Morning Broadband BytesAll the industry news you need to start your day ( old news - 05:08AM Thursday Jul 07 2005) • Around the Industry: Turkish group pushes for second Internet network... one minus US interference
Google invests in BPL
802.11n truce?
Trials start on hybrid wifi, FLASH-OFDM network
2005 a historic year for net growth• SecurityBits: Adobe fixes Linux flaw in Reader
Zlib security flaw exposes swath of programs• Hardware, Software, and other TidBytes: FBI, Spamhaus track down spammer on the lam
USC admissions site cracked wide open
MS UK defaced in hacking attack• More news from around the industry, SecurityBits, and interesting Tidbytes inside!... . Around The Industry:• Turkish group pushes for second Internet network... one minus US interference: A federation of independent root operators, The Public-Root, is already trying to build its alternative network with 13 root servers in 10 countries, including Turkey. According to the Turkish group's chairman, it is getting some interest from those countries concerned about increasing interference of the US government in the Interweb.• Google invests in BPL: Google, Goldman Sachs Group, and Hearst Corp. are investing about $100 million in Current Communications Group, a BPL start-up. Current Communications offers its high-speed service in the Cincinnati area and is expected to use its new investment to expand.• 802.11n truce?: The two main groups battling over what should become the technology behind the WiMax standard from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the TGn Sync group (Intel & friends), and the wWise group (Texas Instruments & buddies) have reached a compromise and could present a unified proposal for the 802.11n specification to the trade body in November.• Trials start on hybrid wifi, FLASH-OFDM network: Japan Telecom said it will begin trials on a wireless network that combines Wi-Fi and FLASH-OFDM wireless broadband. Japan Telecom is aiming at providing a more ubiquitous wireless network to its customers, the company said in a statement. It did not say when it might commercialize the combined technologies.• 2005 a historic year for net growth: "Barring a dramatic slowdown, 2005 should easily exceed the record growth of 16 million hostnames in 2000," research firm Netcraft said in a statement. According to Netcraft's latest survey of Web hostnames, some 2.76 million were added in June, the 2nd highest monthly increase ever.• Disney Mobile: Good wholesome family wireless service: Disney, in partnership with Sprint, plans to establish a nationwide wireless phone service, dubbed Disney Mobile, in the US, the company announced. Using Sprint's PCS network, the service is due to begin operations next year. Disney will develop exclusive handsets and entertainment content aimed at families.• Mobile content downloading to triple: Report: Over the course of the coming 12 months, the market for mobile content, excluding porn, is set to treble to €7.6bn, a report from LogicaCMG has found. Europeans are currently mobile content's big spenders, splurging an average of €8.41 on mobile content per month, compared to the worldwide average of €6.32.• Never mind 4G, we need 3.99G now: The screw up over data rates offered by 3G is inspiring a push for a new 'Super 3G' or 3.99G, according to an analyst from Informa Telecoms. He argues that the delay over the introduction of high speed data onto W-CDMA based networks is causing a push to develop a new standard before a completely new technology (4G) is introduced.• Huge growth seen in retail VoIP: More than 11 million people worldwide were using a retail VoIP service for at least some of their telephone calls at the end of March 2005, according Point Topic. The number climbs to just under 17.5 million users when 'soft-clients' like Skype and VoiceGlo are added in.• Nickelodeon launches broadband video, including shows from channel and new full length programming: 'TurboNick' will be a broadband video platform available through Nick.com featuring full-length shows from on the company's cable channel, plus exclusive video, shorts and all-new long-form programming. The official launch, including a full advertising and promotional campaign, is set for July 17.• Videotron upgrades network, will launch cable telephone service in Quebec City: Videotron has announced it will spend $29-million between now and the end of 2006 to upgrade its network in the Quebec City area to support new technologies, including its residential cable telephone service, which will be available July 11.• Aussie government commits AU$50 million to broadband: The Aussie federal government has committed a further AU$50 million to help connect broadband in regional Australia, Communications Minister Helen Coonan said. The money brought federal funding for the Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme (HiBIS) program to about AU$160 million, acccording to the Minister.SecurityBits:• Adobe fixes Linux flaw in Reader: Adobe issued a patch for vulnerabilities found in Unix and Linux versions of its Adobe Reader. The flaws, found in Adobe Reader 5.0.9 and 5.0.10, affects computers running on Linux, Solaris, IBM-AIX or HP-UX. The flaws do not affect the Windows version of these Adobe Readers.• Zlib security flaw exposes swath of programs: A serious security flaw has been identified in Zlib, a widely used data compression library. Fixes have begun to appear, but a large number of programs could be affected. Zlib is a data compression library that is used by many 3rd party programs and is distributed with many OS's, including many Linux and BSD distros. MS and other proprietary software companies also use the library in many programs.• Exploit heightens risks for old Firefox versions: The released exploit code takes advantage of an image file vulnerability in Firefox 1.0.1 and earlier versions, the French Security Incident Response Team, or FrSIRT, said in an advisory. The image-parsing problem was fixed in Firefox 1.0.2, which was released in March.Hardware, Software, and other TidBytes:• FBI, Spamhaus track down spammer on the lam• USC admissions site cracked wide open• MS UK defaced in hacking attack• Pakistan's Net Misery May Continue Through July• SourceLabs Launches Community Site For Open-Source Projects• Verizon signs first video deal with Time Warner• Financial Institutions to Share Identity-Theft Data• Military Picks CA for Hefty Anti-Spyware Contract
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reub2000
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| DNS != Intenernet How many times, when the issue of ownership and control of the internet, that the headlines say that so-and-so is trying to control the internet. "Turks set up alternative internet". Sounds like the turks are fed up with the ICANN naming system, and have a better idea for names on the internet. This isn't about control, but what you type in the address bar to get to a site. | |
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GercekSeytan
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| Re: DNS != Intenernet Perhaps so, but the article doesn't give that impression. As for a 'better idea for names on the internet'; well, hopefully, something was lost in translation. What's 'better' about their proposal? It'd also be interesting to know exactly what the 'increasing interference' was, it's rate of increase over time, and how many instances of this alleged 'interference' there were.
