Hi David ...

I follow your News segmaent and it is great, the only improvement I could 
suggest (and only thru laziness) is a few headings ... ie

AU News
Interest
World
Icann News

But as I said ... lazy lol

Keep Up the good work

Cheers Tony


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Goldstein" <goldstein_david&#167;yahoo.com.au>
To: "auDA DNS Mailing List" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:31 PM
Subject: [DNS] domain name, governance & WSIS news - December 6


> Hi all
>
> It's getting towards the end of the year, and I'm keen
> to get feedback on the news - what you like, dislike,
> new ideas, issues I don't cover, issues I cover too
> much.
>
> I have kept developing the news throughout the year,
> so while it has grown, it has also covered a wider
> range of news issues.
>
> So while comments are welcome any time, this is just a
> prompt to remind you I'm keen to receive them.
>
> Feel free to comment to the list and/or myself
> directly.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for
> the latest domain news. Within 24 hours of this news
> being posted, a more recent edition of the news will
> normally be posted to the auDA web site. The domain
> name news is supported by auDA.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> au: Exchange - Chris Disspain
> Meet the man in the front line of the battle against
> domain name fraud. Thousands of Australians have lost
> money to Internet domain name scams, particularly
> those who registered domains through Domain Names
> Australia (DNA). We put some of the most common
> complaints to Chris Disspain, CEO of the Australian
> Domain Name Authority (auDA).
>
> http://apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/print/8CE35FCC8C60D151CA256F4D002752BD
>
> nz: ICANN has just announced that its March 2006
> meeting will be held in Wellington, New Zealand (no
> link yet!)
> The meeting will be held from the 27th to the 31st of
> March 2006, and will primarily be at the Wellington
> Convention Centre and the Duxton Hotel.
>
> uk: easyGroup wins easyejt.com domain name dispute
> The Panel of the World Intellectual Property
> Organisation's Arbitration and Mediation Center, which
> administers the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution
> Policy and rules, has found in favour of easyGroup IP
> Licensing Limited (easyGroup) in a dispute over the
> domain name easyejt.com. From:
> http://practicallaw.com/jsp/article.jsp?item=46171
>
> New Berkman Amici Brief In Domain Name Case
> The Berkman Center's Clinical Program in Cyberlaw this
> week filed another amici curiae brief in a trademark
> appeal involving an allegedly infringing domain name.
>
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=626
>
> Russian Internet Domain Turns 10
> Over 200,000 domain names are registered in the
> Russian Internet domain (Runet), Mikhail Seslavinsky,
> head of the federal press and mass communications
> agency, reported on Tuesday.
>
> http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5153298&startrow=1&date=2004-11-30&do_alert=0
>
> Website registration reaches record levels
> Over five million new domain names were added to the
> internet in the third quarter of this year - the
> highest growth in registrations ever.
>
> http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39126277,00.htm
> http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/news/38566.html
>
> http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/11/29/daily28.html
> http://www.pcmag.co.uk/news/1159779
> http://www.vnunet.com/news/1159779
>
> Netcraft December 2004 Web Server Survey
> In the December 2004 survey we received responses from
> 56,923,737 sites. The gain of 808,722 sites continues
> the Internet's powerful growth as a medium for
> communications and commerce, which has continued at
> near-record pace in 2004 despite a steady drumbeat of
> security threats.
>
> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/01/december_2004_web_server_survey.html
>
> Bidders line up for .net domain names registry
> The role of US corporations in managing domain name
> registries is destined to provoke heated debate as
> various companies submit and defend their respective
> bids for the .net domain name registry.
>
> http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93460,00.html
>
> Big Turn Out At ICANN Conference
> Over 600 delegates are attending the Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> conference in Cape Town, the fourth time such a
> meeting has been held in Africa.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030564.html
>
> za: ICANN conference under way in Cape Town
> ICANN is holding a major conference in Cape Town as
> part of its commitment to reach out to internet users
> around the world. Theresa Swinehart, ICANN's general
> manager for global partnerships, said the organisation
> is doing its best to engage the world by holding its
> tri-annual meetings in it's five different regions
