From editor@telecom-digest.org Sat Jan 24 15:25:30 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i0OKPUq06245; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:25:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:25:30 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200401242025.i0OKPUq06245@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 #37 TELECOM Digest Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:25:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 37 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Call For Papers: Ubicomp 2004 (Fahd) Enforcing the Do Not Call List (jmayson@nyx.net) Habeas and Mozilla (Matthew Elvey) Re: One Phone Line and Multiple Extensions + Vonage? 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UbiComp is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of computing technology that migrates beyond our desktops and becomes increasingly embedded in a wide variety of other objects. Submissions to UbiComp 2004 must be original, unpublished work and may not be simultaneously submitted to any other conference or journal. Papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Each conference attendee will receive a printed copy of the proceedings; additional copies can be purchased through Springer-Verlag. The proceedings will also be made available through digital libraries. Submissions must be in the LNCS format; full instructions and templates are available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html A Conference Supplement, containing extended abstracts for Interactive Posters, Demonstrations, Videos, Doctoral Colloquium papers, and Workshop and Panel descriptions, will be printed and given to conference attendees. Electronic versions of these materials will also be posted on the UbiComp web site. Submissions for these participation categories must use the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format. Full papers: For Ubicomp 2004 we are soliciting high quality technical papers that describe original, unpublished research on handheld, mobile or ubiquitous computing. Potential areas of interest include: technologies, methodologies and formalisms to support ubiquitous computing and the development of ubiquitous computing applications (e.g. novel devices, system software, software engineering techniques and interaction methods); reports on experiences of designing, developing, deploying and living with ubiquitous computing systems; and, studies of the wider implications of ubiquitous computing. We are particularly seeking papers appropriate to the interdisciplinary community represented at the UbiComp 2004 conference. Submissions should report concrete, transferable results that contribute to our understanding of ubiquitous computing and help advance the state-of-the-art. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the UbiComp 2004 program committee and by additional members of the ubiquitous computing research community. Papers submitted to UbiComp 2004 must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. Technical papers should be no longer than 18 pages, including an abstract of no more than 100 words, all figures and references, and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS format. In contrast to previous Ubicomp conferences there are no separate categories for long and short papers; all papers will be considered as full papers and should be an appropriate length for their content. Accepted papers will be published in the UbiComp 2004 Proceedings and authors are, of course, required to attend the conference to present their work. UbiComp 2004 submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing: papers being submitted should not list the authors, affiliations or addresses on the first page -- to preserve formatting, it would be best to leave these sections blank. Author, affiliation and address information should still be filled out on the electronic form for submitting the paper, and final camera-ready copies should have this information included. Authors are also encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or institutions. UbiComp 2004 requires electronic submission. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. Full submission details are available at www.ubicomp.org Deadline for Submission: Papers due midnight GMT on March 12th 2004. Panels: Panels provide a forum in which to examine innovative, provocative, controversial, or late-breaking issues. The best panels are often structured as a debate with an opportunity for audience participation. We are open to innovative formats including live demonstrations and/or technology competitions. Panel proposals should be no longer than 4 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, and should include the panel topic, the names of panelists who have agreed to participate, one paragraph biographical sketches describing each panelists' expertise, a position statement by each panelist, an overview of the ways in which the position statements relate to each other, and the proposed structure or format of the panel. If supporting technologies are required, proposals should clearly list these. Abstracts of accepted Panel proposals will be published in the Conference Supplement that will be circulated to attendees at the conference. Further Submission Details to Follow Deadline for Submission: May 7th 2004 Videos: Videos are a great way to present innovations in ubiquitous computing, especially for those systems that would be particularly difficult to deploy at the conference for a live demonstration. Authors who are considering submissions in other participation categories are also encouraged to consider submitting formal videos that illustrate their work. Video submissions should be 4 to 8 minutes long. Longer videos will be subject to stricter review criteria. Authors must also submit a short paper abstract with a maximum of 2 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, including all figures and references, for each video submission. A panel of international reviewers will review videos for their technical content, interest and relevance to the ubiquitous computing