From dandjinou.pierre at undp.org Tue Apr 1 08:02:44 2008
From: dandjinou.pierre at undp.org (Pierre Dandjinou)
Date: Tue Apr 1 00:01:53 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] On the IPv6-only Internet
Message-ID: <005601c893be$01bf4240$4001a8c0@GEFEXTRALAPTOP>
I thought this excerpt from the ISOC member newsletter of March might be of
interest.
Pierre
2. Features
IETF 71 Samples the IPv6-only Internet
- Contributed by Leslie Daigle
In mid-March, the IETF put a spotlight on the next generation of Internet
addressing by switching off attendees' access to IPv4 during its Wednesday
plenary meeting. For an hour, Internet engineers at the meeting could only
access the Internet using an IPv6 network; their machines had to connect to
the network using IPv6, and they could only reach other IPv6 Internet sites.
By choosing not to provide IPv4/IPv6 protocol translation (NAT-PT), this
event was targeted a little differently than similar ones at NANOG and
APRICOT meetings earlier in the year. Stepping beyond questions of
transition, the intent was to provide engineers with some first-hand
experience in working with IPv6 in the wild.
The network managers for these events are well-versed in providing IPv6
connectivity, so it was clear from the outset that providing IPv6 would not
be the challenge. Russ Housley, Chair of the IETF, announced the planned
"IPv4 outage" in December, giving prospective attendees plenty of time to
prepare. The subsequent discussion on the IETF's general discussion mailing
list highlighted that the biggest hurdle would be user reluctance. In many
ways, this mirrors the state of IPv6 diffusion in the world today.
Nevertheless, the announcement clearly motivated several IETF attendees to
prepare for the event. Several made sure that their home networks and
Internet resources were IPv6-capable in time for the event. The big news of
the day was Google's announcement, at the IETF meeting, of an
IPv6-accessible site for their search engine (http://ipv6.google.com
).
This drew a round of appreciative applause from the plenary attendees.
At its peak, about 190 computers were connected to the IPv6-only network
during the IETF plenary IPv6-only hour, reaching out to a combined total of
some 750 different global IPv6 addresses. The biggest hurdle was known in
advance of the plenary meeting: Windows XP does not support DNS resolution
over IPv6. But persistence and a quick fix to BIND software allowed a work
around for the intent Windows XP users!
Relatively few glitches were reported, though there were some challenges
with global routing. This is not surprising, given that IPv6 deployment is
still only as diffused as the very early days of the Internet.
No single one of these IPv6 events is going to cause an instant increase in
the amount of IPv6 activity on the Internet. However, they are breaking down
the barriers of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, allowing core Internet
engineers and operators to discuss "how" to deploy IPv6, not "if" IPv6 is
deployable. For the IETF, the value of this event will be seen in on-going
working group meetings, as more participants have their own first-hand IPv6
usage experience to draw on.
Information about the IETF 71 IPv6 event, including notes of lessons learned
and pointers to related materials, are available at:
http://wiki.tools.isoc.org/IETF71_IPv4_Outage
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From annerachel at gmail.com Tue Apr 1 08:18:30 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Tue Apr 1 09:18:34 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] =?iso-8859-1?q?L=27OMPI_s=27inqui=E8te_d=27un?=
=?iso-8859-1?q?e_nouvelle_vague_de_cybersquatting?=
Message-ID:
L'OMPI s'inqui?te d'une nouvelle vague de cybersquatting Par Estelle
Dumout
ZDNet France
31 mars 2008
R?glementation - *L'organisme mondial de la propri?t? intellectuelle a
enregistr? en 2007 une hausse de 18 % des plaintes pour cybersquatting. Il
craint que l'ouverture de nouvelles extensions pr?vue par l'Icann ne
d?clenche de nouveaux probl?mes.*
Le ? cybersquatting ?, pratique frauduleuse qui consiste ? enregistrer un
nom de domaine sous une marque d?pos?e par autrui, ne faiblit pas. Selon les
statistiques de
l'OMPI(Organisation
mondiale de la propri?t? intellectuelle), le nombre de
plaintes pour cybersquatting en 2007 a augment? de 18 % par rapport ? 2006,
pour atteindre le chiffre record de 2 156 dossiers.
Malgr? toutes les politiques de pr?vention d?ploy?es par l'Icann,
l'organisme international en charge de la gestion des noms de domaine, ? le
cybersquatting demeure un probl?me cons?quent pour les d?tenteurs de
droits ?, note Francis Gurry, directeur g?n?ral adjoint de l'OMPI. Les
fraudeurs sont particuli?rement actifs dans les domaines de la
biotechnologie et des produits pharmaceutiques, de la banque et des
finances, et de l'internet et des nouvelles technologies. Trois secteurs qui
sont tr?s souvent la cible des escrocs pour diffuser du spam ou tenter
d'extorquer des donn?es personnelles ? des internautes peu vigilants.
La plupart des plaignants sont situ?s dans des pays comme la France, les
?tats-Unis ou le Royaume-Uni. Les accus?s, eux, ?manent majoritairement des
pays anglophones, ?tats-Unis et Royaume-Uni en t?te, mais aussi de Chine. Un
quart des plaintes a pu ?tre r?solue ? l'amiable sans que l'OMPI n'ait ?
trancher. Pour le reste, les plaignants ont obtenu gain de cause dans 85 %
des cas, et ont pu se faire r?attribuer les noms de domaine litigieux.
*Une attention particuli?re aux proc?dures d'enregistrement*
Cette augmentation inqui?te l'OMPI, en particulier parce que l'Icann semble
d?cid? ? cr?er de nouvelles extensions g?n?riques, en plus des traditionnels
.com, .org, .net, .biz, d'ici ? la fin de l'ann?e. ? Le recours aux services
de protection des donn?es personnelles pour masquer des enregistrements
abusifs, et le r?le, en constante ?volution, de certains bureaux
d'enregistrement de noms de domaine ?, soul?vent un certain scepticisme au
sein de l'organisme quant ? l'utilit? de nouveaux noms de domaine.
? Tout se r?sume ? une question de choix entre quantit? et qualit? ?,
pr?cise Francis Gurry. Et si la d?cision d'ouvrir effectivement ces
nouvelles extensions ?tait valid?e, l'OMPI demande qu'une attention
particuli?re soit port?e aux proc?dures d'enregistrement et de r?glement des
litiges.
Copyright (c) 2008 CNET Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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From annerachel at gmail.com Wed Apr 2 08:32:31 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Wed Apr 2 08:32:46 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] IDNs - ICANN's second regional meeting open its
doors in Dubai
Message-ID:
AGENDA OVERVIEW
Day 1: ICANN Multi-Stakeholder Model and Introduction to the 3 themes
of the meeting
Day 1 will provide a high-level overview of ICANN as an open,
multi-stakeholder environment in which bottom-up, consensus-based
policy development process is undertaken. Members of ICANN's various
supporting organizations and advisory committees can share their
experiences and inform the audience of why they participate in ICANN
and how to get engaged in the process. Role of the multi-stakeholder
model in promoting security and stability in the global Internet.
After the introduction of the model and sharing of experiences from
the various ICANN constituencies, discussions on IDNs will start by a
general overview of the protocol revision.
Day 2: Internationalized Domain Names
This is a key area that ICANN together with the Internet technical
community have been exploring for the past few years. Over the past
couple of years though there has been a lot of work addressing not
only the technical aspects of IDNs, but also its policy dimensions and
implications. Many stakeholders from all over the world representing
the technical community, ccTLD managers, governments, businesses and
individuals have been engaged in the work being developed to get IDNs
deployed in the root zone. The aim of this meeting is to inform the
Internet community of the Arab region of the latest developments in
this area both at the technical and policy levels, and to share
experiences and knowledge among participants.
Discussions will carry on with regard to the IDN protocol revision
including focus on bidirectional solution and other issues
specifically related to the Arabic community, followed by a session on
IDN deployment experiences by language communities that use the Arabic
script. Also, the IDN ccTLD fast track policy and process and the role
of governments, as well as the Interim Report of an ICANN working
group for the introduction of a limited number of IDNC ccTLDs will be
presented.
Day 3: gTLD Experiences and Market Trends
Day 3 will focus on the gTLD space. The sessions will discuss Registry
/ Registrar operations and best practices, innovation in business
models, as well as the introduction of new gTLD from process and
business perspectives. There will be speakers from all over the world
including the Middle East.
This theme is addressed to Registries and Registrars, and particularly
those interested in the Middle East market, as well as IT businesses
and service providers interested in learning more about this area and
who may potentially become Registries or Registrars in the future.
* Login or register to post comments
--
Anne-Rachel Inne
From annerachel at gmail.com Wed Apr 2 10:11:56 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Wed Apr 2 10:12:11 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] EU Debates Cybercrime Law Enforcement
Message-ID:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hZkUbxbtXXDHIP0CsFkGbUOFPDuAD8VOKENO2
EU Debates Cybercrime Law Enforcement
By JAN SLIVA ? 1 day ago
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) ? Two groups working separately to boost
Europe's defenses against online crime will present proposals this
week, almost a year after most of the nation of Estonia's links to the
Internet were disrupted for days or weeks.
At a two-day conference starting Tuesday in Strasbourg, France, the
Council of Europe will to review implementation of the international
Convention on Cybercrime and discuss ways to improve international
cooperation.
Cyber defense also will be on the agenda when heads of state from
NATO's 26 member nations gather in Bucharest Wednesday for three days.
The leaders are expected to debate new guidelines for coordinating
cyber defense.
The Convention on Cybercrime, a binding treaty ratified by most
members of the 47-nation Council of Europe, provide guidelines to
protect computer users against hackers and Internet fraud.
The controversial agreement also covers electronic evidence used in
prosecution of such offenses as child sexual exploitation, organized
crime and terrorism. At this week's conference, the council will
discuss guidelines to bolster the convention to improve cooperation
between investigators and Internet providers, according to the
council's Web site.
Participants and speakers at the conference ? including police
officials and representatives of technology companies such as
Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., McAfee Inc. and Symantec Inc. ? also will
address training.
NATO's three-day summit, which is to focus on enlarging the treaty
organization and on its operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan, will
include a special briefing on cyber defense, according to the treaty
organization's Web site.
Some cybercrime experts are casting current Internet security
challenges in terms of terrorism, while others remain focused on data
loss, identity theft and fraud.
Marco Gercke, lecturer in computer law at University of Cologne in
Germany, said cybercrime poses new law enforcement challenges because
data can now be exchanged very fast over vast international reaches.
"Compared to regular terror attacks, it is much easier for the
offenders to hide their identity. There are at least 10 unique
challenges that make it very difficult to fight computer-related
crime," said Gercke, one of the conference participants. "The success
rate of cybercrime is very high."
Privacy advocates, the American Civil Liberties Union and others are
concerned that the Cybercrime Convention presses businesses and
individuals to aid law enforcement in new ways and subjects them to
surveillance that violates the U.S. Constitution.
President Bush signed the treaty in 2003 and the U.S. Senate ratified
it in 2006. The convention has been ratified by 21 other nations.
The type of assault Estonian Internet service providers suffered ?
which included denial-of-service attacks, where criminals flood a
server with so many requests for connections that it is overwhelmed ?
is particularly difficult to block because servers can't easily
distinguish between legitimate and bogus requests for access, experts
have said.
Estonian officials initially blamed the attacks on the Russian
government but later acknowledged they had no proof of government
involvement, though they said most of the computers launching the
attacks were in Russia.
Estonia has set up a center to tackle computer-related crime and wants
a global treaty on combatting cyber attacks because laws in many
countries are inadequate or conflict, which can make prosecution of
cyber criminals difficult.
The tiny Baltic state, which has one of the world's highest rates of
Internet use, has said the attacks damaged its economy because it
depends heavily on the Internet.
Russian officials deny any involvement in the cyber onslaught which
erupted during violent protests by ethnic Russians against moving a
Soviet-era monument out of the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
Web sites run by media outlets, government institutions and banks
denied access to users outside Estonia. Among other impacts, Estonians
traveling abroad couldn't get at their bank accounts.
The attack also included e-mail spam.
On the Net:
* http://www.coe.int/cybercrime
* http://www.nato.int/docu/update/2008/04-april/e0402b.html
From annerachel at gmail.com Thu Apr 3 08:16:27 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Thu Apr 3 08:16:52 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Vishing Attacks Increase
Message-ID:
http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=sa&id=1217
UNITED STATES: Vishing Attacks Increase
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Are you one of many who have received an e-mail, text message, or
telephone call, purportedly from your credit card/debit card company
directing you to contact a telephone number to re-activate your card
due to a security issue? The IC3 has received multiple reports on
different variations of this scheme known as "vishing". These attacks
against US financial institutions and consumers continue to rise at an
alarming rate.
Vishing operates like phishing by persuading consumers to divulge
their Personally Identifiable Information (PII), claiming their
account was suspended, deactivated, or terminated. Recipients are
directed to contact their bank via telephone number provided in the
e-mail or by an automated recording. Upon calling the telephone
number, the recipient is greeted with "Welcome to the bank of ..." and
then requested to enter their card number in order to resolve a
pending security issue.
For authenticity, some fraudulent e-mails claim the bank would never
contact customers to obtain the PII by any means, including e-mail,
mail, and instant messenger. These e-mails further warn recipients not
to provide sensitive information when requested in an e-mail and not
to click on embedded links, claiming they could contain "malicious
software aimed at capturing login credentials."
Please beware; spam e-mails may actually contain malicious code
(malware) which can harm your computer. Do not open any unsolicited
e-mail and do not click on any links provided.
A new version recently reported involved the sending of text messages
to cell phones claiming the recipient''''''''s on-line bank account
has expired. The message instructs the recipient to renew their
on-line bank account by using the link provided.
Due to rapidly evolving criminal methodologies, it is impossible to
include every scenario. Therefore, be cognizant and protect your PII.
Beware of e-mails, telephone calls, or text messages requesting your
PII.
If you have a question concerning your account or credit/debit card,
you should contact your bank using a telephone number obtained
independently such as; from your statement, a telephone book, or
another independent means.
If you have received this, or a similar hoax, please file a complaint
at www.ic3.gov.
By the Internet Crime Complaint Center.
From eleanora at aiti-kace.com.gh Fri Apr 4 17:13:34 2008
From: eleanora at aiti-kace.com.gh (Eleanor Afful)
Date: Fri Apr 4 17:16:49 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] On the IPv6-only Internet
In-Reply-To: <005601c893be$01bf4240$4001a8c0@GEFEXTRALAPTOP>
Message-ID: <12452509.16991207322014489.JavaMail.root@mail.aiti-kace.com.gh>
Thanks a lot for the information
----- Original Message -----
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Cc: africann@afrinic.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:02:44 AM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] On the IPv6-only Internet
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From khaled.koubaa at gmail.com Sat Apr 5 15:57:43 2008
From: khaled.koubaa at gmail.com (Khaled KOUBAA)
Date: Sat Apr 5 17:44:51 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Dubai ICANN regional meeting report
Message-ID: <47F78557.6010506@gmail.com>
Dear Colleague,
ICANN has concluded its second regional outreach meeting and first one
in the Middle East and North Africa region in Dubai from 1 to 3 April 2008.
I am happy to see such effort to join effort from stakeholders in the
region to achieve ICANN mission.
The meeting was for me a success, and will create new participation
channel from our region.
