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TELECOM Digest Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:35:00 EDT Volume 26 : Issue 88
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
ICANN Rejects .xxx Adult-Only Sites (Reuters News Wire)
WTO Confirms U.S. Loss in Internet Gambling Case (Reuters News Wire)
TJX Releases More Details on Massive Data Breach (Monty Solomon)
Telecom Update #573, March 30, 2007 (Angus TeleManagement Group)
CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
Phone Service Recommendation Wanted (Wackamo)
Fighting Back Against Google (USTelecom dailyLead)
Spoofing Caller-ID (Carl Moore)
Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using (Lisa Hancock)
Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using (harold@hallikainen.com)
Re: NANP Number Lengths (Lisa Hancock)
Re: History of Wireless Networking (Bob Vaughan)
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:15:34 -0500
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: ICANN Rejects .xxx Adult-Only Sites
The U.S.-based Internet governing body rejected a proposal on Friday
to create an adults-only zone on the internet, or a .XXX domain.
Supporters of an .XXX domain argued it would make it easier to confine
sex sites and filter them out. Opponents argued it would make
pornography on the Internet easier to find.
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), which manages the Internet's domain-name address system,
decided to reject the application for .XXX sites at a meeting in
Portugal.
"This decision was the result of very careful scrutiny and
consideration of all the arguments," Dr Vinton Cerf, chairman of
ICANN, said in a statement on the group's Web site.
"That consideration had led a majority of the board to believe that
the proposal should be rejected."
The anticipated rejection of the .XXX domain had prompted the European
Union to accuse the United States of political interference in the
Web's governance because ICANN currently reports to the U.S. Commerce
Department.
"One of our board members said today in our meeting, and I'll quote
him, that this decision wasn't a behind-the-scenes government move,"
Cerf told journalists in Lisbon.
"This issue had an enormously long debate, it's been on the table
since 2000, we've talked about it before, and today we decided to
reject it. I personally voted against the proposal."
The ICANN also announced tests on the next version of the internet
protocol (IP) manager, IPv6, had gone well and should allow the version
to come on stream soon.
"The current address space, under version IPv4, has about 4.3 billion
terminations -- it will run out eventually. The IPv6 is much larger
and should have enough IP addresses for a long time," Dr Vinton Cerf
said.
ICANN assigns domains to Internet sites, such as the .com and .org
abbreviations used for websites.
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:18:49 -0500
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: WTO Confirms U.S. Loss in Internet Gambling Case
The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday confirmed its ruling the
United States had done nothing to abide by an earlier verdict that
labeled some U.S. Internet gambling restrictions as illegal.
In a published version of findings in a complaint brought by Antigua
and Barbuda, initially sent to the parties in January, the
Geneva-based trade referee said the Caribbean island had provided
additional evidence that strengthened its case.
"The panel concludes that the United States has failed to comply with
the recommendations and rulings of the (WTO's) DSB (Dispute Settlement
Body)," the WTO said in the ruling, which can be appealed.
At issue was an April 2005 WTO verdict against U.S. prohibitions on
online betting, notably on horse racing. Since then, the U.S. Congress
has passed additional legislation to ban betting over the Internet.
Antigua has built up an online gambling industry to make up for
declining revenues from tourism.
"This is a smashing success for Antigua in every possible way. The
report will sweep away any lingering doubt that Antigua has obtained a
clear and convincing win over the United States in this matter," said
John W. Ashe, Antigua's ambassador to the WTO. There was no immediate
reaction from Washington.
In the ruling, the WTO panel of three trade judges said that the
United States had not contested the Antiguan charge that it had done
nothing to implement the 2005 ruling.
Instead, Washington had simply sought to re-open the case, but without
giving the panel any grounds to do so, it said.
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:05:45 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: TJX Releases More Details on Massive Data Breach
TJX releases more details on massive data breach
By Greg Turner/Daily News staff
Thursday, March 29, 2007 - Updated: 08:52 AM EDT
FRAMINGHAM - Hackers stole at least 45.7 million customer payment card
numbers from The TJX Cos. Inc.'s computer systems over a two-year
period, the retail giant revealed in a regulatory filing.
The company halted the massive data theft on Dec. 18 when it "learned
of suspicious software on our computer systems," TJX said in its
annual report filed late Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission.
The filing made public for the first time new details about the data
theft. TJX first announced the computer intrusion on Jan. 17 and
provided an update on its investigation on Feb. 18.
TJX also reported the theft of personal information -- including names
and addresses -- of about 451,000 individuals from merchandise return
transactions made primarily from the last four months of 2003 and May
and June of 2004. TJX said it is notifying these people directly by
letter.
