domain name, WSIS & governance news - 17 October

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

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au: Telcos ignore ENUM trials
Australia's heavyweight telecommunications companies
are largely ignoring a technology that maps telephone
numbers to Internet services, with only relative
minnows in the Internet arena demonstrating any
enthusiasm.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Telcos_ignore_ENUM_trials/0,2000061791,39216506,00.htm

uk: London 2012 gets tough on domain names
A businessman who registered five website names with
the intention of cashing in on London's Olympic
victory has been ordered to hand them over

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.view&news=5173

uk: Spammer's net name scam revealed
An internet spammer is in court following scams which
allegedly netted him £1.5m over a number of years. ...
The court was told how he ran a bogus registration
service for net addresses.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4334948.stm

http://cambridge-news.co.uk/news/huntingdon/2005/10/14/a0a06fff-7826-48b9-a144-c0a80f10ee97.lpf

http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2143836/british-scammer-dock

ICANN GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda 

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-20oct05.shtml

eu: E-NEWS (Status Report)
2 months before the .eu launch,  on 7 October 2005,
475 companies and organisations in 40 countries have
completed the procedure and are now recognised as .eu
domain names registrars. 178 more have applied and are
in the process of becoming a registrar. To read Status
report, see

http://www.eurid.eu/en/news/archive/news.2005-10-11.6717854763

DomainMart Launches .eu Investment Fund
The Fund is designed to provide investors an
opportunity to participate in the ownership of .eu
domain names through participating in
pre-registrations.

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=13367

xxx: Adult content - New domain beneficial
A potential new solution to ending accidental Internet
pornography encounters and protecting children from
adult content is starting to show promise with the
possible implementation of the new domain.

http://www.thelantern.com/media/paper333/news/2005/10/14/Opinion/Adult.Content-1021418.shtml

ICANN verabschiedet .net-Vertragsänderungen
Die ICANN hat in einer Telefonkonferenz gestern Nacht
die Verträge zum weiteren Betrieb der .net-Registry
durch VeriSign verabschiedet. Auf Druck der
Registrarunternehmen hatten die privaten Netzverwalter
nachverhandeln müssen und unter anderem einen Deckel
für mögliche Preiserhöhungen durch VeriSign erwirkt.
Nicht mehr als 10 Prozent pro Jahr darf VeriSign nun
den Preis gegenüber den Domainverkäufern erhöhen.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/64901

xxx: Neue Domain als "Rotlichtbezirk im Internet"
Mit der neuen Domain will die Internet-Organisation
ICANN eine klar identifizierbare Region für
Sex-Inhalte schaffen. Jugendschützer sind skeptisch,
ob es gelingt.
 http://www.tecchannel.de/news/themen/telko/432530/

Schlüpfrige Seiten enden bald auf xxx
Als ?Rotlichtbezirk im Internet? wird optimistisch
bezeichnet, was die Internet-Domain-Verwaltung ICANN
für die Zukunft beschlossen hat: Virtuelle
Sexangebote, egal ob beschränkt auf 16 oder 18 Jahre,
sollen unter einer eigenen Toplevel-Domain versammelt
werden. ?XXX?, ?Triple X?, soll die neue Adress-Endung
sein - so, wie in Amerika eindeutige Streifen heißen.
 http://www.neuepresse.de/magazin/277865.html

Icann, le guide des arcanes du Web
des machines et des aiguilleurs : c'est tout ce dont
Internet a besoin pour fonctionner. Pour schématiser,
le Net est géré au niveau mondial par des serveurs (en
fait des ordinateurs) et un certain nombre
d'organismes qui assurent leur fonctionnement. Ce
dispositif technique s'appuie sur treize «serveurs de
routage» : dix aux Etats-Unis, deux en Europe et un au
Japon.
 http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=331291

«Le rôle particulier des Etats-Unis»
l'Australien Paul Twomey est président de l'Icann
depuis mars 2003. Cet organisme veille au bon
fonctionnement de l'Internet.
 http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=331294

