Who should govern the Net?
A United Nations summit ended Friday with a consensus that
poorer nations must have more influence on the way the
Internet is run, but with no agreement among delegates on
the details.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5180134.html

United Nations ponders Net's future
The United Nations wants a big piece of the Internet. At a
summit here this week, delegates from around the world
gathered to take a preliminary step toward U.N. involvement
in some of the areas that are bedeviling Internet users and
governments alike, including spam, network security,
privacy and the regulation of the technical underpinnings
that control the sprawling global network.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5179694.html
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5179694.html

Internet Group Defends Its Stewardship
The U.S. government-sanctioned organization that oversees
the Internet's all-important "telephone book" defended its
work Friday as diplomats and computer companies considered
a greater role for the United Nations. Paul Twomey, the
chief executive of the Internet Corporation of Assigned
Names and Numbers, said the organization is already trying
to modernize and allow participation from other countries.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6664

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040326.gtnetmar26/BNStory/Technology

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8286842.htm

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/8288308.htm

Digital divide: Are the rich ruling over the internet?
Who runs the internet and how can it better serve the
world? Everyone from the internet’s founders to advocacy
groups recently met at the United Nations to work on a new
definition of governing the internet.
 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/584615.cms

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,76630,00.html

U.N. finds Net governance tempting
A task force that intends to increase the United Nations'
involvement with running the Internet is convening here
Thursday, its first meeting since VeriSign filed a lawsuit
against the group that now oversees domain names and
addresses.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5179122.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5179122.html

http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/1599b90183a7117980256e6200385e2e

The Legacy of WSIS
AudioBerkman brings you inside the World Summit on the
Information Society – the enormous UN-sponsored convention
held in December 2003.  WSIS brought together a staggering
number of international diplomats, scholars, activists, and
government officials for discussions about the future of
information and communications technologies (ICTs).  How do
you make sense of a milestone this big?  The scholarly
journal, Information Technologies and International
Development, asked exactly this question in January by
issuing a call for papers for an issue devoted to making
sense of WSIS.  AudioBerkman follows Colin Maclay, a
Berkman Center fellow and contributor to the journal, as he
and ITID editors sift submissions and try to evaluate the
legacy of WSIS.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=259

Groups debate U.N. control over Internet
Typically, only heads of state and titans of industry get
an audience on the 38th floor of the marble-and-glass tower
housing the United Nations.

http://newscoast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040328/NEWS/403280422/1060/NEWS02

Good Internet Governance Key for Development - Annan
A story making the rounds at the United Nations forum on
Internet governance is about a young U.S. student of
philosophy who decides to seek spiritual guidance from an
ascetic monk living in the foothills of the Himalayas.
 http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=23052

Africa Cautioned On Liberalisation
Africa governments have been urged not to fully liberalise
their information and communication sectors if the goal of
universal access to communication services is to be
achieved.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200403260393.html

un: Internet governance system working but needs to be more
inclusive, UN forum told
The current system of Internet governance seems to be
working well, but the question was how to better coordinate
the work of specialized bodies and ensure the involvement
of all stakeholders, participants told a United Nations
forum today in New York.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=10228&Cr=internet&Cr1=

un: Experts meet at UN to examine Internet regulation
Government, business and civil society representatives
convened today at United Nations Headquarters in New York
to examine issues surrounding the regulation of the
Internet, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan urging
participants to ensure that the benefits of this
revolutionary medium are made available to everyone around
the world.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=10199&Cr=internet&Cr1=

WSIS Geneva, just a talking shop?
It is barely a quarter of the year since the first phase of
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held
in December 2003 to discuss ways in which the Information
Society, could address issues of accessibility and how the
dissemination of information for development could be made
easier than ever before in the world, through the use of
communication tools such as Internet, radio, TV,
telephones, etc, collectively known as Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT's).
 http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/80144/1

La comunidad catalana solicita el dominio .cat
La Associació puntCAT, que reune alrededor de setenta
asociaciones y entidades catalanas, ha solicitado a la
ICANN que creé el dominio .cat para la comunidad
lingüistica y cultural catalana.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108012904532748.shtml

Top-Level Domains for Addressing by Physical Context
This article proposes the reservation of a special use TLD
to allow a more convenient addressing of devices by general
physical location or context. ...As wireless networking and
devices become more common there may be a need for a
convenient way to address hosts by physical location or
context, especially when the users themselves are using
mobile or wearable devices.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/540_0_1_0_C

Web Hosting News: New .GAY and .LESBIAN Domain Names
Launched on the Internet
The new ".GAY" and ".LESBIAN" Domain Names create safe and
exclusive user areas in cyberspace and right now they're
totally free.

