<pre>1. Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we<br>know it<br>Vint Cerf's address at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television<br>Festival gets coverage in a number of UK media outlets. The talk covered a
<br>range of technology issues including the future of television. With 85% of<br>all video pre-recorded, Cerf said the time is coming where content apart<br>from news, emergencies and special events (eg, sport) will be downloaded for
<br>watching at the consumer's leisure. Recent concerns about the increase of<br>downloading video via the web bringing down the internet were dismissed as<br>"scare tactics" and that "We're far from exhausting the capacity."
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/27/news.google">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/27/news.google</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10460083">
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10460083</a><br><br>2. The Tech Lab: Vint Cerf on the evolution of the internet<br>Vint Cerf, is known as one of the founder fathers of the internet, and<br>
played a key role in the development of the protocols which underpin the<br>global net. In this BBC article, Vint addresses topics such as the growth<br>and evolution of the internet, robustness and security of the internet
<br>including introducing DNSSEC, the non-trivial exercise to bring IPv6 online<br>in parallel with the present IPv4 system, the future of the net and the<br>opportunities it poses for society as a whole and the proliferation of
<br>mobile devices and improvements in the ability of those devices to access<br>the web will accelerate access to information.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6960896.stm">
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6960896.stm</a><br><br>12. The Globe on Terror Goes Digital by Michael Geist<br>Last week's story (Media Clips, 20 August) from Canada's Globe and Mail on<br>Canada's and Register.com's
contribution to terrorism is put in its place by<br>Professor Michael Geist. Geist makes four points ridiculing the Globe's<br>position. These points are that just because registrant information is not<br>made publicly available doesn't mean it's not collected, offering proxy or
<br>anonymous registrations is not only a <a href="http://Register.com/Canadian">Register.com/Canadian</a> issue, "the<br>article mistakenly states that the terror sites reside on servers in<br>Yarmouth" and finally "it is telling that the story does not include a
<br>single mention of WHOIS related issues, including the long policy process<br>aimed at providing registrants with greater privacy protection (and thereby<br>eliminating the need for these services)."<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2185/125/">
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2185/125/</a><br><br>15. Intellectual Property Holders Press For Access To WHOIS Data<br>"The seven-year-old battle over access to WHOIS data remains a stalemate<br>this week, leaving reforms undone" reports InformationWeek. "The conflict
<br>pits individuals and groups that favor privacy protections against<br>organizations and law enforcement agencies that favor data access to police<br>intellectual property and to curtail cybercrime." The article uses the
<br>previously reported (23 August) post by Milton Mueller on the Internet<br>Governance Project's site as a source for information. The article notes the<br>"inability of the various stakeholders to reach any kind of consensus" while
<br>caught in the middle are "registrars that have to balance customer data<br>protection with data access requirements mandated by" ICANN's RAA.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802102">
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802102</a><br><br>27. Businessman loses battle for gripe site domain name<br>"The figure behind controversial business schemes, Stephen Cleeve, has<br>failed in his bid to gain control of the .com domain name consisting of his
<br>name. A site that criticises his activities has been allowed to keep the<br>name. In arguments before the [WIPO] ... arbitration panel, Australian body<br>Consumer Protection described Cleeve as a con man." The website in question
<br>contains links to and excerpts from a number of articles from the BBC, News<br>of the World, and others detailing Cleeve's business exploits. Out-Law.com<br>says Cleeve argued the website using the domain name tarnished both his and
<br>his business's reputation. Further, Out-Law.com noted Consumer Protection<br>said "Cleeve is free to take legal action over the content of the site, but<br>that that should not alter its right to own the address."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://out-law.com/page-8404">http://out-law.com/page-8404</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/wipo_cleeve_domain_decision/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/wipo_cleeve_domain_decision/
