ASIC fails to get full access to Whois data (subscription
req'd)
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has
failed in a bid to gain unfettered access to the Whois
database of Australian website owners, in a policy review
finalised on Monday.

http://enewsletters.f2network.com.au/cgi-bin16/DM/y/hSkR0B5eY0Bnr0rzc0AX

The RIR Number Resource Organization and ICANN ASO: Draft
for Public Comment
In order to ensure that RIR members and address communities
in every region have the opportunity to comment, the Board
of the RIRs have requested that RIRs post the following
document for a period of 30 days. The comment period closes
at midnight (UTC) on the 22nd October 2003. Each of the RIR
Boards will consider the comments as they are received, and
each RIR Board intends to make a decision whether to adopt
these documents following this comment period. If these
documents are adopted by all the RIR Boards, it is the
present intention to formally pass the following open
letter to ICANN on the 24th of October. On the same date
the Boards of the RIRs currently intend to direct their
CEOs to sign the MoU concerning the establishment of the
Number Resource Organization.

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/regional/draft-public-comment.html

Tenerife Government loses battle with 'unclean hands'
registrant
The Government of the Island of Tenerife, a Spanish
province, has lost its bid under the UDRP for transfer of
the geographic domain name tenerife.info to the current
registrant, Jupiter Web Services Limited of Merseyside, UK.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/09/24_ten.htm

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2003/d2003-0525.html

Court Rules sex.biz Belongs to Korean
A legal confrontation between a Korean and an American over
ownership of an Internet site address ended yesterday as a
South Korean court ruled in favor of the original Korean
holder.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200309/kt2003092318381011980.htm

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200309/24/200309240335128639900090409041.html

Who should manage Internet policies?
The debate over who should manage Internet policies has
become largely polarised into two opposing camps, loosely
aligned along developed or developing nation lines. The
United States wants the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) to maintain its task as the
highest-level authority in the distribution and assigning
of domain names, or Internet addresses. Those opposing this
position believe that an international body working within
the UN framework should take over this responsibility.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/computers/0,2172,66330,00.html

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,222139-1-454,00.html

Govt, media reach deadlock at WSIS
The third Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepCom3) of the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) taking place
in Geneva has thrown into sharp relief the gap between
governments and the media. In the current negotiations
between the government representatives and the media a
deadlock has been reached on a number of issues.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/computers/0,2172,66314,00.html

New book from APC and CRIS Campaign highlights priorities
for UN summit on info society
Access to information and communications technologies
(ICTs) is expanding but the majority of people in
developing countries are still excluded, says APC in a new
book launched last week in the run-up to the first ever
United Nations world conference on the information society.
At the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS), to be held in Geneva in December,
governments will agree on a declaration and action plan
that could enhance or hinder access to ICTs for the vast
majority of the world’s population. APC and the CRIS
Campaign have been following the WSIS process and our
publication – “Involving Civil Society in ICT Policy: the
World Summit on the Information Society” – highlights some
of the principal issues at stake.
 http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=14223

DNS Root Server Mirror Service: Explanation of Benefits
In this document (Word), Internet Software Consortium, Inc.
(ISC), a not-for-profit organization based in the United
States provides information to governments about the
benefits and possibility of locating a mirror of an
Internet domain name system root server within their
national context.  This solution offers potential benefits
with regard to National infrastructure protection and
self-sufficiency, Performance, Costs, Resilience, Emergency
response. These benefits are further described in this
document (Word).
 http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/com2/infodocs/023_ww9.doc
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2003/09/24.html#a224

VeriSign settles FTC complaint
VeriSign and the US Federal Trade Commission have reached a
settlement over allegations of deceptive marketing
practices involving domain-name renewals.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39116663,00.htm

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup25.4sep25,1,5040378.story
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33033.html

http://www.cw360.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=125152&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1

VeriSign refuses ICANN request to remove redirect service
VeriSign has refused a request from the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to
remove its controversial redirect service.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20278902,00.htm
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1143835

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082963633.html

VeriSign ha sido demandada por las redirecciones hacia una
página web de su propiedad

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/106424522846424.shtml

VeriSign sued over redirect
Verisign's service to redirect web surfers who mistype
addresses has become the subject of a $US100 million ($147
million) antitrust lawsuit filed by a rival.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7349405%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