TJX said that about three-quarters of the payment cards had either
expired at the time of the theft, or data from their magnetic strips
had been masked -- stored as asterisks rather than numbers.
But TJX acknowledged it still knows little about the full scope of the
breach, in part because the hacker or hackers accessed TJX's
encryption software and could have known how to unscramble the
information.
In addition, TJX deleted much of the transaction data in the normal
course of business between the time of the breach and the time that
TJX detected it, making it impossible to know how many total cards
were affected.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/homepage/x129305704
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From: Angus TeleManagement Group <jriddell@angustel.ca>
Subject: Telecom Update #573, March 30, 2007
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:26:05 -0800
Here is this week's issue of Telecom Update from Canada.
http://www.angustel.ca/update/up.html
PAT
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:56:55 EDT
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From: Wackamo <david.early@gmail.com>
Subject: Phone System Recommendation
Date: 30 Mar 2007 12:57:32 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
We are in the market for a new phone system. The company has
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has served us very well. Our needs are fairly simple and the system
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considering Avaya, Intertel, Cisco and 3Com. I would appreciate any
good recommendations.
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:33:18 CDT
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Subject: Fighting Back Against Google
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Subject: Spoofing Caller-ID
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:24:52 -0400
From: Moore, Carl (Civ,ARL/SLAD) <cmoore@arl.army.mil>
Please see:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=3Dconsumer&id=3D5133932
This link is to "When Caller ID Gets Spoofed".
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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using
Date: 29 Mar 2007 13:53:16 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It seems to me that a lot of these
> 'patent pirates' like Verizon, etc are going to pick over the entire
> internet -- the hard work of _many_ netters over the years -- and
> where they find some little unobtrusive thing which the earlier
> builders had not bothered to patent way-back-when -- because the
> internet was intended to be open architecture -- open to all -- now,
> Verizon and who else is going to rush in trying to grab it up and
> claim 'they were first'.
Which is exactly the same as what individuals are doing today.
Sometimes they luck out; are paid money to go away.
However, I believe if something is discovered and expressly released
into the public domain it cannot be patented (though I'm not sure on
that).
And is exactly the same as electronic technology 50-60 years ago.
Back in 1957 IBM research discovered something they thought was
perfectly obvious but to their surprise was never patented. So they
filed and got a patent for it. On the flip side, a dubious patent
claim forced IBM to pay out millions of dollars in royalties.
In addition, IBM patented its new semiconductor products, but
initially never thought to patent its newly developed machinery and
processes to make those products. That manufacturing technology
turned out to be quite valuable to other businesses.
In the Verizon case, no one has presented any suggestion that Verizon
had not researched the patented articles on its own.
As to criticisms of the jury's work, presumably Vonnage had very well
paid attorneys working for it who understood the technology. Frankly,
I had no idea of what Mr. Goldstein was talking about. If that was
Vonnage's defense, yes they were sure to fail. A good lawyer can
explain technical things to a jury in layman's terms and the judge can
explain patent law, such as what is and what is not patentable.
Let's remember that the jury's job is a "finder of fact". In essence,
we have "he said/she said". The jury determines who to believe within
the scope of the law explained by the judge.
For example, Mr. Goldstein said:
> the first and second destination address includes a numeric Internet
> Protocol address; and the second destination address further
> includes information relating to call routing via a public switched
> telephone network.
> No, sirree, that doesn't look at all like DNS or MX records or
> anything else invented before 1997!
What is DNS and MX and what does it have to do with the preceding
statement? Given all these "addresses" floating around, what exactly
does one do with them? What is Verizon claiming? What is Vonage
claiming in response?
I am not an expert on patent law, but I understand that an improvement
to an existing technology is patentable, indeed, a great many patents
represent just that -- an improvement to an existing condition.
Per Mr. Goldstein's argument, if he's arguing that some technology
already existing, I don't think that matters. It appears that Verizon
claimed it made improvements to that technology. Or, perhaps Verizon
invented some basic components of VOIP communication.
Mr. Goldstein concludes by saying:
> In other words, Verizon is abusing the patent system in order to
> stamp out competition. What else is new? Liars are liars.
Frankly, that statement shows a prejudiced hostility toward Verizon.
Verizon's a "liar"? The court didn't say that at all. Verizon is
"abusive"? The court didn't say that either.
I am curious if any reputable trade journals reported on this court
action with the same passion of Mr. Goldstein and shared his opinion.
