internet news - 18 October

First Supplemental Implementation Report - Committee on
ICANN Evolution and Reform
In issuing our Final Implementation Report and
Recommendations on 2 October 2002, we noted that "it can be
expected that there may be additional inputs as a result of
review of these recommendations that would call for some
slight modifications [and that] the ERC is likely to
augment these recommendations on one or more occasions
prior to the Shanghai meeting . . . ." The ERC has been
receiving thoughtful reactions and commentary on various
aspects of the 2 October report and recommended bylaws and
will be posting supplemental reports to reflect additional
or revised recommendations. This is the first of those
supplemental reports.

http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/first-supplemental-implementation-report-11oct02.htm

Fourth Status Report: RIRs Propose Blueprint - Committee on
ICANN Evolution and Reform
On 9 October 2002, the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
submitted their proposed "Blueprint for Evolution and
Reform of Internet Address Management" (available in both
HTML and PDF formats). The Evolution and Reform Committee
is carefully reviewing the details of the RIR proposal, as
well as the reactions to the proposal from all segments of
the Internet community. The Committee invites detailed and
thoughtful discussion of the proposal, which should be sent
to <reform-comments-lcZ7/[email protected]>.

http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/status-report-12oct02.htm

Controversy erupts over Melbourne IT "termination" notice
Australian domain name resellers have reacted with anger to
e-mails sent to their customers by ex-registry Melbourne
IT.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20269002,00.htm
 
New registry system gets green light this weekend
A shared registry system is being launched this weekend,
which will eventually let Kiwi registrars directly place
and change information in the database of .nz names.

http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/581BC41E3F56A5B9CC256C4E00041349!opendocument

Is this the end for .net.uk?
The second level domain .net.uk may be dead before
Christmas due to underuse, thanks to the changing Internet
world.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27563.html

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/ispnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1034343289,2795,

Playing the Name Game With the New .US Domain 
Earlier this year, a company called NeuStar successfully
bid for the right to manage the .us domain, unseating
VeriSign as the administrator for the domain. The
competitive bidding process came about when the federal
government decided to release the .us domain for wider use.
When VeriSign administered the .us domain, the company
essentially restricted it for government use.

http://www.govtech.net/news/features/news_feature.phtml?docid=3030000000025772

Failure to Conduct Reasonable Investigation to Ensure
Domain Name Is Not Infringing Is Evidence of Bad Faith 
A domain name registrant’s failure to conduct a reasonable
investigation to ensure that its domain name does not
infringe another’s trademarks rights constitutes evidence
of bad faith under the Anticybersquatting Consumer
Protection Act (ACPA). Eurotech, Inc. v. Cosmos European
Travels Aktiengesellschaft, Civ. No. 01-1689-A, 2002 U.S.
Dist. LEXIS 13615 (E.D. Va. July 24, 2002).
 http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=18161

VeriSign's Signal Is Fading 
For a company that has a government-sanctioned monopoly on
the domain-name database that makes the Internet work,
you'd think that VeriSign would be in the catbird's seat.
 http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/10/09/1009verisign.html

VeriSign To Stop Reselling Third-Party Products
The Internet security company, based here, resold products
from numerous vendors, including Check Point Software
Technologies and Nokia, a spokesman said. VeriSign also
will no longer provide third-party retail training, he
said.

http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=37942

Government wins rights to newzealand.biz name 
The Government has won back the rights to the
newzealand.biz internet domain name, after missing out in
the initial ballot.
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2998418

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/dbiz2002-00270.html
 http://ecommerce.wipo.int/domains/sct/comments/0009.html

http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=977&mode=thread&order=0

Computer, Internet pioneer Keith Uncapher dies
Keith Uncapher, a computer pioneer at the University of
Southern California who was a key player in the development
of the Internet, died of a heart attack, the university
announced. He was 80.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/573126p-4489471c.html

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-keith12oct12,0,1010559.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology

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

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

Hacktivists Against Censorship
Western hackers are developing programs to defeat the
Internet censorship barriers of repressive countries
overseas -- and you can take part in the effort..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15124-2002Oct11.html

UAE Minister Criticizes Internet Censorship 
A United Arab Emirates minister, in a rare criticism of
government censorship in the Gulf, called on Saturday for
unfettered access to the Internet in the UAE.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1568285

China imposes new restrictions on Internet cafes
China has imposed strict new limits on Internet cafes,
banning minors and demanding that operators keep records of
customers and the information they access.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/572979p-4486391c.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1565171

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/11/china.netcafes.reut/index.html

Six Britons held in worldwide internet porn crackdown 
Six British men are being held as part of a worldwide
police operation targeting a sophisticated Internet
paedophile ring.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-2082934,00.html

