[Cybertel-Ann] 11.2.6 :: Harold's Happy :: How did Congress Vote? :: "Sockpuppets" :: dot UN :: Northern Cyberspace Command ::

Thu Nov 2 11:05:13 PST 2006

============================================
CyberTelecom News  
============================================
RSS Feeds http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm
============================================
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but
a means by which we arrive at that goal.” ---Martin
Luther King, Jr.

Response to 'Bogus Experts, Bogus Concern' - The think
tank push to ban municipal broadband, Broadband
Reports, 11/2/2006 
Larry Lessig, NY Times contributor Glenn Fleishman,
CNET's Russell Shaw, and Slashdot users all chime in
on our recent editorial on the latest telecom think
tank effort to have all community run broadband
banned.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/79315
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

FCC Makes Important Open Spectrum Decision, Public
Knowledge, 11/2/2006 
Yesterday, the FCC issued long awaited decision
resolving Continental Airline’s complaint that
Massport cannot order it to shut down its free wifi
access for Continental customers. But the decision
does a lot more than that.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/704
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm#con

Battle for 'Net neutrality' arrives in Canada and
could forever alter Internet, Canada.com, 11/2/2006 
The battle in the United States by major telecom
companies to control web content has arrived in Canada
with little fanfare - and it's a fight that could
forever change the Internet as we know it.
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/news/gizmos/story.html?id=8221057a-024a-4d94-9e10-c242072a709e&k=38490
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Bells: DSL subs and speeds rising, Telephony,
11/2/2006 
The Bells’ broadband efforts fared better in the third
quarter than in the second. AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest
Communications and Verizon Communications gained a
combined 1,179,000 broadband subscribers in the third
quarter, up 17% from the second quarter.
http://telephonyonline.com/home/news/bells_dsl_subs_110106/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm

United Nations lauds internet's 'arranged marriage',
Register, 11/2/2006 
IGF The closing day of the Internet Governance Forum
(IGF) has ended on a high note with attendees from
across the world (from business, government,
international ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/igf_meeting_ends/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

Global forum on Web bridges 'cultural gap', RTE,
11/2/2006 
The world's first-ever UN forum on Internet governance
wound up today with experts from over 90 countries, IT
firms and non-government organisations welcoming the
chance to exchange views on the future of the web.
http://www.rte.ie/business/2006/1102/internet.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

At U.N. Internet summit, calls for change, CNET,
11/2/2006 
Delegates at Athens summit tackle the dominance of
English, censorship vs. free speech, and other issues.
http://news.com.com/2009-1028_3-6131408.html?part=rss&tag=6131408&subj=news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/wgig.htm

EU backs US decision on ICANN, America's Network,
11/2/2006 
A top EU official praised the US commitment to pull
back from its historic oversight of the Internet as a
worldwide conference on the network's future opened
this week, an Associated Press report said.
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=383485&ref=25
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/wgig.htm

First Internet Governance Forum: Internet must remain
the driver for democracy and economic development,
says Commission, Europa, 11/2/2006 
he first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum
(IGF) began in Athens on Monday, 30 October. It is an
important milestone agreed last November at the World
Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (WSIS) as
part of the drive to internationalise internet
governance, to safeguard freedom online and to bridge
the global digital divide. The Commission strongly
supports this forum as a unique opportunity for an
open multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on internet
governance and development, helping to make the Tunis
agreement reality.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/1491&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/wgig.htm

ICANN warns mistake on non-English Web addresses could
'permanently break Internet', USA Today, 11/2/2006 
ICANN warned Wednesday that a mistake in a creating
more Web addresses using non-Latin letters could
"permanently break the Internet." ..
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-11-01-icann-web_x.htm?csp=34
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/wgig.htm

Abusing The DMCA To Take Down Any Content, Techdirt,
11/2/2006 
This has been quite a week for stories about people
abusing the DMCA. Earlier, we had the story of a
company that was abusing the DMCA to hunt down
critics. In that case, they were using the fact that
you can use the DMCA to send a subpoena without
actually proving there's any infringing material, and
often companies will give up IP address info once they
get the subpoena.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061101/231619.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm

Interim Rule Temporarily Extends Regulation on
Existing Classes of Works, LOC, 11/2/2006 
The Librarian of Congress has announced that he has
temporarily extended the existing regulation
designating the classes of works subject to an
exemption from the prohibition on circumvention of
technological measures that control access to
copyrighted works.
http://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2006/298.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm

Record companies sue defendant's kids, AP, 11/2/2006 
Patricia Santangelo wouldn't concede in her fight with
record companies that accused her of pirating songs
over the Internet. Now the companies are hoping for an
easier tussle against her kids.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_en_bu/music_download_suit
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

HBO's Bold Broadband Plans, BWO, 11/2/2006 
The premium channel may offer its wares online—a move
that could rankle cable and satellite operators
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061101_392704.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ipv.htm

Air Force to create cyberspace command, Reuters,
11/2/2006 
The U.S. Air Force plans to set up what could become a
major command aimed at safeguarding U.S. military and
civilian cyberspace, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne
said on Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061102/tc_nm/arms_cyberspace_dc
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

International anti-spam initiatives unite at the IGF,
OECD, 11/2/2006 
The six leading international anti-spam initiatives
will launch a new online information resource to
assist in fighting spam on 1 November 2006, at the
first meeting of the United Nationas Internet
Governance Forum in Athens, Greece.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/31/0/37624577.pdf
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/

CAN SPAM Still Not Canning Much Spam, Techdirt,
11/2/2006 
When the CAN SPAM bill was first signed into law in
the US, it seemed pretty clear that it had little to
do with actually stopping spam, and plenty to do with
letting some politicians pat themselves on the back
for stopping spam.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061031/144128.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/canspam.htm

Spam Spikes, Spammers Scoff At CAN-SPAM, InternetWeek,
11/2/2006 
Spam rates spiked last month to the highest levels yet
this year as spammers spit in the face of federal
anti-spam law in record numbers.
http://internetweek.cmp.com/193500922?cid=rssfeed_pl_inw
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/canspam.htm

CCIA Scores Congress on Technology Votes, CCIA,
11/2/2006 
CCIA’s High-Tech Scorecard examined seven important
votes in the House of Representatives where, on
average, Members voted with industry and consumers
about 60% of the time. Congress failed to move on
numerous bills of critical importance to high-tech
companies. Patent and copyright reform in particular
got short shrift, even as junk patents impeded
innovators everywhere and outdated copyright laws
threatened to cripple the next generation of new media
devices.
http://www.ccianet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=645&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to
LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command
[un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list
information available at 
www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo  
Archive available at
www.lawlists.net/pipermail/cybertelecom-l-announce/ 
AUP available at www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup

Cybertelecom
www.cybertelecom.org 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~