Date: 12 Oct 2000 06:15:10 -0400 From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #84 To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Reply-To: editor@telecom-digest.org
Telecom Digest Thursday, October 12 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 084
In this issue:
10/11/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES Sen. Edwards Intro's 'Spyware Control Act'
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:09:20 -0400 From: "Judith Oppenheimer" <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com> Subject: 10/11/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES
ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES
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- - ICANN ELECTION RESULTS, A MIXED BAG - - NSI SUED FOR RESTRAINT OF TRADE - - FREE SPEECH OUTWEIGHS 'INITIAL CONFUSION' - - IETF ISSUES GENERIC REGISTRY-REGISTRAR PROTOCOL DRAFT - - LYCOS JOINS THE VOICE PORTAL BANDWAGON
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HEADLINES for October 11, 2000F - ICANN ELECTION RESULTS, A MIXED BAG Asia winner Masanobu Katoh is a Fujitsu official who lives in Potomac, Maryland, and serves on the US State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy. He co-chairs the US Department of State Working Group on Intellectual Property, Standards and Interoperability, wants "to make ICANN a 21st Century model for international organizations." North America winner Karl Auerbach: Cisco engineer, lawyer, and Internet pioneer since 1974, has other things in mind. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4624
P - NSI SUED FOR RESTRAINT OF TRADE A Class-Action suit was filed on September 29 in U.S. District Court (Northern District of Alabama) against Network Solutions, Inc. after the company refused to release expired domain names. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4626
P - FREE SPEECH OUTWEIGHS 'INITIAL CONFUSION' The court also held that the domain holder did not violate the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. 1125(d)(1)(A), because he lacked a bad faith intent to profit from his registration and use of the domain name. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4625
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more HEADLINES for October 11, 2000P - IETF ISSUES GENERIC REGISTRY-REGISTRAR PROTOCOL DRAFT Protocol designers need to be aware of issues beyond functional and interface requirements when balancing protocol design decisions. There are additional factors that may have an impact on protocol design, including standards compliance and hardware limitations. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4628
F - LYCOS JOINS THE VOICE PORTAL BANDWAGON In contrast to the service launched yesterday by rival Yahoo Inc. that requires entering telephone touch tones, the Lycos Anywhere service is fully voice-based, allowing people to say ''weather'' or ''stock quotes,'' followed by a city or company name, and have information read to them by a computerized voice. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4627
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Date: 12 Oct 2000 01:03:51 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Sen. Edwards Intro's 'Spyware Control Act'
Sen. Edwards Intro's 'Spyware Control Act' By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 09 Oct 2000, 3:29 PM CST
Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., introduced legislation on Friday that would force software manufacturers to notify consumers when their products include "spyware," bits of code that surreptitiously transmit information about the user's Web surfing habits back to the software company.
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