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To: axial who wrote (17601)	11/2/2006 5:43:09 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Sir Tim Berners-Lee's concerns are not unlike the parent whose 18 year old moves out of the house. Some of the concerns cited in the article are a revisit of the issues surrounding Wikipedia's authority and the ensuing regime of peer reviews and change controls that were instituted. The quality of "trust" has taken on a whole new dimension of meanings in these regards. Caveat emptor. BTW, today's featured page on Wikipedia focuses on NY City's Stuyvesant High School, which I thought was pretty interesting. The school, incidentally, sits a block north of where the WTC once stood: en.wikipedia.org The only shortcoming of this article is that it fails to mention that Thelonious Sphere Monk, whose intuitive sense of mathematically complex harmonic structures in music is still the subject of marvel today, once attended the school when it was situated cross-town in the city's Stuyvesant Town section ;) npr.org boss.streamos.com FAC

To: axial who wrote (17601)	11/2/2006 8:58:43 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

World Internet summit ends with promise and concern for future The Associated Press - Nov. 2, 2006 International Herald Tribune: iht.com The first U.N.-hosted summit on the Internet ended with promise of breakthrough technologies to accelerate online access in developing countries and concerns of growing government interference globally. Key participants said Thursday that the four-day meeting had at least helped clarify differences between governments, industry and online groups ahead of the next Internet Governance Forum next year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "In my country, India, you have arranged marriages and usually in the first meeting the boy and the girl tend to scope each other out and discuss everything," chief U.N. organizer Nitin Desai said. "In the second or third, they talk about specific things — what are your tastes in this or that area — and it's quite a while before they actually start holding hands. Let's treat this as a first meeting." The summit was dominated by ongoing disputes about online censorship, efforts to make the Internet appeal to non-English speakers and concerns about how the global network is run. The International Telecommunication Union, a U.N. group based in Geneva, renewed a challenge to the U.S. organization that oversees global Internet functions, arguing that governments worldwide would inevitably play a greater future role in regulating the Internet. "For better or for worse, the Internet will in due course not be governed or regulated in a way that is fundamentally different from the way that other things are governed," ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi said Monday as the forum opened. This week's gathering grew out of last year's U.N. World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia. The United States refused to cede control of the computers crucial for directing Internet traffic and agreed instead to set up a multinational forum to discuss other matters such as cooperation in fighting cybercrime. Since then, the U.S. government announced it would relax oversight over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the agency that handles the day-to-day tasks related to those key directories. The European Union applauded the United States, supporting ICANN's eventual independence instead of its replacement. ICANN announced it is in final testing of technology to allow full Web addresses using non-Latin characters. Other innovations discussed included the spread of Web-enabled cellular phones, taking advantage of 2 billion users worldwide, or twice the number of current Internet users. A California-based technological aid agency, Packet Clearing House, said it is developing a system aimed at giving illiterate people Internet access using VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, helped by the rapid growth of Internet and call kiosks in Asia and Africa. Human rights groups, meanwhile, warned that government censorship online was growing. Amnesty International singled out China, Vietnam, Iran and Syria. "More (undemocratic) governments are realizing the importance of the Internet ... There is evidence that Internet repression is getting worse," Amnesty spokesman Steve Ballinger said in an interview. The group accused search leader Google Inc. and other U.S. information and technology companies of assisting those governments with their filtering technology. Vint Cerf, the Internet pioneer and a vice president at Google, said the company's actions benefited Chinese people, despite filtering. "Google has offered service in conditions we don't like ... but it's of those games of patience where you just keep pushing like water eroding rock," Cerf said. "In order to defray the costs, it's important that we reach a very large number of people so we certainly would not want to cut off one-fifth of the world's population, potentially." The U.N. meeting was billed as a "global town hall" to discuss Internet development and not produce any resolutions. Desai, the forum organizer, said the problem of Internet security was likely to remain high on the agenda at the next world summit. Another worry is the growing vulnerability of infrastructure networks to a cyber attack. "Most national infrastructures — water, electricity, nearly everything else — is based on networking. Right now they're probably based on more classical networks, which are far more closed," said David Belanger, chief scientist of AT&T labs. "But since nearly all communications networks are moving to IP over time, I think that we will have to be extraordinarily careful in trying to create nearly bulletproof networks for the large national infrastructures." Cerf said he thought the forum would help solve problems, despite the lack of "specific action ideas." "I've come away with new ideas, new views on some of the problems the Internet still has," he said. "For a first meeting of this kind it was very effective." Alkman Granitsas of Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this report. ------

To: axial who wrote (17601)	11/3/2006 5:06:23 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

re: "Sir Tim Berners-Lee is concerned about the future of the web" Could it be that this is the sort of thing, in the article below, that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is concerned about? --- U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer By WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: November 3, 2006 Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein. But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb. Continued at: nytimes.com ------