[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: 6.27.08

[Marianne Granoff]

Edited for interest. FYI.


>U.S. Broadband Cannot Be Fixed Until You Tackle Corruption - Editorial: 
>broadband cheerleading and Ivy League round tables aren't enough
, dslreports
>An eclectic and disjointed mix of businesses, consumer advocacy 
>organizations, politicians and technologists this week banded together 
>under the "Internet For Everyone" banner to promote, well, Internet for 
>everyone. The group's long list of strange bedfellows includes the ACLU, 
>Google, Consumer's Union, Internet2, OpenDNS, Free Press, the Writers 
>Guild of America, the Nancy Drew fan fiction club and many more -- though 
>I think they fail to directly tackle this industry's most pressing 
>problem. According to the group's website, the organization has four 
>primary principles:
> 
>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Broadband-Cannot-Be-Fixed-Until-You-Tackle-Corruption-95609
>
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>ICANN Board Approves Sweeping Overhaul of Top-level Domains, CircleID
>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has just 
>approved the relaxation of the rules for the introduction of new Top-Level 
>Domains -- a move that could drastically change the Internet. The new 
>decision -- some calling it of historic importance and others predictable 
>-- will allow companies to register their brands as generic top-level 
>domain names (TLDs). For instance, Microsoft could apply to have a TLD 
>such as '.msn' and Apple apply for '.mac'.
> 
>http://www.circleid.com/posts/86269_icann_approves_overhaul_top_level_domains/
>
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>Feds Ready for IPv6 D-Day, CircleID
>On June 30, U.S. federal government officials expect to declare an early 
>victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded 
>June 30 deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a 
>long-term battle to get their networks ready for the Internet of the 
>future. Under a White House policy issued in August 2005, all federal 
>agencies must demonstrate the ability to pass IPv6 packets across their 
>backbone networks by this deadline
>  http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062608-ipv6-federal-government.html
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>Senate Vote On Telco Immunity Pushed Back, Techdirt
>While the initial reports on the so-called "compromise" bill on FISA 
>suggested that it would breeze through Congress, it appears that public 
>outrage over this issue may have some Senators thinking twice. While the 
>House did pass it, concern from some Senators has now delayed a vote on 
>the bill until sometime after July 7th. That would suggest that a few 
>Senators were serious about filibustering the bill unless telco immunity 
>was taken out -- and those in favor of letting telcos off the hook didn't 
>have enough votes to kill the
>  http://techdirt.com/articles/20080626/2320191531.shtml
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>GAO-08-607, Critical Infrastructure Protection: Further Efforts Needed to 
>Integrate Planning for and Response to Disruptions on Converged Voice and 
>Data Networks, June 26, 2008, GAO
>Technological advances have led to an increasing convergence of previously 
>separate networks used to transmit voice and data communications. While 
>the benefits of this convergence are enormous, such interconnectivity also 
>poses significant challenges to our nation's ability to respond to major 
>disruptions. Two operations centers--managed by the Department of Homeland 
>Security's (DHS) National Communications System and National Cyber Security ...
>  http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08607.pdf?source=ra