VeriSign Responds (Publicly) to SiteFinder Outcry
VeriSign executives came out Tuesday explaining to the
public its support for the controversial SiteFinder service
and insistence it is a benefit to end users.
 http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3081611

VeriSign: illiterate ramblings
VeriSign's controversial Site Finder service, launched last
week, has helped VeriSign become one of the top ten
websites in terms of user numbers. However, industry
estimates of how much revenue it could generate from this
service seem to be overly optimistic - unless VeriSign is
planning to make some modifications.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33031.html

Verisign should be taken to task
If Verisign's new Site Finder service isn't a breach of its
contract terms then the rules should be changed to make it
so, says a Kiwi ICANN representative, Alick Wilson.

http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/189D2B5B6449EBF3CC256DAA001B749D

Will Network Solutions/Verisign Get Away With It Again? by
Karl Auerbach
As pretty much everyone now knows, Verisign recently used
its monopoly registry position over .com and .net to impose
a revenue-producing mechanism, which they call
"SiteFinder", onto all users of  the internet who are human
and thus who make mistakes.
 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000056.html

VeriSign spells the end of 'Error 404' (subscription req'd)
News that the humble typographic error has been sold off to
the lowest bidder has had concerned typists writing in to
This Digital Life, telling us "VeriSign has got to goe".

http://afr.com/premium/articles/2003/09/22/1064082925422.html

SiteFinder Is Leaking Data
I just discovered that VeriSign's SiteFinder Web site is
leaking data submitted in Web forms to its marketing
analysis partner, Omniture. Forms can easily contain
personal information such as an email address. For the
problem to occur, a Web form must use the GET method.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/286_0_1_0_C/

PIR Opposes SiteFinder; Will Not Implement Similar Service
for .ORG
Public Interest Registry, the .ORG registry operator, sent
a letter today to ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey
concerning VeriSign's implementation of a DNS wildcard
redirection service commonly known as SiteFinder. The
letter says that it supports ICANN's call for VeriSign to
voluntarily suspend SiteFinder and the Internet
Architecture Board (IAB) preliminary position paper. It
goes on to say that PIR will not be implementing any DNS
wildcard to the .ORG zone. It urges ICANN to stand its
ground, but also to implement a policy preventing
registries from taking this kind of unilateral action in
the future.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/283_0_1_0_C/
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/09/23_pir.htm

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/24/1064083032597.html

It's "Verisign vs. Users"
From an anonymous comment in response to the ALAC's
statement on SiteFinder: In a recent Cnet article, Verisign
is quoted as saying, "We're fully compliant with every
RFC". ... If that's true, it just kills the argument
against Verisign as it then becomes "geeks v. users" with
Verisign on the side of the users. That's a dangerous
misconception, in several ways.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/280_0_1_0_C/

Go Daddy Sues VeriSign Over Site Finder
Go Daddy Software, Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Federal
District Court in Arizona against VeriSign Inc., seeking a
temporary restraining order against VeriSign's new Site
Finder service, a paid-advertising page VeriSign has
established on the Internet to which the traffic associated
with mistyped, and other, domain names will be directed.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/279_0_1_0_C/

Privacy and Trust Go Hand-In-Hand
A few days ago, Eric Goldman wrote an interesting
thinkpiece in CircleID regarding users' feeling about
privacy. He seems to conclude that the existent regulations
and policies on the matter are unnecessary, since Privacy
doesn't "really" matters to the consumer. Eric based his
argumentation on a number of surveys, stating that, even
when the user expresses concerns about their privacy, on
line behavior shows a different reality. We don't want to
discuss here the soundness of surveys as a reliable source
of information, but the author could be assuming too much
in his analysis.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/274_0_1_0_C/

ICANN Letter from Russell Lewis to Paul Twomey

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-to-twomey-21sep03.htm

Message from Security and Stability Advisory Committee to
ICANN Board
Recommendations Regarding VeriSign's Introduction of Wild
Card Response to Uninstantiated Domains within COM and NET.

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/secsac-to-board-22sep03.htm

PH domain administration dispute nearing resolution
Locked in a bitter dispute for the last several years, the
administrator of the .PH domain and Internet industry
organizations may have finally reached a compromise
regarding the administration of the country code top level
domain (ccTLD).

http://www.itnetcentral.com/computerworld/article.asp?id=12176

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