robertshaw.info Telecoms, Internet and Convergence  20 June 2002 Markle statement on ICANN reform The Markle Foundation has issued a statement (Word) on ICANN reform for submission to the US hearings on ICANN held on June 12, 2002 (see US Congressional Testimony on ICANN).  5:04:46 PM    Google It!     ccTLD redelegation step-by-step overview IANA (aka ICANN) has published a ccTLD redelegation step-by-step overview. The GAC Secretariat is also publishing case studies of how ccTLDs were redelegated.  3:37:20 PM    Google It!     EC seeks comments on telecoms regulatory initiatives The European Commission has issued a public consultation and organized a public hearing on July 3, 2002 (PDF) in Brussels, on a draft Recommendation (PDF) on the relevant product and service markets within the communications sector for which national regulatory authorities (NRAs) should impose additional regulatory safeguards. This includes the contentious issue of call termination rates on mobile networks discussed here in INTUG on Mobile Termination Rates.  3:30:48 PM    Google It!     From GSM to IMT-2000 One sees lots of criticism in the press and elsewhere about the deployment of 3G mobile systems. This paper (Word, PDF) by Audrey Selian of the ITU provides some good perspective on the historical development of GSM and how we are moving to IMT-2000 (3G) mobile systems. Not surprisingly, there were plenty of GSM naysayers in its early days, just as there are today for IMT-2000 systems.  3:11:23 PM    Google It!     Quote of the Day [Robert Cailliau, co-inventor of the World Wide Web] I guess it's a long, forever uphill struggle to convince Americans that they have not necessarily invented everything. [in reply to a thread on the birth of the web]  12:31:20 PM    Google It!     Voltaire on censorship: plus ça change About 10 years ago, I lived in Prévessin-Moëns, France, next to Voltaire's Château. On this day, June 20th 1733, Voltaire wrote this letter, reacting to the severity of French censorship of the press in the eighteenth century. He said, "Had there been a literary censorship in Rome, we should have had to-day neither Horace, Juvenal, nor the philosophical works of Cicero. If Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Locke had not been free, England would have had neither poets nor philosophers". Voltaire noted in his letter, "You say that the magistrates who regulate the literary custom-house complain that there are too many books." This reminds us, of course, of Emperor Joseph II's observation a few years later, 'Too many notes, my dear Mozart'. Plus ça change; plus c'est pareil...  11:23:36 AM    Google It!

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