community, communication effectiveness, and production quality. The video program will be playing continuously at the conference and will be published on a DVD+R and distributed to conference attendees. Abstracts of accepted Videos will be published in the Conference Supplement that will be circulated to attendees at the conference. Further Submission Details to Follow Deadline for Submission: May 7th 2004 Workshops: Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of ubiquitous computing research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops may focus on any aspect of ubiquitous computing, established concerns or new ideas. The goal of the workshop is to share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions. Workshop proposals should be no longer than 4 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, and should include a summary of no more than 150 words describing the theme(s) of the workshop, a longer description of the workshop activities and goals, the background of the organizer(s), the maximum number of participants, the means of soliciting participation, and the means of selecting participants. Workshops will be held on September 7th the day before the main conference. Opportunities will be available for the outcome of workshops to be reported to the rest of the UbiComp 2004 conference Abstracts of accepted Workshop proposals will be published in the Conference Supplement that will be circulated to attendees at the conference. Further Submission Details to Follow Deadline for Submission: May 7th 2004 Posters: Posters provide an opportunity for researchers to present work in a more open format where authors interact directly with groups of conference attendees. We especially encourage submission of late-breaking and preliminary results, smaller results not suitable for a full Paper, innovative ideas not yet validated through user studies, student research, and other research best presented in this open format. Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than 2 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, including all figures and references. Submissions may also include a separate description of the poster for review purposes, also limited to two pages; this description is encouraged for posters that have an interactive or visual component that is not easily determined from the abstract. Accepted Poster abstracts will be published in a Conference Supplement that will be circulated to attendees at the conference. Further Submission Details to Follow Deadline for Submission: June 11th 2004 Demonstrations: We seek proposals for demonstrations of ubiquitous computing technologies across the full milieu of everyday life: office, home, street, park, train, automobile, bedroom, bathroom, work, play, desktop, handheld, worn, public, private, community, individual, shared, and personal. We welcome a wide range of submission from scenarios involving innovative solutions of focused tasks as well as playful pursuits. We particularly encourage demonstrations that include participation by conference attendees and provoke discussion about issues within the field of ubiquitous computing. All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure a high quality demonstrations program. Research prototypes, provocative concept demonstrations, and commercial products are welcome. However, this forum is not an opportunity for marketing or sales presentations. Presenters must have been directly involved with the development of the system and be able to explain the differentiating and novel contributions of the system. Demonstrations of previously introduced technologies are welcome. Further Submission Details to Follow Deadline for Submission: June 11th 2004 Doctoral Colloquium: The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students can meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced UbiComp researchers and practitioners. We welcome applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches that inform ubiquitous computing, including computer science, engineering, cognitive science, sociology, and related fields. Applicants should be beyond the proposal stage and into their dissertation research. The Colloquium committee will select approximately 10 participants who will be expected to give short, informal presentations of their work during the Colloquium, to be followed by a discussion. Submissions should be no longer than 2 pages including an abstract of no more than 100 words and a description of the work in progress. In addition, a 2-3 paragraph biographical sketch should be supplied. Submissions should be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format. The Doctoral Colloquium will be held on September 7th, the day before the main conference. Doctoral Colloquium papers will be published in the Conference Supplement that will be circulated to attendees at the conference. Further Submission Details to Follow Deadline for Submission: June 11th 2004 Student volunteers: Student volunteers provide the backbone of any successful conference. Accepted volunteers are expected to work in scheduled sessions during the conference, but will also be given great opportunities to attend the program and socialize. All student volunteers will receive a free registration to the conference (including meals & special events). SV Chair: Elaine May Huang, Georgia Tech Deadline for Submission: June 11th 2004 ------------------------------ From: jmayson@nyx.net Subject: Enforcing the Do Not Call List Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:02:07 GMT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com I am on the state and national Do Not Call lists. My local phone company is SBC. I changed my local and long-distance calling plans and the net result was I lost "privacy manager" which re-directs private callers to a service that requests their name before passing the call along. The change went into effect sometime today. Between 5 and 7 pm I received calls from three different telemarketers. The first one came up on my CID as "Private Caller". My wife is traveling to a rural part of the state so I decided I had better answer. It was not