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British registry Nominet has launched a consultation on whether .UK should be opened up at the top level under a scheme called direct.uk. Currently, registrations are only allowed at the second level, .CO.UK being Britain's main Internet suffix. The question really isn't should this be done. The question is: why has it taken so long to get here? more »
Oct 01, 2012 - by Stéphane Van Gelder - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Top-Level Domains A Short History of ITU Network Security Activity
Since the inception of ITU precursors in 1850, its various bodies have treated the subject of telecommunication network security as both an obligation of signatories to the treaty instruments as well as an ongoing collaborative activity. However, what it actually did in those activities was constrained by its jurisdiction and participant competency -- which encompassed international public telecommunication services provided primarily by designated government agency service providers known as PTTs. more »
Oct 01, 2012 - by Anthony Rutkowski - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Policy & Regulation, Security, Telecom Is the WCIT Indeed Wicked?
The traditional network operators see OTT services as a threat, and the companies offering them are perceived to be getting a free lunch over their networks - they are calling for international regulation. In particular, the European telcos (united in ETNO) have been claiming that this undermines their investment in infrastructure and they want to use the WCIT conference in Dubai later this year to lobby for regulatory changes that would see certain levies being levied - something that is strenuously opposed by, among others, the USA and the APAC countries. more »
Oct 01, 2012 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Telecom European Privacy Authorities Object to ICANN Whois Proposals
In response to a letter from ICANN's Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to data protection authorities concerning overreaching requests of law enforcement agencies in ICANN's ongoing Registrar Accreditation Agreement negotiations, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has written the ICANN Board. more »
Sep 28, 2012 - by Brenden Kuerbis - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Privacy, Whois What to Say About the Treaty on the ITRs: Crib Notes
Look past the panic over December's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT); it's unlikely to be a catastrophe for several practical reasons: (1) the negotiation lasts ten days, so there is not enough time for 193 countries to agree on how to phrase catastrophe (2) large multilateral events tend to converge, like so many voters, on the centre, and (3) the putative chairman of the event is a seasoned grown-up, and will not allow the treaty to break the global information grid. more »
Sep 28, 2012 - by Gregory Francis - Comments: 1
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance No Virginia, You Have No Duty to Secure Your WiFi Access Point
Every now and again a report flies across the network about the police breaking down someone's door and attempting to arrest the home owner for bad things online - assuming that whatever happened from that person's Internet connection is their fault. Now there are lots of problems with this - lots of problems. But one of the big ones is that anyone can access an open access point... more »
Sep 27, 2012 - by Robert Cannon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Cybercrime, Law, Policy & Regulation, Security, Wireless Understanding the Brazilian Court Decision to Arrest Google's Representative
Brazil has been on the news lately, and not for good reasons: an electoral judge order the arrest of Google's Director in Brazil for not complying with a court decision that ordered the removal a YouTube video with allegedly defamatory content. A lot has been said about this, but it seems that many people got it wrong, so let's recap some of the misinterpretations that circulated, specially those at the EFF website. more »
Sep 27, 2012 - by Francis Augusto Medeiros - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Censorship, Internet Governance, Law Is It About to Get Much Harder to Own a Domain Name?
Question: why has air travel become so painful? Because the threat posed by bad actors requires making everyone jump through hoops before letting them board a plane. To the point that, despite obvious requirements to ensure air safety, some are now openly questioning if the cure is not worse than the disease. Registering a domain name could be about to go the same way. more »
Sep 27, 2012 - by Stéphane Van Gelder - Comments: 2
Related Topics: Cybercrime, Domain Names, ICANN, Policy & Regulation, Whois Community Support Required for Alternative Trademark Clearinghouse Solution
It's time for the community to demonstrate its resolve to see ICANN implement a successful and effective Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Let's be clear here. The current ICANN implementation model and approach is flawed and needs attention. Following more than three months of consultation and negotiation, today I'm pleased to be able to present the domain name and trademark protection industries with an alternative solution for the operation of ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse for the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) program. more »
Sep 26, 2012 - by Chris Wright - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains Letter to ICANN on Big Brands Proposed Usage of Generic Domain Extensions
We have been taking an active interest in the development of the new TLD program by ICANN and excited by the many opportunities and challenges that this "opening up" will bring to us, our customers and the internet ecosystem as a whole. However, we also have our concerns about how some entities wish to use generic domain name extensions as "walled gardens". more »
Sep 25, 2012 - by Michele Neylon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains Lessons Behind the Microsoft 3322.org Takedown
The Microsoft action against 3322.org, a Chinese company, started with the news that computers were infected during the production phase. Stepping away from the controversy surrounding the approach, there are important lessons that cyber security officials and upper management, deciding on the level of and budget for cyber security in organisations should learn and take into account. I'm writing this contribution from a premise: China uses the fact that most IT devices are built in China to its advantage. Allow me to start with an account from personal memory to set the stage. more »
Sep 23, 2012 - by Wout de Natris - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Cybercrime, Internet Governance, Malware, Privacy, Security Rebalancing Telco Infrastructure Investments
One of the reasons telecommunications has been so successful for more than 160 years is that it adopted a strategy that resulted in a seamless network all around the world. You can pick up a phone anywhere in the world and, with little or no instruction, make a call to anybody else in the world without worrying what phones and technology they are using on the other end of the line... But during that process the nature of the network operators changed. more »
Sep 23, 2012 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Policy & Regulation, Telecom Unclear on the Concept, Sanctions Edition
United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is an advocacy group that, among other things, tries to isolate Iran by pressuring businesses and organizations to stop doing business with Iran. This week they turned their attention to ICANN and RIPE to try to cut off Internet access to Iranian organizations. Regardless of one's opinion about the wisdom of isolating Iran (and opinions are far from uniform), this effort was a bad idea in an impressive number of both technical and political ways. more »
Sep 21, 2012 - by John Levine - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance National Broadband, Leadership or Procrastination
There is no doubt that any national infrastructure plan of the magnitude of national broadband networks as they are currently rolled out in 9 countries and which policies have been put in place in another 110 countries will have questions attached to it. Furthermore, this infrastructure is being developed for the digital economy, which, in itself, is a fast-moving world. Five years ago there were no smartphones, tablets, mobile apps or smart TVs. more »
Sep 21, 2012 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Broadband, Policy & Regulation A Look at Mail Patterns from Legitimate Webmail Sources
For many years, I have tracked spam from botnets and reported on it. I have analyzed those botnets' distribution patterns by number of IPs, number of messages per email envelope and geographical distribution. While spam from botnets is interesting, and the main source of spam, it is not the only source of spam. What about spam that originates from the MAGY sources? more »
Sep 19, 2012 - by Terry Zink - Comments: 2
Related Topics: Email, Spam
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