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2008/12/09

Weekly Wrap for 2008-12-09

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INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE   .   WEEKLY WRAP: Dec 02, 2008 - Dec 09, 2008

News Briefs

Cybercriminals Profiting from Global Recession and Distracted Governments
Dec 09, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Obama Urged to Appoint Cybersecurity Chief in White House
Dec 08, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

U.S. Loosing Ground as Primary Internet Hub, Study Shows
Dec 08, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Highest Capacity Satellite for Broadband Internet Set to Launch in 2011
Dec 07, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Obama Vows to Boost Broadband Internet Connections as Part of 2.5 New Job Creation
Dec 06, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

NRO Seeing Rapid Increase in IPv6 Adoption, Up 300% in 2 Years
Dec 05, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Silvio Berlusconi, Next G8 President, Wants to "Regulate the Internet"
Dec 04, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Domain Registrations on Decline, Google and Lower Ad Spendings Blamed
Dec 04, 2008  -  Include Your Comments (1 posted)

Mobile Broadband Speeds Over 5 Times Faster as Early as 2009
Dec 03, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

China Internet Cafes Forced to Switch Computers Running Microsoft to Chinese Operating System
Dec 03, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

IGF: To Reach the Next Billion, Internet Needs Multilingual Support
Dec 03, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Internet Governance Forum Opens in Hyderabad, India
Dec 03, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

New .tel Top-Level Domain Goes on Sale
Dec 03, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Microsoft Reveals Gen 4 Modular Data Center Strategy, Calls it Most Revolutionary in 30 Years
Dec 02, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Ted Rogers, Canadian Communications Pioneer, Dies
Dec 02, 2008  -  Include Your Comments


Featured Blogs

Yet Another Web Malware Exploitation Kit in the Wild
With business-minded malicious attackers embracing basic marketing practices like branding, it is becoming increasingly harder, if not pointless to keep track of all XYZ-Packs currently in circulation. How come? Due to their open source nature allowing modifications, claiming copyright over the modified and re-branded kit, the source code of core web malware exploitation kits continue representing the foundation source code for each and every newly released kit. more »
Dec 05, 2008  -  by Dancho Danchev  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Security

The Path Towards Centralization of Internet Governance Under UN: Part 3
This essay is the third of a three-part series, written by Anonymous, and published by the Publius Project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It focuses on the steps of a possible roadmap for centralizing Internet governance under the United Nations. more »
Dec 04, 2008  -  by CircleID Reporter  -  Comments: 1
Related Topics: Internet Governance

Re-Examining the Domain Name Registry-Registrar Split
ICANN has released to the public a report they commissioned called "Revisiting Vertical Separation of Registries and Registrars," written by CRA International. It is being referred to as the "CRAI Report." Readers in the U.S. and the U.K. may not know it, but most top-level (TLD) domains in the world don't have registrars-you go straight to the registry and buy your domains from the source. more »
Dec 04, 2008  -  by Antony Van Couvering  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Domain Registries, Top-Level Domains

Fiber to the Home: Ideal Economic Stimulus?
This week, the headlines seem to be full of fresh doom and gloom for wireline carriers, who employ people in every congressional district across America. Sooner or later, someone is going to call for Congress to tap some of the hundreds of billions in 2009 economic stimulus to help the LECs through troubled times, save lots of jobs, and preserve the way we do business in our critical last-mile communications infrastructure. Is this wise? Is there a better way? more »
Dec 04, 2008  -  by Jim Cowie  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Policy & Regulation

What Internet Governance Boils Down To
Listening to several of the discussions here at the IGF (so far), my post from yesterday seems to be close to what the focus of this meeting is, control and access to resources. Yesterday I highlighted areas of Governance where Governments actually could help, and make difference. Admittedly, that is not all the aspects of governance though. more »
Dec 04, 2008  -  by Kurtis Lindqvist  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance

No Ifs, Ands or Butts, the New FCC Must Focus on Neutrality
The Denver Post today urged a new FCC to get its mind off of "buttocks" and onto more serious issues like Net Neutrality. The editorial board was referring to a case now before the U.S. Court of Appeals, in which the agency's top legal minds are trying to determine the appropriate definition for the human posterior to better guide efforts to fine ABC for a few errant cheeks featured on a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue. more »
Dec 03, 2008  -  by Timothy Karr  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation

Is the New ".Tel" Domain More than Just a Pretty Web Interface to DNS?
Is the new ".tel" domain launching today more than just a pretty web interface to DNS? Is it something really unique? Is it a new service that couldn't be easily replicated elsewhere? In case you haven't been following the subject, a company called Telnic has launched a new top-level DNS domain ".tel" today. Today, December 3rd, is the launch of the "Sunrise" period where companies can (for a high price) obtain the ".tel" domain associated with their trademark. more »
Dec 03, 2008  -  by Dan York  -  Comments: 1
Related Topics: DNS, Domain Names, Domain Registries, Mobile, Top-Level Domains

The Path Towards Centralization of Internet Governance Under UN: Part 2
This essay is the second of a three-part series, written by Anonymous, and published by the Publius Project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It focuses on the steps of a possible roadmap for centralizing Internet governance under the United Nations. more »
Dec 03, 2008  -  by CircleID Reporter  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance

The Path Towards Centralization of Internet Governance Under UN: Part 1
This essay is the first of a three-part series, written by Anonymous, and published by the Publius Project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It focuses on the steps of a possible roadmap for centralizing Internet governance under the United Nations. more »
Dec 03, 2008  -  by CircleID Reporter  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance

The Next International Policy Battlefield Will Be ICT Policy
I am currently in Hyderabad, attending the Internet Governance Forum, IGF. With hours before the official opening, it might be worth reflecting a bit on Internet Governance and the general discussion on the role of international policy and ICT (information and communication technologies). I have several times before said, and written, that the real difference that governments could make (assuming that Governance is in relation to Governing) in Internet policy is close to their traditional roles. more »
Dec 03, 2008  -  by Kurtis Lindqvist  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance

Lawless Canada Emerging as a Spam Haven
The recent Facebook case has placed the spotlight on Canada's ongoing failure to address its spam problem by introducing long overdue anti-spam legislation. The fact that organizations are forced to use U.S. courts and laws to deal with Canadian spammers points to an inconvenient truth – Canadian anti-spam laws are woefully inadequate and we are rapidly emerging as a haven for spammers eager exploit the weak legal framework. more »
Dec 03, 2008  -  by Michael Geist  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Law, Spam

Cybercrime and "Remote Search"
According to news reports, part of the EU's cybercrime strategy is "remote search" of suspects' computers. I'm not 100% certain what that means, but likely guesses are alarming. The most obvious interpretation is also the most alarming: that some police officer will have the right and the ability to peruse people's computers from his or her desktop. How, precisely, is this to be done? Will Microsoft and Apple – and Ubuntu and Red Hat and all the BSDs and everyone else who ships systems – have to build back doors into all operating systems? more »
Dec 02, 2008  -  by Steven Bellovin  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Privacy, Security

Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India
Tomorrow Internet Governance Forum (IGF) starts. The overall discussion topic this year is How to reach the next billion(s), and that builds on the fact that today we have around one billion Internet users. A number that will explode when all different kinds of devices, from cellphones, to TV sets to toasters will be Internet connected... Some workshops have been cancelled and panelists have been replaced as many people and organisations have made the decision to not go to India. more »
Dec 02, 2008  -  by Patrik Fältström  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance

Kentucky and the Gambling Domains
A recent law suit in Kentucky has attracted world-wide attention because it could create a very dangerous precedent – the application of local law to the domain name system and Internet web sites that are available globally... Even though the Kentucky case only involves Kentucky gambling laws, the dangerous precedent is that regimes around the world with oppressive local laws restricting speech or religion might attempt similar litigation. more »
Dec 02, 2008  -  by David Maher  -  Comments: 1
Related Topics: Domain Names, Domain Registries, Law

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Industry Updates

Industry Coalition Announced to Increase Adoption of DNSSEC
Dec 03, 2008  -  by PIR

.ORG CEO Honored by The Washington Business Journal
Nov 22, 2008  -  by PIR

DomainPeople Lets Trademark Owners Register Their .Tel Domain Name Early
Nov 20, 2008  -  by DomainPeople

dotMobi Announces 2.1 Release of Award-Winning DeviceAtlas Mobile Device Database
Nov 19, 2008  -  by dotMobi

GSMA Delivers Industry First in Carrier ENUM Initiative
Nov 18, 2008  -  by NeuStar


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