domain name, WSIS & governance news - 4 October

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

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DOMAIN NAMES
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Why I Am Participating in the ORSN Project By Paul
Vixie
As a long time supporter of the universal namespace
operated by IANA, it may come as a surprise that I
have joined the Open Root Server Network project
(ORSN). I'll try to explain what's going on and what
it all means.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/1219_0_1_0_C/

NeuStar scores global GSM addressing deal
NeuStar Inc has won a high-profile contract to provide
internet addressing services for the world's GSM
carriers, the company announced yesterday.

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=E1E276A9-CA7E-41AE-A8EE-26D6F63BE0D6

RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2005
The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) will be held on
Thursday 13 October 2005 alongside the RIPE 51 Meeting
in Amsterdam and is open to members of the RIPE NCC
only.
 http://ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-october2005/

Love and kisses, .XXX
Have you heard? There?s naughty pictures on the web.
Sssh. It?s a secret. But don?t worry, Richard Cobbett
has a plan to stop caring! Really, it?s surprising
it?s taken this long for a dedicated .xxx domain to
slip its way onto the web ? a central holding place
for all the filth and depravity that everyone looks
down on, but always seems just that little bit too
well informed about to get away with it. It?s
surprising, because they?ve been talking about it for
as long as I?ve been on the web (these two things, I
should point out, have nothing to do with each other),
but mostly because it?s such a stupid idea.

http://www.pcplus.co.uk/opinion/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=37481&subsectionid=381&subsubsectionid=77

CDT Calls for 'Hands-Off' Approach to '.XXX' Internet
Domain
CDT is urging the U.S. Government to remove itself
from the decision-making process surrounding the
creation of a .xxx Internet domain. In a letter to
Michael Gallagher, Assistant Commerce Secretary and
head of the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA), CDT highlights
concerns about NTIA's recent letter to ICANN Chairman
Vinton Cerf, recommending that he delay the approval
of a .xxx Internet domain intended for use by
adult-content Web sites. CDT is concerned that the
move violates First Amendment protections and could
also upset the United States' delicate relationship
with the Internet's addressing system. September 30,
2005
 http://cdt.org/dns/20050930xxxletter.pdf

Canadian candidate for regional internet policy group
(news release)
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is
pleased to congratulate Matt Pounsett on his
nomination as a candidate for the Advisory Council of
the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).
 http://cira.ca/news-releases/159.html

.TRAVEL sTLD will run on October 3. In demo-mode only.
Limited launch of the .TRAVEL sTLD is set for Monday,
October 3, Tralliance Corporation, .TRAVEL registry
said. The limited launch of .TRAVEL precedes the
official launch, which is planned for January 2006.

http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=6286&mhnews_page=1

Communiqué of the 27th CENTR General Assembly
The meeting focused on the issue of marketing models
for domain names. Speakers from a broad spectrum of
registries, such as .mx (Mexico), .ca (Canada) and .tk
(Tokelau) shared their experience in different
marketing strategies, referring to their respective
top level domains. Other speakers on this topic were
.tv (Tuvalu) and .org.

http://www.centr.org/docs/2005/09/centr-ga27-communique.html

Eclipse del 3 de Octubre visible con IPv6
El proximo eclipse de sol, que ocurrira el 3 de
octubre, podra ser seguido por medio del Proyecto
Live!Eclipse para poder seguirlo mediante IPv6.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1089&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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tn: NGOs Complain of Summit Host's Rights Record
One of the biggest clouds looming over WSIS is the
human rights record of Tunisia, which will host the
second phase of the Summit, scheduled for Nov. 16-18.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200509290003.html

Tunisia Unfit to Host UN Information Summit, Says TMG
The IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG) has issued a
new report saying that Tunisia is unsuitable for
hosting the U.N.-sponsored WSIS in November 2005.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200509290088.html

Tunisia warned as summit nears
WESTERN countries have called on Tunisia to guarantee
freedom of expression and independent media access
during the UN WSIS it will host next month.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16796454%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

ITU Secretary-General Utsumi praises achievements
(news release)
The third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom-3) of the
Tunis phase of WSIS closed its doors at 21:00 tonight
after a gruelling two weeks of day and night sessions
that saw agreement on large sections of the Summit
text, some major developments in the international
community?s approach to Internet governance, but
ultimately disappointing progress on a raft of
contentious issues.

http://www.itu.int/wsis/newsroom/press_releases/wsis/2005/30sep.html

Decision on closed drafting groups delayed
After intense discussions during the weekend Civil
Society was anxiously awaiting the announcement of the
PrepCom?s decision on whether or not Civil Society
groups will be locked out from drafting groups in the
ongoing sessions of the Subcommittees finalizing the
text of the Tunis summit declaration.
 http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/787.htm

