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IDN and Email: The Harsh Reality

• Comment posted Nov 23, 2009 10:16 am PST — by James Seng
  Patrick, noted the differences. But I disagree it is a show-stopper. It is a chicken and egg problem. Do programmers of the website fixed their javascript and backend first before we deploy or do we deploy and let them encounter…

• Comment posted Nov 21, 2009 2:28 pm PST — by James Seng
  Good idea, wrong test. IDN & Email is still under standardization http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/eai-charter.html Even RFC 5336 is still only experimental, not full standard yet.

Egyptian Minister Demands ICANN to Become an Independent Organization

• Comment posted Nov 05, 2008 12:46 am PST — by James Seng
  If you are in Cairo and had listen to Tarek Kamel speaks at the event, or even click on the wikipedia link to check on his background, you will like what you see. In short, he speaks more like an…

WiMAX Will Be Successful, as a Fringe Technology

• Comment posted Aug 21, 2008 9:29 pm PDT — by James Seng
  One of the delay of moving to 3G is the handset, yes, but a big part of the problem is operator do not see the benefit of 3G back then. The same question is being asked: Whats is LTE going…

• Comment posted Aug 21, 2008 5:35 am PDT — by James Seng
  2G operator held out as long as possible to move to 3G since they couldn't see a business case to overhaul their old profitable network. Data advantage in 3G was not attractive economically wise to move. But more importantly, there…

• Comment posted Aug 20, 2008 9:26 pm PDT — by James Seng
  There is only one problem : That you assume LTE is going to be as successful. Moving from 3.5G to LTE is a big change; moving from WCDMA/CDMA2000 to OFDMA. Moving to pure IP is another big since most 3G…

Vint Cerf Caught Off Guard, Nevertheless Says What Needs to Be Said About Our Misguided Policy

• Comment posted Jul 29, 2008 12:03 am PDT — by James Seng
  Prof Larry Lessig is known for his work on Creative Commons. Have you read his books? Berkman Center existed long before Google did. Prof Charles Nesson attention is on "online poker" (check "Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society") and if you…

• Comment posted Jul 28, 2008 11:43 am PDT — by James Seng
  1. John Thorne statement is published on Washington Post, among others http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020601624.html By that time, Vonage was not an issue really. 2. Whether it is seized by Google front or whatever you call it is your opinion but the fact…

• Comment posted Jul 26, 2008 4:43 am PDT — by James Seng
  Since we talking about getting "facts right", 1. I stand to be corrected that it is not CEO of Verizon who said that. Instead, it is John Thorne, SVP and deputy general counsel of Verizon, in Feb 2006, who called…

• Comment posted Jul 26, 2008 12:03 am PDT — by James Seng
  I think Verizon made it quite clear they want Google to pay. Not a speculation but the CEO of Verizon said so himself.

• Comment posted Jul 25, 2008 10:22 am PDT — by James Seng
  Two years ago, I wrote an article on the same topic (also on CircleID): "It is conceivable that this is one of the most important debates as it will change the settlement system on the Internet. In a both-party-pay system,…

Anti-Phishing and Hong Kong

• Comment posted Jul 16, 2008 11:37 am PDT — by James Seng
  among the HK veterans is *not* because they deny .HK had a problem

• Comment posted Jul 16, 2008 11:36 am PDT — by James Seng
  I had lunch with Jonathan and Pindar today. How OFTA obtain the list, be it SURBL or their own, is something internal to OFTA. The point is HKIRC did not take any list from anyone except their own government regulator,…

Domain Registrars Releasing Suspended Domains to Attackers

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 8:15 pm PDT — by James Seng
  If you have an idea of how to prevent criminals from using DNS without affecting innocent party (false positive), I would be interested to hear it. You have underestimate the difficulty to do a list (any list). Technically, ICANN manages…

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 6:41 pm PDT — by James Seng
  any list, whether white or black, is going to be politically challenging: How does one get onto that list? how do you get off the list? Who control that list? Why this list and not another list? The time and…