</a><br><br>**********************<br>WESTERN SAHARA<br>**********************<br>i. Unemployment is Main Worry for Moroccans<br>Most people in Morocco believe candidates to the country's legislature<br>should pay special attention to social problems, according to a poll by
<br>LMS-CSA. 70 per cent of respondents consider unemployment an important<br>electoral issue. Improving the health care system is second on the list of<br>topics with 65 per cent, followed by fighting poverty with 54 per cent,
<br>battling corruption with 40 per cent, resolving the dispute over Western<br>Sahara with 20 per cent, and fighting terrorism also with 20 per cent.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/16974">
http://angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/16974</a><br><br>ii. George W. Bush and the Western Saharan dossier<br>In less than 18 months Mr George Walker Bush, will be leaving the White<br>House. Perhaps his exit will please a lot of people. But he will long be
<br>remembered by all lovers of freedom and democracy. He will also be<br>remembered as president who has principles and who is not a slave of slave<br>opinion polls. Others will think of him as one man who brought what they
<br>will certainly call disaster. Such is life, for there is no human being, who<br>has succeeded to get unanimous positive approval in the world.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=2161">
http://africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=2161</a><br><br>**********************<br>GOVERNANCE<br>**********************<br>1. Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we<br>know it<br>Talking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival,
<br>Vint Cerf said that the television industry would change rapidly as it<br>approached its "iPod moment". Cerf told an audience of media moguls that TV<br>was rapidly approaching the same kind of crunch moment that the music
<br>industry faced with the arrival of the MP3 player.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/27/news.google">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/27/news.google</a>
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2898444.ece">http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2898444.ece</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10460083">
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10460083</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1358612007">http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1358612007
</a><br><br>2. The Tech Lab: Vint Cerf on the evolution of the internet<br>Vint Cerf, is known as one of the founder fathers of the internet, and<br>played a key role in the development of the protocols which underpin the
<br>global net. In this BBC article, Vint addresses topics such as the growth<br>and evolution of the internet, robustness and security of the internet<br>including introducing DNSSEC, the non-trivial exercise to bring IPv6 online
<br>in parallel with the present IPv4 system, the future of the net and the<br>opportunities it poses for society as a whole and the proliferation of<br>mobile devices and improvements in the ability of those devices to access
<br>the web will accelerate access to information.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6960896.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6960896.stm</a><br><br>3. The future of the Internet
<br>What are the biggest challenges facing the internet's growth and stability,<br>and how should they be tackled? How will the rapid rise of video affect<br>internet infrastructure and drive the net neutrality debate? Will the
<br>pursuit of ever more personal information by companies such as Google be<br>welcomed by users? ... Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, the FT's Media Editor,<br>will put a selection of readers' questions to Prof Cerf in a video interview
<br>that will go live on Thursday August 30.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/edbaadba-524b-11dc-a7ab-0000779fd2ac.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/edbaadba-524b-11dc-a7ab-0000779fd2ac.html
</a><br><br>4. Is the Internet Doomed to Self-destruct?<br>The Internet exploded like few other tech revolutions, and the digital<br>clouds are still swirling with no indication of settling soon. But there's a<br>problem. According to Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet Governance
<br>and Regulation at Oxford University, England, the seeds of the Net's<br>destruction are being sown in the same wind streams that are now scattering<br>its influence.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=74754">
