TELECOM Digest     Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:50:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 559

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Wikipedia Prankster Confesses (Katarine Q. Seelye)
    Wikpedia Becomes Force (Agence France Press News Wire)
    Arizona Town Goes Wireless (Michelle Roberts)
    Analysis Tool for Wholesale Telecom Market (poderico@gmail.com)
    Re: Showdown with USA Over Internet Control (Seth Breidbart)
    Re: Hanging up on the New Ma Bell (Ron Kritzman)
    Re: Holiday Observances Phone Rates (was Re: Kennedy) (Seth Breidbart)
    Re: Who Owns the Music? (Seth Breidbart)

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From: Katharine Q. Seelye <nyt@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Wikipedia Prankster Confesses
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:51:23 -0600


By Katharine Q. Seelye
The New York Times

It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet,
with the joker quitting his job and Wikipedia, the online
encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility.

A man in Nashville, Tenn., has admitted that, in trying to shock a
colleague with a joke, he put false information into a Wikipedia entry
about John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean
newspaper in Nashville.

Brian Chase, 38, who until Friday was an operations manager at a small
delivery company, told Seigenthaler he had written the material
suggesting Seigenthaler had been involved in the assassinations of
John and Robert Kennedy.

Seigenthaler discovered the false entry only recently and wrote about
it in an op-ed article in USA Today, saying he was especially annoyed
that he could not track down the perpetrator because of Internet
privacy laws.

His plight touched off a debate about the reliability of information
on Wikipedia -- and by extension the Internet -- and the difficulty in
holding Web sites and their users accountable, even when someone is
defamed.

In a letter to Seigenthaler, Chase said he thought that Wikipedia was
a "gag" Web site and that he had written the assassination tale to
shock a co-worker, who knew of the Seigenthaler family and its
illustrious history in Nashville.

"It had the intended effect," Chase said of his prank in an
interview. But Chase said that once he became aware through news
accounts of the damage he had done to Seigenthaler, he was remorseful
and scared of what might happen to him.

Chase also found that he was slowly being cornered in cyberspace,
thanks to the sleuthing efforts of Daniel Brandt, 57, of San Antonio,
Texas, who makes his living as a book indexer. Brandt has been a
frequent critic of Wikipedia and started an anti-Wikipedia Web site in
September after reading what he said was a false entry about himself.

Using information in Seigenthaler's article and some online tools,
Brandt traced the computer used to make the Wikipedia entry to the
delivery company in Nashville. Brandt called the company and told
employees about the Wikipedia problem but was not able to learn
anything.

Brandt then sent an e-mail message to the company, asking for
information about its courier services. A response bore the same
Internet Protocol address that was left by the creator of the
Wikipedia entry, offering further evidence of a connection.

A call by a reporter to the delivery company Thursday made employees
nervous, they later told Seigenthaler. On Friday, Chase hand-delivered
a letter to Seigenthaler's office, confessing what he had done, and
they talked at length.

Wikipedia, a nonprofit venture that is the world's biggest
encyclopedia, is written and edited by thousands of volunteers, and
mistakes are expected to be caught by users.

Chase wrote: "I am truly sorry to have offended you, sir. Whatever
fame comes to me from this will be ill-gotten indeed."

Seigenthaler said he "was not after a pound of flesh" and would not take
Chase to court.

Chase resigned because, he said, he did not want to cause problems for
his company. Seigenthaler urged Chase's boss to rehire him, but Chase
said this had not happened.

Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center, said that as a
longtime advocate of free speech, he found it awkward to be tracking
down someone who had exercised that right. "I still believe in free
expression," he said.  "What I want is accountability."

Copyright 2005 The Seattle Times Company
Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company

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From: Agence France Press   <AFP Newswire@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Wikpedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:15:44 -0600


Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that is the product of collaboration
of its users, has become a major force on the Internet, but faces a
crisis after a false biography raised questions about its credibility.

The website, created as a free, "open source" multilingual
encyclopedia for the world, has reached a crossroads after phenomenal
growth along with a scandal that has forced the site to tighten up
monitoring of its content.

Wikipedia was started in 2001 as an experiment in "wiki" software.
Wiki means quick in Hawaiian, but the software enables multiple users
in different locations to edit a document.

Wikipedia has more than two million articles, including over 850,000
in English. It has sites in 200 languages, with 10 of them having over
50,000 articles -- English, German, French, Japanese, Polish, Italian,
Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish.

Nielsen/Netratings found that Wikipedia had over 12.7 million US users
in September, up nearly 300 percent from a year ago. It was ranked as
the 35th most popular global website by Alexa.com.

As an open-source encyclopedia, Wikipedia can be revised and edited in
real time by any of its users.

Although that might be seen by some as a recipe for disaster,
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the give-and-take helps create a
better product.

