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GA-DIGEST          Tuesday, November 13 2001          Volume 01 : Number 844

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 01:00:21 -0800 (PST)
From: PacificRoot Hostmaster <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Fwd: WARNING:  Interland and Network Solutions STEALING your  domain customers

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Joanna Lane wrote:

> Marine Captain James Cook was Captain of the Endeavour and died in the 18th
> century.
> 

Was carrying a Harrison Chronometer too, which is said to have stopped the
same moment his heart did.

John Harrison gave us Longitude - no matter where you were on the planet,
yet they still did their best to disregard his acheivement hoping that
ICANN, er...., I mean the some member of the Royal Academy (Like Newton),
would be able to claim the reward for the Longitude act through astrology,
er...., I mean astronomy - instead of the more practical and obvious
method of Inclusiveness, er..., I mean timekeeping ;)

Bradley D. Thornton
Chief Technology Officer
The PacificRoot/Joint Technologies Ltd.
http://www.PacificRoot.com
http://www.JointTech.com

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:09:25 -0800
From: William X Walsh <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] voting software

The subject of online voting software was brought up here not long
ago, so I thought I would post this announcement here.

After some interest from developers and regular members on the IDNO
mailing list that an open source voting system would be preferable to
a closed sourced and proprietary voting system, some members of the
IDNO have decided to code such a beast.

Tentatively the code will be web based, but I'd also like to see an
email based solution.  It seems most interested parties prefer to use
open source tools like php and the MySQL database, at least initially.

As someone who believes in making things as cross platform and
portable as possible, I'll try to make sure that it isn't so dependant
on MySQL that it would be difficult to port it to use other databases,
including PostgreSQL or any other database that PHP has native support
for.

The following lists exist for this effort:

Developers work list:
http;//lists.thepollingbooth.org/lists/listinfo/dev

General discussion:
http;//lists.thepollingbooth.org/lists/listinfo/discuss

Announcements only (low volume)
http;//lists.thepollingbooth.org/lists/listinfo/announce

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:24:10 -0500
From: "John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] Saddam Hussein Finds A New Registrar

Interestingly, the Iraqi State Company for Internet Services has apparently
seen fit to move the domain name for the main Iraqi government internet
portal from Register.com to Go Daddy Software, just in time for the ICANN
meeting:

Registrant:
   osama khalid
   scic
   27 april street
   baghdad, Not Applicable 964
   Iraq

   Registrar: Go Daddy Software (http://registrar.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: URUKLINK.NET
      Created on: 29-May-00
      Expires on: 29-May-03
      Last Updated on: 10-Nov-01

That would apparently solve one problem for Register.com, but creates a new
one for Go Daddy, which is also a US company subject to the Iraqi Sanctions
Regulations (31 CFR 575 et seq.).

Congratulations to Register.com for washing their hands of this one.

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:02:12 -0800
From: "Ben Edelman" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] FW: REMINDER: ICANN-Marina del Rey DNSO Names Council Webcast About to Begin

FYI

- -----Original Message-----
From: Ben Edelman [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:45 PM
To: ICANN-MDR 2001 Remote Participation Preregistrants
Subject: REMINDER: ICANN-Marina del Rey DNSO Names Council Webcast About
to Begin

Just a quick reminder that today's meeting of the ICANN DNSO Names
Council is about to begin.

(It is scheduled to start at 2:00PM local time -- which is 5:00PM US
Eastern time, 10:00PM UTC.  The Public Forum on At Large Participation
begins approximately four hours later -- 6:00PM local, 9:00PM US Eastern, 
2:00AM UTC.  The DNSO General Assembly session will begin two hours after
that, at 8:00PM local, 11:00PM Eastern, 4:00AM UTC.)

Join the webcast via <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/mdr2001>.  Full
archives will be posted at the conclusion of the meeting.

For more information about the meetings, see
<http://www.icann.org/mdr2001>.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu>

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:59:28 -0800
From: Jeff Williams <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Saddam Hussein Finds A New Registrar

John and all assembly members,

  Thanks John for tracking and catching this.  It seems that the ICANN
Staff is ill equipped or is disinterested in doing so, which poses a raft
of other questions related to DNSO and Internet security.  The timing
also seems rather odd as well.  Perhaps the "All mighty Dollar" is
more important to the ICANN BoD and staff than Vigilance?!  I
hope not.  Lack of Vigilance is how the "Evil ones" spread their
evil!

  I wonder if godaddy is a ICANN accredited registrar?

