Roy Mark

ARLINGTON, Va. — John L. Osterholz, the Pentagon’s director of architecture and interoperability, will discuss the Department of Defense’s (DoD) transition to Internet Protocol Version 6 (Ipv6) this morning during his keynote at the U.S. IPv6 Summit 2003. The current version of the Internet’s operating system, IPv4, has been used for almost 30 years. Its […]

The U.S. House of Representatives approved Congress’ final version of the Can Spam Act of 2003 Monday, sending the landmark anti-spam legislation to the White House for President Bush’s promised signature. The bill establishes the first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and charges the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with enforcing the Act. […]

WASHINGTON — Congress will be focused on taking care of end-of-year spending bills when it returns to work this week, as well as putting finishing touches on the Can Spam Act of 2003. Dubbed the most significant Internet-related legislation so far by the 108th Congress, the bill awaits “technical corrections” in the House before it […]

WASHINGTON — Barring a last-minute compromise, the movement to revive the Internet access tax ban that expired on November 1 is all but dead for 2003. U.S. Senate leaders remain divided over the duration of the next moratorium and the definitions of Internet access but, despite strong support in Congress to extend the ban either […]

President Bush signed the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act Wednesday, authorizing $3.7 billion over the next four years for the emerging science. The legislation puts into law programs and activities already supported by the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), one of the White House’s highest multi-agency R&D priorities. The bill, which becomes effective Oct. […]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent early holiday greetings to alleged peer-to-peer (P2P) music pirates Wednesday, filing 41 more lawsuits claiming “egregious” copyright infringement. In addition, the principle trade group of the music industry said it notified another 90 people that it intends to file suits against them. The RIAA defines egregious as […]

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee plans a February hearing to probe fraud allegations in the E-Rate program, the nation’s $2.25 billion initiative to help schools and libraries connect to the Internet. “We’re going to frame all our findings around a hearing. That way, people can respond,” a committee source told internetnews.com. “A lot […]

WASHINGTON — Privacy and civil liberties debates are hindering the U.S. government from taking full advantage of America’s technology to fight the war on terrorism, security experts said Tuesday. The views are the result of the Markle Foundation’s Task Force on National Security in the Information Age second annual report on homeland defense. The private […]

In a policy shift that signals a hands-off approach to regulating phone calls over the Internet (VoIP), Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell has set up a high-powered working group to identify policy issues addressing the migration of communications services to Internet-based platforms. The launch of the FCC working group comes as debate heats […]

WASHINGTON — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael K. Powell said Monday he “unflinchingly (believes) in maintaining an Internet free from government regulation” and firmly supports the idea that the Internet telephony industry should “evolve in a regulation-free zone.” Powell’s comments opened the FCC’s landmark proceeding to determine what, if any, taxes and regulations should […]

Not a single United States senator voted against the anti-spam bill wending its way toward the White House. In the House of Representatives, 392 members clamored forth to support the nation’s first legislation to combat unwanted, unsolicited commercial e-mail. Only five said no, with two of those coming from technology-savvy Silicon Valley lawmakers. Reps. Zoe […]

WASHINGTON — A weary and battle-scarred 108th Congress straggled home for the Thanksgiving holidays Tuesday night without extending the Internet access tax ban that expired on Nov. 1. But both sides remain confident a compromise will be reached and legislation extending the tax ban will be passed before the end of the year. Although the […]