Wales told AFP that users often find a common ground that helps the
site maintain its stated policy of "neutral point of view," or NPOV.

"That process of debate and dialogue is what generates some of the
best work on Wikipedia," said Wales, a former options trader whose
past projects have included a pornographic website.

"Some of the best articles come out of a dialogue of people who don't
agree -- you end up with a really solid representation."

Wales said Wikipedia has only three employees, but "several hundred"
volunteers who monitor the site to help maintain accuracy and
neutrality.

He put up 500,000 dollars to start the site, but it now operates with
donations and grants through a non-profit entity he formed called the
Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikipedia strives for "Britannica or better quality," Wales said, but
admits it has not yet achieved that.

Wales acknowledged a breakdown in the process in a biography posted
earlier this year of John Siegenthaler, a retired journalist who was
an aide in the 1960s to attorney general Robert Kennedy.

A Wikipedia article that went largely unnoticed for several weeks
said, "For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved
in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother,
Bobby. Nothing was ever proven."

"I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the false, malicious
'biography' that appeared under my name for 132 days on Wikipedia,"
Siegenthaler wrote in a column in USA Today.

Wales said Wikipedia tightened up its monitoring after the incident
and will require users to register before making any changes or new
postings. But he said the site will remain anonymous and that the
overall policy will remain unchanged.

Wikipedia has spawned critics, including a website called Wikipedia
Watch.

"The basic problem is that no one, neither the trustees of Wikimedia
Foundation, nor the volunteers who are connected with Wikipedia,
consider themselves responsible for the content," says Wikipedia
Watch's Daniel Brandt.

Additionally, he said "anyone can edit an article, and there is no
guarantee that any article you read has not been edited maliciously."

In an unusual bit of self-criticism, Wikipedia notes on its site that
some complain about "a perceived lack of reliability, comprehensiveness,
and authority" in the encyclopedia.

But as part of its open-source credo, it states that "Wikipedia's
editing process assumes that exposing an article to many users will
result in accuracy."

Despite the recent controversy, Wikipedia has been "a great success
story," says Michael Cornfield, research consultant at the Pew
Internet and American Life Project in Washington.

"It's become synonymous with (online encyclopedia) the way Google has
become with search engines and Xerox with copiers," said Cornfield.

Cornfield said a key milestone for Wikipedia was the 2005 tsunami,
after which numerous scientists contributed to the site. He said many
experts contribute to Wikipedia because "if you have knowledge and the
teaching instinct, here is a classroom of the world."

But Cornfield said Wikipedia must find a way to ensure its
credibility, even if it means a more heavily monitored or edited
product.

"This is the first crisis, but having a crisis is a marker of growth,"
Cornfield said. "Enough people use it now and contribute to it, so we
may have a public solution to the crisis."

Copyright 2005 Agence France Presse.

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From: Michelle Roberts <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Arizona Town Will Go Wall-to-Wall Wireless
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:56:04 -0600


By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer

Call it a municipal status symbol in the digital age: a city blanketed
by a wireless Internet network, accessible at competitive prices
throughout the town's homes, cafes, offices and parks.

Tempe, the Phoenix suburb that is home to Arizona State University, is
due to have wireless Internet available for all of its 160,000
residents in February, becoming the first city of its size in the
United States to have Wi-Fi throughout.

Tempe officials hope that by making high-speed Internet as accessible
as water or electricity across its 40 square miles, it will attract
more technology and biotech companies -- and the young, upwardly mobile
employees they bring.

An increasing number of the nation's cities are looking at using
Internet access as an economic development tool. Few cities have
gotten as far as installing systems, "but most cities are realizing
that it may be something that they want to do," said Cheryl Leanza,
legislative counsel for the National League of Cities.

Philadelphia is developing a citywide high-speed system with EarthLink
Inc.  Unlike Philly or Tempe, New Orleans is building a free system,
though the network speed will be limited.

The Tempe network is being installed by NeoReach Wireless, a
subsidiary of Bethesda, Md.-based MobilePro Corp. Roughly 400 antenna
boxes mounted on light poles throughout the city will be used to
stitch together the network, to which NeoReach will sell access,
primarily through other providers.

The network uses a so-called "mesh" setup, meaning it passes wireless
signals from pole to pole and automatically reroutes transmissions if
one of the transmitters breaks down.

Speeds will vary depending on the number of users logged into the same
access point.

The network is strong enough only to be picked up outdoors or through
one wall, meaning those who want service in their businesses or homes
will need a box that serves as a signal booster and router.

The city of Tempe gave the company access to its light poles in
exchange for use of the network in transmitting data to and from city
offices and vehicles, said Karrie Rockwell, a spokeswoman for
NeoReach.