Mr Mohamed AL Ghanim, Director General, Telecom Regulatory Authority of
UAE and Mr Paul Twomey, President & CEO, ICANN opened the meeting where
special keynoter and personalities from region and outside as Mr Talal
Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman, TAGOrg, Director, Technical Affairs, TRA,
Mohammed Gheyath, participated in launching the work.
The first day was concluded after a presentation of the ICANN Multi
stakeholder model and very good presentation of Dr Al Zoman about the
Arabic Script. The second day was dedicated fully to the IDN where we
were specially happy to see the work of the Arabic Script IDN Working
Group (ASIWG).
The third day was more focusing on business by presenting some
registries and some success registrar story form region such as
TAGDomains and KuwaitNet, and some presentation about the new gTLDs process.
I hope that ICANN strategic plan is to organize another outreach meeting
in Africa, as I am sure all of you agree with me that we need such meeting.
This is why I hope that Anne-Rachel will do the best to help on this.
Khaled KOUBAA
From annerachel at gmail.com Sun Apr 6 15:38:44 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Sun Apr 6 15:38:59 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN this week
Message-ID:
ICANN Weekly Newsletter
News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
*http://www.icann.org
* *Week ending 4 April 2008*
------------------------------
Announcements This Week
*Public Comments Requested on Discussion Draft of Fast Track Mechanism for
Introduction of a Limited Number of IDN
ccTLDs*
The first Discussion Draft of the Interim Report of the IDNC Working Group
(IDNC WG) has been published for comment and input from the ICANN community.
4 April 2008
*ICANN Launches Contractual Compliance
Newsletter*
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has launched the
Contractual Compliance Newsletter, a newsletter that offers a snapshot of
the wide range of compliance work being done by ICANN.
3 April 2008
*ICANN Issues Advisory Regarding the Inter-Registrar Transfer
Policy*
Advisory available at
http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-03apr08.htm
.
3 April 2008
*Statement on Joint Project Agreement
Welcomed*
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers welcomes Wednesday's
statement regarding the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) mid-term review from
the United States Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA).
2 April 2008
*ICANN Calls for Expressions of Interest to Host 2009
Meeting*
ICANN is actively soliciting expressions of interest from organisations
seeking to host the first ICANN International Public Meeting in 2009.
31 March 2008
------------------------------
ICANN in the News
*These links lead to external news stories. ICANN is not responsible for the
content of these pages.*
*NomCom Seeks Nominees Into ICANN
(ITREALMS)
*
Independent entity in the Internet community, the Nominating Committee
(NomCom) is seeking for nominees into the various leadership positions in
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its
subsidiary agencies.
3 April 2008
*ICANN's Meeting in UAE to Discuss Arabic Domain Names Author: BI-ME Staffs
(Business Intelligence - Middle
East)
*
The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is co-hosting the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Regional Meeting
in cooperation with ICANN.
30 March 2008
------------------------------
Upcoming Events
7 - 11 April 2008 - AFTLD
Meeting-
Johannesburg, South Africa
20 June 2008 - EGENI Europe
2008-
Paris, France
[image: 22 - 27 June: 32nd International Public ICANN Meeting - Paris,
France]
* 22 - 27 June 2008: 32nd International Public ICANN Meeting - Paris, France
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From annerachel at gmail.com Wed Apr 9 10:10:57 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Wed Apr 9 14:10:29 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Dubai ICANN regional meeting - and others
Message-ID:
All,
Khaled, thank you so much for sending this update. This initiative of a
regional meeting is part of ICANN's experience in trying to be even closer
to regional communities on subjects that are dear to them.
I know quite a few people in our community would also like to have specific
meetings on subjects that are of importance to us and I would like to hear
from them what they think those subjects are. We need to plan ahead as so
many meetings are coming up for the end of 2008 if anything is to be done.
In any case, I would appreciate your thought as we have started planning for
2009 too. As you may all recall, the ICANN fiscal year goes from July to
June.
I would like to also remind all of you that the 10th anniversary of ICANN
will be celebrated on African soil: 2-7 November 2008 Africa, most probably
Egypt so please put this on your calendar. Let's make it a big reunion!
Best regards,
ar
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Khaled KOUBAA
wrote:
> Dear Colleague,
> ICANN has concluded its second regional outreach meeting and first one in
> the Middle East and North Africa region in Dubai from 1 to 3 April 2008.
> I am happy to see such effort to join effort from stakeholders in the
> region to achieve ICANN mission.
> The meeting was for me a success, and will create new participation
> channel from our region.
> Mr Mohamed AL Ghanim, Director General, Telecom Regulatory Authority of
> UAE and Mr Paul Twomey, President & CEO, ICANN opened the meeting where
> special keynoter and personalities from region and outside as Mr Talal
> Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman, TAGOrg, Director, Technical Affairs, TRA, Mohammed
> Gheyath, participated in launching the work.
> The first day was concluded after a presentation of the ICANN Multi
> stakeholder model and very good presentation of Dr Al Zoman about the Arabic
> Script. The second day was dedicated fully to the IDN where we were
> specially happy to see the work of the Arabic Script IDN Working Group
> (ASIWG).
> The third day was more focusing on business by presenting some registries
> and some success registrar story form region such as TAGDomains and
> KuwaitNet, and some presentation about the new gTLDs process.
> I hope that ICANN strategic plan is to organize another outreach meeting
> in Africa, as I am sure all of you agree with me that we need such meeting.
> This is why I hope that Anne-Rachel will do the best to help on this.
>
> Khaled KOUBAA
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann
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From annerachel at gmail.com Thu Apr 10 13:19:02 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Thu Apr 10 13:19:19 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Le programme de la reunion ICANN a Paris
Message-ID:
L'ICANN ? Paris : demandez le programme
!
http://www.stephanevangelder.com/archives/63-LICANN-a-Paris-demandez-le-programme-!.htmlThursday,
April 10. 2008
Les tours du M?ridien Montparnasse, o? se d?roulera la r?union ICANN de
Paris, du 22 au 26 juin 2008. Photo SVG.
L'ICANN vient de publier le programme de
la semaine de la r?union de Paris, en juin. Un programme l?g?rement
inhabituel pour une r?union ICANN et manifestement pr?vu pour toujours plus
d'ouverture vers ceux qui ne connaissent pas le fonctionnement de
l'organisme.
Premi?re nouveaut? : comme je l'avais r?v?l?
ici-m?me,
la r?union sera ?court?e d'une journ?e. La traditionnelle r?union du Conseil
de l'ICANN cl?turant la semaine le vendredi est donc avanc?e au jeudi.
Le semaine ICANN Paris commencera donc le dimanche 22 juin par quelques
r?unions qui n'int?resseront pas la grande majorit? des participants,
d'abord parce qu'elles ne leur seront pas ouvertes et ensuite parce qu'elle
rel?vent exclusivement des fonctionnements internes de l'ICANN.
Les choses s?rieuses commenceront le lundi, avec la "c?r?monie d'accueil"
(Welcome Ceremony) permettant une pr?sentation officielle de l'ICANN. Le
programme prendra ensuite son rythme de croisi?re avec ateliers et pl?ni?res
autour des sujets phares du moment.
Autre nouveaut?, certaines r?unions seront plus sp?cifiquement orient?es
vers les acteurs commerciaux et identifi?es par la rubrique "Business Access
Agenda".
Bonne nouvelle, les grandes questions qui se posent actuellement ? l'ICANN
auront toutes une place bien d?termin?e, avec des ateliers sur les nouvelles
extensions, les IDN, le WHOIS et l'IPV6.
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From annerachel at gmail.com Thu Apr 10 14:50:34 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Thu Apr 10 14:50:49 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] =?iso-8859-1?q?Les_r=E8gles_ICANN_de_cr=E9ati?=
=?iso-8859-1?q?on_des_extensions_accentu=E9s?=
Message-ID:
*Les r?gles ICANN de cr?ation des extensions accentu?s*
*L'ICANN publie une charte destin?e ? d?finir comment seront s?lectionn?es
les futures extensions ccTLD accentu?es. Un appel ? commentaires est ouvert
? ce sujet jusqu'au 25 avril 2008.*
La question des caract?res accentu?s ou IDN
ne
concerne pas seulement les noms de domaines. Des extensions
g?ographiques
accentu?es ( ccTLD en caract?res
arabespar
exemple) pourraient en effet voir le jour d'ici fin 2008 selon
l'ICANN.
Dans cette perspective, l'ICANN publie une proposition de
chartevisant
? d?terminer comment et sur quels crit?res seront s?lectionn?es ces
futures extensions g?ographiques accentu?es.
Le document s'int?resse particuli?rement ? 2 aspects : d'un c?t?, quelles
langues pourront officiellement pr?tendre ? la cr?ation d'une extension
ccTLD accentu?e. De l'autre, quelles entit?s auront la responsabilit? de
g?rer ces extensions g?ographiques accentu?es, une fois celle-ci valid?e par
l'ICANN.
*Seules les langues officielles seront accept?es*
D'apr?s cette charte, seules les langues qui ont un statut l?gal ou servent
officiellement de langue administrative ? un pays donn? pourront postuler.
Les normes ISO 639
et ISO
3166 pourraient
servir de r?f?rence pour ?valuer le caract?re officiel d'une
langue candidate.
*Appel ? commentaires jusqu'au 25 avril 2008*
Un appel ? commentairesest
ouvert jusqu'au 25 avril 2008 pour r?agir ? ces propositions, avant
une
pr?sentation officielle de la charte pr?vue lors du prochain meeting ICANN
de Paris qui se d?roulera du 22 au 26 juin
2008.
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Date: Thu Apr 10 17:14:38 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Posts Schedule for Paris Meeting 22-26 June
Message-ID:
http://par.icann.org/en/schedule
ICANN Posts Schedule for Paris Meeting 22-26 June
9 April 2008
ICANN today posted the schedule for its
public Meeting to be held in Paris 22-26 June.
"With two and a half months to go, there are some important changes to the
schedule that attendees need to know." said Paul Levins, Executive Officer
and Vice President, Corporate Affairs. First, the meeting will end on
Thursday the 26 of June. Historically the Board meeting has been held on the
Friday morning of these meetings. That has involved an additional day's time
and expense by participants. In response to feedback and in the interests of
economy, this meeting will see the Board meeting take place on Thursday
evening with the meeting ending that night". Mr Levins said.
"Furthermore, ICANN is keen to encourage participation by all stakeholders
and at this meeting we will be holding a series of sessions identified on
the agenda as Business Access Agenda targeted at the business community"
said Paul Levins.
"Finally we will be holding sessions dealing with the work of the
President's strategy group, new gTLDS and the future, workshops on IDN
fastrack, IPV6, protection of registrants, GNSO improvements implementation,
Review of the At-Large Advisory Committee and translation."
"We look forward to welcoming all attendees at Paris for what should be a
fruitful and engaging meeting" Levins said.
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From: emko at internetresearch.com.gh (Eric M.K Osiakwan)
Date: Fri Apr 11 14:53:08 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Telkom SAT-3 monopoly ends
Message-ID: <57690F08-50DC-4EC3-A4F9-FBD3D3D44DD8@internetresearch.com.gh>
Telkom SAT-3 monopoly ends
BY STAFF WRITER , ITWEB
[ Johannesburg, 10 April 2008 ] - Neotel says it has gained access to
the SAT-3 landing station, allowing it to bring international
services to SA users that are not carried over Telkom's national
network, at any point.
?Access to the landing station means that Neotel can now carry
traffic from Johannesburg to London on its own network?, says Neotel
CTO Angus Hay.
ICT stakeholders have previously noted that it costs as much to
transport traffic from London to the landing station as it does to
transport it from the landing station, in Melkbosstrand, to
Johannesburg. In some instances, prices between the landing station
and Johannesburg were even higher.
Customers using Neotel's NeoLink Global will receive an end-to-end
service that makes exclusive use of the second national operator's
network for connectivity within SA, says Hay.
Neotel has deployed its own equipment at the Melkbosstrand and
Mtunzini landing stations of the SAT-3/SAFE undersea cable system,
connected directly over its own high-availability optical fibre
routes into its national network, he says.
He adds that Neotel obtains international capacity on SAT-3 (routes
to the West) and SAFE (routes to the East) at competitive rates, and
is able to pass the cost benefits on to customers of services that
depend on these routes. However, he did not clarify as to whether
there will be price cuts in the immediate future.
Neotel will also able to offer long-term capacity on the SEACOM
cable, which will be available from June 2009, linking SA to Europe
along the East Coast of Africa.
?For the first time, users of international leased line
telecommunications services out of SA have a real choice of carrier,
rather than just of re-seller, enabling them to switch to their
preferred provider, or simply to implement redundancy to reduce their
business risk,? Hay says.
Neotel has previously noted that it would launch its services to
consumers this month. The second national operator will have a phased
approach, beginning with metro areas.
Meanwhile, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) is
in the process of finalising regulations prescribing essential
facilities.
ICASA also calls for interested parties to submit written comments on
the draft regulations in December.
Eric M.K Osiakwan
ICT Integrator
Internet Research
www.internetresearch.com.gh
emko@internetresearch.com.gh
42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North
Tel: +233.21.258800 ext 2031
Fax: +233.21.258811
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From admin at isoc.sd Mon Apr 14 12:47:44 2008
From: admin at isoc.sd (Mohamed EL Bashir)
Date: Mon Apr 14 12:48:20 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] AfTLD 20008 Johannesburg - Presentations and
Materials Online
Message-ID: <48033650.4040001@isoc.sd>
Dear AfrICANN Community
Please find online the presentations and materials of AfTLD 2nd African ccTLD event which was
held from 7-11 April in Johannesburg, Hosted by Department of Communications, Government of South
Africa .
http://www.aftld.org/SA2008/presentations.html
Best Regards,
Mohamed EL Bashir
AfTLD
From ymshana2003 at gmail.com Mon Apr 14 13:18:40 2008
From: ymshana2003 at gmail.com (Dr Yassin Mshana)
Date: Mon Apr 14 14:13:54 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] AfTLD 20008 Johannesburg - Presentations and
Materials Online
In-Reply-To: <48033650.4040001@isoc.sd>
References: <48033650.4040001@isoc.sd>
Message-ID: <627b2fd0804140418wcb71716s118d5876a15c11d2@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you Mohamed,
This is very good progression of this important process in the continent.
Well done one and all!!
Cheers
Yassin M
On 14/04/2008, Mohamed EL Bashir wrote:
>
> Dear AfrICANN Community
>
> Please find online the presentations and materials of AfTLD 2nd African
> ccTLD event which was
> held from 7-11 April in Johannesburg, Hosted by Department of
> Communications, Government of South
> Africa .
>
> http://www.aftld.org/SA2008/presentations.html
>
> Best Regards,
> Mohamed EL Bashir
> AfTLD
>
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From dogwallah at gmail.com Mon Apr 14 15:53:08 2008
From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim)
Date: Mon Apr 14 19:35:51 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] AfTLD 20008 Johannesburg - Presentations and
Materials Online
In-Reply-To: <627b2fd0804140418wcb71716s118d5876a15c11d2@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Dr Yassin Mshana wrote:
> Thank you Mohamed,
>
> This is very good progression of this important process in the continent.
>
> Well done one and all!!
I would like to add my voice to these kudos and thanks for all the
excellent content posted so quickly!
