Date: 15 Aug 2000 06:15:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20000815101511.23641.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #22 Reply-To: editor@telecom-digest.org Sender: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Errors-To: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: bfc62194acc7563e76df76d58a51da5d Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Tuesday, August 15 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 022 In this issue: Re: Copyright infringement Re: FCC Setting Technology Standard to Locate 911 Calls DSL Line Re: Copyright infringement Phone Booth known as the TARDIS Re: Copyright infringement Re: DSL Line New Survey Reveals Platforms of Prospective ICANN Board Members Re: DSL Line GEICO Encourages Theft of Service Re: Phone Booth known as the TARDIS BellSouth (LA) gets it WRONG re BellSouth (GA) NPAs 229,478 Re: DSL Line 8/14/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES Re: DSL Line eFax beholden to spammers? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 14 Aug 2000 09:55:39 -0400 From: Mike Pollock Subject: Re: Copyright infringement I'm well aware of the rules of copyright, however the New York Times now provides an "E-mail this article" link on all their stories, which I used. I looked for specific guidelines for using this service, and there were none, despite the fact that it could be in direct violation of their copyright policy, which states, at http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/help/agree.html#sect2, "The Service and its Contents are protected by copyright pursuant to U.S. and international copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, *transmit,* participate in the transfer or sale of, *reproduce (except as provided in Section 2.3 [see below] of this Agreement)*, create new works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the Content or the Service (including software) in whole or in part." [*Emphasis* mine.] However, in Section 2.3 referenced above, it says, "You may download or copy the Content and other downloadable items displayed on the Service for personal use only, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained therein. Copying or storing of any Content for other than personal use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from The New York Times Rights and Permissions Department, or the copyright holder identified in the copyright notice contained in the Content.." I consider the Digest personal use since I'm not making money on it, and it doesn't really have anything to do with my business activities, Plus I retained all copyright and other notices, since there was no way I could remove them, anyway. So, I think I'm covered by that section. For a better answer, I'll drop a note to the permissions department and post their response. - --Mike > ------------------------------ > > Date: 13 Aug 2000 09:41:10 -0400 > From: Joseph Singer > Subject: Copyright infringement > > 12 Aug 2000 17:34:02 -0400 itsamike@yahoo.com sent > the following article in > its entirety to the Telecom Digest: > > This is a copyrighted article and should not have > been sent to the digest. > A link to the article on NY Times web pages would > have sufficed and would > not have run afoul of the law. For myself I would > not want the Telecom > Digest to run into trouble with the New York Times. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 10:23:53 -0400 From: Carl Moore Subject: Re: FCC Setting Technology Standard to Locate 911 Calls Most highway mileposts that I have seen will increase northbound or eastbound. I think an exception might be Skyline Drive in Virginia; its mileposts would increase southbound from Front Royal. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 10:28:27 -0400 From: davidesan@my-deja.com Subject: DSL Line After using the T1 lines at work to access the internet, I am quite fed up with the 56K modem that I have at home. (Hard for me to believe this having begun working with a 110/300 modem). My choices for high speed access boil down to cable (RoadRunner) or DSL. Any recommendations here? If I choose to go with DSL are there providers that anyone could recommend. The local telephone company (Rochester/Frontier/Global and now Citizens) has a DSL available, but I am always wary of the cost of doing business with the dominant player. I am also leary of doing business with the fly by nights. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks! - -- David Esan InformationView Solutions d.esan@informationview.com Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 15:15:27 -0400 From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) Subject: Re: Copyright infringement Mike Pollock writes: > "You may download or copy the Content and other > downloadable items displayed on the Service for > personal use only, provided that you maintain all > copyright and other notices contained therein..." > I consider the Digest personal use since > I'm not making money on it, and it doesn't really have > anything to do with my business activities... Well, "personal" use does not normally include posting something to a public forum whether money is made on it or not. Even if the emailed Digest is considered other than public, a view that I would dispute, remember that the messages also appear in the newsgroup comp.dcom.telecom and may get archived, at e.g. Deja. The Times may well choose to permit the forwarding of occasional articles here, but I don't believe they will consider it to be covered by that permission for personal use. - -- Mark Brader "How diabolically clever: a straightforward message! Toronto Only a genius could have thought of that." msb@vex.net -- Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) My text in this article is in the public domain. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 15:49:12 -0400 From: "Cohen, Steven L" Subject: Phone Booth known as the TARDIS Don't forget the Dr. Who double-booth!! Cordially, Steve Cohen Allied Technology Group, Inc. Engineering Services Division - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 17:42:44 -0400 From: Mike Stockman Subject: Re: Copyright infringement In article <3.0.5.32.20000813064047.0083f100@oz.net>, Joseph Singer wrote: > >Subject: NYTimes.com Article: When 'May I Help You' Is a Labor Issue > > > >This article from NYTimes.com > >has been sent to you by Mike Pollock itsamike@yahoo.com. > > > >Telcom Digest > > > >Hey, I've been suckered by that script! > > This is a copyrighted article and should not have been sent to the digest. > A link to the article on NY Times web pages would have sufficed and would > not have run afoul of the law. For myself I would not want the Telecom > Digest to run into trouble with the New York Times. I think the official-sounding tagline at the beginning should have clued you in to the fact that the article was e-mailed using the NYT's own "e-mail this article to a friend" link. If they don't want the article reproduced in e-mail, they shouldn't put the link on their articles. It can't be a copyright violation if it has the publisher's permission (and I'm sure courts would say that providing a suggestion to e-mail the article constitutes permission, although I'm not a lawyer). No running "afoul of the law" appears to have happened. - ----->Mike - -- _______________________________________________________________________ AOL: MStockman Internet: stockman@jagunet.com AOL Instant Messenger: MStockman - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 17:43:37 -0400 From: Dave Garland Subject: Re: DSL Line It was a dark and stormy night when davidesan@my-deja.com first wrote: > If I choose to go with DSL are there providers that anyone could >recommend. Suggest you check out http://www.dslreports.com, which has a lot of info on DSL, vendors, feedback on vendors, etc. - -Dave - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 17:43:45 -0400 From: "Judith Oppenheimer" Subject: New Survey Reveals Platforms of Prospective ICANN Board Members New Survey Reveals Platforms of Prospective ICANN Board Members ICANN's membership-at-large nomination process closes Phase I: Nominations, and now enters Phase II: Endorsements. For the second Phase (Endorsements), ICB Toll Free News' survey, DOMAIN NAME SURVEY FOR ICANN AT-LARGE MEMBER NOMINEES, shows which candidates favor global governance; which favor individual country's rights under their own laws; and which of them have definite bias in favor of intellectual property interests, etc. NEW YORK, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The At Large Members of ICANN are scheduled to participate in a historic first -- a worldwide online election to choose Directors for the Internet's governing body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Closing a fifteen-day window to apply for nomination on August 14, At Large Member candidates have just fifteen days more -- August 15 to August 31 -- to garner enough endorsements for a spot on ICANN's October ballot. Endorsement requires support from 2% of the At Large Members in her/his geographic region, or 20 members, whichever is greater; and support from residents of at least two countries. The final ballot for At-Large Director will include the candidates nominated by ICANN'S Nominating Committee, and any candidates who have met the conditions for member-nomination. In an effort to help voters meet the candidates, ICB Toll Free News queried each by email as to their opinions and positions on such issues as domain name dispute arbitration and new top level domains (TLD's), and today published the survey results at http://icbtollfree.com/txt/icbsurveyresults.htm (registration required.) ``This survey only covers Domain Name issues that we felt impact end users significantly on a day-to-day basis,'' says Judith Oppenheimer, publisher of ICB. ``We provided a multiple choice format, as well as an open-ended option for nominees to write in their own response, of which most took generous advantage.'' The survey presents an overview of the candidates' positions on major issues, in their own words, unedited. This overview clearly shows which candidates favor global governance; which favor