Two hours of free access each day also will be available for Internet
users on the Arizona State campus or the nearby Mill Avenue retail
district, where the network began a year ago as a pilot project and
has proven popular.

Robert Jenkins, 50, sits at a coffee house on Mill Avenue a couple of
times a week with his laptop, downloading larger files that take too
long at home when he uses his mobile phone to access the Internet.

NeoReach will directly sell service to outdoor users for $3.95 per
hour or $29.95 per month. The resellers of NeoReach access have not
yet announced pricing, but Rockwell said it will be cheaper than DSL
or cable Internet access. Cable operator Cox Communications
Inc. charges $49.95 per month for customers who don't get Cox phone or
TV service. Qwest Communications International Inc. charges $44.99 and
$54.99 per month, depending on the speed.

Tempe signed a contract with NeoReach after asking for bids -- which
prevented it from having to start its own utility and probably quelled
potential objections to the city's involvement in a Wi-Fi network.

Elsewhere in the nation, cities have run into heavy resistance from
telecom companies, which argue that the free market should dictate the
cost and availability of service.

At least 14 states have passed laws limiting municipal Internet
service, and other states are expected to consider similar limits,
Leanza said. Arizona does not have such a law.

___

On the Net:

City of Tempe: http://www.tempe.gov
NeoReach Wireless: http://www.neoreach.com

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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From: poderico@gmail.com
Subject: Analysis Tool For Wholesale Telecom Market
Date: 11 Dec 2005 13:38:21 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


The telephone providers supports national as well as international
calls. While in the national case a proprietary network can be used to
satisfy the entire demand, the international calls must be, whole or
partially, satisfied with other carriers.

Each carrier provides a complete price list for every destination
reached, completed with the declared Quality of Service (QoS). For
some estinations, the carrier can details these information for some locale
area.

The cost is represented as a cost per minute plus a cost per call;
while the QoS is represented with a real number ranging from 0 and 1:
0 is the lowest quality and 1 is the highest quality. The destinations
are identified with the international code eventually completed with
the area code when needed.

The above information can be used to estimate cost and quality of
offered service, but these are not sufficient for a complete calculus.
An estimation or historical data on distribution calls must be used to
have a well done service cost and quality calculation, being for each
destination the number of calls and the total minutes of traffic
given.

A generic telephone provider has the problem to schedule the best way
to route the outgoing calls, selecting for each destination a
preferred carrier.

More details on http://www.poderico.it/bestprice/index.html

Luigi Poderico 

www.poderico.it

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From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Showdown with USA Over Internet Control
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:37:47 UTC
Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless


In article <telecom24.542.14@telecom-digest.org>,
Seth Breidbart <sethb@panix.com> wrote:

> In article <telecom24.516.2@telecom-digest.org>, Patrick Townson
> <editor@telecom-digest.org> noted in response to an article by
> Andy Sullivan wrote:

[ICANN]
>> And they do not want to make things _too easy_ to filter
>> out; that might make the internet useful for average, everyday
>> citizens once again.

> Is that why ICANN kicked AOL off the Internet?

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Two comments, Seth ... _when_ did ICANN
> 'kick AOL off the internet'?

Once, again, we see that sarcasm doesn't play on the net.

> And, if as you claim, 'ICANN has no control over the wires' then how
> come if I do not sign their contract when requested, granting them
> ownership and sole arbitrator privleges over the name
> 'telecom-digest.org' they can refuse to allow me to be on the net?

Really?  Who do you get your connectivity from?  I get my home
connectivity from RoadRunner, and they don't require me to sign any
contract with ICANN; my colo server gets connectivity from another
provider, and they don't require any contract with ICANN either.

I have registered several domains, and _that_ requires a contract with
ICANN.  But if I preferred to just give out the IP address, I wouldn't
need those either.

> I would say that if I am required to sign a contract
> which 'allows me' to use my name and make speeches on the net, then 
> the person or entity who makes that requirement has a lot of control
> over the net, wouldn't you?

But I've been using my name and making speeches on the net for a long
time, since well before I had a domain.  (Depending on how you define
"the net", I could argue I was doing so before ICANN existed.)

> And what real problem would there be,
> in the process of handing out those contracts to sign in which I must
> agree to certain things to _amend_ those contracts to include things
> dealing with spam/scam, etc?  Everyone has to sign one of those
> contracts every so often, don't they?

No, they don't.  When does schlund.de sign a contract with ICANN?

Seth


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I seriously doubt that schlund.de has
any contact with ICANN. I get my connectivity through cableone.net
both for personal matters _and_ for the Digest. In the case of the
Digest, I use puTTY (a secure form of telnet) to connect with massis.
lcs.mit.edu in Boston. I do _not_ do telnet to telecom-digest.org.
'telecom-digest.org' only exists as a figment of my imagination. It is
an _alias domain name_, ditto telecom-digest.com and telecom-digest.net.