> (Africa, Asia, North America, Latin America and
> Europe) on a rotational basis.
>
> http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93422,00.html
>
> ICANN to unveil internet strategy at meeting
> ICANN will be holding its annual meeting from the
> 1st-5th December in Cape Town, South Africa.
>
> http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93186,00.html
>
> za: ICANN: Affordable Access the Key
> The main African Internet issue is that of affordable
> access, CEO Paul Twomey said at the Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> meeting in Cape Town this morning.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020629.html
>
> za: Minister, Internet Community Rift 'Healed'
> The South African Internet community has praised
> communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri for her
> speech at the ICANN conference, saying it heals the
> rift between the community and government. The speech
> earned the minister a standing ovation this week.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030422.html
>
> Conference explores Africa's Internet options
> More than 600 delegates are attending the Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> conference in Cape Town, the fourth time such a
> meeting has been held in Africa.
>
> http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1102063453797I250
>
> http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93323,00.html
>
> ICANN works Harry Potter magic on net
> Internet overseeing organisation ICANN has a difficult
> task ahead persuading people to let it run the whole
> network when its contract ends in 2006. And it is
> willing to try anything to get there - including, it
> would seem, magic.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/02/icann_harry_potter_magic/
>
> ITU head: Arabic domain names coming to a computer
> near you
> Internet domain names may soon be available in Arabic,
> according to Yoshio Utsumi, the secretary-general of
> the International Telecommunications Union.
> http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=4722
>
> African Languages to Be Recognised Internationally
> Africans wishing to use local languages in Internet
> domain names and content can now do so, courtesy of a
> new movement to internationalise domain names.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020002.html
>
> Finding Our Roots On the Internet - ICANN Conference
> Brings Hope to Africa
> Imagine exploring cyberspace and wading through
> mountains of information in Kiswahili, Amharic or the
> Ghanaian language Twi efficiently and as easily as you
> would in English.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020001.html
>
> za: New Language for South Africa?
> Is there a twelfth official language in South Africa?
> If you are in Cape Town this week you would be
> forgiven for thinking so. It is acronyms galore in the
> Mother city as a new language invades and wreaks havoc
> inside the International Convention Centre where the
> annual ICANN conference is being held.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020003.html
>
> Cornucopia: A Radically Different Approach to TLDs
> Much of the discussion about proposed TLDs centres
> around domain names as a form of classification:
> ".mobi" for mobile device content, ".kids" for
> child-safe content, language codes for
> language-specific content, ".museum" for
> museum-related entities, and so on. Notoriously little
> activity has been forthcoming in actually implementing
> these proposals, and the select few that have been
> allowed out into the world are, shall we say, a tad
> arbitrary.
> http://www.circleid.com/article/819_0_1_0_C/
>
> ICANN selects its wardens
> ICANN has selected the two independent wardens of its
> activites after a two-year delay.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/03/icann_selects_wardens/
>
> ICANN Posts Ombudsman Framework for Public Comment
>
> http://icann.org/ombudsman/ombudsman-framework-03dec04.htm
>
> Internet Governance: ICANN pitches the internet's
> future
> ICANN, which oversees the Internet in all its
> manificent lunacy, has just published a Strategic
> Plan, in which it has outlined what its direction and
> goals are for the next three years.
>
> http://www.markle.org/weekly_digest/weeklydigest_vol.3_issue45.pdf
>
> TJ is Tajikistan Internet Address!
> Last year the redelegation process over .TJ domain
> initiated by present Manager and supported by Internet
> Community of Tajikistan and ICANN took place. The
> process was successfully finished on July 2, 2003.
> Unfortunately all the attempts (both ours and ICANN)
> to establish any contacts to the previous domain
> administration regarding the names, which had been
> registered before failed. In this connection the
> decision was made to cancel them all. So for those
> companies and individuals who had the names registered
> before July 2003 and are still interested in them the
> solution is to register them again.
> http://www.nic.tj
>
> Travel industry to have its own web address
