[Cybertel-Ann] 9.16.8 :: Striiiiiiike Six (COPA Rehearing Denied) :: McCain Invented the Blackberry!! :: Unreasonable Disclosed Things = Reasonable Things? :: Do Comcast emails to Customers Count Against the Cap?? :: Putting Lip Stick on Closed Wireless Networks :: Ike Hammers Texas Internet ::

Tue Sep 16 14:41:45 PDT 2008

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"I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig," – John McCain 

COMMISSION AWARDS CONTRACT TO NEUSTAR, INC. TO BUILD AND OPERATE CENTRALIZED DATABASE FOR INTERNET-BASEDTELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY SERVICE NUMBERING SYSTEM, FCC
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-08-2069A1.pdf
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ada/fcc.htm

Our broadband sucks but at least wehave a lot of company, Muni
Another day, another study announcing to the world that broadband infrastructure in mostcountries is not future-ready (for watching YouTube, video chatting and file
sharing). It’s not even present-ready, given that many people are using these applications right now.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/391071711/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Courts Hand Yet Another Defeat to COPA, CDT 
Just yesterday we blogged about how the government asked the full 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the decision of the three-judge panelthat ruled
the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) unconstitutional — for the third time. Just today the court denied the government’s request for arehearing.
http://blog.cdt.org/2008/09/16/courts-hand-yet-another-defeat-to-copa/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/copa.htm

AT&T Again Hints At Bandwidth Crackdown - Peak, off-peak broadband minutes?, dslreports
AT&T CTO John Donovan talks to Dow Jones about AT&T's efforts to respond to last
quarter's dismal DSL subscriber additions. While the company did add 46,000
subscribers total due to U-Verse, they actually lost 90,000 DSL subscribers
thanks to the economy, competition, and according to Donovan - flawed
execution. Donovan chats up his company's efforts to correct the losses with
new promotions, and his fight against the "perception issue" that
AT&T service is slower than cable. However, buried in the otherwise
unremarkable conversation is yet another reference by AT&T that they're
getting ready to unveil some type of new pricing/consumption model.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Again-Hints-At-Bandwidth-Crackdown-97753
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Does Disclosure Trump Net Blocking?, PFF
The FCC's recent Network Management Order concerning Comcast's broadband network
management practices purported to establish rules of "reasonable"
network management in the context of an "adjudication" of an advocacy
group's "formal complaint" concerning Comcast's treatment of P2P
traffic on its network. I have written elsewhere about the legal and procedural
defects of the Commission's approach that I believe will doom the action's
chances on appeal. Here I discuss one relatively unexamined
http://blog.pff.org/archives/2008/09/does_disclosure.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

StubHub Wins 230 Dismissal in Anti-Scalping Case, TechMarketing Law
Fehrs v. StubHub, Inc., #0801-00515 (Ore. Cir. Ct Sept. 9, 2008). The plaintiff's lawyerhas posted some...
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/09/stubhub_wins_23.htm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/samaritan.htm

comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50U.S. Web Properties for August 2008, comscore
U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for August 2008 based on data from the
comScore Media Metrix service. The Olympics and the U.S. Presidential campaign
were the main drivers of Internet activity during the month, resulting in
strong gains at politics, sports, news and humor sites. The start of another
academic year resulted in growth at education and retail – consumer goods sites
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/comscore/~3/394527852/release.asp
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

Report shows U.S. high speed Internetdeployment still lags behind, Speed Matters
Akamai Technologies has released its second quarterly State of the Internet report,
which ranks coutries and states based on the percentage of their population who
connect to the Internet at a speed greater than 5 mbps. By this measure, the
U.S. comes in sixth place, with only 26 percent of Americans able to connect at
these speeds.
http://www.speedmatters.org/blog/akamai_report.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm

Internet Governance Consultations inGeneva, IGP
We are in Geneva for a flurry of Internet governance related meetings. Monday morning
ICANN held one of its consultation sessions on “Improving Institutional
confidence.” The topic of discussion there was “completing the transition,”
which is about whether people think ICANN is accountable enough to be released
from U.S. supervision. ICANN is holding half a dozen of these sessions around
the world. In the original documents and negotiations creating ICANN the
concept of a “transition” meant completing the privatization of DNS governance
by ending the US Government oversight role. However, the US pulled back from
that in 2000 and has since insisted on its intention to keep its hand on the
root zone and the
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IGPBlog/~3/394196320/3886882.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

