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Tue Jun 5 09:05:29 PDT 2007

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"Quantitative analysis works wonders when all the
assumptions are accurate and the variables selected
are the right ones. This happens approximately once
every million years." From The 21st Century Intranet
by Jennifer Stone Gonzalez  Source:
http://isen.com/quotes.html

City wi-fi plans under scrutiny, BBC, 6/5/2007 
City-wide wi-fi networks are growing but how do
councils and citizens get the most out of them?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/6722977.stm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

Nortel takes on more municipal wireless projects,
CNET, 6/5/2007 
Greenville, N.C., plus several suburbs of Denver will
get connected.
http://news.com.com/Nortel+takes+on+more+municipal+wireless+projects/2100-1039_3-6188592.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

Spectrum Comments Flood FCC, Internet News, 6/5/2007 
Should telecom and cable companies be barred from
participating in upcoming auction?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/122341789/3681356
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm

250,000 Americans Urge the FCC: Use the Public
Airwaves for the Public Good, Free Press, 6/5/2007 
More than a quarter-million Americans have urged the
Federal Communications Commission to use the auction
of a valuable slice of the public airwaves to make
Internet access more open, affordable and accessible
to everyone.
http://www.freepress.net/press/release.php?id=241
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm

Senate Commerce Committee Schedules USF, 700 MHz
Action Hearings, Senate, 6/5/2007 
The Universal Service Fund: Assessing the
Recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board
hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, June, 12, 2007, at
10:00 a.m., in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office
Building. This hearing will examine the Federal-State
Joint Board recommendations recently released by the
Federal Communications Commission to cap distribution
of funds to wireless programs.
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=248825
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm

Broadcasters Win Appeal Of FCC's Profanity Ruling,
Wash Post, 6/5/2007 
A federal appeals court tossed out an indecency ruling
against Rupert Murdoch's Fox television network
yesterday and broadly questioned whether the Federal
Communications Commission has the right to police the
airwaves for offensive language.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060400875.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Retail 1Q, 2007 E-commerce Report, CENSUS, 6/5/2007 
The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce
announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail
e-commerce sales for the first quarter of 2007,
adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and
trading-day differences, but not for price changes,
was $31.5 billion, an increase of 3.0 percent (±1.3%)
from the fourth quarter of 2006.
http://www.census.gov/mrts/www/ecomm.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

Broadband Spreads Out, Speeds Up, Emarketer, 6/5/2007 
At what point will DSL seem slow?
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004992
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm

Special Publication 800-54 Draft Version 2, Border
Gateway Protocol Security, NIST, 6/5/2007 
NIST announces the release of draft SP 800-54, Border
Gateway Protocol Security. This document introduces
the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), explains its
importance to the Internet, and provides a set of best
practices that can help in protecting BGP. Best
practices described here are intended to be
implementable on nearly all currently available BGP
routers without requiring installation of new
protocols. To improve the security of BGP routers, a
series of recommendations are made.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-54/Draft-SP800-54-version2-Jun2007.pdf
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/bgp.htm

IPv6 for the Rest of Us, CircleID, 6/5/2007 
IPv6 deployment is in a chicken and egg situation. On
the one hand, there is no willingness from ISPs and
commodity DNS router manufacturers to include IPv6
support in their infrastructure or equipment because
"there is no demand". On the other...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/deploying_ipv6_implementation_rest_of_us/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Internet Domain Name and Addressing System (DNS) Top
Level Domain for the United States (usTLD), NTIA,
6/5/2007 
The Department of Commerce/ National
Telecommunications and Information Administration
issued a "sources sought" notice of an intention to
procure centralized management and coordination of
registry, registrar (where specified), database, and
information services for the usTLD. The notice
requests interested parties to provide information
about their technical capability by June 22, 2007.
http://www2.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NOAA/AGAMD/PRNTIA9110%2D7%2D12841/SynopsisR.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/us.htm

US House panel sets hearing on Internet gambling,
Reuters, 6/5/2007 
A US House of Representatives panel said on Monday it
will hold a hearing on Friday to look at Internet
gambling, which is effectively...
http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSN0418990520070604
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm