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=74754</a><br><br>5. UN Secretary-General confirms IGF advisory group members from business<br>UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week confirmed the 47 members of the
<br>multistakeholder advisory group who will help prepare a global gathering to<br>discuss issues of critical importance to the Internet. Several ICC/BASIS<br>representatives are among the names selected to lend business expertise to
<br>the planning of the UN-linked Internet Governance Forum (IGF) which will<br>take place in Rio de Janeiro in November.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huliq.com/31408/un-secretary-general-confirms-igf-advisory-group">
http://www.huliq.com/31408/un-secretary-general-confirms-igf-advisory-group</a>-<br>members-from-business<br><br>6. IGF's MAG renewed, governments flex muscles? by Jeanette Hofmann<br>Finally, the UN Secretary-General has renewed the mandate of the
<br>multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) for the Internet Governance Forum.<br>Officially, the Advisory Group's mandate expired with the closure of the<br>IGF's first meeting in Athens in November 2006. Since then, the Advisory
<br>Group's status has been in limbo. What looked like an understandable delay<br>for some time - there was a changeover of leadership in the UN headquarters<br>in early 2007 - became a problem in May this year. Following open
<br>consultations in Geneva, the Advisory Group was supposed to meet to discuss<br>the agenda for the IGF's Rio meeting in November.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/23/3178807.html">
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/23/3178807.html</a><br><br>**********************<br>DOMAIN NAMES<br>**********************<br><br>**********************<br> - DOMAIN SECURITY<br>**********************
<br>7. nz: Victoria Uni tech leads internet attack study<br>The international Honeynet Project has used honeypot technology developed at<br>Victoria University to track web-based security attacks. Even seemingly safe<br>web addresses are rife with attack code aiming at vulnerable clients,
<br>according to the Honeynet Project study based on the technology. The authors<br>say that methods such as blacklists can be surprisingly successful in<br>stopping client-side attacks.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/54EB43981E198CCBCC257340007D86C0">
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/54EB43981E198CCBCC257340007D86C0</a><br><br>8. America's Hackable Backbone<br>The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station,<br>he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant's owners
<br>claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet.<br>Lunsford, a researcher for IBM's Internet Security Systems, found otherwise.<br>"It turned out to be one of the easiest penetration tests I'd ever done," he
<br>says. "By the first day, we had penetrated the network. Within a week, we<br>were controlling a nuclear power plant. I thought, 'Gosh. This is a big<br>problem.'"<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/08/22/scada-hackers-infrastructure-tec">
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/08/22/scada-hackers-infrastructure-tec</a><br>h-security-cx_ag_0822hack.html<br><br>9. Internet ramraiders rear-end domain parking service<br>Domain name parking service NameDrive restored its services on Friday after
<br>coming under a concerted and ferocious denial of service attack from<br>unidentified hackers. The motives for the attack remain unclear but<br>NameDrive reckons crackers expanded vast resources to flood its website with
<br>spurious traffic.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/namedrive_ddos_attack/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/namedrive_ddos_attack/</a><br><br>10. Types of Phishing Attacks
<br>Numerous different types of phishing attacks have now been identified. Some<br>of the more prevalent are listed in this story.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135293-c,privacysecurity/article.html">
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135293-c,privacysecurity/article.html</a><br><br>11. India ranks 14th in phishing attacks<br>The rising graph of cyber crime in India has raised serious questions<br>regarding the freedom that should be allowed on the Internet given the
<br>vulnerability of the new generation. IAMAI workshop was a forum to raise<br>these issues.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=126099">http://merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=126099
</a><br><br>12. The Globe on Terror Goes Digital by Michael Geist<br>The Globe and Mail published an embarrassing feature story on the weekend<br>focusing on terror groups' use of the Internet and a "Canadian connection."
