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		<title>John Levine &#45; CircleID</title>
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		<description>Postings from John Levine on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2013, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2013-04-01T08:52:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> ICANN Announces Blocking Usage Review Panel (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Culminating a year-long policy development process, ICANN today launched its new Blocking Usage Review Panel (BURP). The BURP provides long-needed oversight over services that block Internet traffic. "While everyone understands that national laws such as the U.S. CAN SPAM define what traffic is or is not elegible to block, legal processes can be slow and cumbersome," said a spokeswoman. "Since the Internet is global and traffic often traverses multiple countries, the array of different laws cause uncertainty." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130301_icann_announces_blocking_usage_review_panel">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-04-01T08:52:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Verisign Doesn't Think the Net Is Ready for a Thousand New TLDs (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Verisign sent ICANN a most interesting white paper called New gTLD Security and Stability Considerations. They also filed a copy with the SEC as an 8-K, a document that their stockholders should know about, It's worth reading the whole thing, but in short, their well-supported opinion is that the net isn't ready for all the new TLDs, and even if they were, ICANN's processes or lack thereof will cause other huge problems. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130329_verisign_doesnt_think_net_is_ready_for_a_thousand_new_tlds">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-03-29T20:12:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The Incredible Leakyness of Commercial Mailers (Cont'd) (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last week I blogged about the way that lots of otherwise legitimate companies leak e-mail addresses to spammers. Here's a few more thoughts. One person asked how I knew that these were leaks, and not dictionary attacks, since the addresses I use are fairly obvious, the name of an often well known company @ my domain. It's a reasonable question, but the answer is simple... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130131_the_incredible_leakyness_of_commercial_mailers_contd">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-01-31T14:36:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The Incredible Leakyness of Commercial Mailers (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130121_the_incredible_leakyness_of_commercial_mailers</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Acronis is a company that sells backup software. They have been around for over a decade, and have lots of big respectable customers. The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> is the nation's leading business newspaper. Equifax is one of the big three national credit bureaus. Shelfari is a book interest web site owned by Amazon. The Economist is a globally influential newsweekly. Airliners.net is a popular photosharing site for airplane enthusiasts. What do they have in common? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130121_the_incredible_leakyness_of_commercial_mailers">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-01-21T12:18:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Making Multi-Language Mail Work (Part 3) (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121223_making_multi_language_mail_work_part_3</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the previous installments we looked at software changes in mail servers, and in the software that lets user mail programs pick up mail. What has to change in the user mail programs? ... The first and most obvious is that users have to be able to enter the addresses. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121223_making_multi_language_mail_work_part_3">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-12-23T12:21:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Verisign Dodges a Bullet, Gets to Keep .COM Pricing (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to a filing with the SEC, the Department of Commerce renewed the .COM agreement for six more years. The renewal was held up until the last minute (the old agreement expired yesterday) due to antitrust concerns, specifically about pricing. The main change in the new agreement is that Verisign is no longer allowed to increase the price above the existing $7.85... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121201_verisign_dodges_a_bullet_gets_to_keep_com_pricing">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-12-01T10:39:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Making Multi-Language Mail Work (Part 2) (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121129_making_multi_language_mail_work_part_2</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the previous instalment we looked at the software changes needed for mail servers to handle internationalized mail, generally abbreviated as EAI. When a message arrives, whether ASCII or EAI, mail servers generally drop it into a mailbox and let the user pick it up. The usual ways for mail programs to pick up mail are POP3 and IMAP4. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121129_making_multi_language_mail_work_part_2">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-11-29T11:28:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Making Multi-Language Mail Work (Part 1) (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121118_making_multi_language_mail_work</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Mail software consists of a large number of cooperating pieces, described in RFC 5598. A user composes a message with a Mail User Agent (MUA), which passes it to a Mail Submission Agent (MSA), which in turn usually passes it to a sequence of Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs), which eventually hand it to a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) to place it in the user's mail store. If the recipient user doesn't read mail on the same computer with the mail store (as is usually the case these days) POP or IMAP transfers the mail to the recipient's MUA. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121118_making_multi_language_mail_work">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-11-18T12:52:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> A Copycat Canadian Privacy Suit Against Gmail (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In July, several people filed attempted class action suits against Google, on the peculiar theory that Gmail was spying on its own users' mail. One of the suits was in Federal court, the other two in California state court, but the complaints were nearly identical so we assume that they're coordinated.Now we have a similar suit filed in provincial court in British Columbia, Canada. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121007_a_copycat_canadian_privacy_suit_against_gmail">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-10-07T07:08:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Unclear on the Concept, Sanctions Edition (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120921_unclear_on_the_concept_sanctions_edition</link>
			<description><![CDATA[United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is an advocacy group that, among other things, tries to isolate Iran by pressuring businesses and organizations to stop doing business with Iran. This week they turned their attention to ICANN and RIPE to try to cut off Internet access to Iranian organizations. Regardless of one's opinion about the wisdom of isolating Iran (and opinions are far from uniform), this effort was a bad idea in an impressive number of both technical and political ways. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120921_unclear_on_the_concept_sanctions_edition">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-09-21T09:44:01-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Silly Bing (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bing is Microsoft's newish search engine, whose name I am reliably informed stands for <em>Bing Is Not Google</em>. A couple of months ago, as an experiment, I put up a one page link farm at <tt>wild.web.sp.am</tt>. As should be apparent after about three seconds of clicking on the links there, each page has links to 12 other pages, with the page's host name made of three names, like http://aaron.louise.celia.web.sp.am. The pages are generated by a small perl script and a database of a thousand first names. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120713_silly_bing">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-07-13T11:38:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> ICANN's New TLDs: Of Course There Will Be an Auction - Part 2 (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120703_icanns_new_tlds_of_course_there_will_be_an_auction_part_2</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I opined that if several people want the same Top-Level Domain (TLD) and can't come to terms otherwise, they should arrange a private auction. It would be an odd sort of auction, since the buyers and sellers are the same people, so unlike normal auctions, the goal is not to maximize the selling price. How might it work? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120703_icanns_new_tlds_of_course_there_will_be_an_auction_part_2">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-07-03T14:09:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> ICANN's New TLDs: Of Course There Will Be an Auction - Part 1 (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The process for ICANN's new TLDs says that if there are several equally qualified applicants for a TLD, and they can't agree which one gets it, ICANN will hold an auction to decide. Recently some people have suggested that the applicants could use a private auction instead. Well, of course. In a situation like this, the question isn't whether there will be an auction, but only who will keep the money. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120602_icanns_new_tlds_of_course_there_will_be_an_auction">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-07-02T11:24:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> On Search Neutrality (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In recent months there's been a robust and apparently well-funded debate about the legal status of search engine results, in particular Google's search results. On Tuesday, Tim Wu, a well-known law professor at Columbia weighed in with an op-ed in the New York Times, arguing that it's silly to claim that computer software has free speech rights. Back in April, equally famous UCLA professor Eugene Volokh published a paper, funded by Google, that came to the opposite conclusion... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120621_on_search_neutrality">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-06-21T20:57:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Wow, That's a Lot of Applications (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ICANN unveiled all the applications for new top level domains today, all 1,930 of them. Most of them were fairly predictable, big companies applying for their own names like .IBM, .DUPONT, .AUDI, and .HSBC. The most applications for the same name were 13 for .APP, 11 for .INC and .HOME, 10 for .ART, 9 for .SHOP, .LLC, .BOOK, and .BLOG. None of those claim community support so they'll have to slug it out in the contention process. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120613_wow_thats_a_lot_of_applications">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-06-13T13:53:00-08:00</dc:date>
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