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Cheers,
McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
From abebemebrate at yahoo.com Tue Apr 15 07:46:11 2008
From: abebemebrate at yahoo.com (Abebe Mebrate)
Date: Tue Apr 15 07:46:30 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] AfTLD 20008 Johannesburg - Presentations and
Materials Online
In-Reply-To: <48033650.4040001@isoc.sd>
Message-ID: <365689.74359.qm@web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Thank you very much. It's nice to get these materials online specially for those of us who are unable to attend meeting.
Good work AfTLD!!
with regards
Abebe, .et Registry
Mohamed EL Bashir wrote: Dear AfrICANN Community
Please find online the presentations and materials of AfTLD 2nd African ccTLD event which was
held from 7-11 April in Johannesburg, Hosted by Department of Communications, Government of South
Africa .
http://www.aftld.org/SA2008/presentations.html
Best Regards,
Mohamed EL Bashir
AfTLD
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From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Tue Apr 15 08:52:32 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Africa's Internet registries lag
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* Africa's Internet registries lag *
* BY STAFF WRITER * * , ITWEB
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Key challenges
Some solutions
[ Johannesburg, 9 April 2008 ] - Africa lags behind other regions when it
comes to the size of its Internet domain registrations, with the biggest
registry being SA`s .za, which has 400 000 registrations, says
communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
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Country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries fast-track economic
development and social participation of citizens, as they attract more
consumers to use the Internet, she said.
Speaking at the African Top-Level Domains conference, in Sandton, this week,
Matsepe-Casaburri noted globally, ccTLDs account for 58 million of the
160 million domain names registered to date.
Generic top-level domains account for the rest of the domain name
registrations.
Africa`s contribution to the 58 million ccTLDs is so insignificant it did
not rate a comment, she said.
Most African country registries have less than 10 000 registrations, which
are unlikely to drive economic development and social participation of
citizens in those countries, she explained.
Sedo, a domain buying and selling marketplace, says ccTLDs attract more
end-users because their owners usually register them for a specific purpose,
such as providing an online presence for a small business.
ccTLDs are also rarely registered solely for parking and provide
geographically targeted traffic for Web sites, blogs and online shops, it
said.
*Key challenges*
Matsepe-Casaburri attributed Africa`s low ccTLD registrations to a lack of
knowledge and awareness of the Internet domain name registrations and the
role they can play in economic and social development. "Most people do not
understand what it means to utilise the country code top level domains."
Businesses and individuals also prefer to use generic top-level domains like
.com and .biz, because they believe it gives them more credibility, she
noted.
What is worrying is the fact that some of the ccTLDs are managed by people
who do not even reside on the continent, she said. This has social, economic
and security implications, as a ccTLD identifies countries in cyberspace,
she said.
"If we are to take full advantage of what the information era brings, it is
important that ccTLDs be managed on the continent, as Africa-based people,
with vested interest in promotion and adoption of the Internet, would be
responsible for it."
*Some solutions*
Matsepe-Casaburri encouraged African governments to improve their governance
of the Internet. There should also be open standards, with no particular
group or interest given preference, she added.
Government should also partner with appropriate stakeholders, to gain access
to their resources and insight.
The ICT sector has the technical know-how, academic institutions can provide
the much-needed scientific research and direction, and small and medium
enterprises provide a potential for registration of new domain names, she
said.
The youth and civil society can also play meaningful ICT advocacy roles,
while government has the resources and can provide political will, she
noted.
*Related story:
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From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Tue Apr 15 13:57:02 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] News of the net (several languages)
Message-ID:
34-37. Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains Network Solutions
is back in the news, accused of "hijacking unassigned sub domains and
delivering link filled holding pages for hundreds of thousands of sites".
Tech Crunch was contacted by GotGame.com who gave an example of theirs that
resolves to a Network Solutions holding page. A search on Domain Tools
revealed "there are 294,438 sites on the same Network Solutions IP address
as GotGame.com." So Tech Crunch "ran a test on the sites listed (for free)
by DomainTools and every single one had the same issue: unassigned domain
names with link filled Network Solutions holding pages."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassigned-sub-domains/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/network_solutions_sub_domain_parking/
http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_NetSol_Runs_Ads_on_SubDomains.cfm
http://www.domainbits.com/network-solutions-sucks/
38. The warning signs of another RegisterFly Jay Westerdal asks how another
RegisterFly situation could be predicted on the Domain Tools blog. Westerdal
writes the "best way to predict the weakness of a registrar or a possible
shortage of cash is when a customer buys or renews a domain name several
years out and that renewal is not paid for at the Registry. A registrar can
pocket the difference of the money and nothing bad will happen. The domain
will continue to exist on the Internet and the customer may not notice the
date field at the Registry." He also has an example of a customer who
registered the domain name cccp.com until 2017, but Whois, I presume,
Westerdal says was reporting the wrong expiration date. Westerdal believes
the registrar was cheating the registrant, and in short, that ICANN should
be monitoring situations like these.
http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/the-warning-signs-of-another-registerfly/
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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1. International Private Law Issues regarding Trademark Protection and the
Internet within the EU by Zuzana Slov?kov?
Abstract: Given the global nature of the Interest, online trademark
infringements always involve multiple territories. When any litigation is
brought, it is necessary to determine the relevant jurisdiction and
applicable law and then to resolve various issues in the recognition and
enforcement of foreign judgments. In resolving these questions, courts will
proceed according to their own international private law regulations, which
may differ considerably from state to state. Internet-related cases always
have the additional complication that it is extremely difficult to determine
with reasonable certainty the court with jurisdiction and the applicable
law. Over the years, the legal frameworks on civil court jurisdiction have
been unified somewhat on a European scale. Courts in the EU must currently
proceed according to Community law, particularly the Brussels I Regulation
and, in the near future, the Rome II Regulation.
http://www.jiclt.com/index.php/JICLT/article/viewArticle/60
http://www.jiclt.com/index.php/JICLT/article/view/60/46
2. Deconstructing an Experiment in Global Internet Governance: The ICANN
Case by Dr. Slavka Antonova [International Journal of Communications Law and
Policy]
Abstract: The model of a global multistakeholder collaboration in Internet
domain-name system management, as developed by U.S. government in 1998 and
embedded in ICANN, held all the promises of a paradigm shift in global
governance. Seven years later, the UN World Summit on the Information
Society in Tunisia (November 2005) adopted some of the vocabulary of the
ICANN experiment and recognized the multistakeholder collaboration as a key
organizational principle in global Internet governance. Yet, it
reestablished the leading role of national governments and intergovernmental
organizations, such as the ITU, in the regulation of the global Internet.
This paper examines what was lost during the four years of experimenting
with "multistakeholderism" in ICANN and what the stakes of the parties that
influenced the policymaking process the most were. Building on
Governmentality Studies' understanding of the neo-liberal project of
self-governance and Organization Studies' collaborati!
on theory, the document and discourse analysis of ICANN's practices
deconstructs the original model of a collaborative policymaking process
conducted by a private multistakeholder corporation and formulates the
expectations, stakes and strategies of the participating parties. Thus, it
is suggested in the paper that, because the Internet technical elite was
granted the managerial role in ICANN, the experts were able to influence the
agenda of the policymaking process and its pace, and ultimately to take over
the policy-proposal accumulation task and eliminate the working groups,
which were open to all participants. It is concluded in the paper that, with
the globalization of Internet, a cluster of new players entered the field,
such as the developing countries governments, and, in the UN WSIS setting,
the concerns of "protecting the public interest" reconnected with the
familiar international arrangements.
http://ijclp.net/article.php?doc=1&issue=12_2008
3. Info-communism? Ownership and freedom in the digital economy by Milton
Mueller [First Monday]
Abstract: This paper takes a new look at the debate over commons and
property in information and communications. It warns against recreating the
old communist-capitalist ideological divide by framing the movement for
informational commons as "info-communist." The spectre of communism haunts
the movement because of an unresolved ideological tension in its ethical and
philosophical foundations. The case for free software and open information
contains both deontological appeals to the virtues of sharing, and
consequentialist arguments against the growing intrusiveness of the
institutional and technological mechanisms used to enforce exclusivity in
the digital economy. The paper argues that the deontological case is a dead
end that leads to info-communism. The strongest case for open access and
freedom in information and communications is grounded in a liberalism that
takes maximizing individual freedom as its objective and relies on creative
complementarities between property a!
nd commons regimes as means to that end.
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2058
4. Geo-identification and the Internet ? A New Challenge for Australia's
Internet Regulation by Dr Dan Jerker B. Svantesson** People interacting
online may feel that they are in a different world. However, physically they
are still located somewhere at a geographically identifiable location.
Regardless of how sophisticated our presence in cyberspace becomes, this
connection to physical locations will remain. Consequently, even acts
carried out in cyberspace, are carried out by persons physically within the
jurisdiction of some government. For example, a contract entered into
online, is entered into by persons physically located within the
jurisdiction of some governments. Similarly, Internet defamation cases have
an offender and a victim, both of which are physically located within the
jurisdiction of some government. Thus, while undeniably we are witnessing a
decline in the significance of distance, the significance of location
remains constant.
https://elaw.murdoch.edu.au/issues/2007/2/Elaw_geoidentification_internet.pdf
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GOVERNANCE
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5. Is Faster Access to the Internet Needed?
When it comes to Internet access, is there such a thing as too fast? That's
a question U.S. Internet providers are grappling with as they place
strategic bets on whether or not to upgrade their networks to offer
high-priced, superhigh-speed Web connections.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120779422456503907.html
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DOMAIN NAMES
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- ICANN
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6. Prepare for battles over domain names An old friend sent me an email from
Seattle last week. Things have changed in the 18 years since I last talked
to Jothan Frakes. For starters, he's now an industry expert in the domain
name industry, which didn't even exist the last time we talked. What brought
about the email was a conversation I had earlier with Paul Twomey, President
and CEO of ICANN, an organisation that includes in its tasks the managing of
domain names and IP addresses.
http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Technology/10205046.html
7. Internationalizing the Domain Name System by Geoff Huston, APNIC The
objective is the internationalization of the DNS, such that the DNS can
support the union of all character sets while preserving the absence of
ambiguity and uncertainty in terms of resolution of any individual DNS name.
We need to describe all possible characters in all languages and allow their
use in the DNS. So the starting point is the "universal character set," and
that appears to be Unicode.
http://cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-1/ipj_11-1.pdf
8. au: Would you like yours filtered?
For the 100th time, filtering content at the ISP level does not work. The
federal government is currently looking at making ISP's provide a "clean
feed" into your home. However, a clean feed is not 100 per cent clean, can
prevent you from accessing legitimate sites and is easily circumvented.
Providing a clean feed does not address the major problems: children who are
groomed, harassed and bullied via email, social websites, chat rooms and
mobile phones. A more effective way to protect children (and adults) from
accessing inappropriate content is for ICANN to mandate categorisation of
websites, which is controlled through your browser. However, there is no
substitute for parental supervision and education.
http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7233
9. ICANN, IISI join efforts to promote internet awareness [sub req'd]
http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=210835
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- ccTLD & gTLD NEWS
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10. .ASIA adding 5,000 domains a day
.ASIA opened to all on March 26. We have the first official post-launch
stats for Asia's new Internet domain.
http://domainesinfo.fr/english/189/asia-adding-5-000-domains-a-day.php
11. New .au registrant transfers policy - implementation update The new
registrant transfers policy will take effect on 1 June 2008. In December
2007, the auDA Board approved a recommendation from the 2007 Names Policy
Panel that the registrant transfers policy be relaxed to allow a registrant
to transfer their domain name licence to another eligible entity, for any
reason.
http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-14042008/
12. 60% Growth in the Number of New .CZ Domains Within the six months from
the launch of the new registration system for the .CZ domain administration
the number of domains increased by 60 per cent comparing to the previous
half-year. The current system enables easier and faster registration. The
registration number growth has been definitely affected by prices; domains
with the .CZ extension are less expensive in offerings of most registrars
from the last year's October.
http://www.nic.cz/page/447/60--growth-in-the-number-of-new-.cz-domains/
13. .eu turns two [news release]
The .eu top-level Internet domain celebrates its second anniversary today.
On April 7, 2006 .eu became available to the general public within the
European Union. It quickly became one of Europe's largest top-level domains.
Today there are more than 2.8 million registered .eu domain names, and
approximately 2500 new .eu domain names are registered each business day.
http://www.eurid.eu/en/content/eu-turns-two
14. Over 300k .EU Registered in 2007
The past two years has seen the registration of over 2.8 million European
Internet identities, with .eu ranking as the fourth most popular top level
domain in Europe, and the ninth worldwide.
http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_Over_300k_EU_Registered_in_2007.cfm
15. Over 300,000 .eu web domains created in 2007 During the past two years,
businesses, NGOs and EU residents have secured over 2.8 million European
Internet identities, making .eu, at its second birthday last week, the
fourth most popular 'Top Level Domain' in Europe, and the ninth worldwide.
http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=954-26
http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=954-26
16. No change in .nz wholesale fee [news release] InternetNZ (the Internet
Society of New Zealand Inc) is leaving unchanged the wholesale domain name
fee charged to authorised .nz registrars by nz Registry Services (NZRS).
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2008/nzfee
17. February 2008 issue of 'The Browser' from InternetNZ InternetNZ have
published the February 2008 edition of The Browser to let people know what
is happening in New Zealand regarding internet issues. Issues covered
include InternetNZ's support of the Separation Plan for Telecom NZ; APTLD
marking ten years; highlights of the Local Government Broadband Forum held
in February which includes an article on local councils discussing open
access; Foo Camp 2008 - an invitation-only gathering of over 100 New Zealand
technologists where attendees gather to network, share ideas and discuss a
range of new and emerging technologies, including web applications, open
source programming and wireless and web services. From the Domain Name
Commissioner news that as a result of the Structural Review the Domain Name
Commission will cease being an operational office of InternetNZ and will
instead be incorporated as a company, fully owned by InternetNZ and that the
consultation has now closed for the .nz Dispute Resolution Service Policy
Review al!
though submissions are available online.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/browser/feb08
18. pl: NASK in the WOMBAT project [news release] NASK is one of the
partners of WOMBAT project (Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors and
Attack Threats - www.wombat-project.eu), planned for years 2008 ? 2010
within the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The primary NASK's
contribution to the project will be provided by - operating at NASK CERT
Polska team, with the support of the Research Division within NASK.
http://nask.pl/newsID/id/458
19. uk: Increased email spoofing activity During the past few days we have
become aware of a large volume of email spoofing activity involving the
nominet.org.uk domain name.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4907
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20. International cyberattack drill tests nations' responses Details have
emerged about "Cyber Storm II", a large-scale exercise carried out to test
how governments and critical-infrastructure organizations respond to
cyberattacks.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62040077,00.htm
http://news.zdnet.com/2424-1009_22-196879.html
21. DHS offers first take on Cyber Storm exercise [IDG] With its latest
Cyber Storm II exercise now completed, the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security said it expects to release an after-action report analyzing the
event, and is now beginning planning for Cyber Storm III in 2010.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9076458
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/85D4032CAAA6A4F0CC257427001A2EEB
22. RSA - New Zealand's lessons learned in Cyber Storm II [IDG] Earlier this
month, New Zealand completed its second Cyber Storm. Sponsored by the US
Department of Homeland Security Cyber Storm II gathered together about 2,500
people from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the US to
play out several cyber attack scenarios in which critical parts of the
infrastructure were disabled by computer threats. Although the results of
Cyber Storm II are not expected to be made public until August, some of the
participants shared their thoughts on the experience at the RSA Conference
in San Francisco this week.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/6EECC03D01294778CC257428001E8327
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;660807064;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;660807064;fp;2;fpid;1
23. Better co-ordination the key to fighting cyber-attacks Co-operation
between different organisations is the key to coping with co-ordinated
cyber-attacks. That's the view of Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary for
cyber security and communications at the US Department of Homeland Security
describing the build-up to the Cyber Storm II exercise completed last month.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11937
24. Nato allies form cyber defence command Nato is creating a cyber command
to protect its allies against crippling online attacks on national
infrastructure.
