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UN Secretary-General Convenes Internet Governance
Forum
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/UN+SecretaryGeneral+Convenes+Internet+Governance+Forum.aspx

International steps taken to build global Information
Society (news release)
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2006/NP05.html

The Blurr-Cade Proposal on Root Zone Oversight by
Patrick Vande Walle
http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_blurr_cade_proposal_on_root_zone_oversight/
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ntia_burr_proposal_icann_dns_root_control/
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823963,00.html

All the Good Ones Have Been Taken -- In Domain Names,
Too
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115326960876810574-tMKl4ti4Ky3PU6UOckwQGl0TXs0_20060817.html

US government urged again to end net role
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/burr_cade_usg_paper/

The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination
and Management of the Internet Domain name and
Addressing System
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/forums/2006/726dns/index.htm

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UN Secretary-General Convenes Internet Governance
Forum
The Secretary-General of the United Nations has
announced the convening of the Internet Governance
Forum, to be held in Athens on 30 October - 2 November
2006. The Secretary-General's message is available in
all UN languages
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/UN+SecretaryGeneral+Convenes+Internet+Governance+Forum.aspx

International steps taken to build global Information
Society (news release)
Implementation of the outcomes of the recently
concluded WSIS gathered momentum with the launch of
the United Nations Group on the Information Society
(UNGIS). High level representatives of twenty-two UN
agencies met on Friday, 14 July 2006 at ITU
Headquarters in Geneva under the chairmanship of ITU
Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi to facilitate the
process.
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2006/NP05.html
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The Blurr-Cade Proposal on Root Zone Oversight by
Patrick Vande Walle
Becky Burr (former NTIA official) and lobbyist Marilyn
Cade has made a proposal to create a multilateral
working group to oversee the root zone file updates. I
would characterize the Burr-Cade proposal as a ?small
step for mankind and a giant step for the US? to
paraphrase Neil Armstrong. The main merit of the
proposal is that it looks like something the USG might
want to follow. 
http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_blurr_cade_proposal_on_root_zone_oversight/
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ntia_burr_proposal_icann_dns_root_control/
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823963,00.html

All the Good Ones Have Been Taken -- In Domain Names,
Too
It's hardly secret knowledge, though perhaps only
Dennis Forbes has seen it in all its glory. There are
roughly 47 million domain names that end with ".com,"
making that space the biggest and most prestigious
piece of real estate on the Internet. Getting a URL
listed as a dot-com involves, ultimately, checking in
with a database at Verisign, the Mountain View,
Calif., company that keeps tabs on the dot-com world,
the way your state's DMV knows about which cars have
which license plates.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115326960876810574-tMKl4ti4Ky3PU6UOckwQGl0TXs0_20060817.html

US government urged again to end net role
The United States government is under pressure again,
this time from two high-profile insiders, to end its
overseeing role on the internet and transistion its
role to an international body. A paper co-written by
the ex-government lawyer that originally drew up the
contract between the US government and internet
overseeing organisation ICANN in 1998, J. Beckwith
Burr, and ICANN insider and member of the ICANN's
President's Strategy Committee, Marilyn Cade, will be
officially released later today at a public meeting
called to discuss the organisation's future.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/burr_cade_usg_paper/

The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination
and Management of the Internet Domain name and
Addressing System
On July 26, 2006, NTIA is holding a public meeting to
discuss issues associated with the continuation of the
transition of the technical coordination and
management of the Internet domain name and addressing
system (Internet DNS) to the private sector.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/forums/2006/726dns/index.htm

ICANN Announces Formalisation of Relationship with
ccTLD Manager for Norway
ICANN has formalized its relationship with the Norway
country code top-level domain manager, Uninett Norid
by a mutual agreement to abide by ICANN's
Accountability Framework program.
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=16908

ICANN Announces Formalisation of Relationship with
ccTLD Manager for Norway
ICANN has announced today that it has signed an
exchange of letters with the Norway ccTLD manager,
UNINETT Norid AS. UNINETT Norid AS has become the
eighth registry to formalize their relationship with
ICANN in the last few months.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-20jul06.htm

ICANN President's Strategy Committee Consultations
Update (announcement)
The President's Strategy Committee Consultations shall
begin at 7:20am US Pacific Time, 21 July 2006. A
web-link to the audio cast will be provided here. The
stream will start approximately 15 minutes before
7:20am US Pacific Time. Questions from the community
shall be sent to psc-questions§icann.org. An agenda is
posted.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-1-20jul06.htm

ICANN President's Strategy Committee Consultation with
the ICANN Community Improving the Inherent Strength of
the Multi-stakeholder Model
At its December 2005 ICANN meeting, the ICANN Board,
emphasizing the importance of the bottom-up ICANN
processes, noted that the ICANN community could also
'benefit from the advice of a group responsible for
making observations and recommendations concerning
strategic issues facing ICANN.' In light of this, the
ICANN Board passed a resolution for the President to
appoint a President's Strategy Committee. This
Committee plays an important role in providing
observations and recommendations concerning strategic
issues facing ICANN and contributing to ICANN's
strategic planning process, which occurs in
consultation with the community.
http://icann.org/announcements/psc-consultation.htm

ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for
Honduras
ICANN has announced today that it has signed an
accountability framework with the ccTLD manager for
.hn--Honduras, Red de Desarrollo Sostenible Honduras
(RDS-HN).
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-21jul06.htm

uk: Wayne Rooney sees red over domain namesake
Football star and petulant pug-face Wayne Rooney is
seeing red again - this time over his internet domain
namesake.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/wayne_rooney_dotcom/

Seltzer blows whistle on 'domain tasting' rat but
serious questions remain
Larry Seltzer who I used to work with at PC Week
(before it changed its name to eWeek) has exposed
Chesterton Holdings as a rat that either ICANN or
Verisign must deal with immediately.  The outfit for
which very little information is available (it didn't
respond to Larry's inquiries) is somehow spying on
people as they research domain names they're
considering for registration and then beating those
people to the punch by registering those domain names
first.  In most cases, such research is done  by
querying something known as a WHOIS (who is?)
database.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=3349

Whois Hijacking My Domain Research? By Larry Seltzer
Opinion: Leave it to the domain-squatting industry to
come up with a way to jump claims. One of the most
popular subjects readers contact me on is domain theft
and abuse, and more messages came in after my recent
story on "domain tasting." If you thought that
practice was distasteful, you haven't seen what I
found next. It involves a domain-tasting firm. But
that's not what's most interesting.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1991365,00.asp
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1991732,00.asp

The list of Google domains is very misleading
No, those aren't all Google domains.  was derived in a
flawed manner that lends itself to a very high
percentage of false positives.  This particular list
by Neil Patel has many domains not owned by Google.
Neil assumes that the "server data" section on domains
like allevil.org is believable ? not so.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=264

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Amnesty International launches global campaign against
internet repression (news release)
Following the success of the launch of its internet
freedom campaign in the UK, Amnesty International is
today going global with irrepressible.info.
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGACT300162006

cn/us: Internet freedom: Pressure growing
A new online campaign from Amnesty International and a
far-reaching bill in Congress are increasing the
pressure on American companies to stop assisting
China's massive efforts to censor Internet use.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15099237.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/20/amnesty_china_campaign/
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6096249.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39279229,00.htm

uk: Paedophiles to lose credit cards
Paedophiles who use credit cards to purchase child
abuse images online may have them confiscated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Money/creditanddebt/creditcards/story/0,,1824690,00.html

IWF reveals latest figures on child abuse content
online (news release)
New half year figures, released today, from the
Internet Watch Foundation reveal that just 0.2 per
cent of child abuse images on the internet are hosted
in the UK, down from 18 per cent in 1997. However, new
IWF intelligence reveals that some websites containing
child abuse content hosted abroad remain accessible
for up to five years despite being reported to the
relevant authorities.
http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.173.htm

uk: Record figures for online child porn
A UK-based Internet monitoring group said it had
received a record number of reports of online child
pornography in the first six months of 2006, with half
of all content traced back to the United States.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/21/1153166563601.html

us: Trial Looms in Web Porn Law Fight
A court battle over Congress' attempts to protect
children from pornography on the Internet will soon be
ripe for trial. After nearly eight years of litigation
challenging the constitutionality of the Child Online
Protection Act -- including two trips to the U.S.
Supreme Court -- the plaintiffs have won a handful of
significant rulings on key discovery disputes.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1153213527606

Survey of the Blogosphere Finds 12 Million Voices
A mostly young, racially diverse group of people,
bloggers use the Web as an echoless chamber for their
personal stories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/arts/20blog.html

uk: Britain is home to nearly 7 million bloggers
One in four British internet users keeps a blog and
more than half of that number share their online
musings with the public, according to a report
released
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1824769,00.html

VI Computer Law World Conference
The 2006 Conference will be hosted by the AHRC
Research Centre for studies in Intellectual Property
and Technology Law, located in the School of Law at
the University of Edinburgh. The conference brings
together legal academics and practitioners from around
the world to consider and debate all aspects of
information technology law. Previous years?
conferences have fostered links between educational
institutions and legal practices across the globe,
reaching out to a wider international audience each
year.
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/complaw/index.asp

eu: Content online: Europe?s strategy to foster
content creation and distribution in the multiplatform
media business
In launching the Communication on Content Online, the
European Commission is pursuing a major objective set
out in the i2010 Strategy: completing the internal
market for ICT networks and devices and value-added
content. All my proposals over the last few months ?
the modernisation of the Television without Frontiers
Directive, the review of the regulatory framework for
electronic communications, spectrum policy, roaming,
networks and information security - and the
forthcoming initiatives such as the 2007 Communication
on mobile TV are all internal market oriented. To a
large extent, I believe that the completion of the
internal market now largely depends on sector specific
initiatives such as the ones I have delivered so far.
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/commission_barroso/reding/docs/speeches/helsinki_content_online_20060714.pdf

au: Jailed over teen text harassment
A Melbourne man has become the first person sentenced
under new sexual predator laws, after he showered a
15-year-old girl with emails and text messages to try
to lure her to have sex with him.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/21/1153166564557.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/21/1153166591343.html
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1693718.htm
(print & audio)

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

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