nz: Hackers blamed for beauty giants' legal wrestle
The owner of New Zealand domain lush.co.nz today said
hackers may have redirected the site to The Body Shop's
international Web site, raising the spectre pranksters may
have sparked the serious legal dispute building between it
and rival Lush Cosmetics yesterday.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39143606,00.htm

nz: Beauty giants face brawl over NZ Web site
Lush Cosmetics and beauty industry rival The Body Shop are
marching toward a legal dust-up over what the former today
described as a "disgraceful Web deceit".

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39143573,00.htm

Should the United Nations run the Internet?
The United Nations wants to expand its influence over the
Internet, but would it be wise to let that happen?

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39143597,00.htm
 http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-5181327.html

Global Internet Governance Is Working But Needs To Be More
Inclusive
The current system of Internet governance seemed to be
working well, and the question was how to better coordinate
the work of specialized bodies and ensure the involvement
of all stakeholders, participants told a forum on the issue
that concluded today at United Nations Headquarters.
 http://www.spacedaily.com/news/internet-04zk.html

U.N. Finds Net Governance Tempting
A task force that intends to increase the United Nations'
involvement with running the Internet is convening in New
York Thursday, its first meeting since VeriSign filed a
lawsuit against the group that now oversees domain names
and addresses, The New York Times reported.
 http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/dispnewsstand?article=2038

UN Global Forum on Internet Governance
More than 200 leaders from government, business and civil
society attended the Global Forum on Internet Governance,
held on 25 and 26 March 2004 and organized by the United
Nations Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Task Force. The forum, held at United Nations Headquarters
in New York, was intended, according to a UN press release,
"to contribute to worldwide consultations to prepare the
ground to a future Working Group on Internet Governance to
be established by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, which is to
report to the second phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society (Tunis, 2005)".
 http://www.circleid.com/article/544_0_1_0_C

Whose “information society”?
Was WSIS worth it? The general verdict on the recent United
Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held
in December 2003 was a thumbs-down. The Summit outcomes
were limited after an arduous and expensive process.
However, argues Anriette Esterhuysen, APC executive
director, from the perspective of many civil society
organisations that participated actively, the WSIS has
created a new opportunity for solidarity across
ideological, sectoral and geographical divides.

http://www.apc.org/english/about/history/english.shtml?cmd[384]=i-575-17983

CTO presents a roadmap to implement the WSIS Action Plan
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO)
introduced today senior government officials and executives
from major regional and international organisations from
Africa and beyond, to its proposed roadmap to implementing
the WSIS Action Plan, at the first session of an
international conference on "Implementing the WSIS Action
Plan", Nairobi, Kenya, 25th - 26th March 2004.
 http://www.cto.int/index.php?dir=04&sd=11&id=105

Progress But No Conclusion From Net Governance Meeting
A United Nations meeting on internet governance last week
gave public and private sectors an unprecedented
opportunity to share information but was unable to come to
any firm consensus on what internet governance is,
participants said.

http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7cf3f9dc5e002edd80256e670038578f

Online Forum on Internet Governance Launched on
wsis-online.net
An Online Forum on Internet Governance organized on
wsis-online.net, the community platform of the World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS), is open for
contributions from all interested stakeholders since last
Friday, 5 March. It is accessible at
www.wsis-online.net/igov-forum.

http://www.noticias.info/Asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=20067&src=0

ICANN chief meets Annan
The president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers has met with UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan for the first time, amidst growing concerns about
ICANN's US focus.

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9115029%255E15306,00.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9115029%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306%2D15318,00.html

'5th Software 2004'Seminar on "WSIS consultation: Road Map
to Tunisia 2005" held
A seminar on ?WSIS consultation: Road Map to Tunisia 2005?
held at athe fair premises organised by Bnagladesh ICT
Journalist Forum at Dhaka Sheraton at the day before
Yesterday.

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2004-03-29&hidType=ICT&hidRecord=0000000000000000004732

us/au: Ugg-ly battle over name ownership
Lucknow Skin Shop is part of an Australian-wide class
action challenging American company Deckers Outdoor
Corporation, which has threatened to sue any company that
refers to the iconic Australian footwear as an ugg boot.

http://orange.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&story_id=296049&category=General+News&m=3&y=2004

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