<br>A story on terror group use of the Internet would have made for an<br>interesting (albeit unoriginal) story, so it appears that the Globe tried to<br>generate greater interest in the story by adding a Canadian connection. The
<br>article begins with "Welcome to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - pivotal battleground<br>in the global jihad."<br>...<br>First, just because the registrant information is not posted publicly on the<br>WHOIS database, does not mean that the information has not been collected.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2185/125/">http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2185/125/</a><br><br>**********************<br> - ICANN<br>**********************<br>13. ICANN squashes Internet rumours about North Korean domain
<br>ICANN has published an official rebuttal of stories circulating the Net<br>about soon-to-be-approved .KP, after some domain bloggers suggested that an<br>official green light was about to be given to North Korea's domain.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://domainesinfo.fr/english/091/icann-squashes-internet-rumours-about-nor">http://domainesinfo.fr/english/091/icann-squashes-internet-rumours-about-nor</a><br>th-korean-domain.php
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve353">http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve353</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.csccorporatedomains.com/industry-news.asp?ItemID=18251998">
http://www.csccorporatedomains.com/industry-news.asp?ItemID=18251998</a><br><br>14. New Paper Discusses Global City TLD's in the Public Interest by Tom<br>Lowenhaupt<br>"The Internet's impact on cities grows daily as it electronically enables
<br>the meeting, movement, and exchange of people, ideas, products, and cultures<br>at a range and frequency never before possible, creating what Marshall<br>McLuhan called the 'global village'." So begins a paper in which Dr. Michael
<br>Gurstein and I present a short review of the history of TLDs and the<br>negative effects their omission from the Internet's naming schema is having<br>on cities. We then identify 12 areas where city-TLDs will benefit Global
<br>Cities if planned and developed in the public interest.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/87239_global_city_top_level_domains/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/87239_global_city_top_level_domains/
</a><br><br>15. Intellectual Property Holders Press For Access To WHOIS Data<br>The seven-year-old battle over access to WHOIS data remains a stalemate this<br>week, leaving reforms undone. The conflict pits individuals and groups that
<br>favor privacy protections against organizations and law enforcement agencies<br>that favor data access to police intellectual property and to curtail<br>cybercrime. In a blog post on the Internet Governance Project's site, Milton
<br>Mueller details the Final Outcomes Report of the WHOIS Working Group,<br>published on Tuesday, and inability of the various stakeholders to reach any<br>kind of consensus.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802102">
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802102</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070824/tc_cmp/201802102">http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070824/tc_cmp/201802102
</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=59793">http://itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=59793</a><br><br>16. Timeline of the WHOIS saga by Milton Mueller<br>Researchers at IGP have prepared a comprehensive timeline of the Whois
<br>service and the controversy over Whois and privacy, with links to relevant<br>documents. The timeline was prepared by Dr. Milton Mueller and doctoral<br>student Mawaki Chango as part of their draft paper for the annual
<br>Telecommunication Policy Research Conference at the end of September.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/22/3175376.html">http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/22/3175376.html
</a><br><br>17. WHOIS privacy reform reaches dead end<br>Reforms to the WHOIS database in order to address growing privacy concerns<br>have once again come to a halt, leaving a seven-year-old debate to continue<br>on how much personal information should be displayed to the public.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070824-whois-privacy-reform-reaches-d">http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070824-whois-privacy-reform-reaches-d</a><br>ead-end.html<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/24/1159208">http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/24/1159208</a><br><br>18. Not Just for Internet Geeks<br>Keep the Core Neutral is an advocacy group seeking to restrain moves at