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39184605,00.htm
25. The New E-spionage Threat
The e-mail message addressed to a Booz Allen Hamilton executive was
mundane?a shopping list sent over by the Pentagon of weaponry India wanted
to buy. But the missive turned out to be a brilliant fake. Lurking beneath
the description of aircraft, engines, and radar equipment was an insidious
piece of computer code known as "Poison Ivy" designed to suck sensitive data
out of the $4 billion consulting firm's computer network.
http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_16/b4080032218430.htm
26. Study Finds 'Alarming' Ignorance About Cybercrime "Consumers' unsecured
computers play a major role in helping cybercriminals conduct cybercrimes,"
the National Cyber Security Alliance warns. At the RSA Conference on
Wednesday, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reported that U.S.
consumers don't understand botnets, networks of compromised computers that
have become one of the major methods for attacking computer systems.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207200253
27. Bush's Cyber Secrets Dilemma
There's a problem facing the Bush administration: It has $30 billion to
spend over the next five to seven years to keep the U.S. safe from hackers
and cyberspies. But to extend that protection to the nation's critical
infrastructure--including banks, telecommunications and transportation--it
needs the cooperation of the private sector.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/04/10/cyber-security-initiative-cx_tech_security_cx_ag_0410cyber.html
28. Underworld economy runs on bots and spam The world of cybercrime is
thriving on spam and the means of distributing it, say security experts..
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=73708
29. Presidential campaigns clueless about Net threats The 2008 presidential
campaigns are apparently oblivious to many of the threats that could damage
their candidates' reputations and fund-raising abilities or disclose
sensitive insider information, a security researcher said Friday.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9077198
30. Walker arrest means business as usual for botnet fighters When Owen
Walker was arrested for masterminding a massive international network of
compromised computers last year, it seemed like a major victory in the war
against botnets.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/0432E8683F616FB6CC2574270010D34A
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- DOMAIN DISPUTES
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31. Ace.com Owner Wins Arbitration
WebMagic Ventures, owner of Ace.com, has won an arbitration brought against
it by ACE Limited, an insurance company. This is an extraordinary case given
the value of the underlying domain name and egregious assertions brought by
ACE Limited. However, the panel could not charge ACE Limited with reverse
domain name hijacking. This is just one of many three character domain names
currently in dispute.
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/04/11/acecom-owner-wins-arbitration/
32. Failure to Respond To Trademark Threat Letters & Use of Privacy Services
Can Support a Finding Of Bad Faith There are many risks to domain investors
under the UDRP. The opportunity to capitalize on strong generic or
descriptive domain names is in many ways dependent on a solid understanding
of UDRP decisions and avoiding behavior which would increase a risk of
transfer. As investors purchase domains at higher prices, the ability to
protect those domains from transfer later on becomes more important.
http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/2008/04/failure-to-resp.html
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- IPv4/IPv6
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33. CAIDA and ARIN Release IPv6 Survey by Dan Campbell The Cooperative
Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and the American Registry for
Internet Numbers (ARIN) presented the results of a recent IPv6 survey at the
ARIN XXI Public Policy Meeting in Denver on April 7th. The survey involved
over 200 respondents from a blend of Government, commercial organizations
(including ISPs and end users), educational institutions, associations, and
other profit and non-profit entities. The purpose of the survey, conducted
between March 10th and 24th, was to capture IPv6 penetration data in the
ARIN region.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/84136_caida_arin_ipv6_survey/
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- MISCELLANEOUS
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34. Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains Network Solutions is
hijacking unassigned sub domains and delivering link filled holding pages
for hundreds of thousands of sites.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassigned-sub-domains/
35. Network Solutions hijacks customer sub-domains for ad fest Shameless
domain registrar and web hoster Network Solutions is hijacking its
customers' sub-domains, filling these pilfered pages with a sea of
money-making ad links. And you can guess where the money goes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/network_solutions_sub_domain_parking/
36. NetSol Runs Ads on Sub-Domains
Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Network Solutions is reportedly
using its customers' sub-domains to run ad-generating links, according to
The Register.
http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_NetSol_Runs_Ads_on_SubDomains.cfm
37. Network Solutions Makes Another Evil Move Not content with the profits
it makes from front running, Network Solutions has decided to scam people in
another way: it is now hijacking unassigned sub-domains.
http://www.domainbits.com/network-solutions-sucks/
38. The warning signs of another RegisterFly One of the questions I am asked
is how can you predict another RegisterFly situation. A situation where a
registrar goes bankrupt and stops servicing its customers. Lots of people
were left in a lurch last year when RegisterFly tech support stopped
answering tickets and RegistryFly didn't pay for renewals to the Registry.
The result was that the Registry started deleting domains of the RegistryFly
customers.
http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/the-warning-signs-of-another-registerfly/
39. Should we drop the "dot com"? by James Koole Seth Godin has an
interesting post over at his blog today in which he debates the question,
"Drop the dot?" as in, can we get rid of the dot com when talking about
websites. Godin says no, because saying dot com is easy to say - just four
letters, two syllables - and pretty much leaves it at that. But let's weigh
the possibilities:
http://about.tucows.com/2008/04/10/should-we-drop-the-dot-com/
40. Drop the dot?
... The suffix is useful, and we'll have it for a long, long time in my
opinion. That's because [dot] com uses just four characters to say, "we have
a website and this is the address for it." No need to say "our website is"
when you can just use four characters instead.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/04/drop-the-dot.html
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- DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET
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41. L'affaire Yahoo is tres banale to Madison Ave.
Advertising executives on Madison Avenue, who have always liked to watch a
good fight, are more bemused by the Yahoo-Microsoft action than concerned by
which company wins.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9917050-7.html
42. dollars.com Going for Big Dollars in Sedo Auction Sedo currently has an
auction underway for dollars.com, and with four and a half days to go, there
is already a bid for ?750,000. So far there have been 15 bids.
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=4605
http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/mega-dollars-for-dollars.com-sedo-auction.html
http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/04/13/dollarscom-going-for-big-dollars-in-sedo-auction/
43. Casino770 Acquires 770.com through Sedo for ?175,000 Sedo have announced
via the news release below they have brokered the sale of the domain name
770.com to Casino770, an online gambling operator. It is another example of
a simple domain name being acquired to make it easier for users to remember
the domain name, and to improve their brand profile.
http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/04/13/casino770-acquires-770com-through-sedo-for-175000/
http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/175-000-for-770.com-sedo-brokers-sale.html
44. Buyer of $166,000 Shoppers.com Can Keep Domain Name Imagine buying a
domain for $166,000 through a backorder only to be hit with a UDRP
arbitration dispute a day later. That's exactly what happened to Xedoc
Holding SA, which bought Shoppers.com at Pool in February. The domain was
previously registered at Network Solutions, but was not auctioned at NameJet
due to a glitch.
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/04/10/buyer-of-166000-shopperscom-can-keep-domain-name/
45. Domains going to auction for less then $10,000 I wanted to showcase a
few of the domains going to auction at the Domain Roundtable this year that
had reserves under $10,000. This is not the complete list, this is just a
sample of domains that are priced under $10,000 reserves to start the
auction.
http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/domains-going-to-auction-for-less-then-10000/
46. Deja Vu: Three More Six Figure Domain Sales Bask Atop the Big Board They
say good things come in threes and in terms of domain sales that was true
this week as we saw three six-figure sales at the top of our sales chart for
the second week in a row. This week's trio was more impressive in dollar
terms though. Last week's three chart leaders totaled $400,000. The three
that head this week's elite list more than doubled that figure, totaling
$810,000.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2008/domainsales04-08-08.htm
47. .NU and .SH Auctions Start Today! (10 April) .NU Auction: Back by
popular demand, Sedo is proud to present our second .nu auction. In the
first .nu auction some excellent domains like casino.nu and sex.nu were
purchased. Among the top names up for grabs in this auction are porn.nu and
store.nu.
http://www.sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=1709&tracked=&partnerid=&language=e
48. HouseRemodeling.com for Sale!
Home Improvement domains are worth a lot of money. So we are pleased to
present HouseRemodeling.com is going to auction with only a $50,000 reserve.
I can think of no better name for a HowTo site about House Remodeling
projects.
http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/houseremodelingcom-for-sale/
49. Spreadsheets and Country Western going to Auction Country Western
SpreadsheetWhat do Country Western and Spreadsheets have in common? They are
both owned by Rick Latona and they are going to auction on Monday the 21st
in San Francisco at the Domain Roundtable. It is your chance to own some
very generic domains. Spreadsheets.com and CountryWestern.com are killer
domains.
http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/spreadsheets-and-country-western-going-to-auction/
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- NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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50. Internet-Surfen: Aller guten Dinge sind acht Obwohl es laut Denic
derzeit knapp 12 Millionen registrierte .de-Domains gibt, konzentriert sich
der Bundesb?rger bei der privaten Nutzung des Internets nur auf acht
Lieblingsseiten, die er regelm??ig besucht. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt
zumindest das Berliner Forsa-Institut nach einer repr?sentativen Befragung,
die im Auftrag von SevenOne Interactive, dem Online- und
Multimedia-Vermarktungsunternehmen der ProSiebenSat.1-Gruppe, durchgef?hrt
wurde. Zwar w?rden jeden Monat im Schnitt 17 neue Seiten von den Nutzern
angeklickt, in die Auswahl an Webpages, die vom jeweiligen Nutzer regelm??ig
besucht werden (das sogenannte Relevant Set), schaffen es danach aber nur
wenige.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Internet-Surfen-Aller-guten-Dinge-sind-acht--/meldung/106323
51. Domain-Namen mit asiatischer Schrift f?r 2009 erwartet Edmon Chung, Chef
der Domain-Vergabestelle Dot-Asia, hat best?tigt, dass in verschiedenen
Arbeitsgruppen der Icann an der Weiterentwicklung von Internationalized
Domain Names (IDN), zu deutsch laut Wikipedia Umlaut-Domains, gearbeitet
wird. Chung ist selbst an dem Projekt beteiligt. Als m?glichen
Einf?hrungstermin f?r Domain-Namen mit asiatischen Schriftzeichen nannte er
Fr?hjahr 2009.
http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39189462,00.htm
52. LG Schwerin ? L?cke im Namensrecht?
Das Landgericht Schwerin hat eine Namensrechtsentscheidung getroffen, die
prima vista folgenschwer sein k?nnte: Durch nachtr?gliche Gr?ndung oder
Umbenennung eines Vereins, k?nnte man Dritten ihre fr?her registrierten
Domains nehmen. Ob das in der Praxis machbar ist, darf bezweifelt werden.
Doch die Entscheidung bleibt an dieser Stelle, mangels entsprechender
Erl?uterungen, zwiesp?ltig.
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/lg-schwerin-luecke-im-namensrecht-id667169.html
53. Domain-Geb?hren ? Holzauge, sei wachsam!
Holzauge, sei wachsam ? die alte Redewendung, die sich im Gesch?ftsverkehr
seit vielen Jahren bew?hrt hat und zur Vorsicht r?t, sollten derzeit auch
Domain-Inhaber beherzigen: egal, ob China, USA oder Deutschland ? nicht
jeder (oft nur vermeintliche) Service lohnt die Investition.
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/domain-gebuehren-holzauge-sei-wachsam-id667168.html
54. Schon n?chstes Jahr Domains auf chinesisch?
Am Rande der Konferenz E-Commerce Asia 2008 hat der Chef der
Domain-Vergabestelle Dot-Asia, Edmon Chung, best?tigt, dass bei der Icann an
der Weiterentwicklung von Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) gearbeitet
wird.
http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2008/kw15/s29591.html
55. ?.eu? feiert zweiten Geburtstag
Unter dem Internet-Domainnamen ?.eu? sind im vergangenen Jahr 300 000
Adressen neu hinzugekommen. Insgesamt h?tten damit seit der Einf?hrung der
Domain vor zwei Jahren gut 2,8 Millionen Privatpersonen, Unternehmen und
Organisationen ?.eu?-Seiten registriert.
http://www.main-rheiner.de/dpa/artikel.php3?id=752544
56. 5000 nouveaux .ASIA par jour
Le .ASIA est ouvert ? tous depuis le 26 mars dernier. Voici en exclusivit?
les premiers chiffres officiels d'enregistrement.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1488/asie-5000-nouveaux-asia-par-jour.php
57. Argentina, pa?s con m?s dominios de A. Latina Argentina es el pa?s con
mayor cantidad de dominios nacionales de Internet de Am?rica Latina:
1.580.991 en total. Le siguen Brasil con 1.276.570, M?xico con 240.428 y
Chile con 205.295. Los n?meros pertenecen al reporte de marzo de 2008
confeccionado por LatinoamerICANN.
http://www.rosarionet.com.ar/rnet/empresas.vsp?nid=37992
58. NIC Chile aclara situaci?n de dominio salvadorallende.cl.
Diversos medios de prensa han informado que un tercero habr?a inscrito a su
nombre el dominio salvadorallende.cl, publicando durante algunas horas en el
sitio web respectivo informaci?n contraria al ex mandatario. Tambi?n se ha
informado que NIC Chile habr?a corregido esta situaci?n, redirigiendo dicho
sitio hacia otro favorable al ex presidente.
http://www.leandrotoscano.com/2008/04/nic-chile-aclara-situacin-de-dominio.html
59. Tjener millioner: En amerikaner investerte 1400 kroner, n? selger han
for 13 millioner.
Amerikaneren Chris Clark (43) fra Maryland, registrerte internettdomenet
pizza.com i 1994, skriver di.se.
http://www.na24.no/naeringsliv/article1753968.ece
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e-barreau
La justice passe au num?rique
http://www.01net.com/editorial/378292/la-justice-passe-au-numerique/
Tous les tribunaux de grande instance se mettent progressivement ?
l'e-barreau, un r?seau qui facilite la communication entre les greffes et
les avocats.
Didier Forray, Micro Hebdo (n? 521), le 17/04/2008 ? 07h00
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l'article
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La justice entame sa r?volution ! Alors que la r?forme de la carte
judiciaire fait l'actualit?, un projet de ? justice num?rique ? est
?galement sur les rails. Nom de code : e-barreau. Ce projet a pour but
d'am?liorer les ?changes et la communication entre les quelque
45 000 avocats de France et les 182 greffes des tribunaux de grande instance
gr?ce ? l'utilisation d'un r?seau informatique priv? virtuel (VPN ou *virtual
private network).*
A l'heure actuelle, le syst?me fonctionne d?j? pleinement dans les
juridictions civiles. Avec l'e-barreau, les avocats n'ont plus besoin de se
rendre aux greffes des tribunaux. Toutes les informations concernant les
dossiers sont d?sormais disponibles sur le r?seau : ?tat d'avancement,
convocations, dates des audiences, mesures d'instruction...