individual country's rights under their own laws; and which of them have definite bias in favor of intellectual property interests, etc. There is currently an overabundance of representation for major commercial and intellectual property interests on ICANN's Board of Directors. These candidates are running for seats to represent the at-large community's interests. The ICB survey results are published, verbatim, in a comparative chart offering voters the opportunity to endorse those nominees whose positions reflect their own. ``I certainly would not suggest forming a final opinion based on any survey,'' says Leah Gellegos, Founder of TLDLobby.com. ``However, coupled with the ICANN submissions and individual campaign websites, the survey affords an at-a-glance review of the candidates' positions on vital issues to the at-large community, as opposed to the special interests. As a tool, it is quite helpful for purposes of comparison, both within a specific region and across regions. I hope that all the candidates reply.'' Regional breakdown for applicants is Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean and North America. Within each, replies are listed alphabetically. ``We're very pleased with the responsiveness of the candidates, with over 50% returning completed questionnaires,'' says Oppenheimer. ``As last minute applications come into ICANN, ICB has continued to send out survey questionnaires. Late replies will be added in.'' - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 18:03:35 -0400 From: sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net (Steve Sobol) Subject: Re: DSL Line >>From 'Dave Garland': >It was a dark and stormy night when davidesan@my-deja.com first wrote: > >> If I choose to go with DSL are there providers that anyone could >>recommend. > >Suggest you check out http://www.dslreports.com, which has a lot of >info on DSL, vendors, feedback on vendors, etc. More importantly, it's feedback on vendors *from consumers.* (not from resellers or other industry insiders) Some of the comments are quite interesting. - -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, BOFH - President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor Linux Instructor, PC/LAN Program, Natl. Institute of Technology, Akron, OH sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 18:30:18 -0400 From: Alistair Gale Subject: GEICO Encourages Theft of Service If I were management at a LD carrier, I would be siccing my lawyers onto GEICO. Their latest TV ad shows a guy making a collect call from a hospital to announce the birth of his son, he is speaking to some automated system: First Name: "John" Last Name: "We had a baby boy", then we cut to the new grandparents sitting room: "Will you accept a collect call from John We Had a Baby Boy?" "Sorry wrong number". Cut back to John placing another automated collect call...... Tagline about "If you want to save money ...GEICO..blah blah....." I guess this is the ultimate in packetized voice! But this Very Large Corp. seems to be encouraging fraud against other VLCs. Any thoughts? - -- alistair - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 21:14:16 -0400 From: "Ed Ellers" Subject: Re: Phone Booth known as the TARDIS Steven L Cohen wrote: "Don't forget the Dr. Who double-booth!!" That's not a telephone booth as such -- it's a police call box, used both by police officers (to contact headquarters) and the public (to call the police). The Metropolitan Police still have some in service; I saw (and photographed) one outside the Earls Court Underground station in February. The premise was that the TARDIS was designed to take the form of an object that wouldn't look out of place in whatever place and time the Doctor happened to visit; as the story goes, that mechanism broke after a landing in London in the mid-20th century, and the TARDIS was frozen in the form of the police call box ever since. In the real world, the BBC probably didn't have much trouble getting one of the boxes to use; Doctor Who was done on a soap opera level budget, so every little bit helped. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 22:57:41 -0400 From: Mark J Cuccia Subject: BellSouth (LA) gets it WRONG re BellSouth (GA) NPAs 229,478 On 1-Aug-2000, two area codes took effect in south Georgia, which happens (ironically) to be a BellSouth state. The new area codes are 229 and 478, splitting from 912. The new 229 NPA code is for (roughly) the Albany GA LATA The new 478 NPA code is for (roughly) the (GA ratecenters of the) Macon GA LATA, as well as a small but noticeable (GA ratecenter) portion of the Augusta GA LATA (NOTE: Augusta GA itself, and most of the rest of (the GA ratecentesr portion of) this Augusta GA LATA is area code 706). The smaller 912 area code will be retained for (roughly) the (GA ratecenters of the) Savannah GA LATA. Mandatory dialing of 478 and 229 for their respective regions begins on 1-Aug-2001. You'd think that these two new NPA codes in this 3-way split being in Georgia, a BellSouth state, that BellSouth 9-state-wide would be aware of these new area codes for their switch