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Netizens-Digest Volume 1 Number 271
Netizens-Digest Friday, February 12 1999 Volume 01 : Number 271
Netizens Association Discussion List Digest
In this issue:
[netz] ICANN Releases Guidelines For Domain Registrars February 9, 1999
[netz] InterNIC... tracking utility
[netz] CyberCultural Events: E Timor
[netz] (Fwd) Communications Policy and the Public Interest
[netz] call for nominations for Eff Pioneer award
[netz] Internet Pioneers
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:44:53
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Subject: [netz] ICANN Releases Guidelines For Domain Registrars February 9, 1999
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ICANN Releases Guidelines For Domain Registrars February 9, 1999
By Michele Masterson
InternetNews.com Associate Editor Business News Archives
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_65921,00.html
The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers has released
preliminary guidelines to open up the domain registration process
currently administered by government-sanctioned Network Solutions to
other competitors.
ICANN is the non-profit group begun by the late Jon Postel and is
the successor to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Membership
is comprised of leading international Internet authorities, including
Esther Dyson, ICANN's interim chairman and Michael Roberts, interim
president and chief executive officer.
Registrar qualifications include:
Registrar must demonstrate basic capabilities to perform its
obligations
Registrar has not been disqualified for past violations of ICANN
standards
Registrars must abide by Code of Conduct for DNS Registrars
Provide procedures that allow applicant's customers to change
registrars without interruption of domain name
Maintain necessary working capital
Hold an existing second or third-level domain
Additional requirements under consideration include a commercial
general liability insurance coverage of $500,000 in U.S. currency.
That amount may vary depending on the registrar's location.
The 30-page draft seeks public commentary on the proposed guidelines
before the March 4 ICANN board meeting slated to take place in
Singapore. The group said it will consider and respond to public
input at its public forum on March 3, also in Singapore.
On March 8, if the accreditation program is approved, the group will
post the results on its Web site, and following that, will begin
accepting applications for accreditation during a testing period.
Links:
http://www.icann.org/
http://www.netsol.com/
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Also in this issue:
- - Listen To Visitors To Your Web Site
Are you scratching your head trying to figure out what more can be
done to make your website better to keep visitors interested, and
more importantly . . . returning?
- - Site jams after startup plans PC giveaway
Free-PC's Web site was jammed with inquiries today after the startup
announced it will give away computers and Net access to users who
agree to view advertisements.
- - A nation in cyberspace draws fire from authorities
BELMONT, Calif. David Korem, founding father of the dominion of
Melchizedek, says his country has everything a sovereign nation
needs: territory it claims two Pacific islands and a slice of
Antarctica citizens and a functioning government.
- - Training at Your Fingertips
Web-based schooling is a convenient, cheap alternative to the old-
fashioned classroom.
- - Where to Find Online Training
Here´s a roundup of Web-based schools
- - Swedish Web Surfers Grow to 33 Million February 9, 1999
[Stockholm, SWEDEN] Nearly 3 million people, 33 percent of the
population, are connected to the Net in Sweden, with a growth rate
of 36 percent in the past year, according to RelevantKnowledge and
its Swedish partner, Sifo Interactive Media.
- - How Ordinary Americans View the Web
Half Say Internet Not Reaching Potential
The latest attempt to find out how the average American views
computers and the Internet belongs to CBS.Marketwatch.com, which
conducted a telephone poll of more than 1,700 Americans to get an
answer.
- - ICANN Releases Guidelines For Domain Registrars February 9, 1999
The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers has released
preliminary guidelines to open up the domain registration process
currently administered by government-sanctioned Network Solutions to
other competitors.
- - Repressive regimes may be targeting Net service providers
An Internet service provider in Dublin, Ireland, a couple weeks ago
was forced to shut down temporarily after a cyberattack on its
computers. Topping the list of suspects is Indonesia.
- - Conflict holding up hacker bill
The National Police Agency and the Posts and Telecommunications
Ministry are sharply divided over a bill to deal with the problem of
hackers, which the two bodies are expected to submit jointly during
the current Diet session.
- - Amnesty International Warns Against Website
Don't believe everything on the Web, Amnesty International warned
this week. The international human-rights group is trying to spread
the word about what it says is a bogus website being run by agents of
the Tunisian government. The site, at amnesty-tunisia.org, trumpets
efforts by the Tunisian government in the cause of human rights.
- - Internet a Hot Topic in Business Schools
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The professors teaching this semester's
hottest course at MIT's Sloan School of Management stopped taking
applications after 150 students signed up for the 76 available
seats.
- - Italy Challenges U.S. on Internet Security
[Rome, ITALY] Alarm over Internet security and espionage was
launched early this month by Stefano Rodota, a government watchdog
for the rights of privacy of Italian citizens and businesses.