<br>ICANN towards censoring domain names.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/25/weekend-reader-19/">http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/25/weekend-reader-19/</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.csccorporatedomains.com/industry-news.asp?ItemID=18253768">
http://www.csccorporatedomains.com/industry-news.asp?ItemID=18253768</a><br><br>**********************<br> - (cc)TLD NEWS<br>**********************<br>19. be: Cepina is reviewing its rules concerning domain names:<br>In Dutch: Cepina herziet zijn reglement inzake domeinnamen; and in French:
<br>Le Cepani revoit son règlement en matière de noms de domaine<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dns.be/en/home.php?n=2000">http://www.dns.be/en/home.php?n=2000</a><br><br>20. my: MCMC-MYNIC Seminar & Exhibition--Southern Corridor Roadshow 2007
<br>The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and MYNIC<br>Berhad, the .my domain name registrar is proud to present MCMC-MYNIC Seminar<br>& Exhibition - Southern Corridor Roadshow 2007 on 6th September 2007
<br>(Thursday) at Persada Johor International Convention Centre in Johor Bahru<br>with the theme "Get Online: Empower Yourself on the Internet". The objective<br>of this event is to provide a platform for all communities to have an online
<br>presence and learn the benefits of having a .my domain name and a website.<br>They will also be given tips on how to develop an effective website that<br>will enable them to showcase their products, businesses and services to the
<br>global community.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mynic.net.my/newhp/announcements/mynic-20aug07.html">http://mynic.net.my/newhp/announcements/mynic-20aug07.html</a><br><br>21. nz: Maori bilingual Net call
<br>The Maori Internet Society has asked that second-level domains such as<br>"<a href="http://co.nz">co.nz</a>" be available in Maori as well as English to "represent that<br>Aotearoa/New Zealand is a legally bilingual country and to support its
<br>indigenous people's cultural and linguistic requirements".<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4178352a28.html">http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4178352a28.html</a><br><br>22. .nz Newsletter - August 2007
<br>The August 2007 .nz newsletter is available from the Domain Name<br>Commissioner, and includes the number of active .nz domain names (increased<br>from 286,539 to 291,817), a breakdown of registrations for all .nz 2LDs
<br>(249,984 of the domains registered are .co.nz domains), the wholesale domain<br>name fee was dropped from NZ$1.75 to $1.50 outages and a job vacancy.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dnc.org.nz/story/30288-34-1.html">
http://dnc.org.nz/story/30288-34-1.html</a><br><br>23. uk: Nominet renewals survey [news release]<br>Nominet is currently sending out a survey request to find out why people<br>renew or do not renew .uk domain names.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4333">
http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4333</a><br><br>24. GoDaddy and Afilias aim for .US<br>Registrar and registry operator join forces to try and wrestle .US<br>management away from current registry operator Neustar.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://domainesinfo.fr/english/090/godaddy-and-afilias-aim-for-us.php">http://domainesinfo.fr/english/090/godaddy-and-afilias-aim-for-us.php</a><br><br>25. VeriSign Board Elects Jim Bidzos as New Chairman [news release]
<br>VeriSign announced that the board of directors has elected D. James Bidzos<br>to become chairman, replacing Edward A. Mueller who has resigned after his<br>recent selection as the chairman and CEO of Qwest Communications
<br>International.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.verisign.com/press_releases/pr/page_042705.html">http://www.verisign.com/press_releases/pr/page_042705.html</a><br><br>26. Fee rise for .com/.net domain names
<br>VeriSign is going to raise fees for the registration of the names.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/276871/c">http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/276871/c
</a><br>s/1/<br><br>**********************<br> - DOMAIN DISPUTES<br>**********************<br>27. Businessman loses battle for gripe site domain name<br>The figure behind controversial business schemes has failed in his bid to
<br>gain control of the .com internet address consisting of his name. A site<br>that criticises his activities has been allowed to keep the name. In<br>arguments before the WIPO domain name arbitration panel, Australian body
<br>Consumer Protection described the man, Stephen Cleeve, as a con man. Its<br>website contains links to and excerpts from a number of articles from the<br>BBC, News of the World, and others detailing Cleeve's business exploits.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://out-law.com/page-8404">http://out-law.com/page-8404</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/wipo_cleeve_domain_decision/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/wipo_cleeve_domain_decision/