ITU's role shrinking?
If you believe this picture taken at the PrepCom
opening plenary last Monday has anything to say, it
seems the ITU's role in the WSIS is becoming smaller.
Thanks to Robert Guerra for shooting it. To see the
photo, go to:
 http://flickr.com/photos/rguerra/45934477/

US rejects changes to net control
The US has rejected calls by EU officials to give
control of the net over to a more representative UN
body. 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4296646.stm

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/566b8b46-31e1-11da-9c7f-00000e2511c8.html

http://www.nytimes.com/iht/2005/09/30/business/IHT-30net.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/eu_deal_wsis/

U.N. agency says it's ready to govern the Net
The United Nations' International Telecommunications
Union is ready to take over the governance of the
Internet from the United States, ITU head Yoshio
Utsumi said on Friday.

http://news.com.com/U.N.+agency+says+its+ready+to+govern+the+Net/2100-1028_3-5886458.html

EU outlines future net governance
An oversight body of international governments will
decide the top-level of the internet from now on,
pulling it away from the US government and enshrining
the revolutionary medium in international law.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/eu_net_governance/

Does the ITU get the internet?
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is
angling for a wider role in running the internet, to
the extent that it is hosting the WSIS meeting taking
place in Geneva at the moment.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/29/itu_ip_lock/

EU and U.S. clash over control of Net
The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in
one of their sharpest public disagreements in months,
after EU negotiators proposed stripping the Americans
of their effective control of the Internet.
 http://iht.com/articles/2005/09/29/business/net.php

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=284029

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16779409%255E23109,00.html

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9801454

US asked to give up web domination
The United States was isolated as it sought to defend
its monopoly over regulation of the Internet against
the EU and other countries that are demanding a share
of the action, officials said.
 http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13954496

U.S. Rules Out Shared Control Of Web Domain-Name
Servers
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 Internet, reiterating U.S.
intentions to keep its historical role as the medium's
principal overseer.

http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=171202266

E.U. irks U.S. with shift from 'status quo'
An unexpected about-face by the EU during preparatory
talks for the second phase of the WSIS will likely
postpone any agreements on the contentious issue of
Internet governance to another round of discussions
before the planned Tunis, Tunisia, gathering in
November.

http://infoworld.com/article/05/09/30/HNeuirksus_1.html

Kmalu bo mogoce registrirati tudi domeno .eu
V ljubljanskem Centru Evropa je racunalni?ki
strokovnjak Marko Pust ta teden predstavil mo?nosti,
ki jih odpira vzpostavitev medmre?ne domene .eu. Ta bo
predvidoma zacela delovati prihodnje leto, pri cemer
pa Pust opozarja, da vsi postopki v zvezi s postopkom
registracije domen .eu ?e niso koncani. Vsi, ki bodo
registrirali domeno .eu, se bodo morali podrediti tudi
posebnemu postopku re?evanja sporov v zvezi z
morebitnimi sporno dodeljenimi domenami.
 http://www.dnevnik.si/clanek.asp?id=144038

Keine Einigung über Root-Aufsicht
Internationale Regierungen wollen mehr Einfluss
darauf, was im Netz passiert. Vor allem die
Sonderstellung der USA ist Ländern wie China,
Brasilien oder dem Iran ein Dorn im Auge.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/64501

Nächste Runde im Streit über Netzkontrolle
Die Diskussion über die Verwaltung des Internets
erhitzt schon im Vorfeld des 2. Weltgipfels zur
Informationsgesellschaft die Gemüter. Während die EU
nach einer Ablöse der US-dominierten ICANN verlangt,
lehnen diese eine Aufgabe ihrer Aufsichtsrolle weiter
ab.

http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=275637
 http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2038522

Washington: ICANN è roba nostra
"Non riteniamo che le Nazioni Unite debbano prendere
su di sé la gestione di Internet. Alcuni paesi lo
vogliono, noi riteniamo sia inaccettabile".
 http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=55280

L'Europe veut changer les règles de gouvernance du Net
Dans la ligne de mire de la conférence PrepCom3 de
Genève - qui prépare le sommet mondial de Tunis sur
l'économie numérique - l'ICANN
 http://www.silicon.fr/getarticle.asp?ID=11743

http://www.01net.com/editorial/290090/internet/l-europe-s-oppose-au-controle-d-internet-par-les-usa/
 http://www.lexpansion.com/art/32.0.135311.0.html