translations. Even though calls to Macon and Albany could be inTER-LATA, the new NPA codes still must be opened up in origination central office switch translations. Some New Orleans area central office already have these two new area codes opened up in translations for originating calls - Main-1A (NWORLAMACG2) Lake-1A (NWORLALKCG0) Franklin-DMS (NWORLAFRDS0) Carrollton-DMS (NWORLACADS0) Main-5E (NWORLAMADS0) Broadmoor-5E (NWORLABMDS0) Three 1A's still don't yet have them in originating translations, even two weeks into permissive dialing: Seabrook-1A (NWORLASKCG0) St.Charles-1A (NWORLASCCG0) Mid-City-1A (NWORLAMCCG0) I finally got around to calling up "Repair Service" (service? huh?) to report these two NPA codes missing from Seabrook-1A translations (I am served from Seabrook at home). When they called me back, the ignorant clerk tells me that there are no such area codes, much less for Georgia. Anyone can download the free monthly NPA-NXX activity guide from Telcordia-TRA's website (http://www.trainfo.com) ... Anyone can download the free Planning Letters from NANPA's website (http://www.nanpa.com) ... The NANPA PL on the 3-way split of 912 with new NPAs 229 and 478 is dated DECEMBER of _1999_. There were various media reports (in Georgia, though) such as local newspaper websites, regarding the new 229 and 478 to be new area codes for south GA, back in Fall 1999. AT&T (and MCI and Sprint) recognize NPAs 229 and 478 as "valid". But when BellSouth "repair" in Louisiana is oh so ignorant about their own company's regions new area codes, and then refuse to investigate it further, I finally sent an email to BellSouth Corporate through the BellSouth www.bellsouth.com website. BTW, the BellSouth website list of new Yr.2000 area codes within BellSouth territory _DOES_ indicate 229 and 478 for Southern GA, permissive 8-1-00. In my email to BellSouth corporate, I told them that I am considering contacting the La.PSC and the FCC about BellSouth Repair (Louisiana) not allowing me access to valid new (interstate) area codes and refusing to enter them into translations. I also called up AT&T LD Repair (in Conyers GA, a suburb of Atlanta -- their Conyers GA offices used to be a BellSystem network management center and also the location of the "Rockdale" Class-1 Regional #4A(ETS) toll switch. The Repair clerks at AT&T are FAR more knowledgeable about telephone numbering, network and routing than BellSouth "repair service(?)" is. I told the gentleman w/AT&T LD repair that the trouble is actually BellSouth's problem, but they refuse to do anything about it -- that maybe AT&T-LD repair has some "higher up" contacts with BellSouth. The AT&T man also said that his records _do_ show 229 and 478 as valid (new) area codes for south GA, and that these codes are loaded into their 4ESS and 5E-OSPS toll and operator switches. He took my ticket and said that he would try to get someone with BellSouth in authority to resolve the problem. Ya'know, if AT&T is going to be a residential CLEC in New Orleans at any time soon, I'm seriously considering porting over to them! Well, MAYBE. I've heard that AT&T-CLEC has their troubles too! :( This is not the first time that BellSouth (or virtually any other BOC or LEC) is going to "miss the date" of new area code -- and it won't be the last time. But when a report is called into local repair, they should do some investigating, especially if the new codes are in one of their states! It may come to where state regulatory and the FCC will be contacted if BellSouth continues these delay tactics. What the FCC (and state regulatory) should consider is maybe FINING the local telcos that are late in loading new NPA codes, central office codes, routing changes, etc. into switch translations if the local telco (or LD company) has been notified, yet still won't take action in a timely manner. The documentation resources (NANPA's website, Telcordia-TRA's website, the LEC websites themselves, etc) _ARE_ available to the service providers, so "ignorance" is absolutely _NO_ excuse. Hopefully something about these two new GA NPA codes missing from many BellSouth switches in New Orleans (or missing from _ANY_ BellSouth central office switches' translations) can be completely resolved within the next 24 hours, or else I _AM_ calling La.PSC and the FCC about the situation! MARK_J._CUCCIA__PHONE/WRITE/WIRE/CABLE:__HOME:__(USA)__Tel:_CHestnut-1-2497 WORK:__mcuccia@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu|4710-Wright-Road|__(+1-504-241-2497) Tel:UNiversity-5-5954(+1-504-865-5954)|New-Orleans-28__|fwds-on-no-answr-to Fax:UNiversity-5-5917(+1-504-865-5917)|Louisiana(70128)|cellular/voicemail- NWORLASKCG0 (BellSouth #1AESS Cl.5 Local "Seabrook" 504-24x-) to become a #5ESS (yeah!), NWORLASKDS0, 12:01am SAT-11-NOV-2000 NWORLAIYCM3 (BellSouth-Mobility Ericsson Cellular-MTSO NOL) NWORLAMT01T (BellSouth DMS-100 "Metairie" Tndm; Cellular routes thru) NWORLAMA0GT (BellSouth DMS-100/200 inTRA-LATA/fg.BCD Tndm "Main" 504+) NWORLAMA20T (BellSouth DMS-200 TOPS:inLATA OprSvcTndm "Main" 504+053+) NWORLAMA04T (AT&T #4ESS Class-2 Toll 060-T / 504-2T "Main" 504+) JCSNMSPS06T (AT&T #5ESS OSPS:Operator-Services-Tandem 601-0T 601+121) JCSNMSPS14T (AT&T #4ESS Class-3 Toll 040-T / 601-2T; OSPS routes thru) NWORLAELH01 (PBX NEC-2400 504-862-3/8xxx, 504-865-4/5/6xxx) NWORLACADS0 (BellSo.DMS-100 Cl.5 Lcl "Carrollton" 504-86x-;PBX 'homes' on) =================================================================== - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2000 23:29:54 -0400 From: dthomas@rt66.com (David B. Thomas) Subject: Re: DSL Line >>>>> "davidesan" == davidesan writes: davidesan> If I choose to go with DSL are there providers that davidesan> anyone could recommend I've just gotten set up with DSL from Qwest (formerly USWEST), and my experience so far has been nothing short of fantastic. Since telephone companies tend to get a lot of bad press (well-deserved though it may often be!), I feel that this might be a good opportunity to give Qwest some well-deserved praise. I had heard that DSL was available in Albuquerque, so I called Qwest. My call was answered in under a minute. The girl who answered immediately knew about DSL, but she said my phone number did not yet qualify for the service. She urged me to call back the next day (!) because, she said, four more COs were going online with DSL. I called back the next day, and my call was answered in under a minute by a different girl. She also knew what was up and confirmed that my line now qualifies! She answered most of my questions, and when she didn't know something, she conferenced in someone else to help. When the third person put us on hold, the girl stayed with me and chatted. Once all my questions were answered, I went ahead and placed the order. By the time we were done, I knew exactly what would arrive in the mail, when the service was to be hooked up, what equipment I would need, what it would cost and how it would be billed. The install date was about two weeks from the order date, and in the meantime everything showed up in the mail, just like it was supposed to. The install date arrived without fanfare, but I just couldn't stand the suspense. I called Qwest, again getting an answer in under a minute. The guy who answered checked on my account and said, with far too little enthusiasm, that I now HAD DSL SERVICE! I went home and hooked up the hardware and it worked great. In fact, while this particular service only guarantees 256K both ways, I'm now consistently getting 640K downloads and 272K uploads. Considering that this was an upgrade from a 28.8 modem, the contrast is positively breathtaking. Some vitals for the curious: Initial equipment cost $150 (Cisco router on special) DSL line charge $30 (24 hour connection, dynamic IP) ISP service charge $18 (I selected uswest.net) Guaranteed speed 256d,256u Actual speed 640d,272u (for now!) This service shares the same copper wires with your regular POTS line, so you don't need to pay for an additional phone line. You can be online 24 hours a day and use analog telephone devices (even 56k modems!) without conflict. The digital and analog signals occupy vastly different frequency bands, and filters are used to isolate them. For anyone in Qwest territory, I heartily recommend their DSL service. You can get more information, including an online check to see if your line qualifies, from Qwest's web site. http://www.qwest.com/ David - -- Their address sums up their attitude: One Microsoft Way - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:46:40 -0400 From: "Judith Oppenheimer" Subject: 8/14/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES ************************************************************************* ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES ************************************************************************* from ICB Toll Free News - Daily News and Intelligence covering the Political, Legal and Marketing Arenas of 800 and Dot Com. ************************************************************************* CONTENTS - - SURVEY REVEALS PLATFORMS OF PROSPECTIVE ICANN BOARD MEMBERS - - DOMAIN ROUND-UP - - EU CULTURE OF POLITICS, AND THE INTERNET - - SENATOR SUGGESTS .SEX TLD - - WIPO EXTENDS DEADLINE - - eREUTERS.COM - - WIPO "GEOGRAPHIC" THREAT: PARANOIA, OR REAL? - - WE'RE NOT TARGETING GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES, CLAIMS WIPO - - SOME COPYRIGHT, SHOULDN'T BE - - STANFORDCARDINAL.COM - - 3i SUES III OVER DOMAIN NAME - - UK COURT RULES AGAINST CRATE & BARREL IN TRADEMARK DISPUTE ************************************************************************* CUSTOMER SERVICE NOTES: ICB Premium Service is on Summer Sale for $99 for a 12 month subscription, including access to all 'P' articles and Premium areas of the web site. (regular price $549) SUMMER'S ALMOST OVER - ACT NOW! - http://www.icbtollfree.com/order.cfm ICB is a popular research destination, with all content archived indefinitely. Find all ICB headlines, current and archived, at http://www.icbtollfree.com/icbheadlns.cfm. ************************************************************************ ARTICLE ACCESS CODE LEGEND ICB Toll Free News offers two valuable service options: F = Free - News and Features articles P = Premium - Unlimited Site Access including all Articles and Documents. ************************************************************************* HEADLINES FOR August 14, 2000 F - SURVEY REVEALS PLATFORMS OF PROSPECTIVE ICANN BOARD MEMBERS ICANN's membership-at-large nomination process closes Phase I: Nominations, and now enters Phase II: Endorsements. DOMAIN NAME SURVEY FOR ICANN AT-LARGE MEMBER NOMINEES, shows which candidates favor global governance; which favor individual country's rights under their own laws; and which of them have definite bias in favor of intellectual property interests, etc. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4320 P - DOMAIN ROUND-UP Many companies have registered hundreds, if not thousands, of domain names through numerous employees and service providers, making it difficult to keep track of which names they have, where they are pointing and when they need to be renewed. This service provides companies with a comprehensive list of all domain names previously registered, whether they were processed by an outside agency, law firm, or former employee and regardless of the registrar used. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4327 F - EU CULTURE OF POLITICS, AND THE INTERNET >>From the caretaker in schools to the director of a savings bank, all are nominated by the political parties. ICANN has forgotten to put that item into the nomination application: are you in a political party? Editorial by ICANN At Large Member Nominee Roland Portig. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4327 F - SENATOR SUGGESTS .SEX TLD Connecticut Democrat Joseph Lieberman suggests to the federal Commission on Child Online Protection that new TLDs such as ".sex" or ".xxx" might actually shield children from Internet smut by segregating it. Critics say that the U.S. Congress should not be able to police the global Internet, and that creating a "virtual red-light district" may be unconstitutional. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4324 P - WIPO EXTENDS DEADLINE The Australian and US governments and the European Union asked for geographical names, geographical indications and indications of source to be included in the dispute resolution policy, as well as personal names, tradenames and pharmaceutical substances. WIPO has not said whether the new process will apply retroactively to existing registered domains, though indications are that it will. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4323 P - eREUTERS.COM For the Panel to hold that the Respondent is a liar, the circumstantial evidence has to be overwhelmingly in favour of the Complainant. While, as indicated above, the Panel understands why the Complainant is suspicious, the Panel finds that the evidence is insufficient for that purpose. 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Book before 1/09/00 to receive your 10% discount. www.ftconferences.com/dynamic/conferences/ftwt00.htm?bn=icb ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* more HEADLINES FOR August 14, 2000 F - WIPO "GEOGRAPHIC" THREAT: PARANOIA, OR REAL? Thousands of companies have built a business around geographic domain names, including The Irish Times' Ireland.com, and The New York Times' NewYorkToday.com guide to the Big Apple. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4322 P - WE'RE NOT TARGETING GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES, CLAIMS WIPO Francis Gurry, assistant director general of WIPO and director of WIPO’s arbitration center, commenting on PricewaterhouseCoopers’ claim, published 8 August in the Spanish press, that WIPO had been waiting for a decision in the barcelona.com case in order to proceed with policy on this issue: "Bullshit." CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4321 F - SOME COPYRIGHT, SHOULDN'T BE It will then charge a monopoly price for things people have to have. And, it will start writing RFCs to generate revenue, not because they are needed or justified. Editorial by Peter Veeck, CTO of Internet Texoma. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4318 P - STANFORDCARDINAL.COM The Respondent has made no use of the domain name in question. This is evidence of bad faith. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4328 F - 3i SUES III OVER DOMAIN NAME 3i is the UK's biggest venture capital firm. Interactive Investor International is also a substantial company with more than one million subscribers. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4326 P - UK COURT RULES AGAINST CRATE & BARREL IN TRADEMARK DISPUTE The justice thought that the defendant could make a case against the plaintiff with a defense of "honest use of own name." Usually, this law applies to companies are named after individuals, but the judge said that it may apply to company names, as well. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4325 ************************************************************************* **************************************************advertisements********* EVERY 3.6 SECONDS SOMEONE DIES FROM HUNGER http://www.hungersite.com/ ************************************************************************* TelecomCareers.net - Cutting Edge Telecom Careers, #1 Telecom Job Site! http://TelecomCareers.net ************************************************************************* ABOUT ICB ICB HeadsUp Headlines Daily Email is sent by request. 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All rights reserved. ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: 15 Aug 2000 00:29:11 -0400 From: sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net (Steve Sobol) Subject: Re: DSL Line >>From 'David B. Thomas': >>>>>> "davidesan" == davidesan writes: > > davidesan> If I choose to go with DSL are there providers that > davidesan> anyone could recommend > >I've just gotten set up with DSL from Qwest (formerly USWEST), and my >experience so far has been nothing short of fantastic. Since >telephone companies tend to get a lot of bad press (well-deserved >though it may often be!), I feel that this might be a good opportunity >to give Qwest some well-deserved praise. This is cool. Qwest (and USWest before them) had a bad reputation. In fact, USWest was known to be completely clueless about DSL. It's nice to know that someone actually got good service from a telco (for a change!) Those of us in PacBell/NevadaBell/SBC/Ameritech territory do not tend to be quite as lucky. - -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, BOFH - President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor Linux Instructor, PC/LAN Program, Natl. Institute of Technology, Akron, OH sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 15 Aug 2000 06:07:21 -0400 From: "Joey Lindstrom" Subject: eFax beholden to spammers? Here's some food for thought. I, like some of you, signed up some time ago for efax.com's excellent free incoming fax service. Before signing up, I read their privacy statement quite carefully. I didn't retain a copy of it, but here's a bit of what's currently on their website: "It is eFax.com's policy to respect the privacy of its members. Although we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party, we may, in certain cases where you access our site from other third party sites, release your email address to such third party. We do not disclose certain pieces of information, such as your password, PIN, or eFax number at all. We may aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information to third parties in aggregate for a number of business purposes, including running and enhancing the services, but in these situations we do not disclose to other entities any information that could be used to personally identify you. Also, we may use information about you to provide you with ads or offers from advertisers that we think may be relevant to you, but in these cases we do not disclose any personally identifiable information about you to third parties. On our site and via email, we may offer you the option to choose to receive electronic information about topic(s) of interest to you from other companies. If you choose to receive information from such companies, eFax.com may provide to such companies your name, email address and other pertinent information if applicable and the company may contact you directly. These programs are offered as "opt-in" programs, not as "opt-out" programs, meaning you will be contacted only if you choose to participate." Seems innocuous enough, no? Now check this statement from Ronald Brown, eFax.com's president, which is on their own website under the heading "EFAX.COM ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER RESULTS": "Advertising revenues in the quarter increased to over $300,000 as we implemented a wider range of sales partnerships to bring banner advertising to our eFax MessengerT client software, and we continued to build revenue from email list rental. The strong demographics of our user base make an ideal audience for advertisers to reach business customers through our directed email advertising and our banner traffic. At the end of the quarter we had more than 85,000 paid subscribers and over 2.3 million total registered users of eFax.com's services." Scuze me? "email list rental"? Doesn't the privacy statement specifically prohibit this? "directed email advertising?" Huh? Isn't that... gasp... spam? Geez, no wonder the spam content in my mailbox has gone up so much over the last few months... Are any of us surprised that NASDAQ has delisted (as of August 9th) this bunch of hypocrites? I'd cancel my account, but I'd still be on their spam list, so I may as well stay on and continue getting something out of the deal... sigh... / From the messy desktop of Joey Lindstrom / Visit The NuServer! http://www.GaryNumanFan.NU / Visit The Webb! http://webb.GaryNumanFan.NU / / I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the / shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't / included. So I had to buy them again. / --Steven Wright ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ End of Telecom Digest V2000 #22 *******************************