</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2007/08/use_of_politici.html">http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2007/08/use_of_politici.html</a><br><br>28. za: Telkom wins domain name dispute<br>Telkom has won another battle in its war against cyber squatters. Less than
<br>six weeks after Telkom won its first domain name dispute in terms of the new<br>alternative dispute resolution rules that govern .co.za domain name<br>disputes, an adjudicator again decided in Telkom's favour.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2007/0708241042.asp?S=Business&A=BU">http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2007/0708241042.asp?S=Business&A=BU</a><br>S&O=FPTOP
<br><br>29. Subdomain Patent Faces EFF Challenge<br>A company called Ideaflood has been demanding payment from Internet hosting<br>companies like LiveJournal for offering virtual, personalized subdomains, a<br>concept on which Ideaflood holds a challenged patent. The Electronic
<br>Frontier Foundation announced its opposition to Ideaflood's patent, calling<br>it "bogus" and "illegitimate."<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/22/subdomain-patent-faces-eff-chal">
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/22/subdomain-patent-faces-eff-chal</a><br>lenge<br><br>30. us: DA: No crime in domain name tiff<br>A Schuylkill County controller candidate's hoarding of his opponent's<br>
Internet domain names, then trying to cover up his actions, was ''deceitful<br>and wrong'' but was not a crime, District Attorney James P. Goodman said<br>Wednesday.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_1domain.6007303aug23,0,6425932.story">
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_1domain.6007303aug23,0,6425932.story</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.republicanherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18739616">http://www.republicanherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18739616
</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tnonline.com/node/204357">http://www.tnonline.com/node/204357</a><br><br>31. us: Politics trickster pilfers Pollard's name site spins a web of<br>intrigue<br>Who owned
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.albert/">www.albert</a> <a href="http://pollard.com">pollard.com</a>? That's a question Albert Pollard Jr.<br>himself is asking. Last week, anyone typing in <a href="http://albertpollard.com">
albertpollard.com</a> would reach<br>not Pollard's campaign Web site, but the Stafford Republican Party's site.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/082007/08262007/311267">
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/082007/08262007/311267</a><br><br>32. Saba's wins right to use domain name <a href="http://sabas.com">sabas.com</a><br>A national arbitration panel recently ruled that the Arizona
<br>Western-clothing store, which has used the name Saba's since 1927, is<br>entitled to the domain, according to a statement from Phoenix attorney Glenn<br>Bacal.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0822biz-talker0823.html">
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0822biz-talker0823.html</a><br><br>33. FloridaWeekly.com Stands Up to CyberBully<br>Semoran LLC, which owns the web site and domain name FloridaWeekly.com, has<br>filed a lawsuit against a Florida media company in response to that
<br>company's request for the FloridaWeekly.com domain name.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://domainnamewire.com/2007/08/24/floridaweeklycom-stands-up-to-cyberbull">http://domainnamewire.com/2007/08/24/floridaweeklycom-stands-up-to-cyberbull
</a><br>y/<br><br>**********************<br> - IPv4/IPv6<br>**********************<br>34. in: Govt expects users to migrate to IPV6 in 3 years<br>The government of India is proactively pushing for users of the Internet<br>
space to migrate towards the IPv6. The government users have been mandated<br>to migrate and there should be major transition over the next two or three<br>years.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/aug/aug360.php">
http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/aug/aug360.php</a><br><br>**********************<br> - MISCELLANEOUS<br>**********************<br>35. NetNation Launches WhoisProtector Lite<br>NetNation, Canada's top-ranked Web host, has recently launched a new product
<br>that protects customers' personal information from the public. With<br>WhoisProtector Lite, a customer's name, address and other personal<br>information is kept private; only the email address is displayed for<br>
