Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 127

As it turns out after a considerable number of days, the Coordination Group of the .Ru domain made the next epoch-making decisions on organizing the domain registration process. The structure that will coordinate the process is so far touchingly euphemistically called “Organization.” In the spirit of our national realities, such decisions are made behind closed doors, the public learns about them weeks later, their effectiveness is questionable, and the process is accompanied by shameful comments: “The coordination group is, from a legal point of view, nothing .” The process was amazingly organized.

On November 9, ICANN was going to publish an expert assessment of applications for new domain zones. Nothing like this has happened yet, however.

The lower house of the Japanese Diet has officially confirmed that Japan's "Five-Year Plan for Internet Technology" is a priority for the nation. In orderly rows for everyone's happiness.

Information Policy Committee The State Duma has prepared a bill “On Personal Information”. Interstate differences are very indicative: if in the West, private information is protected mainly from overly zealous commercial structures with their advertising, then in Russia - “ from the growing interest in it on the part of criminal structures .”

Starting Thursday, VeriSign Global domain names Registry Services will begin registering Japanese, Chinese and Korean language in the .com, .net and .org zones.

fan's lawsuit On Wednesday, a Grateful Dead against eBay in connection with sales of pirated copies of the band's discs at eBay auctions was dismissed : once again it was recognized that the provider is not responsible for the use of its service for illegal purposes. How all this fits with the Napster epic is completely unclear, but looking for a single logic in a bunch of court rulings is apparently a pointless task.

The World Internet Forum , which tells politicians what to do with the Internet and was scheduled to take place November 13-15, was canceled because politicians had more important things to do .

The official Beatles website opens on Monday, November 13th .

Corporation Aristotle International , which maintains the largest database of American voters, now sells this database to advertisers to organize targeted advertising campaigns. Conclusion: it is preferable to hide from the state so that it has no idea about your existence. Methods are discussed.