[Cybertel-Ann] 6.27 :: FISA Forbearance :: Brief History of Indecency :: dot Money Talks :: IPv6 T-3 Days! :: But I Thought 80% of Net Traffic Was Spam So I had to Buy Spam Filters... or Was that Bots and Bot Filters?? ::

Fri Jun 27 07:52:16 PDT 2008

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"I was also a staff member at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which is basically a federally funded research institute. When Al Gore says that he created the Internet, he means that he funded these four national supercomputing centers. Federal funding was critical. I tease my libertarian friends—they all think the Internet is the greatest thing. And I'm like, Yeah, thanks to government funding." Marc Andreessen quoted in Vanity Fair, July 2008. 

U.S. Broadband Cannot Be Fixed Until You Tackle Corruption - Editorial: broadband cheerleading and Ivy League round tables aren't enough…, dslreports
An eclectic and disjointed mix of businesses, consumer advocacy organizations, politicians and technologists this week banded together under the "Internet For Everyone" banner to promote, well, Internet for everyone. The group's long list of strange bedfellows includes the ACLU, Google, Consumer's Union, Internet2, OpenDNS, Free Press, the Writers Guild of America, the Nancy Drew fan fiction club and many more -- though I think they fail to directly tackle this industry's most pressing problem. According to the group's website, the organization has four primary principles:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Broadband-Cannot-Be-Fixed-Until-You-Tackle-Corruption-95609
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 2 (Brief History of Indecency Enforcement), Tech Liberation Front
This morning I attended an excellent Freedom Forum conference on “Indecency & Violence in the Media: FCC v. Pacifica 30 Years Later.” At the event, Lili Levi of the University of Miami School of Law delivered a terrific address entitled “A Short History of the Indecency & Media Violence Wars.” (Incidentally, she is also the author of a highly recommended paper on the topic that is available on SSRN: “The FCC’s Regulation of Indecency.”
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/320900642/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Comcast, Cox, Trot Out Their Worst 'Bandwidth Hogs' - 681GB of upstream capacity used per month...., dslreports
As I've covered, Comcast will be changing the way they deal with users who consume "excessive" amounts of bandwidth on their network. Instead of using Sandvine gear to forge packets in order to disrupt upstream P2P traffic for all users, 24/7, the company will be using a new multi-pronged approach. Internally, the currently favored plan involves a clear 250GB cap, overage fees and increased DMCA enforcement.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Cox-Trot-Out-Their-Worst-Bandwidth-Hogs-95623
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

NebuAd: The Third Rail for ISPs?, Internet News
What was it about Charter's ad plan that got privacy advocates upset?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/320703001/3755631
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Sandvine: 44% of Internet Traffic P2P - Now please buy our hardware to help throttle, dslreports
According to traffic shaping vendor Sandvine, some 44% of all bandwidth consumed on networks operated by North American Internet service providers is thanks to P2P. Sandvine compiled data from several "leading" ISPs, and found that the largest consumers of bandwidth were file sharing (43.5%); Web browsing (27.3%); and streaming media (14.8%). Other usage included VPNs (5.9%); newsgroups (5.6%); online games (1.4%); and voice over IP (0.2%). Exploring upstream consumption only: P2P (75.0%); tunneling (9.9%); and Web browsing (9.1%).
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sandvine-44-of-Internet-Traffic-P2P-95622
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Direct From ICANN Paris Meeting: Surprise! The Money is What Matters!, Lauren Weinstein
Greetings. Since my posting yesterday expressing strong distaste for ICANN's plans to vastly expand the global top-level domain (gTLD) naming system, I've received some interesting analysis and reports from the current Paris ICANN meeting itself. They boil down to one...
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000394.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

ICANN Board Approves Sweeping Overhaul of Top-level Domains, CircleID
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has just approved the relaxation of the rules for the introduction of new Top-Level Domains -- a move that could drastically change the Internet. The new decision -- some calling it of historic importance and others predictable -- will allow companies to register their brands as generic top-level domain names (TLDs). For instance, Microsoft could apply to have a TLD such as '.msn' and Apple apply for '.mac'.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/86269_icann_approves_overhaul_top_level_domains/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

Launch of .PARIS, CircleID
Yesterday, hundreds of sweaty ICANN attendees put on their best clothes and braved the crush of the rush hour metro on a very hot day to crush together for the ICANN gala at the overwrought Hotel de Ville (city hall) in Paris. Most of them missed an interesting announcement. I arrived an hour late, but even so food and drink were not yet served (not even water), and everyone was in desperate need of provisioning. The dull roar of heat-induced complaining drowned out the dignitaries making speeches at the far end of the
http://www.circleid.com/posts/86262_launch_of_paris_domain_icann/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

New Flavors for Addresses on the Web Are on the Way, NYT
Icann voted to permit the introduction of Web addresses ending in words like .paris and .sports, making the most sweeping changes to the network’s address system since its creation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27icann.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

Feds Ready for IPv6 D-Day, CircleID
On June 30, U.S. federal government officials expect to declare an early victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded June 30 deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a long-term battle to get their networks ready for the Internet of the future. Under a White House policy issued in August 2005, all federal agencies must demonstrate the ability to pass IPv6 packets across their backbone networks by this deadline
http://www.circleid.com/posts/feds_ready_for_ipv6_d_day/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Commerce Committee Reschedules Hearing to Explore Privacy Implications of Online Advertising, Senate
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http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=d2a64d9b-8247-420c-8546-3188a7555f19
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

Unit becomes Cyberspace Technical Center of Excellence, AFCC
The Air Force Institute of Technology and the Center for Cyberspace Research here were designated as the Air Force's Cyberspace Technical Center of Excellence June 19 by the secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force.
http://www.afcyber.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123104424
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

Senate Delays Vote on Immunity, EFF
It's official: Thanks to overwhelming grassroots action, and the heroic efforts of Senators Dodd and Feingold, the Senate's vote on whether to grant phone companies immunity from the law for assisting in the President's illegal wiretapping program has been delayed until after July 4th Recess!
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/senate-delays-vote-immunity
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

Senate Vote On Telco Immunity Pushed Back, Techdirt
While the initial reports on the so-called "compromise" bill on FISA suggested that it would breeze through Congress, it appears that public outrage over this issue may have some Senators thinking twice. While the House did pass it, concern from some Senators has now delayed a vote on the bill until sometime after July 7th. That would suggest that a few Senators were serious about filibustering the bill unless telco immunity was taken out -- and those in favor of letting telcos off the hook didn't have enough votes to kill the
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080626/2320191531.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

GAO-08-607, Critical Infrastructure Protection: Further Efforts Needed to Integrate Planning for and Response to Disruptions on Converged Voice and Data Networks, June 26, 2008, GAO
Technological advances have led to an increasing convergence of previously separate networks used to transmit voice and data communications. While the benefits of this convergence are enormous, such interconnectivity also poses significant challenges to our nation's ability to respond to major disruptions. Two operations centers--managed by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Communications System and National Cyber Security ...
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08607.pdf?source=ra
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/reliability.htm

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