Why Greece needs broadband and why it needs it now – a
European perspective, Europa, 6/5/2007 
International Conference "Exploring the Global
Dynamics of Broadband Internet", Athens, 1 June 2007
http://www.europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/355&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/

Ministerial meeting on the future of the Internet,,
OECD, 6/5/2007 
The Committee for Information, Computer and
Communications Policy (ICCP, www.oecd.org/sti/ict)
develops policies to maximise the benefits of the
Information Society. The Committee is planning a
Ministerial meeting on the future of the Internet, to
be held in Korea in June 2008.
http://www.oecd.org/document/19/0,3343,en_2649_34223_38051667_1_1_1_1,00.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/

China Bars Establishment Of New Internet Cafés in
2007, NY Sun, 6/5/2007 
China will license no new Internet cafés this year
while regulators carry out an industrywide inspection
amid official concern that online material is...
http://www.nysun.com/article/55898
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

Evasive Web attacks are on the rise, says Finjan,
CNET, 6/5/2007 
These sophisticated new Web attacks vanish upon second
visits and also know how to block search engines.
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9725516-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

Stiffer Cyber Laws to Crack Down on Botnets, Spyware,
Wired, 6/5/2007 
Both measures modify the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,
the federal anti-hacking bill enacted in 1986.
Originally intended to protect only federal government
...
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/06/bot_law
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

Internet traffic prioritisation, OECD, 6/5/2007 
Internet traffic prioritisation is an increasingly
important policy issue as bandwidth demands increase
and Internet applications require higher levels of
quality of service to function well. Debates about
traffic prioritisation, particularly in the...
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/63/38405781.pdf
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/priority.htm

Draft Special Publication 800-44 Version 2, Guidelines
on Securing Public Web Servers, NIST, 6/5/2007 
NIST announces the release of draft Special
Publication (SP) 800-44 version 2, Guidelines on
Securing Public Web Servers. SP 800-44 version 2 is
intended to aid organizations in the installation,
configuration, and maintenance of secure public Web
servers. It presents recommendations for securing Web
server operating systems, applications, and content;
protecting Web servers through the supporting network
infrastructure; and administering Web servers
securely. SP 800-44 version 2 also provides guidance
on using authentication and encryption technologies to
protect information on Web servers. This publication
replaces the original version of SP 800-44, which was
released in 2002. NIST requests comments on NIST SP
800-44 version 2 by July 6, 2007. Please submit
comments to 800-44comments at nist.gov with "Comments SP
800-44" in the subject line.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-44-Version2/Draft-SP800-44v2.pdf
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/protection.htm

The Development of Policies for the Protection of
Critical Information Infrastructures (CII), OECD,
6/5/2007 
The 2006 OECD study offers an analysis of the CII
security policies in four countries - Canada, Korea,
the United Kingdom, and the United States - with a
focus on the drivers for and challenges to their
development. It examines each country’s...
http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2006doc.nsf/linkto/dsti-iccp-reg(2006)15-final
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/protection.htm

Illinois Lt. Gov wants fiber under all new roads,
MuniWireless, 6/5/2007 
Illinoisâs Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn wants the state to
consider requiring its Department of Transportation to
install high-speed fiber optic cable under any new
stretch of road built in the state.
http://www.muniwireless.com/article/view/6079/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/state/il.htm

Court Says Vonage Needs To Throw Away Money Into
Wasteful USF Program, Techdirt, 6/5/2007 
The Universal Service Fund (USF) is a well-known joke.
It's a hugely wasteful program with almost no
oversight. Yet, last year, the FCC decided that VoIP
companies needed to pay a huge chunk of their revenue
to the USF, despite the fact that..
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070604/030940.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/voip.htm

Calendar of Events, Cybertelecom, 6/5/2007 
Here is a calender of upcoming Net Law and Policy
events. To have your event included on the calendar,
contact us. Jun 7-8 PF Broadband Policy Summit III
Arlington VA Jun 7-8 Workshop on the Economics of
Information Security PittsburghJun 11 VON...
http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2007/06/calendar-of-events.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/

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