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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Keep the Internet free By Carl Bildt 
...It would be profoundly dangerous to now set up an
international mechanism, controlled by governments, to
take over the running of the Internet. Not only would
this play into the hands of regimes bent on limiting
the freedom that the Internet can bring, it also risks
stifling innovation and ultimately endangering the
security of the system. ... It's time for Blair and
Barroso to take charge. Otherwise they might endanger
one of the most powerful instruments of freedom and
prosperity in our time.

http://iht.com/articles/2005/10/10/opinion/edbildt.php

A Public Briefing on ICANN, Internet Governance and
Africa
The Collaboration for International ICT Policy for
East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) recently published
"ICANN, Internet governance and Africa", a public
briefing on the current status and key points of the
debate that provides essential background for the
second phase of WSIS.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/1244_0_1_0_C/

Who Really Runs the Internet?
Paul Mockapetris, who invented the internet?s domain
name system, was asked a few years ago what else he
wished he could have invented. He answered: ?A
directory system for the internet that wouldn't be
controlled by the politicians, lawyers and
bureaucrats.?

http://www.cbronline.com/blog.asp?show=cbr/2005/10/who_really_runs.html

U.S. May Face World at Internet Governance Summit
Next month, world diplomats will travel to Tunisia to
tackle a topic so dense that it normally clears a room
in seconds: how the Internet is governed. But the
United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the
Information Society could be the scene of an
international brawl, with some claiming that the core
freedoms and integrity of the global network are at
risk.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202210.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002559913_internet14.html

ICANN on center stage
ICANN and the U.S. government reach center stage next
month in Tunisia, as the future of IP address
assignments and U.S. control of the root DNS turns
into a hotbed of debate.
 http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/362

The long and winding road towards Tunis
The third meeting of the Preparatory Committee
(PrepCom-3) of the second phase of the WSIS took place
between September 19-30 in Geneva, Switzerland. This
was the last meeting scheduled prior to the second
phase of the Summit to be held in Tunis from November
16 to 28, 2005. The discussion on possible
modifications to the current model of "Internet
governance" was placed among the core issues to be
analysed on the agenda, together with the decisions on
specific mechanisms aimed at ensuring the
implementation and follow-up to agreements reached in
the two phases of the WSIS. [ En español ]
 http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3479.html

Details on final negotiations before the Summit
The WSIS intergovernmental bureau has decided about
the details of the final stage of negotiations. These
are needed after PrepCom3 less than two weeks ago
failed to reach an agreement on Internet Governance
and the follow-up structure for the summit

http://www.choike.org/cgi-bin/choike/nuevo_eng/jump_inf.cgi?ID=3484

The struggle for real control over the virtual world
The first phase of the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) concluded that Internet governance must
be "multilateral, transparent and democratic," and
based on "the full involvement of governments, the
private sector, civil society and international
organisations." However, there is little prospect of
the WSIS reaching agreement on these issue, as 10
proposals for restructuring the system are still under
debate after the last preparatory conference.
 http://ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=30590

Open source agreed in UN Information Society Summit
preparations
Encouragement for the use of free and open source
software has worked its way into the draft texts being
prepared for the November second phase of the WSIS.
During the Third Preparatory Committee meeting
(PrepComm-3), developing countries threatened to
disagree if they perceived the modifications to throw
the balance of the provision too far in the direction
of proprietary models. But agreement appears to have
been reached with only one notable modification: the
addition of the phrase, ?in ways that reflect the
possibilities of different software models? after the
reference to free and open source software.