Another thing that troubled me was that Vonage sought to get off by
claiming it was in the "public interest". In other words, if I run a
red light and smash up a Verizon truck, I shouldn't be liable for
damages because I'm just a little guy and Verizon is this big company?
It's in the public interest to let me slide?
No. We have a marketplace now. Ma Bell is long gone. (I write this
as my neighborhood is being dug up to put in new cable TV lines,
which, interestingly enough, offer telephone service and high speed
data flow). If some new company, like Vonage, wants a piece of the
action, it has to do its own R&D or license patents from other people.
Lots of small companies did just that. The companies that initially
invented ICs were rather small compared to huge RCA and GE yet beat
them out. Did Vonage make itself 911 compatible yet? Apple Computer
started out of a garage when IBM and others were huge, and built quite
a nice empire of its own. It can be done by hard work and creativity.
No one in this discussion offered any defense of Vonage's own R&D
efforts, assuming they even have any. What several people posted
instead was anti-Verizon feeling. Not liking Verizon is not the
issue. If Vonage is so damn superior the marketplace will follow.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: No, Vonage is not yet '911 compatible'
except maybe over east somewhere (around Maine or Rhode Island or
somewhere there where the _outside plant_ is municipally owned.) Why
are they not 911 compatible? Well, because telcos have made it all but
impossible for them is why! Making a disparaging comment about Vonage
not being 911 compatible almost makes as much sense as complaining
about GLBT people being promiscuous 'because we do not get married and
settle down'. We are unable to get married under the laws, because of
the strangle-hold on the laws in most places. Ditto, Vonage and other
VOIP carriers have a _huge_ economic barrier in front of them on 911
service. Telcos will _not_ cooperate with the database. Telco is the
law! Telco only changes its ways when the Supreme Court requires it,
and that goes all the way back beyond Carterphone to Kingsbury.
Recall that after Carterphone, telco research and development
flourished. And R&D is where things are at, even if much of the early
internet R&D was through a number of good-hearted, benevolent
anarchists who put all their work out like a free-smorgasbord lunch
for the 'public good'.
And those of us who even feebly objected to this were told -- if we
were told at all rather than just ignored -- that no one wanted to
bother with Administrivia, that Administrivia was sinful. The Gospel
of the Public Good had to come first. But there has to be some sort of
compromise. Telcos seem unwilling to allow any compromise. So, out of
pure self-defense we cannot allow any compromise either, it would
seem. PAT]
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From: harold@hallikainen.com <harold@hallikainen.com>
Subject: Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using
Date: 30 Mar 2007 05:59:08 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Patent applications should be subject to public review before grant.
During the public review period, lots of people could review the
application for prior art and obviousness. Expecting a patent examiner
to do this seems impossible.
Harold
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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: NANP Number Lengths
Date: 29 Mar 2007 14:22:18 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
On Mar 29, 12:30 am, Stan Schwartz <sta...@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> It's also available to Times Select subscribers on the internet.
Check out 9/29/1957 "About Telephones 61,000,000 of them"
Talked about impact to the system as a result of a strike, and some
details about the system in general.
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From: techie@tantivy.tantivy.net (Bob Vaughan)
Subject: Re: History of Wireless Networking
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:33:52 UTC
Organization: Tantivy Associates
In article <telecom26.87.6@telecom-digest.org>,
T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net> wrote:
> In article <telecom26.86.2@telecom-digest.org>, assoc@telecom-digest.org
> says:
>> By Abdul Rahman Malik
>> As we peep in the history of Networking we will find that in 1971, the
>> researchers at the University of Hawaii developed the world's first
>> WLAN , or in full form the wireless local area network which was named
>> as ALOHAnet .The ALOHAnet was supposed to be the bi-directional or two
>> way directional star topology of the system which included seven
>> computers deployed over four islands in order to communicate with the
>> central computer on the Oahu Island without using phone lines for
>> connection or data transfer.
> ALOHAnet used amateur radio packet if I remember correctly.
Nope ... Nice to give hams credit, but this was one of those cases where the
researchers had a big head start.
Amateur radio packet networking was based on ALOHANet and later research,
with the original hardware developed by a group of hams in Vancouver, BC.
Amateur radio packet wasn't legalized by the FCC until March 1980,
about a year and a half after it was legalized in Canada in 1978.
The first US amateur radio digital repeater went online in December 1980.
(KA6M Menlo Park, Ca)
According to Wikipedia, ALOHANet ran on 413.475 and 407.350 Mhz, which
are in the portion of the UHF band allocated to the federal
government. (Hams have 420-450 Mhz).
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