legitimate business inquiries.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://emediawire.com/releases/2007/8/emw548693.htm">http://emediawire.com/releases/2007/8/emw548693.htm</a><br><br>36. Neustar launches Korean domain names in .BIZ TLD
<br>Neustar has deployed IDNs for the Korean language in the .BIZ TLD as of<br>August 19, 2007.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=26447">http://digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=26447
</a><br><br>37. NeuStar Launches Korean Language Domain Names in .BIZ TLD [news release]<br>NeuStar announced that it has deployed IDNs for the Korean language in the<br>.BIZ top-level Internet domain as of August 19, 2007. IDNs in .BIZ enable
<br>companies and for-profit organizations worldwide to register domain names in<br>their languages of choice using Unicode characters that are not available in<br>ASCII.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://neustar.biz/pressroom/announcements/press_release.cfm?press_id=1296">
http://neustar.biz/pressroom/announcements/press_release.cfm?press_id=1296</a><br><br>38. Dotcom Falls Into Baby Name Domain<br>This is a topic close to my heart and I have to say I agree whole-heartedly<br>– well, it's a good idea, anyway. Parents are picking baby names based upon
<br>the availability of a domain name that matches.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/24/dotcom-falls-into-baby-name-dom">http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/24/dotcom-falls-into-baby-name-dom
</a><br>ain<br><br>39. What Orkut Really Needs<br>Google's software engineers report that they've been busy giving Orkut, the<br>company's social networking service, a face-lift. But perhaps what the site<br>really needs is a new name for the
U.S market. It's true that short,<br>memorable domain names are hard to come by, but if ever there was a Google<br>product in need of re-branding, it's Orkut.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/what_orkut_real.html">
http://informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/what_orkut_real.html</a><br><br>40. Go Daddy explains suspension of sites, denies political pressure<br>Go Daddy has denied receiving any form of pressure from the Chinese
<br>authorities. The initial story was published before Go Daddy was directly<br>asked for a response. ... Reporters Without Borders today called on US web<br>hosting provider Go Daddy to explain why it suddenly withdrew hosting for
<br>several Chinese sites specialising in human rights in China. According to a<br>report on the news website Boxun , around 10 Chinese human rights sites were<br>suspended without explanation on 17 August.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=23349">
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=23349</a><br><br>**********************<br> - DOMAINING<br>**********************<br>41. The Hidden Wealth in Domain Names<br>When will the ad industry and its clients wake up to the value of domains?
<br>When asked that question at 1:30 a.m. on the Domain Roundtable Conference's<br>first night, conference chair Jay Westerdal responded: "They're going to<br>wake up when it's too late." Most of those interviewed at the conference
<br>confirmed his views.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/V07c9hnAfpAMy7/The-Hidden-Wealth-in-Doma">http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/V07c9hnAfpAMy7/The-Hidden-Wealth-in-Doma
</a><br>in-Names.xhtml<br><br>**********************<br> - NON-ENGLISH NEWS<br>**********************<br>42. ICANN legt .test-Kriterien für Domain-Namen in nicht-lateinischen<br>Schriften fest<br>Wie angekündigt startet im September das Evaluierungsprogramm für TLDs in
<br>elf nicht-lateinischen Schriftsprachen, darunter Arabisch, Chinesisch und<br>Hebräisch mittels IDNs. Nun hat die ICANN die abschließende Version des<br>IDN-Evaluierungsplans als PDF-Datei veröffentlicht, der die Erfolgskriterien
<br>für den Test festzurrt.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94872">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94872</a><br><br>43. Whois-Datenschutz bleibt weiterhin ein Zankapfel
<br>Keine Chancen auf eine baldige Schlichtung des seit Jahren anhaltenden<br>Streits um einen datenschutzfreundlicheren Umgang mit Whois-Daten sieht der<br>Vertreter der Internet-Nutzer Milton Mueller. Dies verdeutlicht der an der
<br>Universität Syracuse im US-Bundesstaat lehrende Professor, zugleich Mitglied<br>im Internet Governance Project (IGP), in seinem jüngsten IGP-Blog-Eintrag<br>über die Patt-Situation bei der Durchsetzung widersprüchlicher Interessen.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94882">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94882</a><br><br>44. EFF gegen Subdomain-Patent<br>Die Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) hat beim US-Patentamt die Prüfung