- - New Lists and Journals
1) Year 2000 Law Report
2) Xenobiotica
3) xenia
4) Jacket Magazine
5) Bloomin' Garden Magic
6) Internet Cycle News
7) Just-in-Time Coaching
8) Work at Home News
9) Waste Management Commodities. Trends and comments.
10) Aphra Behn Society. Newsletter.
11) TightWad Marketing News
12) USDIS News
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:06:53 -0500
From: "P.A. Gantt" <pgantt@icx.net>
Subject: [netz] InterNIC... tracking utility
Since the <editorial comment "lousy"> transition from
InterNIC to ICANN "bletch" </editorial comment>...
...people awaiting domain names may
want to use this utility spotted by a web
designer on another list:
http://www.webstorage.com/utils/reg_track.html
The utility at this site will query InterNIC based on the InterNIC
tracking number and you can check on the status of your
registration.
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P.A. Gantt, Computer Science Technology Instructor
Electronic Media Design and Support Homepage
http://user.icx.net/~pgantt/
mailto:pagantt@technologist.com?Subject=etech
http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/vision/1998-11.asp
Common sense is not common, and conventional wisdom is not
wisdom. But at least you can have conventional sense. ~~ Daily Whale
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:46:09 -0004
From: kerryo@ns.sympatico.ca (Kerry Miller)
Subject: [netz] CyberCultural Events: E Timor
Repressive regimes may be targeting Net service providers
by John Walker
[T]he most interesting Web development came in late 1997, when
an Irish Internet service provider, Connect-Ireland, joined forces with
Nobel laureates Jose Ramos-Hort and Bishop Carlos Belo, who
had been among the most active people in the East Timor freedom
movement.
The idea behind their East Timor Project was to create what
amounted to a virtual nation. To do this, they took advantage of the
way Internet domains are created.
...
| Creating an East Timor top-level domain name, .tp, was a clever
| political maneuver. It effectively established a semiofficial
| presence, though what that really means is open to
| interpretation....
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:33:41 -0004
From: kerryo@ns.sympatico.ca (Kerry Miller)
Subject: [netz] (Fwd) Communications Policy and the Public Interest
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Date sent: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:48:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Kevin Taglang <kevint@benton.org>
Subject: Communications Policy and the Public Interest
NEW BOOK PUTS TELECOM ACT OF 1996
INTO PERSPECTIVE
MEDIA SCHOLAR SAYS ACT MAKES
THE PUBLIC INTEREST INTO POLITICAL FOOTBALL
COMPETITION FOR WHAT AND FOR WHOM?
As the Telecommunications Act of 1996 reaches its third birthday on February
8, a new book provides valuable perspective on one of the most tumultuous
and momentous legislative processes in the history of communications law.
*Communications Policy and the Public Interest: The Telecommunications Act
of 1996*, by Professor Patricia Aufderheide of American University in
Washington (DC), succinctly provides background and analysis of this law,
which inaugurated a new era in telecommunications.
The book has already been heralded by scholars as a key resource on
telecommunications. Robert Horwitz (University of California, San Diego)
called it "terrifically useful," and Douglas Gomery of the University of
Maryland says, "In clear and concise language, Aufderheide brings us up
to speed on what the law is today and what important and vital problems remain."
The first major overhaul of US communications law since 1934 -- when no one
had a television set, a cordless phone, or a computer -- the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 was spurred into being by broad shifts in
technology use, and by an equally significant shift in ideological tides.
This book shows that the new law reflects important changes in our notions
of the purpose of communications regulation and how it should be deployed.
"The public interest was once linked to the obligations that monopolies owed
to the rest of us," says Professor Patricia Aufderheide. "This new law makes
explicit that the new standard of the public interest is a vigorous,
competitive economic environment.
"At ground level, that means we have old problems and new problems. For
instance, what exactly do broadcasters owe the public, as they cling to the
concept of public trusteeship? How exactly should regulators match up the
old promise of universal service with an emerging competitive telephone
environment? And what happens if vigorous competition does not emerge?"
Focusing on the evolution of the concept of the public interest, Aufderheide
examines how and why the legislation was developed, provides a thematic
analysis of the Act itself, and charts its intended and unintended effects
in business and policy. An abridged version of the Act is included, edited
by renowned legal and policy expert Thomas Krattenmaker. Also included in
the appendices are the Supreme Court decision that struck down one of its
clauses, the Communications Decency Act, and a variety of pertinent speeches
and policy arguments. Readers are also guided to a range of organizations
and websites that offer legal updates and policy information.
"The Telecommunications Act has unleashed a wave of powerful, but often
contradictory forces, which are reshaping our global society," says Jeffrey
Chester, executive director of the Center for Media Education.
"Communications Policy and the Public Interest is an essential tool for
anyone who wishes to understand where our electronic media system is heading
in the digital age."
