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27 Jun 2011
On June 20th, the ICANN board voted to move ahead with the New gTLDs
program, intended to add hundreds if not thousands of new names to
the DNS root. Now what? Not even the most enthusiastic ICANN supporters
think that any new TLDs will be added before the end of 2012, but there
are other things going on that greatly complicate the outlook.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/tldchess.html
17 Jun 2011
In most parts of the world, people tend to use domain names in their
country's top level domain. In the UK, it's whatever.co.uk, in
Canada, it's whatever.ca, in Japan it's whatever.co.jp, and so forth.
But in the US, most people use .COM rather than .US. Why?
Back in 1992 and 1993, the then-powers that be in the Internet (mostly
Jon Postel) decided to arrange the .US domain in a tidy geographic way.
As laid out in
RFC 1386
and
RFC 1480,
all registrations had to be of the form
<name>.<place>.st.us, such
as IBM.ARMONK.NY.US (an example they used.) Government agencies had
their own pseudo-places, e.g., WWW.STATE.NY.US.
The place names were cities, towns, counties, and such, with reasonable
abbreviations allowed such as NYC.NY.US.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/commreg.html
16 Jun 2011
I've been watching at the excitement build in the domain community, where
a lot of people seem to believe that at next month's Singapore meeting,
by golly, this time ICANN will really truly open the floodgates and
start adding lots of new TLDs.
I have my doubts, because there's still significant issues with the GAC
and the US Government and ICANN hasn't yet grasped the fact that
governments do not defer to NGOs, but let's back up a little and ask
whether this is a good idea.
I see four arguments in favor of new TLDs:
- More competition
- More Innovation!
- ICANN promised they would in 1998
- Lots of money
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/boondoggle.html
03 Jun 2011
Bitcoin, for anyone who's not up
on their techno-trends, is this year's hot trendy digital payment system.
Its main claim to fame is that it is peer-to-peer, not depending on a
central bank to issue or validate the "coins", actually blobs of
cryptographically signed bits.
This makes it both fairly anonymous and hard to manipulate (at least in
the ways that real money is manipulated), making it a darling of
anarcho-libertarians.
A lot of people have opined on its merits, most notably
this Quora message.
I took a look at the design of Bitcoin, which
is credited to "Satoshi Nakamoto". Nobody seems to know who he is (or who
they are), but he definitely knows his crypto. As a piece of cryptographic
software design, it's quite clever. As a system you might want to use to
pay for stuff, it's hopeless.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Money/bitcoin.html
01 Jun 2011
For many years, the Cornell Legal
Information Institute (LII) has been a premier source of reference
information about laws in the US and elsewhere.
It's been around so long that in its early days, they wrote
the first Windows web browser,
Cello, so non-Unix users could get to the site.
One day last year, LII
director Tom Bruce and I were talking over
breakfast, and noted that there was no authoritative online source of
legal information about spam and e-mail, something that the LII and
CAUCE are, together, uniquely qualified to create. The Inbox Project
is a new section of the LII web site, meeting that need.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/inbox.html
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