Des donn?es mises ? jour en temps r?el Les ?l?ments sont mis ? jour en temps
r?el puisque directement puis?s dans la base de donn?es des greffes. *? Avant,
pour acc?der ? un dossier, l'avocat devait se d?placer,* explique Serge
Saccoccio, chef du projet e-barreau. *D?sormais, il ne va pas attendre pour
r?cup?rer une d?cision de justice : il la re?oit dans sa messagerie et peut
en informer directement son client. Le but est aussi de permettre un
traitement plus rapide des t?ches administratives d'un dossier. ?*
Thierry Wickers, vice-pr?sident du Conseil national des barreaux
- repr?sentant les avocats -, attend d'ailleurs beaucoup de ce nouvel
outil : *? Aujourd'hui, les avocats doivent parfois se d?placer pour une
audience administrative pendant laquelle le juge va simplement renvoyer
l'affaire dans trois mois, dans l'attente que l'une des parties effectue une
formalit?. Avec l'e-barreau, nous esp?rons qu'? terme, lorsqu'une formalit?
sera effectu?e, cela enclenchera l'?tape suivante : pourquoi attendre trois
mois si la formalit? a ?t? r?alis?e dans les 48 heures ? Cela permettrait de
rendre la justice plus efficace et de faire dispara?tre les temps morts. ?*
? Faire dispara?tre les temps morts ? Cette r?volution ne va pas sans poser
de questions. La justice peut-elle se permettre de tout num?riser et de ne
plus s'appuyer sur le papier ? Au coeur du sujet, la question de la s?curit?
des ?changes est cruciale. En toute franchise, Thierry Wickers balaie la
question d'un revers de main : *? La s?curisation informatique fait ?merger
des probl?mes qui sont latents actuellement avec les dossiers papier. ?*
Et le vice-pr?sident du Conseil national des barreaux de d?crire : *?
Aujourd'hui,
dans les tribunaux, les dossiers se prom?nent de bureau en bureau. Ils se
baladent sur des chariots et dorment dans les corridors en attendant une
audience. Et que dire des casiers ouverts des avocats o? les greffiers
d?posent simplement les pi?ces. Dans ces conditions, il n'est pas tr?s
difficile ? quelqu'un de subtiliser un dossier. D'ailleurs, il suffit de se
souvenir de la disparition, il y a quelques ann?es, de dossiers li?s ?
l'Eglise de scientologie, en plein palais de justice ? Paris ! La justice
version papier n'est donc pas un mod?le de s?curisation ! Mais, sous l'angle
informatique, il est certain que nous devons parvenir ? quelque chose de
plus abouti. ?*
En la mati?re, Serge Saccoccio se veut rassurant : *? Nous avons tout fait
pour qu'il n'y ait pas de faille dans le r?seau e-barreau. ?* Le syst?me a
?t? con?u comme un espace totalement ferm? et qui n'est, en aucun cas, reli?
? Internet. Pour se connecter, l'avocat doit avant tout raccorder son
ordinateur ? un bo?tier de chiffrement qui assure la mise en place d'une
connexion s?curis?e sur le r?seau priv? du projet e-barreau.
Outre ce bo?tier, l'avocat doit aussi placer sur l'ordinateur qu'il utilise
une cl? cryptographique (une cl? USB ?quip?e d'une carte Sim) qui joue le
r?le de contr?leur. La cl? contient le nom et le pr?nom de l'avocat, son
num?ro d'identification, son barreau d'appartenance.
Cette cl? s'accompagne en outre d'un code PIN que seul l'avocat
conna?t. *? Cela
fonctionne exactement sur le m?me principe que la carte bancaire, avec un
code personnel,* explique Serge Saccoccio. *Le couple bo?tier-cl? USB
garantit donc que c'est bien l'avocat qui se connecte. ?* Et si jamais
celui-ci perd sa cl? ou se la fait voler, il peut aussit?t demander
l'annulation du code : la cl? n'est alors plus d'aucune utilit?. Du c?t? des
serveurs, des sauvegardes r?guli?res sont effectu?es tandis que certaines
op?rations, comme effacer une pi?ce pour un avocat, ne sont pas permises.
D?j? 1 000 avocats conquis Quoi qu'il en soit, le projet e-barreau avance ?
grands pas. Alors qu'il a ?t? lanc? au mois de janvier, pas moins de
1 000 avocats sont d'ores et d?j? utilisateurs du nouveau syst?me. Apr?s les
juridictions civiles, l'e-barreau se d?ploie maintenant au p?nal avec une
brique suppl?mentaire : la num?risation des dossiers. Tous les greffes de
France sont d?sormais dot?s de scanners permettant de num?riser les pi?ces
d'un dossier. Les avocats peuvent obtenir un DVD avec l'ensemble des
?l?ments de la proc?dure au format PDF, des proc?s-verbaux aux photos.
Avantage de cette copie num?rique : gr?ce ? la reconnaissance de
caract?res, l'avocat peut lancer une recherche sur un mot pr?cis et s'y
retrouver plus rapidement. Et pour ceux qui pr?f?rent le papier, il est
toujours possible d'imprimer tel ou tel ?l?ment. La justice num?rique
pourrait m?me aller encore plus loin, en particulier avec l'interconnexion
des syst?mes informatiques de la gendarmerie, de la police et des greffes.
*? Un proc?s-verbal de la police serait alors aussit?t accessible par tous
et les flux de documents iraient beaucoup plus vite,* explique Serge
Saccoccio, qui souhaite en finir avec le papier. *D'ici ? 2009, nous
esp?rons que tout sera d?mat?rialis? ! ?*
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From: monsar04 at gmail.com (oscar Nsarhaza)
Date: Fri Apr 18 19:55:05 2008
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Bonjour ,
Tr?s int?ressant , savez vous dans combien des pays cette technique
judiciaire esr d?j? op?rationnelle ?
Ce syst?me doit avoir des inconv?niants mais lesquels ?
Le 18/04/08, Anne-Rachel Inn? a ?crit :
>
> e-barreau
> La justice passe au num?rique
> http://www.01net.com/editorial/378292/la-justice-passe-au-numerique/
>
> Tous les tribunaux de grande instance se mettent progressivement ?
> l'e-barreau, un r?seau qui facilite la communication entre les greffes et
> les avocats.
> Didier Forray, Micro Hebdo (n? 521), le 17/04/2008 ? 07h00
> [image: ?crire ? l'auteur] ?crire
> ? l'auteur
>
>
> [image: imprimer l'article] imprimer
> l'article
>
> [image: envoyer par mail] envoyer
> par mail
>
> La justice entame sa r?volution ! Alors que la r?forme de la carte
> judiciaire fait l'actualit?, un projet de ? justice num?rique ? est
> ?galement sur les rails. Nom de code : e-barreau. Ce projet a pour but
> d'am?liorer les ?changes et la communication entre les quelque
> 45 000 avocats de France et les 182 greffes des tribunaux de grande instance
> gr?ce ? l'utilisation d'un r?seau informatique priv? virtuel (VPN ou *virtual
> private network).*
> A l'heure actuelle, le syst?me fonctionne d?j? pleinement dans les
> juridictions civiles. Avec l'e-barreau, les avocats n'ont plus besoin de se
> rendre aux greffes des tribunaux. Toutes les informations concernant les
> dossiers sont d?sormais disponibles sur le r?seau : ?tat d'avancement,
> convocations, dates des audiences, mesures d'instruction...
> Des donn?es mises ? jour en temps r?el Les ?l?ments sont mis ? jour en
> temps r?el puisque directement puis?s dans la base de donn?es des greffes.
> *? Avant, pour acc?der ? un dossier, l'avocat devait se d?placer,* explique
> Serge Saccoccio, chef du projet e-barreau. *D?sormais, il ne va pas
> attendre pour r?cup?rer une d?cision de justice : il la re?oit dans sa
> messagerie et peut en informer directement son client. Le but est aussi de
> permettre un traitement plus rapide des t?ches administratives d'un
> dossier. ?*
> Thierry Wickers, vice-pr?sident du Conseil national des barreaux
> - repr?sentant les avocats -, attend d'ailleurs beaucoup de ce nouvel
> outil : *? Aujourd'hui, les avocats doivent parfois se d?placer pour une
> audience administrative pendant laquelle le juge va simplement renvoyer
> l'affaire dans trois mois, dans l'attente que l'une des parties effectue une
> formalit?. Avec l'e-barreau, nous esp?rons qu'? terme, lorsqu'une formalit?
> sera effectu?e, cela enclenchera l'?tape suivante : pourquoi attendre trois
> mois si la formalit? a ?t? r?alis?e dans les 48 heures ? Cela permettrait de
> rendre la justice plus efficace et de faire dispara?tre les temps morts. ?
> *
> ? Faire dispara?tre les temps morts ? Cette r?volution ne va pas sans
> poser de questions. La justice peut-elle se permettre de tout num?riser et
> de ne plus s'appuyer sur le papier ? Au coeur du sujet, la question de la
> s?curit? des ?changes est cruciale. En toute franchise, Thierry Wickers
> balaie la question d'un revers de main : *? La s?curisation informatique
> fait ?merger des probl?mes qui sont latents actuellement avec les dossiers
> papier. ?*
> Et le vice-pr?sident du Conseil national des barreaux de d?crire : *? Aujourd'hui,
> dans les tribunaux, les dossiers se prom?nent de bureau en bureau. Ils se
> baladent sur des chariots et dorment dans les corridors en attendant une
> audience. Et que dire des casiers ouverts des avocats o? les greffiers
> d?posent simplement les pi?ces. Dans ces conditions, il n'est pas tr?s
> difficile ? quelqu'un de subtiliser un dossier. D'ailleurs, il suffit de se
> souvenir de la disparition, il y a quelques ann?es, de dossiers li?s ?
> l'Eglise de scientologie, en plein palais de justice ? Paris ! La justice
> version papier n'est donc pas un mod?le de s?curisation ! Mais, sous l'angle
> informatique, il est certain que nous devons parvenir ? quelque chose de
> plus abouti. ?*
> En la mati?re, Serge Saccoccio se veut rassurant : *? Nous avons tout
> fait pour qu'il n'y ait pas de faille dans le r?seau e-barreau. ?* Le
> syst?me a ?t? con?u comme un espace totalement ferm? et qui n'est, en aucun
> cas, reli? ? Internet. Pour se connecter, l'avocat doit avant tout raccorder
> son ordinateur ? un bo?tier de chiffrement qui assure la mise en place d'une
> connexion s?curis?e sur le r?seau priv? du projet e-barreau.
> Outre ce bo?tier, l'avocat doit aussi placer sur l'ordinateur qu'il
> utilise une cl? cryptographique (une cl? USB ?quip?e d'une carte Sim) qui
> joue le r?le de contr?leur. La cl? contient le nom et le pr?nom de l'avocat,
> son num?ro d'identification, son barreau d'appartenance.
> Cette cl? s'accompagne en outre d'un code PIN que seul l'avocat conna?t.
> *? Cela fonctionne exactement sur le m?me principe que la carte bancaire,
> avec un code personnel,* explique Serge Saccoccio. *Le couple bo?tier-cl?
> USB garantit donc que c'est bien l'avocat qui se connecte. ?* Et si jamais
> celui-ci perd sa cl? ou se la fait voler, il peut aussit?t demander
> l'annulation du code : la cl? n'est alors plus d'aucune utilit?. Du c?t? des
> serveurs, des sauvegardes r?guli?res sont effectu?es tandis que certaines
> op?rations, comme effacer une pi?ce pour un avocat, ne sont pas permises.
> D?j? 1 000 avocats conquis Quoi qu'il en soit, le projet e-barreau avance
> ? grands pas. Alors qu'il a ?t? lanc? au mois de janvier, pas moins de
> 1 000 avocats sont d'ores et d?j? utilisateurs du nouveau syst?me. Apr?s les
> juridictions civiles, l'e-barreau se d?ploie maintenant au p?nal avec une
> brique suppl?mentaire : la num?risation des dossiers. Tous les greffes de
> France sont d?sormais dot?s de scanners permettant de num?riser les pi?ces
> d'un dossier. Les avocats peuvent obtenir un DVD avec l'ensemble des
> ?l?ments de la proc?dure au format PDF, des proc?s-verbaux aux photos.
> Avantage de cette copie num?rique : gr?ce ? la reconnaissance de
> caract?res, l'avocat peut lancer une recherche sur un mot pr?cis et s'y
> retrouver plus rapidement. Et pour ceux qui pr?f?rent le papier, il est
> toujours possible d'imprimer tel ou tel ?l?ment. La justice num?rique
> pourrait m?me aller encore plus loin, en particulier avec l'interconnexion
> des syst?mes informatiques de la gendarmerie, de la police et des greffes.
> *? Un proc?s-verbal de la police serait alors aussit?t accessible par
> tous et les flux de documents iraient beaucoup plus vite,* explique Serge
> Saccoccio, qui souhaite en finir avec le papier. *D'ici ? 2009, nous
> esp?rons que tout sera d?mat?rialis? ! ?*
>
> _______________________________________________
> AfrICANN mailing list
> AfrICANN@afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann
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Date: Sun Apr 20 17:38:14 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Nomination Period Closes for 2008 Nom Com
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Nomination Period Closes for 2008 Nom Com
18 April 2008
**This is an update on the 2008 ICANN Nominating Committee (Nom Com). On 15
April 2008, the nomination period closed to be considered for one of the six
open leadership positions. The Nom Com received 78 Statements of Interest
from candidates worldwide during an open nomination period that ran from 15
December 2007 to 15 April 2008. 13 candidates are female, 65 are male.
The Nom Com began its work in November 2007 at the ICANN Annual Meeting in
Los Angeles, California, and is evaluating qualified candidates for the
following key positions within ICANN:
- 2 seats on the ICANN Board of Directors
- 2 members of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) (from the
European and North American regions)
- 1 Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council member
- 1 Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council member
27 candidates are from Europe, 20 candidates are from North America, 15 are
from Africa, 14 are from Asia/Australia/Pacific, and 8 are from from Latin
America/Caribbean. Some candidates appear in more than one region due to
dual citizenship.
53 candidates have declared a willingness to serve on the ICANN Board, 42
have declared a willingness to serve on the GNSO Council, 21 have declared a
willingness to serve on the ALAC, and 36 have declared a willingness to
serve on the ccNSO Council. Please note that some candidates have asked to
be considered for more than one position.
The Nom Com will collect information and evaluate the candidates through
June 2008, when it will hold a face-to-face meeting following the ICANN
meeting in Paris, France. Final selections will be confirmed six weeks after
the ICANN Paris meeting. Following the selection of candidates, the Nom Com
will conduct due diligence. The selections will be announced by early
September 2008.
Information about the 2008 Nominating Committee is available at
http://nomcom.icann.org
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From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Sun Apr 20 18:18:34 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Content rules? Rules for ads,
Big Brother and nerds
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*Content rules? Rules for ads, Big Brother and nerds** *
http://www.connect-world.com/articles/e-letter.php
Content is king - or so they say. Still, notes here and there in the
international press, blogs, newsletters and chats with friends make one
wonder where content's kingdom is - in the UK or Nepal. I would bet on
Nepal.
I have long had doubts about the revenues most content can generate. The
problem is not content; it is the willingness, the ability, of enough people
to pay for it on a regular basis.