The only one I use is telecom-digest.org (as you may know), and all
three of those aliases (.org/.com/.net) terminate on the computer
system of the mayor of Trumansburg, NY known as iecc.com. When calls
to those three alias names (let's call it http://telecom-digest.org )
hit the mayor's computing system, they are forwarded to MIT to the
massis.lcs.mit.edu computer where they then land, or go into the
telecom-archives directory. Calls for http first land on a web page on
the mayor's computer where they are instantly redirected over to
MIT. If I did (some form of) _telnet://telecom-digest.org_ I would
wind up on Mayor Levine's computer, rather than massis/MIT. So when I
start work here each day, I must telnet (or puTTY, actually) to
massis.lcs.mit.edu and login here _on MIT_ where I pretend I am
dealing with a fictious entity known as telecom-digest.org and do all
my editing work on massis before I send it out as telecom-digest.org
using sendmail with the flag -f ('trusted user' manipulates the 'From:'
portion of the email address, so that 'ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu'
becomes 'ptownson@telecom-digest.org' or 'editor' or whomever.) Now,
is all that clear?

So whatever I do here all day, either telnetting to MIT for this
Digest, or telnetting to one of my accounts at Berkeley, CA where I
have a couple .edu accounts or a couple other .edu accounts 'back
east' I begin by hooking my computer to the cable line of cableone.net
in Independence, KS and I have a 'backup' arrangement to do dialup via
TerraWorld.net here in Independence also.  I do not know what
arrangements Cable One has with ICANN, nor do I know what arrangements
the various .edu sites I use have with ICANN. All I know is that my
_domain name_ telecom-digest (multipled three times, .org/.net/.com)
is registered with ICANN and they reserve the right to take it away
from me if they wish to do so.  Either I (or someone) has to pay an
extortion fee to ICANN and _sign a contract with them_ waiving most of
my rights. If that is not having control over the net, I do not know
what is.

I keep hearing people saying "ICANN has no rights over your domain name,"
and I do not know where they come from or what happens with _their_
domain names. Surely they have to sign the same contract signing away
their rights to ICANN also. Am I some sort of exception to the rules?
I must obey ICANN's rules but no one else has to? That must be the
case. I must be some sort of exceptional case; no one else has to
sign away their domain name or pay some extortion payment? Is that
why I have to keep explaining this over and over? Why should I have
to pay ICANN exortion money to be able to use my name?   PAT]

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:54:39 -0600
From: Ron Kritzman <ron@dbOnayAmspaYmasters.com>
Subject: Re: Hanging up on the New Ma Bell


> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You must apparently live in the north
> shore area of Chicago. (I assume they are still '847' or has that been
> changed as well?) PAT]

Still 847, but they've overlaid 224. To date the only 224 numbers I've 
seen are cellphones. I've never seen any statistics, but I'm guessing 
that there are a lot of numbers being returned to the pool as 
residential users get rid of 2nd lines in favor of broadband internet.


Emoveray ethay Igpay Atinlay otay eplyray

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From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Holiday Observances Phone Rates (was Re: Kennedy)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:43:29 UTC
Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless


In article <telecom24.543.7@telecom-digest.org>, Anthony Bellanga
<anthonybellanga@notchur.biz> wrote:

>> Lisa Hancock <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

>>> Nowadays employers seem a lot tighter and grant only the major day
>>> off.  Many retailers are open on holidays, even Thanksgiving,
>>> Christmas, and New Years, and expect people to work.

> I guess it depends on who you work for or what type of business or
> work you do. And aren't there certain labor laws requiring time and a
> half or similar for (non-union) employees who have to work on certain
> declared *National* (not "just" Federal) Holidays such as
> Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Independence Day, and maybe Labor
> Day? (the original "big five", which does not include Memorial Day,
> Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, Presidents' Day (which was originally
> known as George Washington's Birthday), and in more recent years mlk
> day).

According to the "Your Rights Under the Fair Labor Standards Act"
poster (as posted in every workplace), you get time and a half after
40 hours worked in a week.  It doesn't say anything about holidays.

Seth


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Not only for more than 40 hours in
one week, but also more than 8 hours in one day. PAT]

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From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Who Owns the Music?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:18:44 UTC
Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless


In article <telecom24.550.10@telecom-digest.org>,
Steven Lichter  <Die@spammers.com> wrote:

> DevilsPGD wrote:

>> Before posting legal advice please take the time to investigate where
>> the person asking the question is located since their jurisdiction may
>> have vastly different rules then yours.

> I was not posting legal advice and besides this has to to with Federal
> Law!!

For which (local) federation?

Seth

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