> Companies in the travel and tourism industry are to
> have their own internet address. The '.travel' top
> level domain (TLD), which should launch in the second
> quarter of 2005, will provide a new variation to the
> continuing demand for new web addresses.
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041203/175/f7u2v.html
>
> Travel domain will make Web surfing easier
> Are you facing the agony of locating an ideal hotel or
> travel agent over the Internet? You can brace yourself
> for better times because the International Corporation
> for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has entered
> into technical and commercial agreements on a proposed
> .travel domain name registry.
>
> http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=420&art_id=iol1102174231146T614
>
> Thawte Secures International Domains
> SSL security certificate provider thawte (thawte.com)
> announced Tuesday at the ICANN conference in Cape
> Town, South Africa that it had become the first
> certificate authority to offer SSL certificates that
> fully secure internationalized domain names.
> http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/tha120204.cfm
>
> *****************
> WSIS & GOVERNANCE
> *****************
> OECD: Meeting on Economic and Social Implications of
> ICT, Antigua, Guatemala from 18-Jan-2005 to
> 19-Jan-2005
> As part of the preparatory process of the second phase
> of the World Summit on the Information Society (to be
> held in Tunis on 16-18 November 2005) the OECD is
> collaborating with UNCTAD, ILO and the ITC in
> organising a WSIS Thematic Meeting on the Economic and
> Social Implications of ICT. OECD's work on the links
> between ICTs and economic growth, social development
> and performance of enterprises that has been carried
> out under the aegis of ICCP and WPIE will provide some
> of the fundamental arguments presented at this
> meeting.
>
> http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,2340,en_2649_37409_33938223_1_1_1_37409,00.html
>
> The Accountable Net: Who Should Be Accountable? By
> Esther Dyson
> Two weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission held a
> summit on e-mail authentication in Washington, DC; the
> community of people who handle bulk mail came together
> and agreed on standards and processes that should help
> reduce the proliferation of spoofed mail and
> fraudulent offers. This was a big, collective step in
> the right direction.
> http://www.circleid.com/article/820_0_1_0_C/
>
> za: Internet Body Must Include All - Minister
> The international governing structure of the internet
> had to be made more inclusive to allow for greater
> participation by underdeveloped and developing
> countries, Communications Minister Ivy
> Matsepe-Casaburri says.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030414.html
>
> za: Governments Should Have Voice in Internet
> Governance, Says South African Minister
> South African Communications Minister, Dr. Ivy
> Matsepe-Casaburri has called on Internet authorities
> to allow governments of developing countries to have
> more of a say in how the Internet is governed.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030609.html
>
> za: Matsepe-Casaburri Lobbies for Wider Internet
> Access
> Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has
> challenged the international community to allow wider
> access in the governance of the Internet.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020128.html
>
> za: 'We need to create affordable Web access'
> South African communications minister, Dr Ivy
> Matsepe-Casaburri has called on Internet authorities
> to allow governments of developing countries to have
> more of a say in how the Internet is governed.
> Matsepe-Casaburri was officially welcoming delegates
> attending the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
> and Numbers (Icann) conference in Cape Town on
> Thursday.
>
> http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1101989711770O545
>
> http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93415,00.html
>
> za: Speech by South African Minister of
> Communications, Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, to ICANN
> meeting
>
> http://www.info.gov.za/search97cgi/s97_cgi?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2E%2E%2Fdata%2Fspeech04%2F04120309451002%2Etxt&DocOffset=9&DocsFound=4624&Collection=speech04&SortField=TDEDate&SortOrder=desc&ViewTemplate=gov%2Fdocview%2Ehts
>
> za: Internet in Africa to be more accessible and
> affordable
> African internet service providers (ISPs), struggling
> to survive in Internet Protocol registries based in
> the US and the UK, can hold their breath until April
> 2005, when the African Network Information Centre
> (AfriNIC) will be fully recognised and operational.
> AfriNIC, the first registry to exclusively serve the
> African market, will not ask them to justify why they
> should be allocated IP addresses.
>
> http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93415,00.html
