Dear all, An interesting and comprehensive read ( including one titled Shouldn't Tea Time for Kenya Mean IDN Top-Level Domains? <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/3a446420ee>)on some of the issues that were discussed/tackled at the just concluded ICANN meeting in Seoul. best regards alice -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CircleID Weekly Wrap for 2009-11-03 Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:35:24 +0000 From: CircleID <CircleID@mail.vresp.com> Reply-To: CircleID <reply-0fdf61bc84-000096a75d-0d74@u.cts.vresp.com> To: alice@apc.org CircleID <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/ebbce8aa65> INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE . WEEKLY WRAP: Oct 27, 2009 - Nov 03, 2009 News Briefs US Opens Unified Cyber Security Command Centre <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/4f7c28b3d6> Nov 02, 2009 - Include Your Comments <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/7fe23f7e3f> ICANN to Start Accepting Non-Latin TLD Applications as Early as Next Month <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/99ad02a35a> Oct 29, 2009 (Updated: Nov 01, 2009) - Include Your Comments <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/e89d1d81c9> IPv6 Key Part of Multi-Billion Dollar Smart Grid Projects <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/93aad58fe5> Oct 29, 2009 - Include Your Comments <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/b334dd2315> U.K. Police Apologizes for Linking RIPE with Money Laundering <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/f8c28f2d78> Oct 29, 2009 - Include Your Comments <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/35e130564a> Google CEO Discusses Future of the Web and Enterprise Computing <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/b97e9bdb5d> Oct 27, 2009 - Include Your Comments <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/c35b852601> Featured Blogs Are Auctions the Last Resort to Determine gTLD Winners? I Vote Open Business Plan Competitions <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/ca7d4460e0> I have been reading through the last gTLD applicant guidebook and have wondered whether all my efforts, traveling, attending all major music conference and lobbying come with any merit. How do you define a community? What is the difference between a dotGreece, dotGay or dotMusic community? ...Whether we like it or not, the point system is what ICANN has set up to determine the winners. If you were to ask me I would create a different method of scoring. It is one of open competition. *more* » <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/d4819b83ec> Nov 03, 2009 - by Constantine Roussos <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/fd106d363c> - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Domain Names <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/4844aa139a>, ICANN <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/5d3c11adfa>, Top-Level Domains <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/12904a97ad>, Web <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/c5e15a5689> Why WIPO's Proposed Fast-Track UDRP Process is Flawed <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/aa74c8f0f7> In the midst of ICANN's decision to ask the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) to create proposals on trademark protection mechanisms, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that it will launch a fast-track UDRP process... The WIPO move is flawed and creates various problems. Here is an account. *more* » <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/92caf6d240> Nov 02, 2009 - by Konstantinos Komaitis <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/2dfdb8f002> - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Cybersquatting <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/3da0533956>, Domain Names <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/b4088ada02>, ICANN <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/207adee13a>, Law <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/956bafe289>, Policy & Regulation <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/7a6c4488a7> Is IPv6 Wrestling Within an Unpredictable Telecommunications Industry? <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/4c094270b0> The theme of the 40th International Institute of Communications (IIC) conference in Montreal this week was "Wrestling with unpredictability in Global Communications". The panel I had the pleasure to be part of was under the motto : "Broadband futures". One of the questions addressed to me : Should we be concerned about a shortage of IP addresses as more people use broadband networks for more things? *more* » <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/cb9d4aed32> Oct 31, 2009 - by Yves Poppe <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/2332b63db0> - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Broadband <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/2a3313d82d>, IPv6 <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/747683d182>, Mobile <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/490b2d6ecd>, Telecom <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/8c4ff7d132> A Case for Dot-Outlet TLD <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/2255f93b10> This post outlines the correct use of an outlet strategy, points out the value of such a strategy, and the advantages of executing the strategy through a new ICANN top-level domain (TLD) instead of a second-level domain name. Some companies need to signal a brand name with low prices and quality/utility, whether the strategy is for a primary or secondary corporate brand. A successful strategy has to explicitly include lower price and quality. Otherwise, with only a lower price, a brand owner would cannibalize the main brand and cause damage to brand equity. *more* » <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/4e671bb37e> Oct 29, 2009 - by Alex Tajirian <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/0ddea6b9b0> - Comments: 1 Related Topics: Cybersquatting <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/39b2a0c202>, Domain Names <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/765762aa85>, ICANN <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/f3c7887230>, Top-Level