Ruling the Root from Milton Mueller

The end of the revolution. "Ruling the Root" documents the sorry tale of how the Internet was brought to heel. [Salon.com]

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ICANN's IDN Committee releases two new documents

ICANN's Internationalized Domain Name Committee has posted two new discussion documents:

• Registry Selection Considerations for Non-ASCII TLDs
• Non-ASCII Top-Level Domain Policy Issues (Revised)

This comes after the recent announcement from VeriSign that they're getting ready launch some IDN resolution services on June 24, 2002. Some more details are in this ICANNWatch article.

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ICANN PSO Meeting at ITU

The ICANN Protocol Supporting Organization (PSO) General Assembly 2002 will take place on Wednesday afternoon, 19 June 2002, starting at 16:00 CET, at ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in conjunction with the ITU-T-Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group Meeting (17-21 June, 2002). The meeting will be webcast.

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O2 launches XDA with the Action Engine

The mobile operator O2 is launching the XDA, an integrated phone and PDA based on the Pocket PC operating system with support for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). It's already available in the Netherlands according to Infosync. Infosync has an article on the XDA's Action Engine service framework which offers a browser-like interface to various operator services.

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Ebone network gets last minute reprieve

Ebone staff have announced that they've got a two week reprieve to keep their network operations going.

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