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=98&res=1024&print=0

WIPO creates 'Provisional Committee' for Development
Agenda
Agreement was reached on two issues that have
preoccupied and divided the WIPO (World Intellectual
Property Organization)General Assembly (Geneve, 26
September to 5 October): how to take the Development
Agenda Initiative forward and the future work plan on
the Draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT). On the
Development Agenda, members agreed to establish a
"provisional committee" to take forward the process of
the Intergovernmental Inter-sessional Meetings (IIM)
and report back to the 2006 General Assembly.
 http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3456.html

Digital Scheherazade
The key problem giving anxiety fits to elites and
masses, to heads of states and street-vendors, in the
Arab world today is the digital chaos induced by
Information Technologies (IT), such as the Internet
and the satellite. These new technologies have
destroyed the "hudud", the space frontier which
divided the universe into a sheltered private arena
where women and children were supposed to be
protected, and a public one where adult males
exercised their authority.

http://www.mernissi.net/books/articles/digital_scheherazade.html

PrepComm-3 closes in disarray
The last preparatory conference, less than 60 days
before the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society, ended without an agreement. The
open questions will have to be dealt with in the time
before Tunis and basically without civil society
participation.
 http://www.worldsummit2003.de/en/web/797.htm

Road to Tunis Paved With Questions
With just six weeks to go before the second phase of
the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in
Tunis, a number of key issues remain unresolved,
including the highly debated questions of Internet
governance and civil society participation. 
 http://ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=30527

Tunisian online protest blocked
As Tunisia prepares to host the controversial World
Summit on the Information Society in November, tunisia
freespeechTunisian opposition activist Neila Charchour
Hachicha informs Global Voices that the online freedom
of speech protest site launched by Tunisians on
Monday, www.yezzi.org has already been blocked by the
Tunisian authorities.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/10/04/tunisian-online-protest-blocked/

EC: internet will be split apart
There is a heated battle being fought about who will
govern the internet. The US is demanding to maintain a
key role but other countries are demanding more
control, writes The Guardian.

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?id=99969

«Les Américains sur la défensive»
pour Viviane Reding, commissaire européenne chargée de
la société de l'information et des médias, la gestion
d'Internet ne doit plus être un monopole américain.
 http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=331293

Internet. Editorial - Gouvernance
emblème d'une ère mondialisée et décentralisée de la
communication permanente et instantanée de chacun avec
tous, l'Internet peut-il être gouverné d'un centre
unique, les Etats-Unis ? La réponse a priori semble
être non. Il y a certes des raisons historiques qui
expliquent que la gestion des «noms de domaine», le
cadastre du cyberespace, soit aux mains d'une
fondation californienne, l'Icann, placée sous contrôle
de Washington. Les Américains ont inventé l'Internet,
ils en ont financé le développement, sur fonds publics
d'abord, par leurs entrepreneurs ensuite, et ils
dominent la planète Net.
 http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=331290

Il WSIS? Un'occasione per i diritti umani
Dal Summit sulla Società dell'informazione che si
terrà in Tunisia può emergere la consapevolezza di una
rete capace nel tempo di erodere le blindature
censorie e totalitaristiche. Ma bisogna liberarsi
della retorica
 http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=55571

Likestilling i et liksom-demokrati
oktober forklarer Tunisias honorære konsul til Norge,
Bjørn H. Grinde, hvordan Tunisia har lykkes med sin
likestillingspolitikk. Det stemmer at Tunisia på en
del områder har vært et foregangsland i den arabiske
verden når det gjelder kvinners rettigheter. Men når
Grinde bruker ordet demokrati, begynner det å skurre.
 http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2005/10/16/446511.html

An article in Chinese from an Australian Chinese
newspaper

http://www.ausdaily.net.au/navigator/intnews/1383630.php

Internet pode se fragmentar, diz Comissária Européia
"Os Estados Unidos estão totalmente isolados e isso é
perigoso"

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1104&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Disputa por el dominio de Internet
Una batalla ha surgido en el mundo sobre quién debe
gobernar Internet. Mientras Estados Unidos exige
mantener un papel de preponderancia en la red,
alegando que ayudaron a crearla, otros países piden
poder ejercer más control.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1103&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Internet no es aislamiento, es ampliación
Internet no es un aislamiento de la comunidad, es una
ampliación. Incluso, los 85 millones de habitantes que
no son usuarios sentirían las repercusiones de un día
sin este medio, comentó Alejandro Pisanty, integrante
del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Gobernanza en Internet de
la ONU.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1101&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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