TELECOM Digest     Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:57:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 515

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Showdown With USA Over Internet Control (Andy Sullivan)
    Telecom Update #505, November 11, 2005 (Angus TeleManagement Group)
    Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm (Jim Haynes)
    Internet-History.org (TELECOM Digest Editor)
    MIT's 5ESS: (was: NN0 Central Office Codes) (Joe Morris)
    Re: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far (D Reinecke)
    Last Laugh! Woman Robs Banks While on Her Cell Phone (Associated Press)

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From: Andy Sullivan <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Showdown with USA Over Internet Control
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:02:00 -0600


By Andy Sullivan

The United States is headed for a showdown with much of the rest of
the world over control of the Internet. President Bush says he doesn't
care.

Countries like China, Brazil and Iran don't like the fact that the
world's only superpower oversees the system that guides traffic across
the global computer network, and have pushed for an international body
to take over that role.

The United States believes such a body would slow the pace of online
innovation to a crawl, requiring entrepreneurs to win permission from
a cumbersome bureaucracy before introducing services like Internet
telephony.

"It would be akin to having more than 100 drivers of a single
bus. Right now we have a driver, and the driver's been doing a good
job," said Assistant Commerce Secretary Michael Gallagher, the
U.S. official who oversees the domain-name system.

Much of the business and technical community that actually runs the
Internet agrees with Gallagher. But those groups will be relegated to
the sidelines and the United States will find few allies among other
governments at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis,
Tunisia next week.

"Materially there's nothing wrong with the current structure. But
formally it is strange that something with such a global impact is
being controlled by one nation, and there is a sharpened position
against the United States' unilateral thinking," Dutch Minister of
Economic Affairs Laurens Jan Brinkhorst said in an interview.

If unresolved, the clash could lead to a split in the domain-name
system, and Internet users wouldn't necessarily reach the same Web
site when they type an address like "www.reuters.com" into their
browsers.

Experts say that's unlikely as it would destroy the consensus on which
the Internet is built, but few expect the issue will be resolved at
the United Nations-sponsored event.

The head of the U.S. delegation said the dispute has distracted
attention from the summit's original focus on bringing advanced
communications to the developing world.

"As far as I can tell, these discussions about Internet governance
won't put one more computer or one more cell phone or one more
anything into the hands of somebody who doesn't have it in Africa,
Asia, South America or elsewhere," Ambassador David Gross said in an
interview.

GOOGLE-POWER

Others point out that search engines are gradually making the
domain-name system irrelevant.

"This is such a sideshow debate," said Oxford University professor
Jonathan Zittrain. "If you couldn't find IBM at ibm.com, what would
you do? You would Google it, and there you'd be."

The dispute revolves around a simple list stored in thousands of
domain-name servers around the globe.

That list, known as the "root zone file," serves as a master telephone
book for the Internet's 259 "top level" domains -- those portions of
the domain name that appear behind the final dot, such as ".com,"
".org" or the United Kingdom's ."uk."

The list only changes when a California nonprofit body called the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, adds
new top-level domains or redelegates the ones that exist. ICANN can't
make any changes without the approval of the U.S. Department of
Commerce.

Some countries worry that the United States could use this system to
effectively "unplug" a nation from the Internet by redirecting its
country code. Experts say that would be difficult to pull off because
it would require thousands of computer administrators across the globe
to cooperate.

Gallagher says the United States has kept politics out of the root
since it set up ICANN in 1998. But in August he asked ICANN to
postpone work on a .xxx domain for sex sites after conservative groups
urged the Commerce Department to block it.

"Nothing would have happened unless the U.S. government sent that
letter," said Syracuse University professor Milton Mueller, who chairs
ICANN's noncommercial users group.

Business and technical experts say the United States would have been
better off expressing its concerns through ICANN's government
committee rather than taking a stand on its own.

Gallagher said he sent the letter to express concerns in as
transparent a manner as possible and avoid charges of backroom
manipulation.

"(When) other countries have done it, it's not a foul. For some reason
when the U.S. does it it's a foul," he said.

Though the United States does not plan to give up control of the
domain-name system, the summit may lead to other changes.

The United States has said it's willing to give other countries more
direct control over their own country codes, and ICANN is exploring
ways to improve the relationship with its governments committee.

Participants may also agree to set up a forum to discuss cross-border
issues like spam and cybercrime.

"I think the U.S. realizes in some way that they're picking fights
they don't need to have," Mueller said.