<br>eines Patents über Subdomains beantragt, das bereits gegen kleine Firmen<br>eingesetzt wurde. Die Technik soll jedoch bereits vor der Patentierung<br>verwendet worden sein, womit das Patent hinfällig wäre.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://golem.de/0708/54292.html">
http://golem.de/0708/54292.html</a><br><br>45. US-Bürgerrechtler beantragen Überprüfung des Subdomain-Patents<br>Die Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) hat das US-Patentamt offiziell<br>aufgefordert, ein umstrittenes Patent auf die Einrichtung von Subdomains in
<br>all seinen Ansprüchen für nichtig zu erklären.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94795">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94795</a><br><br>46. Erneute Abzocke bei Domains
<br>So mancher Domainbesitzer fand in den vergangenen Wochen E-Mails des<br>belgischen Unternehmens Domain Renewal SA in seinem Postfach. Das Schreiben<br>macht darauf aufmerksam, dass dessen registrierte Domain bald ausläuft.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Unternehmen/Marketing-Channel/_pv/_p/204789">http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Unternehmen/Marketing-Channel/_pv/_p/204789</a><br>/_t/ft/_b/1312263/default.aspx/erneute-
abzocke-bei-domains.html<br><br>47. L'état de New York vote une loi anti-cybersquatting<br>L'Etat de New York vient de faire voter une loi visant à interdire toute<br>forme de cybersquatting. Le texte entrera en vigueur dans 3 mois.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1285/l-etat-de-new-york-vote-une-loi-anti-c">http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1285/l-etat-de-new-york-vote-une-loi-anti-c</a><br>ybersquatting.php
<br><br>48. Seconde décision visant le décret sur les noms de domaine en .fr<br>Six mois après la promulgation du décret sur la gestion et l'attribution des<br>noms de domaine français, les mêmes questions demeurent : ce décret est-il
<br>d'ores et déjà applicable? Une récente ordonnance de référé semble donner<br>une réponse positive - bien qu'elle ne soit pas très nette.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://domaine.blogspot.com/2007/08/seconde-dcision-visant-le-dcret-sur-les">
http://domaine.blogspot.com/2007/08/seconde-dcision-visant-le-dcret-sur-les</a>.<br>html<br><br>49. GoDaddy<br>GoDaddy no es sólo el mayor Agente Registrador del mundo. Es el que más<br>patentes solicita en esta industria, casi 50 en los últimos años.
<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article">http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article</a><br>
&sid=1528<br><br>50. Propuestas del modelo para la Administración del <a href="http://Dominio.co">Dominio.co</a><br>Con el fin de adelantar exitosamente la transición a un nuevo esquema de<br>operación de la administración del registro de nombre de dominio .co, el
<br>Ministerio de Comunicaciones invita a los interesados a consultar el<br>documento "Propuesta de modelos para la administración del <a href="http://Dominio.co">Dominio.co</a>", y a<br>enviar sus comentarios<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article">http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article</a><br>&sid=1527
<br><br>51. Grupo Assessor Multi-setorial (MAG) é anunciado pelo Secretário-Geral da<br>ONU<br>O Secretário-Geral das Nações Unidas anunciou nesta segunda-feira, dia 20, a<br>lista de integrantes do Grupo Assessor Multi-setorial (MAG), criado para
<br>assessorá-lo nos preparativos ao IGF.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article">http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article
</a><br>&sid=1526<br><br>52. Aumento de seguridad para transacciones con NIC Chile<br>NIC Chile informa que realizó cambios en su sitio web para aumentar la<br>seguridad de transacciones con sus clientes.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article">
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article</a><br>&sid=1525<br><br>53. Pohjois-Korea saamassa oman internettunnuksen<br>Pohjois-Korea aikoo rekisteröidä itselleen oman internet-aluetunnuksen.
<br>Internetin osoitteistoa hallinnoiva järjestö Icann ilmoitti perjantaina,<br>että se myöntänee maalle tunnuksen lokakuussa pidettävässä kokouksessa.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.kaleva.fi/plus/index.cfm?j=674509">
http://www.kaleva.fi/plus/index.cfm?j=674509</a><br><br>54. Enea registrerade första .se-domänen<br>Den första .se-domänen som någonsin registrerades var IT-konsultbolaget<br>Eneas <a href="http://enea.se">enea.se</a>. IT24 har koll på de övriga se-domänerna som registrerades
<br>under 80-talet.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.117408">http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.117408</a><br><br>55. Story in Chinese mentioning IPV6<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hsm.com.cn/lxs/hgdt/200708/24/84860.shtml">
http://www.hsm.com.cn/lxs/hgdt/200708/24/84860.shtml</a></pre>