White Girls Are Internet's Addicts 
THE typical South African Internet addict is not a pimply,
bespectacled teenage boy. Instead, it is a young white girl
who uses the Internet to chat up strangers and trawl porn
sites.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200210130124.html

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

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

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

Judge Vacates Child Porn Guilty Plea
A defendant's guilty plea to a charge of receiving child
pornography has been vacated because he was not asked
whether he knew the images he received were of actual
children rather than simulated child pornography.

http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1032128773648&t=LawArticle

Child porn task force on verge of collapse 
A GROUP set up to tackle child pornography on the internet
is on the verge of collapse because the Government is not
providing enough funding, a conference heard yesterday. "We
have no government funding, we have no investment or
resources and if it wasn't for a few very concerned
volunteers on the ground there would be no facilities
either," the director of Combating Paedophile Information
Networks in Europe (COPINE), said yesterday.

http://www.online.ie/news/irish_examiner/viewer.adp?article=1860299

Finns Declare: Don't Thread on Me
The discovery that a Finnish bomb suspect may have learned
how to build explosives from reading a message board has
prompted authorities to investigate what, if anything,
should be done about it. But users themselves say the
effort is pointless.
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,55861,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,811260,00.html
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/14/1034561094396.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1572219

Nigerian online criminals on the run in South Africa
Nigerian criminals who have masterminded a series of
fraudulent online schemes in several African countries are
on the run in South Africa.
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_955828_1794_9-10000.html

Net reaches Bangladeshi villages
Telecentres are used in Bangladesh to take the computer and
net revolution into rural areas but cost is hampering their
growth.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2249597.stm

Spam Blocker Has Opposite Effect  
Users of SpamNet, a popular peer-to-peer unsolicited e-mail
filtering service, had grown accustomed to virtually
junk-free inboxes.
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55613,00.html

Easy Access to Public Records Online Raises Privacy
Questions
Before the Internet, public records were essentially
private because of their obscurity — they sat gathering
dust in courthouses across the land. Now governments are
examining what information should be made public on the
World Wide Web and whether different rules should apply to
electronic documents.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/national/13DOCU.html

Clash of Internet Privacy Policies
As more people adopt the latest version of Microsoft's
market-dominant Internet Explorer Web browser, its privacy
features are creating unintended consequences for users,
information publishers and advertisers.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/technology/14ECOM.html

Service providers win one, lose one
Internet companies doing business in California won one
round and lost another as Gov. Gray Davis signed an e-mail
bill and vetoed legislation regulating Internet service
providers.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-961001.html

Making light work of piracy
Movie pirates who steal films by taping them while they are
being screened in cinemas could be thwarted by new
technology.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2320755.stm

An Uphill Battle in Copyright Case
At 11:01 a.m. last Wednesday, at the conclusion of the
Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of a law
that extended copyrights for 20 years, the statute's
challengers knew they had not scored a decisive victory.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/technology/14LESS.html

Film, recording industries ask colleges to stop
Internet-based piracy
Film and recording industry advocates are appealing to
universities nationwide to help crack down on
Internet-based piracy, which costs the entertainment world
billions of dollars in lost revenues every year.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/572834p-4486384c.html

DVD quality over the Internet?
A standards team is close to approving a new compression
format for digital video that uses fewer network resources
than rivals. But there are still questions.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-961707.html

What surfers are doing on the net
A survey finds more users are buying online but there are
still question marks about what surfers will be prepared to
purchase on the net.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2310131.stm

Microsoft at it again, say rivals
Microsoft has angered some competitors by limiting the
technical data it promised to release under the terms of
its antitrust settlement.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1136075

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/biztech/10/17/microsoft.antitrust.ap/index.html

Consumers face cash for content call
How users will access content and services will provide the
next battleground for broadband providers.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2326253.stm

Is the End in Sight for 'Free' News on the Web?
Attention online news junkies: your free lunch is coming to
an end. An increasing number of media companies across
Europe have begun charging readers for online horoscopes,
crossword puzzles, advanced peaks at magazine articles and
full-fledged subscriptions, primarily to keep online news
operations afloat.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1592906
 
Broadband lessons to be learned
A recent visit to South Korea, where 60% of the population
has broadband, revealed interesting lessons for the UK.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2319879.stm
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2123740,00.html

Miracle workers
In just five years, South Korea has shown the world what
the broadband future looks like.


Senior Citizens Keep on Surfing
Internet chat rooms and late night surfing are no longer
the sole domain of the square-eyed younger generation.
Senior citizens are taking to the World Wide Web as the
number of 'Silver Surfers' soars.

http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_652694_1_A,00.html
 

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