(Additional reporting by Lucas van Grinsven in Amsterdam)

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It seems to me that the USA is being
sort of high and mighty on this matter. Just as the USA pays little or
no attention to what other countries want or do with their two-letter
TLDs such as .uk, .gr, and others, why would they now start worrying
about what a UN-controlled body said regards (for example) China being
the controller or Germany or UK? Wouldn't we still continue to do as
we pleased anyway?  PAT]

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IN THIS ISSUE: 

Statscan -- Wireless Revenues Hit New High 
TWU Votes on Another Telus Contract
Telus Begins EVDO Rollout
Cellcos Plan Wireless Payments
U.S. Government Opposes BlackBerry Sales Ban
Cablecos Support VoIP Ruling
2006 Contribution Level Set
Bell, Nortel Deploy Broadband in Chapleau
More JDS Layoffs in Ottawa
International Voice Business Improves
Total Telcom Selling Assets
Sasktel, Virgin Top Cellco Satisfaction Survey
Hamilton Gets Cogeco Phone Service
Prevost to Head MTS Marketing
Videotron Expands ExpressVu Suit
Telus Profit Up 21%

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STATSCAN -- WIRELESS REVENUES HIT NEW HIGH: Statistics Canada issued
its quarterly report on the telecom industry this week, covering the
second quarter of 2005. The wireless industry added 438,000 customers;
operating revenues for wireless carriers reached an all-time record of
$2.7 billion, up 16.1% from a year earlier.

** Wireline service continues to decline: at the end of June 
   there were 19.2 million traditional residential and 
   business lines in service, a 1.4% drop. Wireline revenues 
   fell 2.8%, to $5.5 billion.

http://www.statcan.ca/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=56-002-XIE

TWU VOTES ON ANOTHER TELUS CONTRACT: The Telecommunications Workers
Union has submitted another five-year contract with to its membership
for a vote. A TWU representative said support for the strike is
weakening in Alberta, and the federal government had threatened to
order a new vote on the previous proposal. (See Telecom Update #501,
504)

** This vote is being conducted by mail; the previous one was 
   held at a series of membership meetings.

** Telus says that all unionized employees in B.C. have 
   remained off the job, but that 56% of union members in 
   Alberta were reporting to work by September 30, up from 
   29% at the beginning of the action.

TELUS BEGINS EVDO ROLLOUT: Speaking to analysts on November 10, Telus
CEO Darren Entwistle said that next week Telus Mobility will begin
offering high-speed mobile data communications in five cities using
EVDO (Evolution Data Optimized) technology.

CELLCOS PLAN WIRELESS PAYMENTS: Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless, and
Telus Mobility have formed a joint venture, Wireless Payment Services,
which aims to market a mobile commerce service within the next
year. The service is to provide standardized wireless access to
existing payment schemes.

U.S. GOVERNMENT OPPOSES BLACKBERRY SALES BAN: The U.S. government has
told a Virginia court that an injunction against BlackBerry sales and
services would "prevent RIM from providing the services that would be
essential" to enable U.S. government authorities to continue use of
BlackBerry devices.

** Judge James Spencer has promised to "move swiftly" to 
   settle the dispute between Research In Motion and NTP Inc. 
   He may enforce either his previous injunction against 
   BlackBerry sales in the U.S., or the failed March 
   agreement between RIM and NTP. (See Telecom Update #485)

CABLECOS SUPPORT VoIP RULING: The Canadian Cable Telecommunications
Association has asked the Cabinet to uphold the CRTC's ruling on VoIP
regulation. The CCTA says the VoIP market needs "basic safeguards to
prevent anti-competitive behaviour." (See Telecom Update #481, 490)

2006 CONTRIBUTION LEVEL SET: CRTC Telecom Decision 2005-68 finalizes
the 2005 contribution fee paid by all telecommunications service
providers at 1.03%, and sets the 2006 fee at the same percentage on an
interim basis.

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2005/dt2005-68.htm

BELL, NORTEL DEPLOY BROADBAND IN CHAPLEAU: Project Chapleau, a
"technology showcase" developed by Bell Canada, Nortel, and the
Township of Chapleau, has turned on high-speed networking in the
Northern Ontario community, using Nortel "Wireless Mesh"
technology. Researchers will study the project's impact on the
community over the next 14 months.