The book is available from Guilford Press at <http://www.guilford.com>. The
author is available at <paufder@american.edu> and 202-885-2069.
*
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:15:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Ronda Hauben <ronda@panix.com>
Subject: [netz] call for nominations for Eff Pioneer award
_________________________________________________________________
Interesting that the EFF Pioneer award lists the following criteria.
1. The nominees must have made a substantial contribution to the
health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based
communications.
2. The contribution may be technical, social, economic or cultural.
There is so little notice in the U.S. of the social aspect of the
Internet and those who contribute to it.
Ronda
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THE EIGHTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EFF PIONEER AWARDS:
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
*Please free to redistribute this notice in appropriate forums.*
In every field of human endeavor,there are those dedicated to
expanding knowledge, freedom, efficiency and utility. Along the
electronic frontier, this is especially true. To recognize this, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation established the Pioneer Awards for
deserving individuals and organizations.
The Pioneer Awards are international and nominations are open to all.
The deadline for nominations this year is March 10, 1999. Nominations
must be sent to pioneer@eff.org.
In March of 1992, the first EFF Pioneer Awards were given in
Washington D.C. The winners were: Douglas C. Engelbart, Robert Kahn,
Jim Warren, Tom Jennings, and Andrzej Smereczynski. The 1993 Pioneer
Award recipients were Paul Baran, Vinton Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave
Hughes and the USENET software developers, represented by the
software's originators Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis. The 1994 Pioneer
Award winners were Ivan Sutherland, Whitfield Diffie and Martin
Hellman, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein, Bill
Atkinson, and the WELL. The 1995 Pioneer Award winners were Philip
Zimmermann, Anita Borg, and Willis Ware. The 1996 Pioneer Award
winners were Robert Metcalfe, Peter Neumann, Shabbir Safdar and
Matthew Blaze. The 1997 winners were Marc Rotenberg, Johan "Julf"
Helsingius, and (special honorees) Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil. The
1998 winners were Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Barbara
Simons.
The 8th Annual Pioneer Awards will be given in Washington, D.C., at
the 9th Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in April of
1999.
All nominations will be reviewed by a panel of judges chosen for their
knowledge of computer-based communications and the technical, legal,
and social issues involved in computer technology and computer
communications.
This year's judges are Mike Godwin, Bruce Koball, Hal Abelson, Lorrie
Cranor, Phil Agre, and Simona Nass.
There are no specific categories for the Pioneer Awards, but the
following guidelines apply:
1. The nominees must have made a substantial contribution to the
health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based
communications.
2. The contribution may be technical, social, economic or cultural.
3. Nominations may be of individuals, systems, or organizations in
the private or public sectors.
4. Nominations are open to all, and you may nominate more than one
recipient. You may nominate yourself or your organization.
5. All nominations, to be valid, must contain your reasons, however
brief, for nominating the individual or organization, along with a
means of contacting the nominee, and your own contact number.
Anonymous nominations will be allowed, but we prefer to be able to
contact the nominating parties in the event that we need more
information..
6. Every person or organization, with the single exception of EFF
staff members, are eligible for Pioneer Awards.
7. Persons or representatives of organizations receiving a Pioneer
Award will be invited to attend the ceremony at the Foundation's
expense.
You may nominate as many as you wish, but please use one form per
nomination. You may return the forms to us via email to:
pioneer@eff.org
Just tell us the name of the nominee, the phone number or email
address at which the nominee can be reached, and, most important, why
you feel the nominee deserves the award. You may attach supporting
documentation in Microsoft Word or other standard binary formats.
Please include your own name, address, phone number, and e-mail
address.
We're looking for the Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier that have
made and are making a difference. Thanks for helping us find them,
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:25:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Ronda Hauben <ronda@panix.com>
Subject: [netz] Internet Pioneers
Someone has asked me for a list of Internet pioneers. They asked me
for a short list of perhaps 20 and a longer list of up to 50 (which
can be broader and include ARPANET, Usenet, Unix, etc. pioneers as well).
As an army has built the Internet this is a tough request, but also
an interesting one as it is forcing me to figure out what is meant
by the Internet (as opposed to the ARPANET, etc.)
I have begun reading through the early period of the development of
the Internet design and the work toward creating its conception, in
the 1972-1983 period. And I have already done some study of
the creation of the earliest Internet with the cutover to TCP/IP in
January 1983 and then spli between MILNET and the ARPANET later in
1983. See draft paper on the cutover to tcp/ip at
http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/
What becomes clear to me from this study is that it isn't appropriate
to call the Internet a network of networks as it is actually the
interconnection and intercommunication among the networks, not a
network in its own right.
It is something more important than a network - an
Internetwork :-)
I welcome any suggestions or discussion on this etc.
Ronda
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