCs of Pricing Bandwidth Posted By Rob Hyndman On 2nd November 2006 @ 07:53 In Technology From the Globe yesterday, [1] some bizarre statements from Videotron on how to finance the bandwidth build-out that will be needed if it’s to profit from IPTV, VoIP and the rest: impose a tariff on the content providers, who are getting a free ride, it seems: ==========> 06-11-06-GovtTech-NetNeutralityPredictionsMayNotBeAccurate.txt========== http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=102124 Tangled Web? November 6, 2006 By Chad Vander Veen, Government Technology For thousands of years, doomsday predictions have been a favorite pastime for those struggling to find their way in a changing world. Early Christians saw the fall of the Roman Empire as a sign of the end. Medieval Europe thought the Black Plague announced the coming Apocalypse. Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, said an angel told him that when he reached 85 years of age, the ==========> 06-11-08-NYCInternetSociety-TheFutureOfWHOISPolicy.txt========== The Future of WHOIS Policy Sponsored by the New York Chapter of the Internet Society 8 November, 2006 6-8PM Jefferson Market Public Library 425 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), at Tenth St, New York City, NY USA Panelists: -- Jon Nevett, Chair of the ICANN Registrars Constituency; VP Policy & Ethics, Network Solutions ==========> 06-11-09-TheGuardian-UNInternetForumTurnsSiccessful.txt========== http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,,1942664,00.htmlInterne t governance: it's like an arranged marriage The first UN-backed forum started out as farce - but turned into a triumph Kieren McCarthy, Thursday November 9, 2006, The Guardian Lithuania vs Azerbaijan has to be one of the least likely conflicts imaginable. But as attendees at the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum in Greece learned last week, never underestimate the internet's ability to throw up novel problems. ==========> 06-11-12-NYT-EntrepeneursLookForMeaningInNewWebStartups.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/business/12web.html?_r=1&oref=slogin November 12, 2006 Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense By JOHN MARKOFF, The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11 — From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web and the links that weave them together, computer scientists and a growing collection of start-up companies are finding new ways to mine human intelligence. ==========> 06-11-13-USACM-OutlookFortechPolicyInTheNextCongress.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=435 USACM, November 13, 2006 Meet the New Boss: Outlook for Technology Policy in the Next Congress The outcome of last week’s election is now clear with the Democrats taking over the legislative branch. The dust, however, is far from settled. Democrats have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact on technology policy. What shape this will take is unclear, because much of it will be dictated by the new House and Senate Chairpersons who have not organized or set any agendas ==========> 06-11-20-Telephony-RulesForTopLevelDomainsGeneratesInternetInRootServerSystemByInternationalCommunity.txt========== http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_rooted_controversy/index.html Rooted in controversy By Joan Engebretson Telephony, Nov 20, 2006 12:00 PM If it hadn't been for all the uproar about how top-level domain names were assigned, the international community might never have taken much interest in the root server system. Top-level domains — the letters (usually two or three) that come after the final dot in an Internet address — are assigned for all ==========> 06-11-21-TheAge-ICANNCEOWarnsOfNonEnglishCharactersInURLs.txt========== http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/web-chief-warns-of-domain-name-chaos/2006/11/2 1/1163871392720.html# Web chief warns of domain name chaos Asher Moses, The Age, November 21, 2006 - 3:59PM Plans to fast-track the introduction of non-English characters in website domain names could "break the whole internet", warns ICANN chief executive Paul Twomey. ==========> 06-11-27-SJMerc-NetNeutralityCouldHobbleNewInitiatives.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16108137.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 27, 2006 'Network neutrality' could hobble initiative By Brent Wilkes, San Jose Mercury News The global Internet infrastructure is commonly referred to as the ``information superhighway.'' And for good reason. Like any highway needing to accommodate growth in traffic by building more ==========> 06-11-30-AP-ICANNRejectsDotTravelRedirectPlanCitingInternetStability.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16132188.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 30, 2006 ICANN rejects .travel redirect plan, citing Internet stability NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency has rejected a proposed search service to help guide people who mistype ``.travel'' Web addresses or seek nonexistent ones. The decision c