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 3:50 pm PDT — by James Seng
  What do you think ICANN should do? Freeze these names indefinitely? The attackers could easily switch to IP without using domain names easily and still carry out the attack. I dont see this as an ICANN issue really - it…

Internationalizing the Internet

• Comment posted Nov 22, 2006 3:34 am PST — by James Seng
  I left my comments on my blog but let me make two quick note: 1. On DNAME, I wasnt a big fan of using DNAME. I think ICANN is misguided that the DNS infrastructure cannot support too many TLDs and…

China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation

• Comment posted Mar 02, 2006 1:41 am PST — by James Seng
  The timing of the launch of the 3 Chinese "TLD" is important because 3 years ago, we have no IDN standard and no ICANN process for IDN. The popular way to introduce IDN back then is using what we called…

Chinese Alternate Root as a New Beginning and Real Internet Governance

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 1:21 pm PST — by James Seng
  Calling a mule a horse x 100 wont make it a horse :)

A Day Which Will Live in Infamy: ICANN Board Approves VeriSign Settlement

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 9:23 am PST — by James Seng
  Why is settlement bad? Or you rather ICANN and Verisign fight in court spending millions of legal fees to fight a case which is hard to say which side will win? More importantly, the last thing we (the community) and…

China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 4:14 am PST — by James Seng
  It is not an alternative root because there is no "root" being setup. And the ISPs continue to use the same default (IANA) root that ship with BIND.

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 3:18 am PST — by James Seng
  I just posted this on IPer where the news is spreading. I hope everyone calm down. --- Hi Dave, Just saw this news and find it funny because I just had dinner with Mao Wei and Prof. Qian last night…

Neustar and .GPRS

• Comment posted Oct 04, 2005 2:23 am PDT — by James Seng
  Additional Note: the current .grps operated by GSMA are not ENUM based btw. It is a private tree to look up SGSN for GPRS tunnels. 

Do We Really Need IDN?

• Comment posted May 09, 2005 2:24 am PDT — by James Seng
  CircleID published the homographs attacks on IDN and altho it is a big blow to those who wanted IDN, it was well-recieved and the technical community responded with technical solution. The point is the article is no more the FUD…

• Comment posted May 07, 2005 2:01 am PDT — by James Seng
  Ah, I got asked who you work for by a few people - I realized you didn't say it outright in your profile. Why hide? You work for Netpia, the largest keyword provider for Korea. Your boss is Kangsik Cheon,…

• Comment posted May 07, 2005 1:23 am PDT — by James Seng
  Pls do not put words in my mouth. If you want to use my quotes, please quote what I said exactly. And I never say anything to the effect there is no alternatives. Netpia would certainly not benefit if &…

More on Story Behind .ASIA

• Comment posted Apr 19, 2005 8:53 am PDT — by James Seng
  My objection is in the *form* of .ASIA - of how is it been put together. We have to asked ourselves if it is *really* community driven - on the surface it is, but for those who witness the foundation,…

Story Behind .ASIA

• Comment posted Apr 15, 2005 4:10 am PDT — by James Seng
  Che-Hoo, maybe you cant answer those behind-the-scene question so let me asked you a few open one: 1. Have you spoken to any other alt. registry operators? Say Neustar or Verisign? Have you check with them what they offering? Have…

• Comment posted Apr 15, 2005 3:58 am PDT — by James Seng
  Che-Hoo, why not tell the rest of the story too? Like who spoke to you back in the late 2003 to get you to start working on this? Or who paid for all the trip to all the one-on-one meeting…

How India's .IN Domain Rouses from its Slumber

• Comment posted Apr 01, 2005 7:46 am PST — by James Seng
  Ram, congz with the successful .IN implementation.

IDN and Homographs Spoofing

• Comment posted Feb 18, 2005 12:07 am PST — by James Seng
  Update: Found a better reference to the idea Mark Davis proposed back in 2002.

NTIA Nixes Privacy Protection in Whois

• Comment posted Feb 13, 2005 1:09 am PST — by James Seng
  Milton, How do you expect ICANN to tell NITA what to do with .us as much as ICANN can tell SGNIC what to do with .sg?