her. The next two were odd. My CID came up "Incoming Call 000-000-0000". The third caller ticked me off. I told him I wasn't interested and hung up. He called back, commented on my phone manners and asked to speak to my "mommy or daddy". I explained to him I'm 34 years-old and my parents live in another state. I went on to explain I am on the state and national do not call lists. Before I could get that all out he hung up on me. I only challenged the first and third callers (the second time he called) but in both cases when I started to tell them I was on the Do Not Call list, they hung up. What is our recourse? I cannot identify these callers since they're blocking their information. Do I need to play along to get enough information to report them? Before I close let me tell you what gall some do have. Before the national list went into effect, but after I was on the state list, I got a call from a local Austin number. It was a telemarketer. I told him I was on the state's list and he told me he was exempted. I asked how and he said because he was a "registered business". He was selling stock tips, that's hardly a non-profit or political entity. I said I planned to report him and he told me to go ahead, he wasn't afraid of the law and said the state wouldn't touch him. I do know the state PUC has teeth. I was slammed a couple of years ago and the PUC handled my complaint very quickly, not to mention had already fined this company twice then fined them again after my complaint. John Mayson Austin, Texas, USA [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Some of them can be just awful. Among the worst are the telemarketers from AT&T and SBC (the companies) who use the 'established business relationship already exists' excuse for calling. I received several calls daily over a period of a month or so from a North Carolina number with no name given on the caller ID asking for a person who does not exist (or at least does not possess the phone number of my distinctive ring-ring line). The different callers would call once or twice daily looking for this person, then usually hang up rudely when they found out he was not around here. Never any names were given. After this went on for quite a while, I checked by caller ID and decided to call back and have a *firm* discussion with the people. I rang the long distance number in North Carolina only to reach a recorded message: 'This is AT&T. To reach someone in our sales and marketing area, you must hang up and call us at the offices listed in your phone directory.' The good people at SBC said they could do nothing about it; after all, they met our criteria for putting the call through, at least a phone number was displayed even if not a name. Useless SBC! ... Anyway this went on so long (even while I was talking to SBC I got a call- waiting signal from the AT&T bunch trying to reach the mystery man) I finally called a few numbers in New Jersey for AT&T and eventually reached someone who knew what I was talking about and their excuse for the repeated calls was 'we have a business relationship with (the mystery man) and our phone people just connect with the phone number shown on their computer (a predictive dialer thing) and there is no way we can remove the computer entry, so you will just keep on getting calls. No way to control the computer, indeed! In the course of the conversation she finally figured out a way to 'get the computer under control' but I had to go through hell with her matching up my name, address and ownership of the phone number against her records. And would you believe -- just believe and marvel at this -- before she finally agreed that the calls would stop (in a day or two, as soon as the files are updated), did I want to subscribe to their long distance service? Imagine having brass bedsprings like that! She really thought that despite the hassles I had had with the distinctive ring-ring line on account of her company's calls I would be interested. PAT] ------------------------------ Subject: Habeas and Mozilla From: Matthew Elvey Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:05:23 GMT John Levine wrote: > ... I'm on Habeas' nearly unpaid advisory board... It would be nice if they'd update http://www.habeas.com/configurationPages/mozilla.htm ! I've emailed 'em about it thrice. Mozilla has supported habeas headers for months now: http://www.elvey.com/it/HabeasHeadersInMozilla.html Firstname@lastname . com ------------------------------ From: SELLCOM Tech support Subject: Re: One Phone Line and Multiple Extensions + Vonage? Organization: www.sellcom.com Reply-To: support@sellcom.com Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:50:04 GMT cscapella@yahoo.com (howard) posted on that vast internet thingie: > I am about to start up a new office in which I plan on having about 4 > phones, possibly more in the future. My question is: Is it possible > to have only 1 phone line that can go to any extension and handle > multiple incoming or outgoing calls simultaneously and integrate with > Vonage? I don't think you can get multiple conversations on one phone line unless I am way behind the times. I don't see how a VOIP could do very well with just a dialup either. Am I missing something major here? Steve at SELLCOM http://www.sellcom.com Discount multihandset cordless phones by Siemens, AT&T, Panasonic, Vtech 5.8Ghz; TMC ET4000 4line Epic phone, OnHoldPlus, Talkswitch, Watchguard! Brick wall "non MOV" surge protection. Minuteman UPS systems If you sit at a desk www.ergochair.biz you owe it to yourself. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Vonage only supports one connection at a time; the typical broadband (or high speed cable/DSL) hookup to the net just isn't large enough for more. That's why Vonage does not advertise or support conference calls, although I have tried it by quickly flashing the hook, dialing a second number then doing a quick hook flash again to join the parties and myself, i,e, a 'three-way call'. It works, but the connection sounds like pooh. Now on the other hand, you *can* terminate Vonage on a multiple line phone along with other more conventional service, and you can have 'extension' phones wired in parallel/serial behind the Vonage box, but with *one call/multiple participants on the same call.