From editor@telecom-digest.org Sun Apr 11 00:57:04 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i3B4v4L12085; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:57:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:57:04 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200404110457.i3B4v4L12085@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #177 TELECOM Digest Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:57:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 177 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson A Detailed Analysis of CRTC Preliminary View and Sununu Bill (VOIP News) Web Proxy Manager (quest822000@yahoo.co.in) Re: Spam Issues (jmeissen@aracnet.com) Re: Spam Issues (Tom Betz) Re: Overseas Crooks Abuse Phone Service For Deaf (Jim Burks) Re: FCC Proposes Statutory Maximum Fine of $495,000 (Lisa) Re: Book on How the Internet/WWW Works? 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: VOIP News Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:43:19 -0400 Subject: A Detailed Analysis of CRTC Preliminary View and Sununu Bill Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com An analysis of proposed VoIP regulation in both Canada and the United States by Aswath Rao: http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000048.html Aswath Weblog Musing on telecommunications industry and other sundries How much to regulate? I have written earlier on what aspects of VoIP must be, needs to be and could be regulated. Recently this topic is again in the news. CRTC has issued their preliminary ruling; there are stories about FCC may be getting ready to announce their decision on AT&T petition; bills have been introduced both in the Senate and the Congress regarding VoIP. This entry is an analysis of these developments. It is interesting to compare and contrast the preliminary view from CRTC and the NPRM from FCC. Whereas the NPRM is lengthy and has posed many open questions explicitly soliciting opinions from the public, CRTC is very concise and states pointed conclusions. But there is a remarkable agreement (there are other opinions) in the philosophical thinking and the anticipated regulation. But in some places, I anticipate CRTC will reverse its position (at least they should do it) and FCC and CRTC will be in total agreement. Let me summarize CRTC ruling and indicate where they should reconsider. Full article at: http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000048.html How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:30:00 BST From: quest822000@yahoo.co.in Subject: Web Proxy Manager ABSTRACT Topic: Web Proxy Manager(SN-TP Translator) Introduction : In the internet world with lot of devices at the back bone, it is very essential to ensure the 100% availability of such devices and mission critical business applications. Also need to ensure whether they are performing the best. Hence it is evident that such devices and mission critical applications needs to be managed. The most preferred management protocol known is SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol): because it is simple, less footprint(memory) and highly suitable for fault and performance management. But SNMP is not preferred to be accessed via internet as it uses UDP transport, which was considered as a major drawback. Goal : In this project , our goal is to make SNMP-enabled devices accessible via internet (using WebBrowser like IE, Netscape etc.) through HTTP protocol. Hence this Java-based project is named as SN-TP TRANSLATOR which proxies the HTTP requests from WebBrowser as SNMP requests to the device. Similarly alarms (called as 'traps' in SNMP world) received from devices will be translated and served in HTML pages to the web client (WebBrowser). Benefits : Legacy devices (with SNMP enabled ) management through Web Light weight client for management (HTML pages through Web) Managing multiple OS, Devices from single point GUI Standard based management (using SNMP, HTTP protocols), and NOT proprietary Key Features : Convert(or Proxy) HTTP requests to SNMP requests 3-Tier architecture Complete FCPS (fault, configuration, performance, security) support Incorporates state-of-the-art technologies like JDBC, XML, JSP Multiple web clients (Web-Browser) can connect to this server Role based access of management data (Administrator, User roles) How different the SN-TP TRANSLATOR from free/commercially available network management products ? There are few commercial vendors with products for managing SNMP enabled devices, OS : namely HP, AdventNet, Micromuse etc. These vendor products can contact the SNMP agents and provide thick clients to display the management data pulled from these SNMP agents. Appare- ntly these FAT clients are proprietary and cannot be accessed through internet (i.e not Web-Enabled). This project, SN-TP TRANSLATOR, can pull management data using SNMP protocol, store them in database, and automatically convert them to HTML pages, such that the management information can be accessed via Web (through HTTP). We use Tomcat web-server for serving the HTML pages. Also we use AdventNet's SNMP stack for encoding and decoding SNMP packets. The management data is stored in a database. It supports any database (like Oracle, SQL) that provides JDBC support. ------------------------------ From: jmeissen@aracnet.com Subject: Re: Spam Issues Date: 10 Apr 2004 19:35:42 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com In article , SELLCOM Tech support wrote: > I believe that we are all against spam, but what about when a > lackhole type site is being run in a totally irresponsible