Date: 26 Sep 2000 06:15:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20000926101512.4861.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #67 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: 754f3cd4f9863bc95cc339b26a944d24 Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Tuesday, September 26 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 067 In this issue: Introducing XNS Verizon Backs No-Call Drive Laws Re: Morris, IL ESS experiment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Sep 2000 00:41:19 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Introducing XNS http://www.tbtf.com/blog/2000-09-24.html#1 TBTF Log 8:46:34 AM * Introducing XNS. This will be huge news for personal privacy. A new technology called XNS went live at 7:00 am Eastern time. It marries XML with Web agents and contract law to put you firmly in control of information about yourself and the transactions you conduct over the Net. XNS was developed by OneName to enable Internet users and businesses to exchange data in an automated way with privacy protection built in at the core. It's based entirely on Internet standards like HTTP and XML, and it will be fully open-source. What sets XNS apart from all the various wannabe-standard proprietary technologies is that OneName is licensing the patent that governs this technology to a newly formed non-profit, the XNS Public Trust Organization, or XNSORG. XNS has two basic parts. First is the Web agent technology that enables individuals and business to share information, creating permanent links that can withstand the rigors of new email addresses, physical moves, and marital name changes. For my money the neatest idea in the whole package is that every link is governed by a legally enforceable privacy contract aimed at giving every XNS community member control and ownership of his/her/its personal data, once and for all. Second, XNS has a next-generation naming system -- to find and link to these web agents -- that is designed to avoid all the problems with DNS, both in terms of the size of the namespace and the huge intellectual property issues that have come up. Some of the initial uses for XNS include: * single sign-in at every Web site that supports XNS * spam elimination by requiring all new correspondents to agree to your privacy policy before allowing their mail through * an address book that is never out of date The key to it all is XNSORG, which is a non-profit tasked with coordinating the maintenance of the XNS technology and creating a governance structure for the XNS community. XNSORG will do things like establish technical and operational specifications for the system to ensure quality of service, design a dispute resolution system to handle breaches of privacy contracts, and organize working groups to extend the capabilities of the system. I don't believe there's ever been such a situation on the Internet where an intellectual property holder hands over a patent and all their source code to a non-profit that answers only to the Internet community. Visit the XNSORG services page soon to reserve your chosen personal name. The first operational XNS Naming Agency, OneName itself, is offering one personal name, free for life, to the first million applicants. Other agencies will be coming online beginning next month. http://www.onename.com/ http://www.xns.org/ http://www.xns.org/services/ Copyright 1995-2000 by Keith Dawson. Commercial use prohibited. May be excerpted, mailed, posted, or linked for non-commercial purposes. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 2000 00:49:12 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Verizon Backs No-Call Drive Laws Verizon Backs No-Call Drive Laws CHICAGO -- Verizon, the largest U.S. cellular telephone provider, said it broke with the industry Monday and agreed to support laws that would ban handheld cell phone use while driving, a practice blamed for deadly accidents. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39033,00.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 2000 01:14:45 -0400 From: Dennis Ritchie Subject: Re: Morris, IL ESS experiment Terry Kennedy, following Perrussel, wrote: > > David Perrussel writes: > > Does anyone have any information on the Morris, IL (I could be wrong on > > the city name) experimental ESS system that was used for a short time > > in 1960? I know it was based on "cold cathode" vacuum tube technology > > and the tones were also special purpose (not used before or since). > > Yes. There's a 350+-page book, "The Electronic Switching System - Trial > Installation, Morris, Illinois - General Description" printed in April, > 1960. The Bell catalog number is X-63490. Probably more findable is one of the volumes from Engineering and Science in the Bell System, in particular the Switching Technology (1925-1975) one: ISBN 0-932764-02-9. There seems to be more than one copy at abebooks.com, prices ranging between $50 to $200. If you have a specific question, let me know. The Morris trial did exist, starting June 1960, and was completed January 1962. An early stored-program switch. I think I have one of the glass photographic plates that contained the program for the flying-spot store. Dennis - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ End of Telecom Digest V2000 #67 *******************************