It all sounds rather 'U.N.'ish to me.
The system they are designing offer Internet addresses that end in a company or individual name but no ".com" or a country code.
So far the outfit has been trying to flog its network with the idea that it has an easy-to-remember address. However, according to Turhan Mentes, the Turkish group's chairman, it is also getting some interest from those countries concerned about increasing interference of the US government in the Interweb. --
"It is the black heart of Islam, not the black face, to which millions object." Will Cummins: »www.sport.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.. | |
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hober
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| Re: DNS != Intenernet said by GercekSeytan  :As for a 'better idea for names on the internet'; well, hopefully, something was lost in translation. It all boils down to the fact that in Turkish, 'dot com' means 'I find sheep stimulating'.
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| Re: DNS != Intenernet said by hober :said by GercekSeytan :As for a 'better idea for names on the internet'; well, hopefully, something was lost in translation. It all boils down to the fact that in Turkish, 'dot com' means 'I find sheep stimulating'. We (the folks looking at the monitor over my shoulder) got a kick out of that. 
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reub2000
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| said by GercekSeytan :Perhaps so, but the article doesn't give that impression. As for a 'better idea for names on the internet'; well, hopefully, something was lost in translation. What's 'better' about their proposal? It'd also be interesting to know exactly what the 'increasing interference' was, it's rate of increase over time, and how many instances of this alleged 'interference' there were. It all sounds rather 'U.N.'ish to me. The system they are designing offer Internet addresses that end in a company or individual name but no ".com" or a country code.
So far the outfit has been trying to flog its network with the idea that it has an easy-to-remember address. However, according to Turhan Mentes, the Turkish group's chairman, it is also getting some interest from those countries concerned about increasing interference of the US government in the Interweb. Maybe their protesting against the fact that U.S. domains don't end in a country code, while others do not? Maybe the interference has been vetoing tlds?
Back onto the point in my original post:
Both www.opennic.unrated.net and www.opennic.glue lead to the IP address 131.161.247.68. While there on 2 diffrent DNS systems, it's the same internet. You can even just put the IP address into your browser, not even using the DNS system that the UN is trying to take control of. | |
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GercekSeytan
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| Re: DNS != Intenernet said by reub2000 :said by GercekSeytan :Perhaps so, but the article doesn't give that impression. As for a 'better idea for names on the internet'; well, hopefully, something was lost in translation. What's 'better' about their proposal? It'd also be interesting to know exactly what the 'increasing interference' was, it's rate of increase over time, and how many instances of this alleged 'interference' there were. It all sounds rather 'U.N.'ish to me. The system they are designing offer Internet addresses that end in a company or individual name but no ".com" or a country code.
So far the outfit has been trying to flog its network with the idea that it has an easy-to-remember address. However, according to Turhan Mentes, the Turkish group's chairman, it is also getting some interest from those countries concerned about increasing interference of the US government in the Interweb. Maybe their protesting against the fact that U.S. domains don't end in a country code, while others do not? Maybe the interference has been vetoing tlds? Back onto the point in my original post: Both www.opennic.unrated.net and www.opennic.glue lead to the IP address 131.161.247.68. While there on 2 diffrent DNS systems, it's the same internet. You can even just put the IP address into your browser, not even using the DNS system that the UN is trying to take control of. In that case, and assuming that there's a mechanism for requesting changes to the system, I am even more unimpressed with the non-problem than before. But as I said before, it'd be nice to know exactly what the interference is.
Sounds like my teenage daughter's logic; "How dare they tell me 'no'. I want change because I want it and not getting what I want proves they are unjust, they couldn't identify a real problem if..., they don't love me, blah, blah, blah.
I suspect that only one thing will make everyone happy: no control, i.e., submit change request and wait X number of days for rubber stamping. Of course, there will be the inevitable problems that arise from trying to please everyone and there being no control. 
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| Re: DNS != Intenernet quote:
Have you forgotten about .us? We DO have a country code. We just dont use it for alot of sites.
Yes, but we don't have to. We're different, we're special, we're Americans! Kick ass! We rules! USA number one!!! | |
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| It's quite easy to start your own root server.
You just need to have enough bandwidth and redundancy to make it work.
These guys did it -
»www.opennic.unrated.net/
The single biggest problem for things like this is that you have to convince every single ISP to include the .fur zone in their DNS lookup server.
This is sort of why I think that litigating cybersquatters is strange. Is it worth it to sue the pants off of new.net because they run alternative root servers and many of them have trademarked names? The DNS system is a strange system.
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Coldwater, MI | RE: USC admissions site cracked wide open Let's see... Stanford, Cal, and now USC.... obviously some UCLA students have been veeerrryyy busy little Bruins over the past year or so... | |
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