IDN and Homographs Spoofing

• Comment posted Feb 09, 2005 2:45 am PST — by James Seng
  Update: Mark Davis poined out a UTR #36 Security Consideration for Implementation of Unicode and other Related Technologies. Ben Laurie pointed out I have incorrectly attribute the IDN spoofing to Securnia - it was Eric Johnson.

Looking at .Net Bids

• Comment posted Jan 29, 2005 12:24 am PST — by James Seng
  A friend corrected me that Sentan Registry also promised 100% DNS resolution. Sentan registry is a joint venture between JPRS & Neustar.

How to Stop Spam

• Comment posted Jan 25, 2005 3:46 am PST — by James Seng
  Oh my god. I freak out whenever someone mention blocking port 25 as a solution to spam. So you when will they start blocking port 5060 too?

Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries?

• Comment posted Dec 30, 2004 2:23 am PST — by James Seng
  Pls do not put words into my mouth: There is a difference between getting it 'right' and getting it 'perfect'. Nothing wrong with the first, but latter is a pipe dream.

• Comment posted Dec 23, 2004 7:23 am PST — by James Seng
  Ram, I would love to hear the "science and logic and rationale" in the arguments for why we cannot have more TLDs[1]. I would love nothing more to argue purely on logic. However, a non-rationale answer would invite a rhetorical…

Chinese IDN in the News

• Comment posted Dec 23, 2004 7:14 am PST — by James Seng
  Leo, 1. Have you check who is the chairman of ISC? 2. I'm aware CNIC & CNNIC are two different entity. -James Seng

Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries?

• Comment posted Dec 19, 2004 5:18 am PST — by James Seng
  One word: Lovely! I was one of the 30-something engineers who "ask" for (IDN) TLD. While I can sense some consensus on stage and off-stage of the need of IDN TLDs, the response I get from 60-something engineers (whose status…

Internet Management and National Security: Time for a Federal Action Plan

• Comment posted Dec 08, 2004 4:58 pm PST — by James Seng
  Would be useful to google some info on George Tenet. http://www.google.com/search?q=George+Tenet&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Particularly, this gem: http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=George_J._Tenet

Thoughts on IPv6 Day

• Comment posted Nov 18, 2004 5:43 am PST — by James Seng
  At best, NAT = false sense of security. Security by obscurity does not work. :-)

10 Reasons Why Involving Government in Spam Control is a Bad Idea

• Comment posted Jul 25, 2004 4:26 am PDT — by James Seng
  I summarise this as "some government are corrupted, and hence, all governents are bad and thus we should stop our government from doing things". The logic begs questioning…

Phone Always Busy? Must be DDoS on VoIP Network

• Comment posted Jun 19, 2004 3:14 pm PDT — by James Seng
  the view that there are many possible points of failure in a IP network for voice is true but dont overlook there are equally, if not more, possible points of failures in POTS too. POTS are more reliable because of…

.Pro Asking for Second-Level Domains (Again)

• Comment posted Nov 07, 2003 3:38 am PST — by James Seng
  the "testbed" goal is really to find out if we can have more TLDs (remember some were arguing back then we can have millions of TLDs?) and more importantly to me, will it bring competition to NSOL. While ICANN have…

• Comment posted Nov 05, 2003 6:38 am PST — by James Seng
  Business environment changes rapidly as do consumer choice. We cannot expect business to start offering unprofitable services just to proof a point. It is better to acknowledge a mistake and fix it quickly.

NAT: Just Say No

• Comment posted Nov 05, 2003 6:32 am PST — by James Seng
  NAT != Security. It gives you certain invisibility, which is like a false sense of security. But it does not mean you are secure.

Site Finder as Starting Point for True Innovation Above DNS

• Comment posted Oct 23, 2003 7:19 am PDT — by James Seng
  I have a discussion with Keith on this between his blog and mine. 1. On DNS Innovtion... 2. Responses on SiteFinder 3.On DNS Innovation ... (continue) ... 4. Oh dear! 5. On DNS Innovation ... (again) ... 6. SiteFinder and…