EUA rejeitam deixar controle da internet para ONU
Os EUA rejeitaram nesta semana uma proposta da União
Européia (UE) para dar às Nações Unidas o controle
sobre a internet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/ciencia/story/2005/09/050930_internetrw.shtml

http://www.estadao.com.br/rss/tecnologia/2005/set/30/56.htm

http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/materias/brasil/2131001-2131500/2131133/2131133_1.xml

Estados Unidos no quiere delegar el control de
Internet. "No accederemos a que la ONU asuma el
control de Internet"
Un agente del gobierno de EE.UU desestimó la propuesta
de las Naciones Unidas para que la Red pase a control
de un ente autárquico.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1090&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Agencia de la ONU dice estar preparada para gobernar
Internet
La Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones de las
Naciones Unidas esta preparada para arrebatar el
gobierno de Internet a Estados Unidos, dijo su
presidente, Yoshio Utsumi, el viernes.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1092&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Unión Europea apoya nuevo gobierno de internet que
acabe con el poder de veto de EE.UU.
Actualmente la gestión de internet está a cargo de la
Corporación para la Asignación de Nombres y Números de
dominio en Internet (ICANN), un organismo privado
constituido en 1988 y que está bajo la competencia del
Departamento de Comercio estadounidense.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1091&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Internet : dialogue de sourds avant le Sommet
Ce qui devait être la dernière réunion préparatoire du
Sommet mondial de Tunis sur la société de
l?information s?achève sur un constat d?échec.

http://www.reveiltunisien.org/breve.php3?id_breve=2561

Tunisie : c?est mal parti pour le sommet de
l?information
Le sommet de l?information a du plomb dans l?aile à
six semaines de son ouverture à Tunis, les
participants paraissant incapables de s?entendre sur
la question de la régulation de l?internet, alors que
la Tunisie est montrée du doigt à propos des droits de
l?Homme.

http://www.reveiltunisien.org/breve.php3?id_breve=2556

L?Afrique derrière la Résolution de Dakar
L?Afrique noire dit qu?elle souhaite, pour la
gouvernance de l?Internet, un Conseil mondial qui doit
pouvoir comprendre toutes les parties engagées dans la
société de l?information, notamment les gouvernements,
la société civile et le privé. « Un partenariat,
soutient Joseph Ndong, qui puisse prendre des
décisions transparentes et démocratiques pour le bien
de toute l?Humanité ». De même, affirme le ministre
sénégalais Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers, créée en octobre 1998 à
l?initiative du gouvernement américain) devrait être
rendue plus démocratique et l?Afrique y être mieux
représentée.

http://africatime.com/afrique/nouv_pana.asp?no_nouvelle=215819

Société de l'information: le sommet de Tunis a du
plomb dans l'aile (ECLAIRAGE)
Le sommet de l'information a du plomb dans l'aile à
six semaines de son ouverture à Tunis, les
participants paraissant incapables de s'entendre sur
la question de la régulation de l'internet, alors que
la Tunisie est montrée du doigt à propos des droits de
l'Homme.

http://www.journaldunet.com/actualite/depeche/28/97419/societe_de_l_information_le_sommet_de_tunis_a_du_plomb_dans_l_aile_eclairage.shtml

Todos detrás de Internet
La magnitud de la puesta en juego con la gobernanza de
Internet, calibrada por sus 1.000 millones de usuarios
y los beneficios derivados, impidió llegar a un
acuerdo entre gobiernos para determinar las formas de
control de esa red mundial de computadoras.
 http://ipsenespanol.net/nota.asp?idnews=35328

http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2005/1005/0110/noticias/noticias_011005-10.htm

L'Associació PUNTCAT rep més d'un miler de
sol·licituds per adoptar el domini '.cat'
L'Associació PUNTCAT ha rebut més d'un miler de
sol·licituds per demanar informació sobre el nou
domini català des de l'aprovació del mateix a mitjans
d'aquest mes per part de l'Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), segons ha informat
a Europa Press l'executiu de l'organisme, Amadeu
Abril.

http://www.europapress.es/europa2003/noticia.aspx?cod=20051001110400

http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2005/09/30/esociedad/1128097362.html
 http://www.vilaweb.com/www/ep/noticia?noticia=1547378

SMSI : L'Europe cible les USA
Jusqu'à présent relativement neutre, l'Europe vient de
tirer une salve en direction des USA dans la guerre
pour le contrôle de l'Internet. La bataille finale est
attendue à la mi-novembre, lors du sommet du SMSI à
Tunis.
 http://domaines.info/article.php?art_id=738

Story in Russian
 http://www.rian.ru/society/20050930/41563185.html

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