* I think the Vonage ATA-186 can handle up to a REM of 3. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Dana <***@&^&.com> Subject: Difference Between Framed and Unframed T1's Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:17:19 -0900 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com What is the difference between unframed and framed T1's? When would you use one over the other? Which is the more common type used? Thanks. -- Atheism teaches that there is no God, hence no God-given rights. That ideology coupled with a system that believed in the superiority of the state at the expense of the individual was murderously synergistic. ------------------------------ From: Alan Burkitt-Gray Subject: Re: Overseas Toll Free Numbers Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:08:36 -0000 Michael Quinn asked: > Some of the Military departments recently instituted a worldwide > community services help line. One of the items that caught my eye in > the advisory was access from overseas via an "OCONUS (Outside the > CONtintal US) universal free phone at 800-5404-xxxx (with > appropriate country specific toll free access codes)". Note the > number is 11 digits, not 10 like here in the US. I've heard of > intra-country toll free numbers, but not this. Anyone know how this > works, or what a country-specific-toll-free-code consists of?" Michael, it's *not* via a local toll-free access code or local paid-for call, but via the normal international access code for the country you're calling from. About 5-10 years ago the International Telecommunication (no S) Union designated +800 as a "country code", but for international toll-free access -- in just the way that 800 in North America is like an "area code" but for toll-free access. The + sign in front of the ITU's code means you dial**, instead of the +, whichever is the international access code used in that country. So in most of the world, from Norway to New Zealand, you'd dial 00 instead of the +, but 011 from North America, and 0011 from Australia. In just the same way you'd dial a call to me in London, England, (country code +44) starting 011 44 from North America, 0011 44 from Australia and 011 44 from the US and Canada. The idea is that a +800 xxxx xxxx number can be dialled free of charge from anywhere in the world, and the recipient pays the tab: no local access charges, in the same way as you wouldn't expect to feed coins into a US payphone to dial an 800 number. In practice availability varies from country to country and telco to telco -- though I guess most of the world's main operators now implement it. The system is already in use by many of the main hotel chains. For example the Hilton group gives +800 4445 8667 on its website (the numbers translate to +800 HHILTONS, and it's very similar to its US toll-free number +1-800 445 8667). The Lego toy company can be dialled from most of Europe -- except for Italy and Austria -- on +800 5346 1111 (which translates to +800 LEGO 1111). And so on. Alan Burkitt-Gray Editor, Global Telecoms Business aburkitt@euromoneyplc.com ** Most GSM mobile phones allow you to dial + directly from the keypad, and to program it into your member, and all GSM operators have to recognize it as a valid alternative to the usual local access code. It means you can program your phone with numbers that will work anywhere.** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:14:42 EST From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: Colorizing the Digest Regular readers of this Digest know there are various ways to read the news I present each day. The traditional way is by subscription to the mailing list (since 1981) or reading Usenet and the comp.dcom.telecom newsgroup (since about the same time). But then in 1995 in order to 'keep up with the times' a web based version was started. There are two ways to read the Digest via the web: The messages printed each day are piped into and through 'hypermail', a software program which takes all the messages, one by one, and displays them 'Usenet style' in our own 'newsgroup' called TELECOM_Digest_Online. An improvement (I think) on traditional Usenet, hypermail creates html indexes which sorts the contents (usually about the last two thousand or so messages) to be read by date, author, subject or thread. This enables you, the reader, to scan the preferred index and select only those things which you have an interest in reading or following. The other way to read via the web ( http://telecom-digest.org ) is a sort of hybrid thing I put together several years ago called 'latest- issue.html' which takes whatever the latest issue of the Digest happens to be and with a bit of html and perl 'magic' takes the Digest as the mailing list readers see it and displays the entire latest issue out in html style (using the 'pre' and '/pre' tags among other things) to maintain the margins, line breaks, etc in that version, which can be viewed by anyone at our web site by clicking on the top page to any of the links entitled 'read latest issue now'. It is this last method for reading the Digest which has been improved as of today. One of our very intelligent (more so than myself, at least, given the severity of my brain desease) users, Jeff Mattox, wrote to me recently to say he preferred that format since he liked scanning through the Digest rather than Usenet message-by-message or traditional mailing list. But his question was, 'is there any way to make the subject lines stand out easily when reading through the (otherwise ASCII script) on that edition?' After reviewing the script I use to create that page, Jeff said, "well, if you replace that three letter word 'cat' in the code you use with 'perl (and a string of etcetera following it)', you will get the results you want. He was right! I tried it, and it worked, and now 'latest.issue.html' is colorized with subject lines and my usual postamble to the mailing list edition standing out colorfully! Try it and see if you like the arrangment. 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