There is enough content produced to drown in, but much of it - look at
YouTube - is free. It's hard to compete with *free*; the price is right and
it sets a mark that all other content competes with. Content costs money and
consumers don't like to pay.
There is a time-tested remedy for situations such as these - advertising.
Advertisers are learning to love audiences they can target precisely - and
that is what online service providers can offer.
To target ads, advertisers accumulate data about visits made to the sites of
third-party advertising network members, and correlate consumers' surfing
habits with their personal product tastes and the likelihood that certain
types of advertising will appeal to them. The same data, though, can also
let advertisers draw conclusions about a wide range of personal behaviours
that many consumers would not like others to know about - conclusions that
can be embarrassing, erroneous, dead wrong, or even dangerous. Data
gatherers are often guilty - intentionally or not - of outrageous invasion
of privacy.
What are advertisers to do? What are the ethical ramifications? What do
advertisers know about you that you wish they didn't? What if this
information is misused or falls into the wrong hands?
A press release last week from the NAI speaks to these issues. From a
different point of view, these are some of the same issues I spoke of in my
eLetter at the end of March - about some of the risks inherent in the growth
of Internet access and the Information Society.
The NAI addresses the problem of dealing with the sensitive personal data
that Web sites and advertising networks gather by tracking visitors to their
sites.
The NAI, the *Network Advertising Initiative*, which counts Google's
DoubleClick, Yahoo's BlueLithium, AOL's Advertising.com and Tacoda among its
members, is a "cooperative of online marketing and analytics companies
committed to building consumer awareness and establishing responsible
business and data management practices and standards". They published a
draft (open for public comment until June 12 -
http://www.networkadvertising.org/networks/NAI_Principles_2008_Draft_for_Public.pdf)
of a "*Self-Regulatory Code of Conduct for Online Behavioral Advertising*".
The draft is the NAI's response to proposals made by the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission's last year.
The NAI's aims to protect the consumer's privacy, to control the abuse of
OBA (Third-Party *Online Behavioural Advertising*), provide consumers with
safeguards that inform them when OBA is being used, and allow them to opt
out - to deny permission for its use.
Few people that are not involved in online marketing are aware of the
systems in place for third-party online behavioural advertising. The systems
come in a variety of flavours, but the principles are the same. Online
advertisers often take part in *advertising networks*. The networks maintain
databases of all the users that visit the sites of any of their members.
They use cookies and other technologies that let them identify Web surfers
that have visited any of the sites of a given network's members.
Typically, when users visit the site of a member of a third-party marketing
network they are automatically linked to a third-party ad server site. The
ad server identifies the visiting computer and sends it a 'cookie' - a bit
of text that is saved by the computer in a cookie file. The ad server then
records the user's access in its database. Every time a consumer accesses
the site of one of the advertising network's members, the ad server records
the visit. In time, ad servers can collect a sizeable amount of data
concerning the consumer's habits, so whenever the ad server detects one of
its own cookies in a visiting computer, it will check its files and send
back banner adds most likely to be of interest to the consumer. The
advertising network site currently visited by the consumer will then display
the banner.
It all sounds very innocent and, in truth, most often is - advertisers can
narrowly target their ads at the consumers most likely to be interested. On
the other hand, when the information that is gathered goes beyond normal
marketing needs it invades the consumer's privacy. The NAI's proposed
guidelines sets forth an ethical framework for dealing with information
gathered from members of, as they call them, 'restricted' and 'sensitive'
consumer segments.
The NAI prohibits members from targeting online behavioural advertising to
sensitive consumer segments and to children less than 13 years of age.
"Restricted and Sensitive Consumer Segments" include, but are not limited
to:
1. Certain medical/health conditions?
A. HIV/ AIDS status
B. Sexually-related conditions (e.g., sexually transmitted diseases,
erectile dysfunction)
C. Psychiatric conditions
D. Cancer status
E. Abortion-related
2. Certain personal life information?
A. Sexual behaviour/orientation/identity (i.e.,
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender)
B. Criminal victim status (e.g., rape victim status)
There is another list of "potentially restricted" consumers. These are not
automatically excluded, but NAI members are expected to evaluate this data
within the context it will be used. This category includes - but, once
again, is not limited to data regarding: age /birth date, addictions (e.g.,
drugs, alcohol, gambling), alien status or nationality, criminal history,
death, disability, ethnic affiliation, marital status, philosophical
beliefs, political affiliation or opinions, pregnancy, racial
identification, religious affiliation or lack thereof and trade union
membership.
This is an explosive list of personal characteristics, but it is far from
exhaustive. It is great as far as it goes, but it only goes as far as a
handful of NAI members - and I am certain there is a longer list of equally
explosive characteristics that can be data mined that are not even covered.
Some of NAI's members are gigantic; even so, they cover only a small
percentage of the consumers on the Web. Then too, the rules depend upon a
great deal of case-by-case judgement by the members and the temptation to
interpret the rules leniently, loosely, is as great as the potential rewards
for doing so. Some of these 'sensitive' markets - racial groups, sexual
preference groups - are enormous and highly lucrative.
I suspect that, at best, the NAI rules will prevent only the crassest misuse
of data - its greatest strength will come from the consumer 'opt-out' and
the disclosure procedures to which members must adhere. I am certain that
much of the online behavioural advertising will just skim the line between
the ordinarily tasteless and downright bad taste - sanctimoniously defended
by their rigid adherence to the most liberal possible interpretations of the
rules.
The NAI rules are a step in the right direction, but without legally
enforced adherence by *all* online behavioural advertisers to a
comprehensive set of broadly debated rules, Big Brother is an ad agency nerd
fondling a database
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From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Sun Apr 20 18:50:00 2008
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_[AfrICANN-discuss]_La_justice_passe_au_num=E9rique?=
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References:
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Oscar,
Je ne connais pas le nombre de pays ou cette techinque est operationelle.
Peux etre que Me Sarr peut nous eclairer pour la region?
L'un des inconvenients majeurs pour moi est le meme que pour tout ce qui
repose sur le portable de quelqu'un, sur le serveur de quelqu'un ou sur
Internet des fois.. et qui est le meme que dans la vie courante -- Comment
assurer la securite et la confidentialite des donnees?
A la fin des annees 90 si mes souvenirs sont bons, il y'a eu une tentative
d'un reseau similaire pour la justice au Burkina Faso. Quelqu'un en sait il
quelque chose?
ar
2008/4/18 oscar Nsarhaza :
> Bonjour ,
>
> Tr?s int?ressant , savez vous dans combien des pays cette technique
> judiciaire esr d?j? op?rationnelle ?
> Ce syst?me doit avoir des inconv?niants mais lesquels ?
>
> Le 18/04/08, Anne-Rachel Inn? a ?crit :
> >
> > e-barreau
> > La justice passe au num?rique
> > http://www.01net.com/editorial/378292/la-justice-passe-au-numerique/
> >
> > Tous les tribunaux de grande instance se mettent progressivement ?
> > l'e-barreau, un r?seau qui facilite la communication entre les greffes et
> > les avocats.
> > Didier Forray, Micro Hebdo (n? 521), le 17/04/2008 ? 07h00
> > [image: ?crire ? l'auteur] ?crire
> > ? l'auteur
> >
> >
> > [image: imprimer l'article] imprimer
> > l'article
> >
> > [image: envoyer par mail] envoyer
> > par mail
> >
> > La justice entame sa r?volution ! Alors que la r?forme de la carte
> > judiciaire fait l'actualit?, un projet de ? justice num?rique ? est
> > ?galement sur les rails. Nom de code : e-barreau. Ce projet a pour but
> > d'am?liorer les ?changes et la communication entre les quelque
> > 45 000 avocats de France et les 182 greffes des tribunaux de grande instance
> > gr?ce ? l'utilisation d'un r?seau informatique priv? virtuel (VPN ou *virtual
> > private network).*
> > A l'heure actuelle, le syst?me fonctionne d?j? pleinement dans les
> > juridictions civiles. Avec l'e-barreau, les avocats n'ont plus besoin de se
> > rendre aux greffes des tribunaux. Toutes les informations concernant les
> > dossiers sont d?sormais disponibles sur le r?seau : ?tat d'avancement,
> > convocations, dates des audiences, mesures d'instruction...
> > Des donn?es mises ? jour en temps r?el Les ?l?ments sont mis ? jour en
> > temps r?el puisque directement puis?s dans la base de donn?es des greffes.
> > *? Avant, pour acc?der ? un dossier, l'avocat devait se d?placer,* explique
> > Serge Saccoccio, chef du projet e-barreau. *D?sormais, il ne va pas
> > attendre pour r?cup?rer une d?cision de justice : il la re?oit dans sa
> > messagerie et peut en informer directement son client. Le but est aussi de
> > permettre un traitement plus rapide des t?ches administratives d'un
> > dossier. ?*
> > Thierry Wickers, vice-pr?sident du Conseil national des barreaux
> > - repr?sentant les avocats -, attend d'ailleurs beaucoup de ce nouvel
> > outil : *? Aujourd'hui, les avocats doivent parfois se d?placer pour une
> > audience administrative pendant laquelle le juge va simplement renvoyer
> > l'affaire dans trois mois, dans l'attente que l'une des parties effectue une
> > formalit?. Avec l'e-barreau, nous esp?rons qu'? terme, lorsqu'une formalit?
> > sera effectu?e, cela enclenchera l'?tape suivante : pourquoi attendre trois
> > mois si la formalit? a ?t? r?alis?e dans les 48 heures ? Cela permettrait de
> > rendre la justice plus efficace et de faire dispara?tre les temps morts. ?
> > *
> > ? Faire dispara?tre les temps morts ? Cette r?volution ne va pas sans
> > poser de questions. La justice peut-elle se permettre de tout num?riser et
> > de ne plus s'appuyer sur le papier ? Au coeur du sujet, la question de la
> > s?curit? des ?changes est cruciale. En toute franchise, Thierry Wickers
> > balaie la question d'un revers de main : *? La s?curisation informatique
> > fait ?merger des probl?mes qui sont latents actuellement avec les dossiers
> > papier. ?*
> > Et le vice-pr?sident du Conseil national des barreaux de d?crire : *? Aujourd'hui,
> > dans les tribunaux, les dossiers se prom?nent de bureau en bureau. Ils se
> > baladent sur des chariots et dorment dans les corridors en attendant une
> > audience. Et que dire des casiers ouverts des avocats o? les greffiers
> > d?posent simplement les pi?ces. Dans ces conditions, il n'est pas tr?s
> > difficile ? quelqu'un de subtiliser un dossier. D'ailleurs, il suffit de se
> > souvenir de la disparition, il y a quelques ann?es, de dossiers li?s ?
> > l'Eglise de scientologie, en plein palais de justice ? Paris ! La justice
> > version papier n'est donc pas un mod?le de s?curisation ! Mais, sous l'angle
> > informatique, il est certain que nous devons parvenir ? quelque chose de
> > plus abouti. ?*
> > En la mati?re, Serge Saccoccio se veut rassurant : *? Nous avons tout
> > fait pour qu'il n'y ait pas de faille dans le r?seau e-barreau. ?* Le
> > syst?me a ?t? con?u comme un espace totalement ferm? et qui n'est, en aucun
> > cas, reli? ? Internet. Pour se connecter, l'avocat doit avant tout raccorder
> > son ordinateur ? un bo?tier de chiffrement qui assure la mise en place d'une
> > connexion s?curis?e sur le r?seau priv? du projet e-barreau.
> > Outre ce bo?tier, l'avocat doit aussi placer sur l'ordinateur qu'il
> > utilise une cl? cryptographique (une cl? USB ?quip?e d'une carte Sim) qui
> > joue le r?le de contr?leur. La cl? contient le nom et le pr?nom de l'avocat,
> > son num?ro d'identification, son barreau d'appartenance.
> > Cette cl? s'accompagne en outre d'un code PIN que seul l'avocat
> > conna?t. *? Cela fonctionne exactement sur le m?me principe que la carte
> > bancaire, avec un code personnel,* explique Serge Saccoccio. *Le couple
> > bo?tier-cl? USB garantit donc que c'est bien l'avocat qui se connecte. ?
> > * Et si jamais celui-ci perd sa cl? ou se la fait voler, il peut
> > aussit?t demander l'annulation du code : la cl? n'est alors plus d'aucune
> > utilit?. Du c?t? des serveurs, des sauvegardes r?guli?res sont effectu?es
> > tandis que certaines op?rations, comme effacer une pi?ce pour un avocat, ne
> > sont pas permises.
> > D?j? 1 000 avocats conquis Quoi qu'il en soit, le projet e-barreau
> > avance ? grands pas. Alors qu'il a ?t? lanc? au mois de janvier, pas moins
> > de 1 000 avocats sont d'ores et d?j? utilisateurs du nouveau syst?me. Apr?s
> > les juridictions civiles, l'e-barreau se d?ploie maintenant au p?nal avec
> > une brique suppl?mentaire : la num?risation des dossiers. Tous les greffes
> > de France sont d?sormais dot?s de scanners permettant de num?riser les
> > pi?ces d'un dossier. Les avocats peuvent obtenir un DVD avec l'ensemble des
> > ?l?ments de la proc?dure au format PDF, des proc?s-verbaux aux photos.
> > Avantage de cette copie num?rique : gr?ce ? la reconnaissance de
> > caract?res, l'avocat peut lancer une recherche sur un mot pr?cis et s'y
> > retrouver plus rapidement. Et pour ceux qui pr?f?rent le papier, il est
> > toujours possible d'imprimer tel ou tel ?l?ment. La justice num?rique
> > pourrait m?me aller encore plus loin, en particulier avec l'interconnexion
> > des syst?mes informatiques de la gendarmerie, de la police et des greffes.
> > *? Un proc?s-verbal de la police serait alors aussit?t accessible par
> > tous et les flux de documents iraient beaucoup plus vite,* explique
> > Serge Saccoccio, qui souhaite en finir avec le papier. *D'ici ? 2009,
> > nous esp?rons que tout sera d?mat?rialis? ! ?*
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > AfrICANN mailing list
> > AfrICANN@afrinic.net
> > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> AfrICANN mailing list
> AfrICANN@afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann
>
>
--
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From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Sun Apr 20 20:14:58 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] =?windows-1252?q?O=F9_l=92on_reparle_de_neutr?=
=?windows-1252?q?alit=E9_des_r=E9seaux?=
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O? l'on reparle de neutralit? des r?seaux
http://blog.lefigaro.fr/hightech/2008/04/ou-lon-reparle-de-neutralite-d.html
Vieux serpent de mer, le spectre d'un Internet ? deux vitesses (? multiples
vitesses, en fait) se remet ? hanter ces temps-ci les blogs
sp?cialis?s.
Cette question, qu'on appelle la ?neutralit? des r?seaux? (*net neutrality*),
est r?currente depuis plusieurs ann?es sur le web, o? l'on agite volontiers
l'?pouvantail de la mainmise de quelques grands groupes sur l'internet
lui-m?me.
*1. C'est quoi ?*
Pour faire tr?s simple : pour le moment, les ?tuyaux? du web sont les m?mes
pour tous. Lorsque vous prenez un abonnement ? Internet, vous acc?dez ? en
th?orie du moins - ? tous les sites du monde de la m?me mani?re et sans
restriction. A l'inverse, que vous animiez un blog consacr? au tuning ou que
vous soyez Benjamin Bejbaum, le patron de Dailymotion, vous disposez du m?me
acc?s ? la bande passante. Vos visiteurs arrivent sur votre site ? la m?me
vitesse, car vous ?tes trait?s de mani?re identique par les op?rateurs de
r?seaux.