Charter To Launch DOCSIS 3.0 Before
Year's End - Claims deployment costs are $8-$10 per user, not including modem…, dslreports
Charter CEONeil Smit last week stated that upgrading to DOCSIS 3.0 should only run cable
operators about $8-$10 per customer, though Cable Digital News says that cost
estimate doesn't include the cost of new modems, nor does it include the cost
of provisioning those modems. Charter says they plan to deploy DOCSIS 3.0
upgrades in "a couple of markets" before the end of the year, but so
far isn't offering
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Charter-To-Launch-DOCSIS-30-Before-Years-End-97756
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Confronting IPv4 Address Exhaustion, Potaroo
It should be entirely unsurprising that the next phase of the Internet's story, that of the
transition of the underlying version of the IP protocol from IPv4 to IPv6,
refuses to follows the intended script. Where we are now, in mid-2008, with
IPv4 unallocated address pool exhaustion looming within the next 18 to 36
months, and IPv6 still largely not deployed in the public Internet, is a
situation that was entirely uncontemplated and, even in hindsight, entirely
surprising to encounter.
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2008-10/v4depletion.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Comcast E-mailing Customers About Caps- Ahead of October 1 transition date...., dslreports
For thoseComcast customers who don't watch the news and didn't know that the company
will be imposing a 250GB cap starting October 1, the nation's largest cable
operator has started sending them an e-mail alerting them to the changes. So
far there's still no mention of a Comcast-provided web-based meter, though
Comcast has stated they are working on one. I've confirmed that Comcast
Internet video services do count against the cap, though Comcast VoIP traffic
does not. Several users have sent in the e-mail. A portion of it:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Emailing-Customers-About-Caps-97735
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

Skype Gripes About Closed WirelessNetworks - Says last week's comments by execs just empty lip service, dslreports
Last week saw wireless industry executives pay lip service to opening up their networks at
the CTIA Fall 2008 trade show, but it became relatively clear that their idea
of truly open might not match up with everybody else's. The carriers warned
against wireless networks where any device could connect and any application
could be used, arguing that this could lead to a "wild west" where
the "customer experience" would be degraded. Also degraded of course
would be wireless carrier content, SMS/MMS and voice
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Skype-Gripes-About-Closed-Wireless-Networks-97769
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/skype.htm

Malaysia - Use of internal securitylaw is serious press violation, interior minister told - 16.09.2008, RSF
Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard has written to Malaysian interior
minister Syed Hamid Albar reiterating the organisation's call for the release
of blogger Raja Petra “RPK” Kamarudin, who has been held under the Internal
Security Act (ISA) since 12 September.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28558
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

Newspapers cry foul over Yahoo-Googlead deal, Globe and Mail
Global association says agreement would reduce the cost of paid search advertising andlower revenues for newspaper and other Web sites
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/393271362/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Rising Concerns Over UN Anti-Cyberattack Plan: Could End Internet Anonymity, CircleID
Recent reports suggest that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United
Nations agency, is "quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the
Chinese government," aimed at preventing Internet attacks which could also
put an end to anonymity on the Internet.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/un_anti_cyberattack_anonymity/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

U.N. Attacks Internet Anonymity -VeriSign Lending a Hand?, TechLiberation Front
Declan McCullagh has done some great reporting this morning on an ITU plan to trace the source of all Internet communications. Meaning: no more anonymous speechonline.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/390719604/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

Student Charged With Crime For TellingUniversity Officials About Security Hole, Techdirt
For many years, we've covered case after case after case after case after case after
case after case of people being blamed, arrested or even jailed for pointing
out a security flaw. It should come as no surprise that many security
researchers claim that it's just not worth it to research security
vulnerabilities, since the risk is just too high.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080915/0227582273.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

GAO-08-825, Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Needs to Fully Address Lessons Learned from Its First CyberStorm Exercise, September 9, 2008, GAO
No description
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08825.pdf?source=ra
More Info:http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm

GAO-08-588, Cyber Analysis and Warning:DHS Faces Challenges in Establishing a Comprehensive National Capability, July
31, 2008, GAO
Cyber analysis and warning capabilities are critical to thwarting computer-based
(cyber) threats and attacks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
established the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to,
among other things, coordinate the nation's efforts to prepare for, prevent,
and respond to cyber threats to systems and communications networks. GAO's
objectives were to
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08588.pdf?source=ra
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm

Ike Hammers Texas Internet, Renesys
Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas as a (high-end) category 2 hurricane around02:00 CDT this morning. Today, we are all watching the destructive land-wake of
the storm with our thoughts on those in its path.
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/09/ike_hammers_texas_internet.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/katrina.htm

Virginia: Spam Law Struck Down onGrounds of Free Speech, NYT
The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state’s antispam law unconstitutional and reversedthe conviction of a man once considered one of the world’s most prolific
spammers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/us/13brfs-SPAMLAWSTRUC_BRF.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/

Essay: Internet in the Sky: Surf butDon’t Call, NYT
New technology lets you get broadband Internet service while in flight, butairlines have erected technological barriers to block VoIP, as the debate over
public cellphone use continues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/business/14essay.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/blocking.htm

John McCain helped to create the BlackBerry? Really?, CNET
McCain campaign aide's boast that his boss' policies helped to create the BlackBerry
are prompting comparisons to Al Gore's claim that, while in Congress, he
"took the initiative in creating the Internet."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10043126-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

Tales of the Sausage Factory: McCainInvented the Blackberry? Maybe Not, But It May Make A Good Symbol., Tales from the Sausage Factory
I know that staffers often feel intense loyalty to their bosses, but can we please try tokeep the hero worship to a minimum? Otherwise, you end up accidentally making
the other side's argument. According to this story, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a ... 
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1323
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

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