manner? > The trash running http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php have whole > sections of the world blocked without any real cause and they won't > remove such listings after notification. > We had a customer place an order for a phone and our reply to them was > "blacklisted by FIVETEN". > Can anything be done? Their reputation for rejecting valid email may > simply negate them but they are still listed with some spam removal > company sites. Fortunately, or unfortunately, blackhole sites are nothing more than publishers. They establish their own listing criteria and processes. However, it's important to note that they are NOT the ones rejecting the email -- the recipient's mail server is doing that. A system administrator has to make a conscious decision to base their acceptance criteria on external factors such as these blackhole sites. If they decide to use poorly maintained lists such as this then they are being irresponsible. I use an integrated mail filter on my personal domain that takes advantage of many of those lists (http://www.nspasm.org). There are lists that I use for blocking that are based simply on geographic region. But as administrator there are only a very few select lists that I apply globally. The entire system is configurable for each individual user (my personal filters are VERY aggressive). While you may be frustrated with the list maintainers, your complaint should be with the administrator of the site you're trying to email. It's their choice to use the list that's negatively impacting their email system. At the least you should be able to get them to whitelist you. If the site administration has left themselve unreachable email or phone then they are truly irresponsible. It's a shame that spammers have caused site administrators to feel that it's necessary to use such drastic and draconian measures. John Meissen jmeissen@aracnet.com ------------------------------ From: Tom Betz Subject: Re: Spam Issues Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: XOme Quoth SELLCOM Tech support in news:telecom23.176.16@telecom-digest.org: > The trash running http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php have whole > sections of the world blocked without any real cause and they won't > remove such listings after notification. The operators of the blocklist block nothing. The owners of mail servers choose to use the information Fiveten provides to block e-mail. It is the owners of the mail servers who do the blocking. They could more easily not use it -- but it has obviously proven to be of value to them. What is the IP address in question? Did you e-mail blackhole13 at five-ten-sg.com, as the web page you mentioned advises? Did you call them "trash" or hurl other invective at them when you did so? What was their response? > I assume that spam issues are on topic since I have seen them > discussed. They are more on-topic in news.admin.net-abuse.email. I know you know about it, because you have posted there before. Why did you not take this matter there? "I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them to it; who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." - W.S. ------------------------------ From: Jim Burks Subject: Re: Overseas Crooks Abuse Phone Service For Deaf Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:52:50 GMT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Monty Solomon wrote in message news:telecom23.176.1@telecom-digest.org... > By Tim Steller > ARIZONA DAILY STAR > Overseas scam artists have hijacked a telephone relay system for deaf > people and turned phone operators in Tucson and nationwide into > full-time facilitators of fraud. Once again, with the ADA, regulations triumph over common sense. TDD relay calls should be mostly private. Personal details should not be disclosed. However, the operators should not have to facilitate fraud. They should be able to hang up on these calls, and also be able to report them. Unfortunately, the government seems to have no common sense whatever. ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Jeff nor Lisa) Subject: Re: FCC Proposes Statutory Maximum Fine of $495,000 Date: 10 Apr 2004 14:12:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Monty Solomon wrote > Commission Proposes Statutory Maximum Fine of $495,000 Against > Subsidiaries of Clear Channel Communications, Inc. for Apparent > Multiple Violations of Indecency Rules. I have no sympathy for Howard Stern and glad they dropped him (see other post). However, I do feel there's a great deal of hyprocrisy in government regulations of broadcasting and "idencency". I think it was wrong for the government and the public to get so upset about Stern or Janet Jackson's Superbowl stunt when that kind of fare is shown constantly on regular cable TV. Supposedly cable TV is immune from regulation but that distinction is long obsolete -- most people have cable and that stuff is on standard service these days. Cable and broadcast TV/radio should meet identical standards. Also, today's other pop artists are just as "indecent". For example, the newspaper had an ad for a Britney Spears concern. Her photo with the ad was quite slutty. A subsequent review of the concert said it was filled with sexually suggestive stuff. Keep in mind that Britney targets her music to kids, but while we condemn Janet J. and Stern, Britney is somehow ok, even for kids. (When I was kid, Britney dancing was only shown in clubs in the seedy part of town, age 21 and up only.) So, either accept Stern and Jackson as they are, or go after all "indecent" pop stars fairly. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I wonder if it has occurred to the people who want to give fines to Howard Stern that he is an extremely liberal, left wing person who of late has been giving President Bush much grief. 'Obviously' he has to be neutralized and the best way to do that is keep the fines rolling in. Now, I have no love lost for Jackson or Howard Stern; her 'performance' was lewd and obscene; his crude language is pretty awful also. But when he has been picking on Bush repeatedly of late, and Bush's government agency begins to throw its weight around against Howard, isn't that a bit suspicious? PAT] ------------------------------ From: werner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu () Subject: Re: Book on How the Internet/WWW Works? Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:42:30 UTC Organization: Hoeland NOT quoting AES/newspost : > ...but I really don't understand how it all "works"... Go to WWW.ASKJEEVES.COM and type in "How Does The Internet Work?" then ignore the pages of "sponsored links" and you'll find some that are worthwhile following ... Heck, why not save you'all the trouble ... How Stuff Works: How Web Servers and the Internet Work How Web Servers Work ... by Marshall Brain . Introduction to How Web Servers Work . The Basic Process . The Internet . Clients an ... From: www.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm How does the Internet work: How does it work? What's the point? Is this another fad? The hype. The facts. Back to the home page. How does the Internet work? Many ... From: www.tecnik.co.uk/how.html Howstuffworks: "How Internet Infrastructure Works" HowStuffWorks: How This article explains the underlying structure of the Internet and how a computer connects to others around the globe. Illustrated tutorial describes. From: www.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm How Does The Internet Work? rus1.home.mindspring.com/whitepapers/internet_whitepaper.html Internet Tutorial -- What Is the Internet? How Does the Internet Work? The Internet is a worldwide collection of computer networks, cooperating with each other to exchange data using a... From: www.centerspan.org/tutorial/net.htm Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: Legal Guide The Internet Society's Online Guide to Internet Law is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference source which includes sections on legal research, From: www.isoc.org/internet/ Linux Networking-concepts HOWTO 3. What is the `Internet'? 3.1 How Does The Internet Work? From: netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/networking-concepts-HOWTO/i... /"\ ASCII... ._. ||"We the sheeple...Don't Mess With Penguins!" \ / on Usenet /v\ || OPT-OUT is *E*V*I*L* X ANYTHING ELSE/( )\ || I KILL-file top-posters / ignore posts with / \ IS BLOAT !! ^^ ^^ || only quoted text in the first screen... ------------------------------ From: schen5547@yahoo.com (sam_chen) Subject: Notebaert: Qwest Making Headway With Customers Date: 10 Apr 2004 21:25:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Has anyone out there experienced a change in service from Qwest? Notebaert: Qwest making headway with customers By DAN ELLIOTT DENVER (AP) -- Qwest Communications International is turning around its image with careful attention to customers and a top-to-bottom change in company culture, CEO Dick Notebaert said. Despite an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and the trial of four former executives on federal fraud charges, the Denver-based telecommunications company is making headway with its customers, Notebaert said in an interview. "You'd like to have it behind you. It affects the stock. But at the end of the day, the thing that holds it together is the customers," he said. Qwest erased $2.5 billion of revenue in 2000 and 2001, survived a brush with bankruptcy and remains under investigation by the SEC and the Justice Department. But Notebaert, named to the top job in June 2002 to help right the company, doesn't believe those events are major influences on customers now. "People read about these things," he acknowledged. "Is it affecting your buying decision? I think not." Notebaert said service is a key factor in consumers' decisions, and in late 2002, the company adopted "Spirit of Service" as its slogan, stitching it on employees' shirts and building an advertising campaign around it. Customer satisfaction ratings are up while complaints and customer turnover are down, he said. Qwest, which provides phone service in 14 mostly Western states, announced in December it would begin offering residential Internet telephone service. "Customers are taking us there," Notebaert said. The service, called voice over Internet protocol, is less expensive to set up and operate than traditional telephone service. It also helps Qwest compete with wireless telephone companies and cable companies that offer telephone service. The move also helped land Notebaert on the cover of the April 26 edition of Forbes Magazine. Qwest was the first of the Baby Bells to offer the service to residential customers. "When you look at the world, everybody thinks it's OK for a small startup company to be innovative," Notebaert said. "If they see a large company doing it, everybody's surprised." Qwest shares closed up 4 cents to $4.22 on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. All the contents of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. You may reprint articles in some other media on an occasional basis, but please attribute my work and that of the original author. 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