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Address Policies

• Comment posted Aug 02, 2005 11:18 am PDT — by Ale
  In the words of the Draft Declaration of Principles (verset 49/a) "policy authority for Internet-related public policy issues is the sovereign right of States. They have rights and responsibilities for international Internet-related public policy issues." Thus the problem is not…

• Comment posted Aug 01, 2005 4:59 pm PDT — by Ale
  Even if Zhao's proposal is not the best technique for the assignment of IP addresses, it would be hightly desirable to bind each Internet user of an IP address to a National Governament. Currently, we grab the country that an…

Europe is to the US Controlled GPS as Europe is to the US Controlled DNS Root?

• Comment posted Jan 05, 2006 9:45 am PST — by Ale
  The rationale to develop Galileo is that GPS serves military purposes. Formally, GPS can stop correct functioning at the mercy of the US'DoD. European news mention that this did happen in the past. As the US Governament reserves the right…

Map of the Internet: The IPv4 Space of 2006

• Comment posted Dec 31, 2006 9:41 am PST — by Ale
  That map is great! Satirical is a better adjective than comical for describing how it points out there's still grass in the IPv4 space. By it own nature, that ".com/c" also remarks that there is no such a thing as…

Trench Warfare in the Age of The Laser-Guided Missile

• Comment posted Feb 01, 2007 2:04 pm PST — by Ale
  Nice one, Neil! I appreciate your inspired ability in reporting the evolution of spam, malware, et cetera. You omitted to mention spamtraps, the "Delivered-To" attacks, and some other minor moves along the trench, but the first part of your article…

CircleID Relaunched: New Topics, New Tools, Mobile Access and More

• Comment posted May 04, 2007 8:43 am PDT — by Ale
  I like this. New features are very good and I appreciate that they have been integrated smoothly, that is without disrupting the web site's traditional look and feel. As a criticism, I wander why Email isn't one of the new…

Hotmail Running Its Own SMTP Variation

• Comment posted May 26, 2007 9:38 am PDT — by Ale
  There has been a Coalition statement against "stealth blocking" back in 2001. Thus stealth blocking should be the acknowledged name for Hotmail behavior.

• Comment posted May 20, 2007 2:42 pm PDT — by Ale
  Carrying on legal suits is just one of the actions one may engage against spammers in the real (not virtual) world. Complaining and eventually changing ISP may result in a similar effect, when the people are many. Companies may institute…

The New Hong Kong Anti-Spam Law, and a Small Fly in the Ointment

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2007 12:09 pm PDT — by Ale
  Suresh Ramasubramanian said: If you sign up to a mailing list and participate in it, just how does the email you receive through that list become unsolicited, or against an antispam law? If it comes through the list it's not…

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2007 11:15 am PDT — by Ale
  Thus far, we are only talking about live costs, such as downloading and sorting expenditures and time losses. Social and educational losses may turn out to be even more detrimental in the long run. That's because hiding one's email address,…

Opt-In Permission for Mailing Lists: Is It Enough?

• Comment posted Jun 26, 2007 7:01 pm PDT — by Ale
  Imagine one day some spammers get crazy for the tons of bad email addresses and spam traps that poison their databases and seek some kind of retaliation by mass subscribing suspicious addresses to a number of mailing lists. COI will…

Spam: You've Come a Long Way, Baby

• Comment posted Aug 11, 2007 12:55 pm PDT — by Ale
  Waiting for some major changes in how email is sent and received is what keeps people debating rather than deploying existing solutions. In addition, the IETF itself has proven its political inadequacy in the MARID case. Meanwhile, monitoring IP abuses…

A Consociational Bureau for the Internet Governance Forum

• Comment posted Oct 03, 2007 10:57 am PDT — by Ale
  We insist in using the word democracy somewhat inconsistently. (As it literally means power to the people, when it is not direct, it is not such.) The Internet provides a mean to practice a truly democratic governance at a global…

The "Internet of Things," the Internet and Internet Governance

• Comment posted Oct 18, 2007 10:17 am PDT — by Ale
  There appears to be a leap between the governance of the Internet and the RFID deployment: the governance of radio (and microwave) frequencies. Otherwise, RFIDs can be considered just like sensors, digital cameras, et cetera, that can be connected to…

Up to 300 Megawatt Worth of Keepalive Messages to be Saved by IPv6?

• Comment posted Jan 16, 2008 11:37 am PST — by Ale
  Ian Peter writes: IPv6 should be a priority action here for global warming purposes. [...] the assumption this will result in substantial energy savings. I don't think IPv6 needs to be a priority task or provide substantial savings. The comparison…

• Comment posted Jan 10, 2008 7:51 am PST — by Ale
  This article depicts IPv6 as the protocol of choice for new generation devices. Increased granularity and universal addressability may possibly deliver better routing and pay back for increased header size. What leaves me wandering about the argument is an application's…

More on the Soloway Case

• Comment posted Mar 30, 2008 8:45 am PDT — by Ale
  I'm not much into law in general and US common law in particular. I would have thought identity theft, when used to commit another crime, weighted 20 years by itself. I tend to regard identity theft and computer hijacking as…

Sender Address Verification: Still a Bad Idea

• Comment posted Apr 13, 2008 9:06 am PDT — by Ale
  In addition to the five reasons that John points out, callouts are not scalable. A server issuing a callout would do so even in response to another callout, unless it is able to detect such circularity. Circularity cannot be detected…

Microsoft's Contribution Was TCP/IP

• Comment posted May 01, 2008 7:50 am PDT — by Ale
  Alec Saunders said: I was the product manager at Microsoft responsible for IE, and the Windows 95 internet applications.  I was also one of the contributors to the company's first web site, and one of a vocal group of people…

Are Botnets Run by Spy Agencies?

• Comment posted May 24, 2008 10:43 am PDT — by Ale
  The PC I'm currently using has a non-zero likelihood of being "owned". That's not FUD, it is a realistic possibility that all users should consider, and take measures to prevent. Attacks may credibly come from spammers rings, marketing raiders, mafia,…

Virginia Court Throws Out Spam Law; One Spammer Gets Away With It

• Comment posted Sep 17, 2008 11:59 am PDT — by Ale
  IANAL, but I don't think email can be considered a publishing media. If the Federalist Papers were being published today, they would do so by opt-in. It doesn't matter if I speak commercially or religiously: if I forcefully lock the…

Google Predicting Next Ten Years of the Internet

• Comment posted Sep 25, 2008 1:03 pm PDT — by Ale
  Some times I hear statements about replacing paper documents with their electronic counterparts. Although the advent of computing is often compared to, say, cars, or telephones, considering that it will eventually subvert the role of writing gives a much broader…

Users Don't Like Forwarded Spam

• Comment posted Oct 22, 2008 4:08 pm PDT — by Ale
  Picking up mail directly is a good option, but it is not always the best solution. Backup MXes are an instance of forwarding. We currently have reliable networks, but we can never be sure they will always work that way.…