John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. wrote:

> Interestingly, the Iraqi State Company for Internet Services has apparently
> seen fit to move the domain name for the main Iraqi government internet
> portal from Register.com to Go Daddy Software, just in time for the ICANN
> meeting:
>
> Registrant:
>    osama khalid
>    scic
>    27 april street
>    baghdad, Not Applicable 964
>    Iraq
>
>    Registrar: Go Daddy Software (http://registrar.godaddy.com)
>    Domain Name: URUKLINK.NET
>       Created on: 29-May-00
>       Expires on: 29-May-03
>       Last Updated on: 10-Nov-01
>
> That would apparently solve one problem for Register.com, but creates a new
> one for Go Daddy, which is also a US company subject to the Iraqi Sanctions
> Regulations (31 CFR 575 et seq.).
>
> Congratulations to Register.com for washing their hands of this one.
>
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CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:10:06 -0800
From: Jeff Williams <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] ITAA Calls for Immediate New Federal IT Security Funding

All assembly members,

FYI.  See:
http://dc.internet.com/news/article/0,1934,2101_920931,00.html

Some excerpts:

"The annual Congressional report card review of federal agency
 network security systems gave an "F" to the Departments of
Defense, Commerce, Energy, and Justice and Treasury. The
National  Science Foundation led the list of the 24 largest
agencies and departments with a B+. The Social Security
System earned a C+ and NASA squeezed by the passing
mark with a C-.

Most, though, failed to withstand the hacks into their systems
routinely conducted by the General Accounting Office
(GAO) to test security.

"No responsible parent would stand for this kind of performance,"
said ITAA President Harris N. Miller. "I do not believe the
American taxpayers are willing to be more lenient, particularly
with the high priority given to homeland defense."

 Miller called on Congress to move "forcefully" to harden federal
agency information systems."

============  End of excerpts ============

  They ought to see how terribly bad the Root server structure is and
how
terribly badly the ICANN BoD and staff have handled their
responsibilities
with the security of the DNS, their registries and registrars.
Appalling!  :(

Regards,

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Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
E-Mail [email-masked]
Contact Number:  972-244-3801 or 214-244-4827
Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:43:06 -0800
From: "Ben Edelman" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] REMINDER: DNSO GA Webcast Now In Progress

Today's webcast of the DNSO General Assembly session is now in progress.

To join the webcast, go to <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/mdr2001>.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School 
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:06:29 -0800
From: "Ben Edelman" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] FW: UPDATE: ICANN-Marina del Rey DNSO Meetings Complete, Community Meeting on Security Tomorrow

FYI

- -----Original Message-----
From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:05 PM
To: Webcast Participants & Preregistrants
Subject: UPDATE: ICANN-Marina del Rey DNSO Meetings Complete, Community
Meeting on Security Tomorrow

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because you preregistered to attend ICANN's
public meetings in Marina del Rey, California (November 12-15) via webcast.

Today's meetings of the DNSO Names Council and General Assembly are now
complete, as is today's Public Forum on At Large Representation.
Archives of these sessions have been posted in the online meeting archive at
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/mdr2001/archive>.
Archives include complete RealVideo recordings, agendas, scribe's notes,
documents and presentations used, real-time questions received, and online
discussion logs.

Meetings resume tomorrow at 8:30AM local time with the ICANN Community
Meeting on Security and Stability of the Internet Naming and Address
Allocation System.  To join the webcast, go to
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/mdr2001>.
During and just before webcasts, a prominent link on this page will allow
you to enter the remote participation area.  Please be sure to join us
online at the proper time, being aware of time zone differences.  Links at
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/mdr2001> can help you convert
Marina del Rey time to local time in your area.

In preparation for the meetings, you may want to review the meeting agenda,
as posted at <http://www.icann.org/mdr2001/#agenda>.  From that page,
you'll also find public comment spaces on major agenda items.

If you miss some or all of the webcast sessions or if you wish to review
content generated during the webcast, be advised that a complete archive of
each webcast session will be posted at
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/mdr2001/archive> upon its conclusion.

Access to the remote participation system requires a 28.8kbps or faster
modem, with best access over 56k or faster connections.  Access to the live
audio and video feeds requires the RealPlayer, version 5.0 or later (G2 or
later strongly recommended), available for free from
<http://www.real.com/products/player>, or the Windows Media Player,
available for free from <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia>.  Access to
the real-time discussion and dynamically-updated scribe's notes areas
requires a JAVA-capable browser (IE or Netscape version 3 or later) or a
dedicated IRC client.

Finally, if you're not already subscribed to ICANN's announcements list, you
may find it helpful to join in order to receive important future
announcements from ICANN.  See <http://www.icann.org/announcements> for
instructions.

We look forward to seeing you online during the meetings!

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu>

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 04:20:22 -0800
From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] icannworld.org

I take exception to the shameless self-promotional stunt
executed by the General Assembly Chair with his
"icannworld.org" presentation.

I remove any confidence I may have had in Danny Younger's
suitability for Chaimanship of the General Assembly of the
DNSO.

Sincerely,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos

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