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=1988

http://www.cpureview.com/news/20040325lesbian_Gay_domain_names.html

ca: Teen who battled Microsoft donates defense fund to
charity
A teenager who tangled with Microsoft over his Internet
domain name has donated most of his legal defense fund to a
hospice for terminally ill children.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-03-25-mike-rowe-sweet_x.htm

Cyber-squatters still operate
The number of cybersquatting cases registered last year was
an improvement from an average of five-per-day in 1999, but
the level was barely changed from 2002 due to the growing
number of domain name spaces and more relaxed rules for
registering country code addresses, a WIPO spokesman said.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/26.03.2004/155

22nd Century Shocks
Domain name registrar Network Solutions’ introduction of a
‘100 year domain name term’ has given rise to surprise and
intrigue within the industry.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2004/03/24_22nd.htm

TM domain leads anti-spam charge
The registry running the top-level .tm domains is leading
the charge against spam by adding the SPF protocol into all
its domains’ DNS records.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/36585.html

ICANN Announcement: Public Comment on Sponsored TLD
Applications Opens 31 March 2004
As previously stated, ICANN has received 10 applications
for sponsored Top-Level Domain names. A public comment
period will begin 31 March 2004, 23:59 UTC and will last
for one month. Comments will be posted in a web-based
forum. Instructions will be published when the comment
period opens.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement1-26mar04.htm

ICANN Announces Business Relationships
ICANN announces a series of consulting agreements to enable
and assist ICANN staff to move forward on a number of key
objectives. ICANN has elected to use outside consultants
for some transitory and temporary assignments in order to
avoid the expense of hiring full time personnel or
diverting existing staff from important operational and
policy development support tasks.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement2-26mar04.htm

Where's the ombuds?
Ethan Katsh, Director of the Center for Information
Technology and Dispute Resolution, has sent a letter
<http://www.odr.info/icann> to ICANN president Paul Twomey
concerning ICANN's still unfilled ombuds position. The
creation of an ombuds position is mandated by the ICANN
bylaws and was supposed to be one of the cornerstones of
ICANN reform a year and a half ago.
 http://www.odr.info/icann/

RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2004
Registration for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2004
is now open. The draft agenda is currently available.
 http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/gm/gm-may2004/index.html

ICANN GNSO Registry Services Flow Charts (24 March 2004)
* Registry Service Approval Process

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/approval-process-24mar04.pdf
* Quick Look Process

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/quick-look-24mar04.pdf
* Detailed Review

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/detailed-review-24mar04.pdf

New Effort Aims to Give Pornography Sites Separate Domain
Of all the enterprises that have set up shop on the
globe-spanning computer Internet, the biggest moneymaker by
far is pornography. Sex-oriented sites conservatively earn
$2 billion a year. The flood of e-mail pitches to buy
access to this graphic porn helped spur recent government
measures aimed at blocking unwanted e-mail, or spam.
There's another, radical idea gaining ground. It would
restrict Internet smut in a surprising way.

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=F281EE08-1ECE-4747-B62F11BAECF2A677

us: GOP'S WEB DESIGNER RESIGNS FROM COMMITTEE AFTER DOMAIN
FLAP
A local Republican has resigned from the Republican Town
Committee amid controversy after he purchased the
Westerlydemocrats.com Internet domain name and linked it to
the Republican Town Committee's Web site last week.

http://www.thewesterlysun.com/articles/2004/03/26/news/news3.txt

Network Solutions Offers 100-Year Net Addresses
Companies, nonprofit organizations and individuals fearful
of losing control over their Internet addresses can lock
them down for 100 years under a new service being offered
by the world's largest retailer of domain names.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6645

Why Be a ".COM" When You Can Be a ".USA"
Times are changing and it isn't just the new ".USA"
extension causing the flurry of interest. Other brand new
domains names are now available - domain names like
".TEXAS", ".NEWYORK", and ".NEVADA" plus other US States.
Already, websites like "www.diamonds.usa, "www.car.usa",
and www.telluride.colorado, are springing up all over the
Web. A new dimension has been added to the Internet that
anyone can use virtually without restriction. It's neither
ICANN (news - web sites) nor its alternative, instead think
of a conjunction with the current domain name system.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040324/234/6s2r9.html

dotWORLDS Releases New TLDs, Including .USA (news release)
Internet users around the world now have the tools to
create any domain name with any extension, and are no
longer limited to ".com", ".net", or other previous
extensions. This breakthrough offers the end user much more
relevancy, with domain names that are easier to handle,
remember and use. Implementation of these domain names
requires no more than a simple configuration, and none of
the complicated delegation and name server manipulation
required for old domain names.
 http://newsroom.eworldwire.com/view_release.php?id=10131

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