>
> za: Govt wants more say over web
> Governments, "as the true representatives of their
> country", should have an increased voice in the
> governance of the internet, Communications Minister
> Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Thursday.
> http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/396546.htm
> http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5475319.html
>
> Africans need to join the global arena
> A Sudanese delegate at the ICANN conference in Cape
> Town stands and speaks about his home country. "In
> Sudan we started what is called the Free Internet
> system where Internet users only paid for local call
> costs and not ISP costs," he began, "The number of
> Internet users tripled impressively. Then the numbers
> stopped growing and we found out it was because many
> Sudanese people did not have access to computers to
> enable them to connect to the Internet in the first
> place."
>
> http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1102063487465R252
>
> http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93308,00.html
>
> WGIG Too Focused on Negative Side of the Internet? By
> Susan Crawford
> The following is a report by Susan Crawford at the
> ICANN meeting in Cape Town where a workshop was held
> yesterday for increasing awareness and understanding
> of United Nation's World Summit on the Information
> Society (WSIS) and issues that directly impact ICANN.
> ("WSIS" is defined as a process in which governments
> intend to address a broad range of international
> legal, regulatory, economic, and policy issues related
> to the Internet. Some governments have proposed that
> an intergovernmental organization be responsible for
> "Internet governance," a phrase that remains undefined
> and some consider to include and/or mean the
> administration and coordination of the domain name
> system (DNS).)
> http://www.circleid.com/article/815_0_1_0_C/
>
> Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had Final Meeting
> The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had its final
> meeting at UNDP headquarters in New York on 29
> November. Rik Panganiban (CONGO), who was allowed to
> participate as an NGO observer, reports.
> http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/698.htm
>
> Geneva informal meeting on financial mechanisms
> disappointing
> The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms (TFFM) held an
> open meeting in conjunction with the WSIS Group of the
> Friends of the Chair meeting in Geneva last week.
> Chantal Peyer from the Swiss NGO coalition
> Communica.ch was there and reports about a
> disappointing discussion, but also about a possible
> strategy for civil society.
> http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/697.htm
>
> Civil Society processes in WSIS Phase II
> Civil society groups involved in the World Summit on
> the Information Society had some difficulties
> concerning the transparency and inclusiveness of their
> overall coordination structures. A review of the
> structures and decision-making procedures was started
> at PrepCom 1 in June and was finally kicked off at
> last week's meetings around the UN ICT Task Force in
> Berlin.
> http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/691.htm
>
> Proposal for formation of CS Working Methods Working
> Group
> Draft "Rules and Procedures for NGO Representation at
> UN Conferences"
>
> http://worldsummit2005.de/download_en/CS-RULES-PROCEDURES-21-11-2004.rtf
>
> http://worldsummit2005.de/download_en/CS-RULES-PROCEDURES-21-11-2004.pdf
>
> WSIS PrepCom2 will be "stormy"
> The UN Information and Communication Technology Task
> Force (UN ICT TF) met in Berlin last week, and civil
> society groups had a number of meetings around this
> event. The conflicts and coalitions in the second
> phase of the WSIS are becoming clearer now. One major
> dispute is to be expected over financing.
> http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/689.htm
>
> Ghana to host preparatory conference of WSIS
> Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, chief executive of the
> Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO),
> has met with the secretariat of the African Regional
> Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on the
> Information Society (WSIS) in Accra to examine the
> preparations so far made towards the hosting of the
> summit scheduled for Accra in February next year.
> http://www.accra-mail.com/story.asp?id=11751
>
> RSF says repressive regimes gaining foothold ahead of
> WSIS
> Several countries that have cracked down on the use of
> the Internet are members of the Working Group on
> Internet Governance (WGIG), charged a world media
> watchdog Wednesday.
>
> http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=301138
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
> BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> (c) David Goldstein 2004
>
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