MORE JDS LAYOFFS IN OTTAWA: JDS Uniphase will cut another 300 jobs in
Ottawa in 2006, leaving only 400 employees in a city where it had
11,000 four years ago. The company is shifting all manufacturing to
Asia and Europe.

INTERNATIONAL VOICE BUSINESS IMPROVES: Researchers at TeleGeography
say that after a period of stagnation or decline, the international
voice business is growing again. Global cross-border traffic grew 14%
in 2004 and has continued to grow in 2005. International voice
revenues reached $65.2 billion in 2004, up 7%.

** TeleGeography expects that international voice traffic in 
   2005 will make up 16% of the global market.

http://www.telegeography.com/products/tg

TOTAL TELCOM SELLING ASSETS: Alberta-based Total Telcom Inc. says it
has agreed to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, Total Telcom Fiber
Inc, to an undisclosed third party for $4.7 million and 90% of fibre
sales for five years. The subsidiary owns all of the corporation's
fibre facilities.

SASKTEL, VIRGIN TOP CELLCO SATISFACTION SURVEY: J.D. Power and
Associates says that SaskTel Mobility ranks number one in customer
satisfaction with contracted wireless service, while Virgin Mobile,
ranks highest in prepaid.

HAMILTON GETS COGECO PHONE SERVICE: Cogeco Cable now offers its
Digital Phone service to most residents in Hamilton. The rest of the
city will be covered by the end of 2006.

PREVOST TO HEAD MTS MARKETING: Dean Prevost, Allstream's Executive VP
Consumer Operations, has been named Chief Marketing Officer of
Manitoba Telecom, Allstream's parent company. Allstream VP Peter Ronan
is now the unit's Executive VP Sales.

VIDEOTRON EXPANDS EXPRESSVU SUIT: Videotron has increased the sum it
is seeking in a lawsuit against Bell ExpressVu to $374 million. The
lawsuit, filed in August, claims that ExpressVu has not done enough to
protect its broadcast signal from piracy. (See Telecom Update #359,
395)

TELUS PROFIT UP 21%: Telus third-quarter revenues of $2.06 billion
were 6% higher than the same period last year. Net income rose 21% to
$190 million.  Wireline sales were flat, but wireless revenue rose 16%
and now makes up 42% of Telus's total sales.

** Telus says the strike of unionized workers contributed to 
   a decline of 2.2% in network access lines and a low 
   increase in high-speed Internet subscribers.
 
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Subject: Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm
Reply-To: jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas Alumni
From: haynes@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:03:08 GMT


 From slashdot today, says RetroCoder, a spyware maker, is suing
Sunbelt Software, makers of an anti-spyware program.  RetroCoder
claims that their end user license agreement forbids using the program
in "anti-spyware research" and therefore detecting it violates the
agreement.

Once again, the inmates are running the asylum.

jhhaynes at earthlink dot net


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: If the inmates did not run the asylum,
chances are quite likely the asylum would not get run at all. Yes,
there has to be overall supervision of the asylum, but most of them
in the past, like prisons, by and large were run by inmate labor. PAT]

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Subject: Internet-History.org
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:48:48 EST
From: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu (TELECOM Digest Editor)


Some of you may recall when we had a site called http://internet-history.org 
which had a collection of articles and information on the history of
the internet in one single location. Then one day it up and
disappeared and apparently the person who was handling it for me had
failed to renew it.

That is an understandable error, that the person who has helped me all
along with some of those things, such as domain names, etc would
manage to miss a payment. One day the site was for history, the next
day a cybersquatter got it and turned it into a penis-enlargement scam
place.

I had _thought_ that sort of web site was totally out of line for .org
but then some self-proclaimed experts who when it suits them read the
Digest were quick to inform me that was not the case; that anyone
could have any name in any TLD they wished. To hell with the PIR
charter is what they seemed to be saying. The same self-proclaimed
experts also insisted that 'the same day the old holder releases the
name, the new holder can jump in and take it.' Well, that was
erroneous also. Public Interest Registry (at least, I do not know
about others) has a 'Redemption Grace Period' of 30 days and a
'Redemption Hold Period' of the 5 days which follows the Grace Period
during which time the site name is _locked and kept on hold_ for the
original owner.  