Cet ?tat de fait vient de la ?neutralit? des r?seaux?. Un concept forg? par
le professeur Tim
Wuen
2005, selon lequel les op?rateurs web (donc les fournisseurs d'acc?s
et
les op?rateurs t?l?phoniques ou c?ble) ne font pas de discrimination entre
les sites. Google ne peut pas payer AT&T pour que les utilisateurs acc?dent
plus rapidement ? son moteur qu'? Yahoo !, par exemple. Cette neutralit?
touche ?galement les contenus. Un op?rateur r?seau ne contr?le pas le type
de donn?es qui circulent dans ses bandes passantes.
*2. Pourquoi est-ce un probl?me ? *
Mais les op?rateurs r?seaux ne l'entendent pas de cette oreille. Certains
aimeraient pouvoir ?vendre? une bande passant plus rapide ou prioritaire ?
certains sites. Pour gagner de l'argent, ?videmment. Mais aussi car les
gestionnaires des r?seaux (t?l?phoniques ou de fibres optiques) n'ont jamais
pu go?ter ? l'explosion du secteur Internet, dont ils assurent pourtant une
part physique.
Autre probl?me : la multiplication du peer to peer, des plateformes
d'?changes de vid?os comme Dailymotion ou YouTube, et de mani?re g?n?rale
l'ensemble des technologies plus avanc?es qui ne cessent de se diffuser sur
le web, consomment de plus en plus de bande passante. Ce qui oblige les
op?rateurs ? am?liorer sans cesse les r?seaux pour permettre ? leurs clients
d'acc?der toujours plus rapidement ? ces nouveaux services. Et leur co?te
cher.
Les op?rateurs aimeraient donc deux choses : pouvoir filter les contenus
type peer-to-peer (ce que Comcast a fait aux Etats-Unis fin 2007, provoquant
un toll?), mais surtout que les plus gros sites, qui sont les plus gourmands
en trafic, payent plus d'argent. Certains sites ?commerciaux? n'y sont
d'ailleurs pas oppos?s, car cela leur permettrait d'arbitrer la comp?tition
par l'argent : YouTube pourrait ainsi payer pour avoir plus de bande
passante que Dailymotion. Mais dans ce sch?ma, un site non commercial mais
c?l?bre, comme Wikipedia, n'aurait pas les moyens de survivre, puisqu'il ne
pourrait payer assez pour s'assurer d'avoir suffisamment de bande passante.
Aux Etats-Unis, le d?bat fait rage depuis 2005. D?but mars, le patron de la
MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America, le syndicat des studios
am?ricains) s'est explicitement prononc? contre la neutralit? dans un
discours.
La pol?mique vient de s'exporter au Canada apr?s que l'op?rateur
t?l?phonique Bell ait jet? un pav? dans la
mareen
choisissant arbitrairement de limiter, durant la journ?e, le trafic
issu
du peer-to-peer. Ce qui signifie que Bell surveille le contenu sur ses
r?seaux et viole donc la net neutrality. Et qui a abouti ? une situation
?trange : un site gouvernemental canadien proposait ? ses visiteurs de
t?l?charger, l?galement, une ?mission de t?l?vision en usant de la
technologie BitTorrent. Bell, l'assimilant ? du peer-to-peer, a brid?
l'acc?s, et les intenautes ont mis des heures ? obtenir la s?quence. D'o? un
scandale dans le petit milieu high-tech canadien et am?ricain.
*3. Quelle(s) solution(s) ? *
Au-del? de la pol?mique, l'affaire a le m?rite de poser une question que
personne, ou presque, ne se pose : ? qui appartient internet ? Aux sites qui
en font l'int?r?t ? Aux op?rateurs qui en poss?dent les c?bles ? Aux
utilisateurs qui s'y abonnent ?
La r?ponse est complexe. Pour faire tr?s simple : ? personne. Ou plut?t ? un
ensemble de groupes ? but non lucratif, d'acteurs priv?s et publics.
A la base, il y a l'ICANN , dont le
travail premier est de fournir des adresses IP (qui localisent chaque
ordinateur sur le r?seau) et des noms de domaine nationaux (les .com et .net
sont g?r?s par une soci?t? priv?e, VeriSign). Cet organisme ? but non
lucratif a ?t? cr?? par le D?partement du commerce am?ricain en 1998. Il
fonctionne toujours sur la base de ce qui a ?t? d?fini ? l'?poque, malgr?
les pressions croissantes pour en confier sa gestion ? l'ONU ou ? un
organisme international, car l'administration Bush refuse d'en abandonner le
contr?le.
Mais parall?lement ? l'ICANN, d'autres groupes s'assurent du fonctionnement
et de l'?volution d'Internet. C'est le cas de l'ISOC
(Internet Society), qui veille au d?veloppement
technique et moral du web,
ou encore du consortium W3C , qui travaille ? la
?normalisation?, la ?standardisation? du web et s'assure que la majeure
partie des sites utilisent la m?me technologie et les m?mes langages (html,
xhtml, etc), ce qui permet une navigation simple.
De fait, aucun organisme n'est souverain pour d?cider de l'avenir du web et
des r?seaux en g?n?ral. Or, l'enjeu qu'ils repr?sentent va croissant, et les
questions qu'ils soul?vent ?galement, on le voit avec la question de la ?net
neutrality?. Mais pour l'instant, tout le monde semble se satisfaire de se
statu quo. Pour combien de temps encore ? D?but avril, une association
europ?enne, le TACD, a adopt? une d?claration en faveur de la neutralit? du
net . Mais aucun
gouvernement ne s'est encore risqu? ? se positionner dans cette bataille.
Par Samuel Laurent
le 18 avril 2008
13h45
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From: bagolibe at artp.tg (Fabrice BAGOLIBE)
Date: Sun Apr 20 20:41:56 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] =?windows-1252?Q?O=F9_l=92on_reparle_?=
=?windows-1252?Q?de_neutralit=E9_des_r=E9seaux?=
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <480B8DC0.8000704@artp.tg>
Anne-Rachel Inn? a ?crit :
>
>
> O? l'on reparle de neutralit? des r?seaux
>
> http://blog.lefigaro.fr/hightech/2008/04/ou-lon-reparle-de-neutralite-d.html
>
> Vieux serpent de mer, le spectre d'un Internet ? deux vitesses (?
> multiples vitesses, en fait) se remet ? hanter ces temps-ci les blogs
> sp?cialis?s
> .
> Cette question, qu'on appelle la ?neutralit? des r?seaux? (/net
> neutrality/), est r?currente depuis plusieurs ann?es sur le web, o?
> l'on agite volontiers l'?pouvantail de la mainmise de quelques grands
> groupes sur l'internet lui-m?me.
>
> * 1. C'est quoi ? *
>
> Pour faire tr?s simple : pour le moment, les ?tuyaux? du web sont les
> m?mes pour tous. Lorsque vous prenez un abonnement ? Internet, vous
> acc?dez ? en th?orie du moins - ? tous les sites du monde de la m?me
> mani?re et sans restriction. A l'inverse, que vous animiez un blog
> consacr? au tuning ou que vous soyez Benjamin Bejbaum, le patron de
> Dailymotion, vous disposez du m?me acc?s ? la bande passante. Vos
> visiteurs arrivent sur votre site ? la m?me vitesse, car vous ?tes
> trait?s de mani?re identique par les op?rateurs de r?seaux.
>
> Cet ?tat de fait vient de la ?neutralit? des r?seaux?. Un concept
> forg? par le professeur Tim Wu
>
> en 2005, selon lequel les op?rateurs web (donc les fournisseurs
> d'acc?s et les op?rateurs t?l?phoniques ou c?ble) ne font pas de
> discrimination entre les sites. Google ne peut pas payer AT&T pour que
> les utilisateurs acc?dent plus rapidement ? son moteur qu'? Yahoo !,
> par exemple. Cette neutralit? touche ?galement les contenus. Un
> op?rateur r?seau ne contr?le pas le type de donn?es qui circulent dans
> ses bandes passantes.
>
> * 2. Pourquoi est-ce un probl?me ? *
>
> Mais les op?rateurs r?seaux ne l'entendent pas de cette oreille.
> Certains aimeraient pouvoir ?vendre? une bande passant plus rapide ou
> prioritaire ? certains sites. Pour gagner de l'argent, ?videmment.
> Mais aussi car les gestionnaires des r?seaux (t?l?phoniques ou de
> fibres optiques) n'ont jamais pu go?ter ? l'explosion du secteur
> Internet, dont ils assurent pourtant une part physique.
>
> Autre probl?me : la multiplication du peer to peer, des plateformes
> d'?changes de vid?os comme Dailymotion ou YouTube, et de mani?re
> g?n?rale l'ensemble des technologies plus avanc?es qui ne cessent de
> se diffuser sur le web, consomment de plus en plus de bande passante.
> Ce qui oblige les op?rateurs ? am?liorer sans cesse les r?seaux pour
> permettre ? leurs clients d'acc?der toujours plus rapidement ? ces
> nouveaux services. Et leur co?te cher.
>
> Les op?rateurs aimeraient donc deux choses : pouvoir filter les
> contenus type peer-to-peer (ce que Comcast a fait aux Etats-Unis fin
> 2007, provoquant un toll?), mais surtout que les plus gros sites, qui
> sont les plus gourmands en trafic, payent plus d'argent. Certains
> sites ?commerciaux? n'y sont d'ailleurs pas oppos?s, car cela leur
> permettrait d'arbitrer la comp?tition par l'argent : YouTube pourrait
> ainsi payer pour avoir plus de bande passante que Dailymotion. Mais
> dans ce sch?ma, un site non commercial mais c?l?bre, comme Wikipedia,
> n'aurait pas les moyens de survivre, puisqu'il ne pourrait payer assez
> pour s'assurer d'avoir suffisamment de bande passante.
>
> Aux Etats-Unis, le d?bat fait rage depuis 2005. D?but mars, le patron
> de la MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America, le syndicat des
> studios am?ricains) s'est explicitement prononc? contre la neutralit?
> dans un discours
> .
> La pol?mique vient de s'exporter au Canada apr?s que l'op?rateur
> t?l?phonique Bell ait jet? un pav? dans la mare
> en
> choisissant arbitrairement de limiter, durant la journ?e, le trafic
> issu du peer-to-pe
> Ce qui signifie que Bell surveille le contenu sur ses r?seaux et viole
> donc la net neutrality
viole donc la net neutrality et en m?me temps il y a risque d'atteinte
aux "les Libert?s individuelles( "Privacy")????
> . Et qui a abouti ? une situation ?trange : un site gouvernemental
> canadien proposait ? ses visiteurs de t?l?charger, l?galement, une
> ?mission de t?l?vision en usant de la technologie BitTorrent. Bell,
> l'assimilant ? du peer-to-peer, a brid? l'acc?s, et les intenautes ont
> mis des heures ? obtenir la s?quence. D'o? un scandale dans le petit
> milieu high-tech canadien et am?ricain.
>
>
> * 3. Quelle(s) solution(s) ? *
>
> Au-del? de la pol?mique, l'affaire a le m?rite de poser une question
> que personne, ou presque, ne se pose : ? qui appartient internet ? Aux
> sites qui en font l'int?r?t ? Aux op?rateurs qui en poss?dent les
> c?bles ? Aux utilisateurs qui s'y abonnent ?
>
> La r?ponse est complexe. Pour faire tr?s simple : ? personne. Ou
> plut?t ? un ensemble de groupes ? but non lucratif, d'acteurs priv?s
> et publics.
>
> A la base, il y a l'ICANN , dont
> le travail premier est de fournir des adresses IP (qui localisent
> chaque ordinateur sur le r?seau) et des noms de domaine nationaux (les
> .com et .net sont g?r?s par une soci?t? priv?e, VeriSign). Cet
> organisme ? but non lucratif a ?t? cr?? par le D?partement du commerce
> am?ricain en 1998. Il fonctionne toujours sur la base de ce qui a ?t?
> d?fini ? l'?poque, malgr? les pressions croissantes pour en confier sa
> gestion ? l'ONU ou ? un organisme international, car l'administration
> Bush refuse d'en abandonner le contr?le.
>
> Mais parall?lement ? l'ICANN, d'autres groupes s'assurent du
> fonctionnement et de l'?volution d'Internet. C'est le cas de l'ISOC
> (Internet Society), qui veille au d?veloppement
> technique et moral du web, ou encore du consortium W3C
> , qui travaille ? la ?normalisation?, la
> ?standardisation? du web et s'assure que la majeure partie des sites
> utilisent la m?me technologie et les m?mes langages (html, xhtml,
> etc), ce qui permet une navigation simple.
>
> De fait, aucun organisme n'est souverain pour d?cider de l'avenir du
> web et des r?seaux en g?n?ral. Or, l'enjeu qu'ils repr?sentent va
> croissant, et les questions qu'ils soul?vent ?galement, on le voit
> avec la question de la ?net neutrality?. Mais pour l'instant, tout le
> monde semble se satisfaire de se statu quo. Pour combien de temps
> encore ? D?but avril, une association europ?enne, le TACD, a adopt?
> une d?claration en faveur de la neutralit? du net
> . Mais aucun
> gouvernement ne s'est encore risqu? ? se positionner dans cette
> bataille.
>
> Par Samuel Laurent
> le 18 avril
> 2008 13h45 | Lien permanent
>
> | Commentaires (0)
>
> | Trackbacks (0)
>
>
>
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From bagolibe at artp.tg Sun Apr 20 20:48:55 2008
From: bagolibe at artp.tg (Fabrice BAGOLIBE)
Date: Sun Apr 20 20:50:58 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] =?windows-1252?Q?O=F9_l=92on_reparle_?=
=?windows-1252?Q?de_neutralit=E9_des_r=E9seaux?=
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <480B9017.9090408@artp.tg>
Anne-Rachel Inn? a ?crit :
>
> La pol?mique vient de s'exporter au Canada apr?s que l'op?rateur
> t?l?phonique Bell ait jet? un pav? dans la mare
> en
> choisissant arbitrairement de limiter, durant la journ?e, le trafic
> issu du peer-to-peer. Ce qui signifie que Bell surveille le contenu
> sur ses r?seaux et viole donc la net neutrality.
viole donc la net neutrality et en m?me temps il y a risque d'atteinte
aux "les Libert?s individuelles( "Privacy").
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From annerachel at gmail.com Mon Apr 21 12:32:37 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Mon Apr 21 12:32:54 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Chocolate.com -- this is fun and yummy
Message-ID:
All,
there are two articles that I liked in this week's economist -- both have
substances that shoot me the good way. This one is more Internet like so
some of you may not thrown at me ;-) and the other is about coffee :
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11058477
ar
Technology start-ups
Chocolate.com
Apr 17th 2008 | SAN FRANCISCO
>From *The Economist* print edition
A start-up innovates in an unexpected field
TCHO, a small company based in a warehouse in San Francisco, sounds like a
typical high-tech start-up. The brainchild of an engineer who previously
worked on computer-vision systems for the space shuttle, the firm is
developing "beta" versions of its new product. Volunteer testers are invited
to submit feedback via the web. Louis Rossetto, the co-founder of *Wired*, a
technology magazine, is on board as chief executive. All the employees have
stock options. But Tcho is not about to launch a new website or mobile
device; it is a technology firm that makes chocolate.
