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Home :: Internet 03 Apr 2013 There's nothing like a poke with a sharp stick Internet Last week I blogged about a white paper Verisign sent ICANN called New gTLD Security and Stability Considerations in which they listed a bunch of reasons that ICANN isn't ready to roll out lots of new TLDs. Among the reasons were that several of the services the new GTLDs are required to use aren't available yet, including the Emergency Back End Registry Operators (EBEROs), who would take over the registry functions for a TLD whose operator failed. They were supposed to have been chosen in mid-2012. By complete coincidence, yesterday ICANN announced that they had chosen the three Emergency Back End Registry Operators. I can't wait to see what happens next week. posted at: 19:20 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Internet/ebero.trackback 29 Mar 2013 Verisign doesn't think the net is ready for a thousand new TLDs Internet Yesterday Verisign sent ICANN a most interesting white paper called New gTLD Security and Stability Considerations. They also filed a copy with the SEC as an 8-K, a document that their stockholders should know about, It's worth reading the whole thing, but in short, their well-supported opinion is that the net isn't ready for all the new TLDs, and even if they were, ICANN's processes or lack thereof will cause other huge problems. See more ... posted at: 14:20 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Internet/vznewtld.trackback 07 Oct 2012 A copycat Canadian privacy suit against Gmail Internet In July, several people filed attempted class action suits against Google, on the peculiar theory that Gmail was spying on its own users' mail. One of the suits was in Federal court, the other two in California state court, but the complaints were nearly identical so we assume that they're coordinated. Now we have a similar suit filed in provincial court in British Columbia, Canada. See more ... posted at: 00:48 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Internet/cangoog.trackback 21 Sep 2012 Unclear on the concept, sanctions edition Internet United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is an advocacy group that, among other things, tries to isolate Iran by pressuring businesses and organizations to stop doing business with Iran. This week they turned their attention to ICANN and RIPE to try to cut off Internet access to Iranian organizations. Regardless of one's opinion about the wisdom of isolating Iran (and opinions are far from uniform), this effort was a bad idea in an impressive number of both technical and political ways. See more ... posted at: 02:21 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Internet/uani.trackback 13 Jul 2012 Update on mail privacy lawsuits Internet Last week I looked at a lawsuit filed against Yahoo in Federal court in California, a class action claiming that Yahoo is wiretapping their users' mail, and noted that reports said that two other suits were filed in state court in Marin county. See more ... posted at: 23:18 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Internet/sutton.trackback

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