Domains <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/2ca87fbaa2> Once Begun is ONLY Half Done <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/8354a1a9d2> In the brief history of Internet governance, few initiatives have been greeted with wider support than the recently signed Affirmation of Commitments between the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The praise is well deserved, but now it's time to remind ICANN of the problems that the AOC did not solve, most importantly ICANN's ongoing accountability gap. *more* » <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/685ab6ad9a> Oct 28, 2009 - by Jonathan Zuck <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/668d85fa10> - Comments: 0 Related Topics: ICANN <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/dd7fa11878>, Internet Governance <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/1e3ab7b181> Privacy Polls v. Real-World Trade-Offs <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/53082fb5db> A recent telephone poll conducted by professors at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania concluded, "Contrary to what many marketers claim, most adult Americans (66%) do not want marketers to tailor advertisements to their interest." The study's authors claim that their poll is the "the first nationally representative telephone (wireline and cell phone) survey to explore Americans' opinions about behavioral targeting by marketers." ... But what is most surprising about this poll is not that 66% of users said they do not want tailored online ads, but that 34% of users said they did! *more* » <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/3d744fd6ed> Oct 28, 2009 - by Berin Szoka <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/e86d894ef6> - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Law <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/33272d22e1>, Policy & Regulation <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/81b6ea94e6>, Privacy <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/9d1662740c> A Sigh of Relief for Brand Owners …Not So .Fast <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/70aaefcd34> All indications from the ICANN meetings in Seoul are that significant delays for the release of new gTLDs (Generic Top Level Domains) are expected. According to Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's CEO, new gTLDs will be made available when, "we've adequately addressed the important issues that are on the table." These important issues include efforts to address malicious conduct, root scaling, economic analysis, trademark protections, and vertical separation as related to the new gTLDs. *more* » <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/3d7f541c8d> Oct 28, 2009 - by Elisa Cooper <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/ac8c74bb04> - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Cybersquatting <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/7eced87ca3>, Domain Names <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/b21b96daca>, ICANN <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/a038410431>, Multilinguism <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/b4a597b71f>, Top-Level Domains <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/448de6c69b> Shouldn't Tea Time for Kenya Mean IDN Top-Level Domains? <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/3a446420ee> Anyone who knows Kenya knows it is famous for tea. And while I can now get Kenyan tea online from US companies like Starbucks, Caribou Coffee or any number of other re-sellers, like most consumers I would vastly prefer to cut out the middle man and buy my tea direct from Kenyan companies. Why not? But here's the rub... *more* » <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/273dd46548> Oct 27, 2009 - by Andrew Mack <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/e313dc9d5c> - Comments: 12 Related Topics: Domain Names <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/d61caa7b13>, ICANN <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/0b4e13bbba>, Internet Governance <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/1692be0e6e>, Multilinguism <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/79934c89d5>, Top-Level Domains <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/3e96d96566> Hot Topics • *Domain Names* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/b9307a47d0> • *Top-Level Domains* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/cc2404a45c> • *ICANN* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/3c2389f93d> • *Policy & Regulation* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/0761340668> • *Internet Governance* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/4b4ac82e92> • *Telecom* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/a983109d36> • *Domain Registries* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/04ea5b0b9d> • *more...* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/456b2bb09d> Industry Updates *Vote for the Best .INFO Web Site Of 2009* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/082959a3ea> Nov 03, 2009 - by Afilias <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/e71dd64602> *Interview with John Curran of ARIN on the Urgency of IPv6 Transition* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/d389a0947b> Oct 30, 2009 - by Supernova <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/a6fb441d04> *.ORG Highlighted for Success in Fighting Phishing* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/5efbf3fa0d> Oct 29, 2009 - by PIR <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/b29cf1258d> *Afilias' Matt Pounsett Elected Director-at-Large for DNS-OARC* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/1d9d42d26b> Oct 29, 2009 - by Afilias <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/e7da8baab2> *Hostway Corporation Forms New Network Services Group* <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/4a5ec95d6f> Oct 22, 2009 - by Hostway <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CircleID/0fdf61bc84/000096a75d/2a2a1ff7d3> Advertise on CircleID If your advertising and marketing objectives entail reaching high-ranking experts and professionals within the IT and Internet industry, CircleID can help you achieve it. 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