And, ICANN has a similar grace period with similar terms. So, if one
of the several self-proclaimed experts had bothered to mention that
little technicality to me -- that redemption of internet-history.org
was possible -- as a _legitmate_ web site and not just a scam thing, I
could have mentioned that to the person handling it sometime within
that month and gotten it redeemed. I notice that as of today
http://internet-history.org is serving as a redirect to someone in UK
who in turn refers users to various online casino services, another
splendid example of going off topic in an internet group, again IMO.

If I did not know any better -- (and anyway, what do _I_ -- an old man
suffering from a diseased brain -- know about anything) I would say
some of our self-proclaimed experts around here were very biased with
their own political agenda for the net coming first and foremost,
ahead of any truth which they claim to hold so dear. That seems to be
the case so often, where our own political agendas come first.

So now it would appear, since we are well past the month or so during
which time http://telecom-history.org _could_ have been redeemed but
was not (thank you, self-proclaimed experts, one and all) the Internet
Historical Society web site is a dead issue. I do have a re-direct
pointed to it via http://internet-history.us.tf which will have to do
I guess. It appears however that Google Search does not deal with
those redirect web addesses at all. 

Remember, as needed, an alternative address for the Digest is
'ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu' and to view our web site is
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From: Joe Morris <jcmorris@mitre.org>
Subject: MIT's 5ESS: (was: NN0 Central Office Codes)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:17:20 UTC
Organization: The MITRE Organization


wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:

> MIT has its own 5ESS and has for a long time (it was one of the first
> 5E's sold to a non-telco customer).  There's a project on now to
> figure out what to do about it before it comes up for renewal next in
> a few years' time.

Thread drift question: how common are successful hacking (old
definition of the word "hack") attempts against MIT's 5ESS?  When I
was at the 'tute long ago it had a SxS (in building 10 IIRC) with the
main number at UN4-6900, and one of the popular entertainments among
the student body was trying to find a live wire pair from which one
could dial "9" to make an outside call [*].  Occasionally someone
would manage to get into the switchroom and do a bit of rewiring,
although I don't recall ever hearing of any damage being done other
than a few unauthorized LD calls.  (But one of the hackers' exploits
in 1961 or so was described in an article in Newsweek ... not for his
"informal" rewiring jobs, but for his use of what today is called
"social engineering" to make an international call from a campus-only
line.)

I'm having trouble imagining today's MIT students being able to resist
the challenge of hacking into the switch and making it do
"interesting" things.

There were other PABX systems on campus not connected to the "real"
phone system.  The dorms had their own SxS plant (and a manual board
in East Campus, being converted to an automated plant as I left), and
of course the TMRC folk had a SxS exchange built into the model train
control system along with a lot of other WECo switchgear that somehow
found its way to building 20.

[*] which resulted in an entry in the TMRC Dictionary:

    9th Level, the:  A level of communication attained
                     most eminently by L. van Beethoven

Joe Morris

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:20:35 -0600
From: Denise Reinecke <dmr436@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far


> Furthermore, XCP.Sony.Rootkit installs a device driver, specifically a
> CD-ROM filter driver, which intercepts calls to the CD-ROM drive. If
> any process other than the included Music Player (player.exe) attempts
> to read the audio section of the CD, the filter driver inserts
> seemingly random noise into the returned data making the music
> unlistenable

Could I ask a very stupid question here, and maybe this is so obvious that
they defeated this?

I assume that these CD's play in regular non-computer players, like
the one in your car, right?

Couldn't you just turn off all of the auto-run and all that stuff on
your PC and play the thing just like a regular audio CD? Or is that
something that they have prevented?

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From: Associated Press News Wire <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Last Laugh! Woman Robs Banks While on Her Cell Phone
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:57:31 -0600


These days it seems that some people just can't go anywhere or do
anything without a cell phone in their ear.

In northern Virginia the police say they're looking for a woman who's
been holding up banks while chatting on her phone.

"This is the first time that I can recall where we've had a crime
committed while the person was using a cell phone," Loudoun County
sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell told The Washington Post in a story
published Friday. "The question would be whether anyone is on the
other end of the line or not."

Investigators believe the woman has hit four Wachovia bank branches in
recent weeks in Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties.

In three of those bank jobs, she was talking on a cell phone, while
showing the teller a box with a holdup note attached to it. In the
most recent holdup, on Nov. 4, in Ashburn, the robber showed the
teller a gun.

The woman is described as well-spoken, with a slight Hispanic accent.

Investigators say they're not sure if she's actually talking to
someone on the phone or just pretending. They also won't speculate on
why she's chosen only Wachovia branches.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 

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