Its founders believe there is vast scope for innovation in the way chocolate
is made and sold. Most cocoa farmers have never tasted chocolate, and
produce cocoa beans without any idea of how they will be used, says Timothy
Childs, Tcho's founder. The resulting chocolate is classified and sold in a
very unsophisticated way, labelled at best by country of origin and
percentage cocoa solids. (It is rather like labelling a wine "France, 13%
alcohol".) So Mr Childs wants to put things on a more technical footing?just
as Americans formalised techniques for winemaking in the 1970s. He has
developed ways to analyse and grade beans, and a six-segment "flavour wheel"
to map out their natural aromas. Using a variety of jury-rigged spice
grinders, heaters and temperature sensors, he has worked out how to get
cocoa beans to reveal their complex flavours and to get chocolate to
solidify evenly.
[image:
Click Here!]
Tcho is also working with cocoa growers, in conjunction with two research
groups it has equipped with satellite-internet connections, to help them
improve the quality and consistency of their beans. Tcho hopes that the most
effective techniques will then spread in an "open source" fashion to other
growers. Beans will be turned into chocolate on Tcho's elaborate production
line, which is being used as a test-bed for remote video-monitoring of
industrial processes by researchers at Fuji Xerox in Palo Alto.
The firm will sell much of its chocolate to other food companies, for use in
other products. Such customers, says Mr Rossetto, like the idea of buying
chocolate based on a consistent flavour profile; Tcho's flavour wheel could
become a de facto industry standard, he suggests, as IBM's PC did in the
computer industry. Tcho will also sell chocolate using its
website,
and through a shop and visitors' centre due to open in the summer.
San Francisco, a capital of food culture as well as technology, is the
logical place to produce a high-tech chocolate. John Kehoe, Tcho's sourcing
director, says chocolate is going down the trail blazed by speciality
coffee, as consumers become more discerning. Chocolate today, he says, is
where coffee was five years ago. Having been ahead of the curve with *Wired*,
which launched just as the web was emerging, Mr Rossetto seems to have
spotted another trend.
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From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Mon Apr 21 13:13:20 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN - GNSO - Policy Updates: a new directory
available
Message-ID:
Please find at:
http://gnso.icann.org/policy-update/
Policy Updates
a new directory on the left hand navigation bar of the GNSO website:
http://gnso.icann.org/
In this new directory, you will find the monthly updates of the brief
summaries of a number of significant Internet policy issues that are
being addressed by the ICANN community's bottom-up policy development
structure, as well as other significant activities of interest.
This latest monthly update is provided by ICANN's Policy Staff in
response to community requests for periodic summaries of ICANN's policy
work.
Links to additional information are included in the updates and we
encourage you to go beyond these brief staff summaries and learn more
about the ICANN community's work. Our goal is to maximize transparency
and broad community participation in ICANN's policy development
activities. We continue to investigate more effective and efficient ways
to communicate the relevance, importance and status of ongoing issues to
the ICANN community. Comments and suggestions on how we can improve
these efforts are most welcome and should be sent to
policy-staff@icann.org.
--
Glen de Saint G?ry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
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http://gnso.icann.org
*Compose Email:*
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From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Wed Apr 23 16:10:48 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] =?windows-1252?q?L=92Internet_des_Objets_=3A_?=
=?windows-1252?q?Identification=2C_RFID_et_Multilinguisme?=
Message-ID:
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/chronique/193/emmanuel-gillet-udrp-les-criteres-de-l-usage-commercial-legitime.php
par Nicolas BOUTMY
L'Internet des Objets : Identification, RFID et Multilinguisme
Vendredi 18 avril ?tait organis? par les soci?t?s SAFRAN et GS1 un
colloque sur cette nouvelle r?volution num?rique qu'est l'Internet des
Objets et dont l'architecture n'est pas sans rapport avec le syst?me
DNS de nos noms de domaine.
POINTS ESSENTIELS
? Quelle est la fonction de l'Internet des objets ?
prolonger l'Internet au monde r?el en fixant des ?tiquettes munies de
codes ou d'URLs aux objets ou aux lieux. Ces ?tiquettes pourront ?tre
lues par un dispositif mobile sans fil et des informations relatives ?
ces objets et lieux seront retrouv?es et affich?es.
? Une standardisation sur le mod?le du syst?me DNS des noms de domaine :
L'EPC (Electronic Product Code) est un possible standard en la mati?re
et qui repose directement sur le syst?me O.N.S. (Object Naming
Service).
? L'usage des puces RFID:
Les puces RFID ? la base de ce syst?me pourront nous informer sur la
tra?abilit? de nos aliments (lieu de l'?levage, quelle alimentation
l'animal ? re?u, par quel ?tablissement il est pass? etc?), aider ? la
pr?vention des feux de for?ts, mais aussi am?liorer la gestion
d'incidents li?s au trafic etc?
Philippe RENARD (Soci?t? Fran?aise de Terminologie) et accessoirement
? l'origine du mot "logiciel".
D'apr?s Wikipedia, "l'Internet des objets a pour but de prolonger
l'Internet au monde r?el en fixant des ?tiquettes munies de codes ou
d'URLs aux objets ou aux lieux. Ces ?tiquettes pourront ?tre lues par
un dispositif mobile sans fil et des informations relatives ? ces
objets et lieux seront retrouv?es et affich?es."
Vaste programme abord? lors d'un colloque organis? la semaine derni?re
par Chantal Lebrument dans les locaux du Groupe SAFRAN. Les nombreux
intervenants, dont Pierre Georget, Directeur g?n?ral de GS1 France et
Pr?sident de GS1 Europe, Jean-Michel Cornu, Directeur Scientifique
FING, Bernard Benhamou, D?l?gu? aux Usages de l'Internet (DUI) ou
encore Philippe Renard de la Soci?t? Fran?aise de Terminologie, ont
d?taill? cette technologie.
N?cessit? d'une standardisation
L'?mergence de nouvelles technologies requiert l'usage de standard.
L'internet des Objets n'?chappe bien ?videmment pas ? la r?gle et
Pierre Georget, Directeur g?n?ral de GS1 France (organisme de
standardisation) a pu saisir l'occasion de pr?senter l'EPC (Electronic
Product Code), possible standard en la mati?re et qui repose
directement sur le syst?me O.N.S. (Object Naming Service).
Le but de l'EPC est de remplacer nos vieillissants codes-barres ne
contenant pas assez d'informations et de cr?er un langage commun pour
tous. Pour fonctionner, l'EPC n?cessite un syst?me global, accessible
par tous et partout. Ce syst?me, appel? O.N.S., est directement
inspir? de l'architecture DNS que nous connaissons pour les noms de
domaine. Il s'agit en quelques sortes d'un sous-r?seau dont l'unique
but est de permettre aux informations propres aux objets de circuler.
Des usages insoup?onn?s
La r?duction des co?ts est l'un des objectifs avou?s de cette
identification num?rique. Elle permet de suivre la cha?ne de
production dans son int?gralit? et permet ainsi une rationalisation
des co?ts (de logistique notamment).
Se restreindre ? un aspect purement ?conomique serait pourtant une
erreur. Lors de son intervention, Jean-Michel Cornu, Directeur
Scientifique de la FING (Fondation Internet Nouvelle G?n?ration), a
donn? quelques pistes sur les possibles futurs usages de cet internet
des objets. Les puces RFID notamment utilis? ? la base de ce syst?me
pourront, outre nous informer sur la tra?abilit? de nos aliments (lieu
de l'?levage, quelle alimentation l'animal ? re?u, par quel
?tablissement il est pass? etc?), aider ? la pr?vention des feux de
for?ts (poussi?res intelligentes de capteurs distribuant l'information
? un central par exemple), mais aussi am?liorer la gestion d'incidents
li?s au trafic etc?
Un enjeu majeur
Cependant, le succ?s de ce nouveau "r?seau" reposera sur plusieurs points :
La miniaturisation et la r?duction des co?ts pour une int?gration plus rapide ;
Une communication interop?rable entre les diff?rents syst?mes
existants (EPC, NFC - Near Field Communication) ;
Une autonomie des puces devant ?tre au moins ?gale ? la dur?e de vie
de l'objet ;
Et enfin, une gestion transparente des r?seaux impliquant une
auto-configuration des objets et des r?seaux, mais ?galement la
possibilit? de d?tourner l'usage initial de la puce (par exemple :
puce du t?l?phone permettant de suivre l'?tat trafic dans un lieu
donn?). Les d?fis sont donc nombreux et Bernard Benhamou, D?l?gu? aux
Usages de l'Internet (DUI), insiste particuli?rement sur la n?cessit?
de l'implication et des investissements de la France et de l'Europe
dans cette nouvelle technologie, avec comme id?e sous-jacente de ne
pas reproduire les erreurs du pass? sur le d?veloppement de l'Internet
et l'h?g?monie am?ricaine.
Publi? le lundi 21 avril 2008
Copyright (c) DomainesInfo. Tous droits r?serv?s. Imprim? le 23/04/2008
From michuki at swiftkenya.com Fri Apr 25 14:11:10 2008
From: michuki at swiftkenya.com (Michuki Mwangi)
Date: Fri Apr 25 14:49:33 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] The Joint AfNOG'2008,
AfriNIC-8 and INET Africa Day meetings Rabat Morocco
Message-ID: <4811CA5E.6000907@swiftkenya.com>
Dear all,
We are pleased to once again announce the joint AfNOG'2008, AfriNIC-8
and ISOC INET Africa meetings to be held from June 3rd - 6th, 2008 at
Golden Tulip Farah Hotel in Rabat, Morocco.
The four day meeting events will provide a public forum for the African
Internet community and policy makers to discuss different aspects of the
Internet on the continent, from Network Operations to Internet Resources
Management Policies and Standards development.
The 2008 INET Africa meeting, to take place on 6th June, is organized by
the Internet Society (ISOC) and themed "African Interconnection - the
value proposition". The meeting will aim to demystify interconnection,
transit and peering in the African region by demonstrating the
interconnection business case.
For your convenience you are invited to review the published agenda at
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/08/
For meeting and registration details, please see:
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-8/registration.htm
or contact bekele@isoc.org and mwangi@isoc.org.
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat
Regards,
---------------------------------
Michuki Mwangi
Senior Education Manager
ISOC
Tel: +254 733 570705
Email: mwangi@isoc.org
From annerachel at gmail.com Tue Apr 29 00:03:49 2008
From: annerachel at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anne-Rachel_Inn=E9?=)
Date: Tue Apr 29 00:10:47 2008
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Africa warms to trademarks
Message-ID:
BRANDING
Africa warms to trademarks
Darren Olivier
24 April 2008
The protection of brands is becoming increasingly important in Africa,
particularly in light of the upcoming World Cup and some recent court
decisions. Darren Olivier, director of Bowman Gilfillan Inc, explains.
Brand investment into Africa is modest by world standards as companies
in the West have tended to focus on emerging economies in Asia and the
Middle East.
The number of trademarks filed annually by African-based companies is
not large either. For example, the total number of filings at the
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) using African
addresses between 1996 and 2007 was 2,288 - or just over 1% of filings
originating from outside the European Union.
However, there are recent signs of a 'trademark warming' in Africa:
? African governments are becoming increasingly outspoken on the need
to protect intellectual property;
? Counterfeiting is rising significantly, showing both a market for
brands and a need for proper brand protection;
? Africa's largest inward investment deal was signed last year;
? The continent's European filings at OHIM were at their highest in
2007 relative to previous years; and
? The continent will host FIFA's World Cup Football event, a
traditional showcase for multinational brands, in 2010.
Bearing in mind that the African continent is the second most populous
in the world, and hence a significant potential market, Africa's call
for attention on the trademark manager's budget spreadsheet should be
getting louder.
This column focuses on recent developments on the continent affecting
trademark management decisions.
Domain names
South Africa has launched its own alternative dispute resolution
procedures and rules in relation to its country-code top level domain
(ccTLD), while the Nigerian Internet Registration Association has
agreed to regulate '.ng', Nigeria's ccTLD.
Both of these developments should:
? enhance the need for registered trademark protection to assist in
defending against cybersquatters; and
? provide comprehensive protection to one's trademark against cybersquatters.
Recent court decisions
In British American Tobacco Kenya Ltd v Cut Tobacco Kenya Ltd, Kenya's
Court of Appeal held that there can be no proprietary rights in a
particular colour.
The Cape High Court of South Africa held in favour of Crocs Inc and
others defending an appeal brought by Shoprite Checkers against a
counterfeit goods seizure by them in South Africa.
The Board of Appeal of the African Regional Industrial Property
Organization (ARIPO) issued its first appeal decision last August. The
case involved competing applications for the marks FONES 4 U by two
different proprietors filed on separate dates. The board stressed that
ARIPO should "strictly observe the [Banjul Protocol on Marks] with
respect to time limits information delivery, procedure and processing
of applications, procedure on appeals and rules of natural justice".
Counterfeits
The World Customs Organization now regards African countries as the
main concern in Europe's fight against counterfeit goods, which are
said to be worth over $200 billion in trade every year.
South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe have all conducted recent
high-profile raids to prevent counterfeits from entering their market.
This should encourage brand owners to file defensive applications in
counterfeit hotspots or otherwise consider whether there is a dormant
market they should tap into.
Government action and investment
The Japanese Patent Office has agreed to establish a significant fund
aimed at assisting Africa in developing human resources in the
intellectual property (IP) field.
Other encouraging developments include the following:
? Ministers in a number of countries, notably Botswana and Zambia,
have spoken out on the need for effective IP protection;
? Regulators have cleared the Industrial Commercial Bank of China's
(ICBC) bid to purchase 20% of Africa's largest banking group (Standard
Bank) for R36.7 billion ($4.9 billion); and
? Angola is tipped to have the fastest growing economy in the world by
The Economist. While Africa cannot yet claim to be at the forefront of
IP protection in comparison with the United States or Europe, properly
spent funds should assist in persuading brand owners to invest in
Africa. The ICBC deal is seen as a strong vote of confidence in Africa
and the Football World Cup will shine a spotlight on Africa (and on
companies' brand protection).
Other considerations
As over 70% of all EU filings from Africa come from South Africa, EU
and even US law firms looking to strike reciprocity deals may be
minded to use a single firm for all of their African trademark
requirements.
For a number of reasons (including low legal costs and similarities in
legal systems), South Africa may also be considered as a
cost-effective destination for outsourcing the management work of all
or part of a brand owner's trademark portfolio.
As Africa is home to numerous languages, advice may be required on
filing for translations and even transliterations to protect properly
one's brand. For example, Google recently opened an office in South
Africa which offers its search services in Afrikaans, Sesotho, Zulu
and Xhosa. As overall filings from Africa appear to be increasing too,
brand owners outside of Africa may want to extend their watching
services to cover some African-based competitors.
The filing and enforcement of trademarks in Africa can be somewhat
daunting. This is often because of different cultures, poor
communications systems, a sometimes overly easygoing attitude and
occasionally pure ignorance. However, things seem to be changing and
one need only ask McDonald's Inc of the problems and huge cost it had
to incur in trying to get its trademark back from an infringer in
South Africa in the mid-1990s: Africa is a risk not worth ignoring.
WTR
*Darren Olivier is a director of Bowman Gilfillan Inc and co-author
and founder of the Afro-IP blog (http://afroip.blogspot.com/)