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Domain names in Arabic on way
INTERNET domain names could be made available in
Arabic for the first time, according to the
secretary-general of the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU).

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=97626&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=27253

Icann to Tackle Internet Policy
ICANN meeting in Cape Town next week will expose South
Africans to the Internet's international flavour, with
many issues expected to have a direct impact on the
country.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200411290817.html

ICANN to unveil internet strategy at meeting
ICANN will be holding its annual meeting from the
1st-5th December in Cape Town, South Africa. The
meeting will include the introduction of ICANN's three
year-strategic plan, and will also feature updates on
current Africa-related internet issues, including the
status of AfriNIC, the Regional Internet number
Registry for Africa.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93186,00.html

ICANN selects ombudsman
The Internet's primary governing body has selected a
former Canadian government bureaucrat to be its first
ombudsman.
 http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9588_22-5470194.html

ICANN Publishes Report on Implementation of the Whois
Data Reminder Policy (WDRP)
ICANN's Report on Implementation of the WHOIS Data
Reminder Policy (WDRP) is being published today in
accordance with Amendment 6 to the ICANN/DOC
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This Report
describes the requirements relating to Whois data and
the new Policy. It provides statistical and narrative
information on implementation status, registrar
compliance, problems encountered, and possible impact
on Whois accuracy.

http://icann.org/whois/WDRP-Implementation-30Nov04.pdf

ICANN: Whois Task Force 1/2
Policy drafts: 1. Recommendations relating to
improving notification and consent for the use of
contact data in the Whois system.

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-notification-30nov04.pdf
2. A Procedure for conflicts, when there are conflicts
between a registrar's of registry's legal obligations
under local privacy laws and their contractual
obligations to ICANN.

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-tf-conflict-30nov04.pdf

uk: Accused "death threat" spammer wanted in UK
A man linked to spamming and domain name scams is
wanted by British police after failing to appear in
court to face charges against him. Peter
Francis-Macrae is also accused of making death threats
against police and trading standards officers.

http://cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=C697C002-EF55-4977-BDCE-DE536D02C9C3

http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12424

uk: Nominet tackles 'Domain Registry Services' over
bogus invoices
Nominet UK, the .uk domain name registry, has obtained
injunctions and orders from the High Court against
Peter Francis-Macrae and Ultra Technologies Ltd, a
company of which Mr Francis-Macrae is the sole
director.

http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=2512

Examining the Proposed Internationalization of TLDs
Last month, John Klensin wrote an article published
here on CircleID regarding Internationalized Domain
Names (IDN) Top Level Domains (TLD). Based on his
Internet Draft, John suggests using language
translation in the application for TLD. The advantage
of this method is that all existing TLDs can now be
represented in any number of languages without
additional need for ICANN to create new TLD.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/814_0_1_0_C/

Will New ICANN Rules Fight Domain Transfer Fraud?
Some observers are concerned that new rules governing
the transfer of Internet domains between domain
registrars that went into effect on Nov. 12 will
facilitate theft of those domains and "slamming" by
registrars.
 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1732736,00.asp

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20041128/tc_zd/140008

US netizens: white, wealthy and full of it - shock!
"The Internet is becoming more and more widespread and
will increasingly represent a scientific random sample
of the population," claims ICANN's newest board
member, Joi Ito. Quite what scientific experiments he
will wish to perform, once the desired sample size has
been reached, remains a mystery. But like many people
who spend too long in front of their computers, he's
talking about a Platonic ideal rather than the real
world.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/01/us_doc_internet_survey/

DomainMart Warns Against Third-level Domain Name
Hijacking (news release)
Warning to participants in affiliate programs of the
potential of brand name dilution and traffic hijacking
and counter measures to monitor and protect
third-level domain names.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prwebxml183709.php

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Repressive Countries Gaining Foothold Ahead of World
Summit On the Information Society, RSF Warns (news
release)
RSF has expressed concern that several countries that
harshly crack down on use of the Internet are members
of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG),
which met in Geneva from 23 to 25 November 2004, in
the run-up to the 2005 World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) in Tunis.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200411301333.html
 http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=5842

IFJ calls on WSIS to focus on media freedom and
workers rights
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),
planned for Tunis late next year, could turn out to be
the most disappointing of all United Nations global
events in recent years, warned the International
Federation of Journalists (IFJ) this week. Governments
must stop backsliding on their promises to help out
poorer nations and must defend fundamental rights, the
IFJ told delegates to a major media conference in
Marrakech, Morocco.
 http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/98547/1/76
 	
Mapping WSIS in words
In the governmental and civil society declarations at
the 2003 phase of WSIS, the word “should” is used
equal number of times. But “must” is used over 70
times in the civil society documents compared to only
four times in official ones. This points out the
distance between the today’s realities and tomorrow’s
expectations surrounding the development of an
inclusive information society.

http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/publications/knowledge_report/memos/padovanimemo2.pdf

Internet Governance
Extensive debates on internet governance at the
Marrakech meeting did not deal with the most critical
question on this subject - namely 'who should manage
the internet?' This thorny issue was so contentious at
the first phase of WSIS that Kofi Anan, the UN
Secretary General was asked to create a special
working group on the topic. The group has been
instructed to present a set of recommendations on
internet governance to the next WSIS preparatory
meeting.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200411290989.html

OIF adopts world information society resolution
Leaders of the Francophonie Saturday adopted a
resolution appealing to all stakeholders to the World
Summit on Information Society (WSIS) to embrace
information technology at the end of their two-day
summit in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.

http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=300064

UN alliance aims to promote IT in poor countries
Participants at a United Nations (U.N.) meeting in
Berlin has proposed creating a global alliance that
would spur investment in communications technology in
the world's poorest countries as a follow-up to next
year's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;431392502

4th Annual Private Sector Cooperation Meeting in the
Arab Region in Tunis from 30th November to 2nd of
December
 http://ituarabic.org/privatesector-04/

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Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.

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