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To Secure or not to Secure is the question!

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:09:00 GMT

Organizations to date have not really considered email as a serious threat. Digital Signatures and encrption deployments are still few and far between, but laterly this seems to be changing. This 2 pager highlights some of the issues and builds some awareness.

Companies are taking email security more seriously

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:04:00 GMT

In the following survey http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Security/IT-Security-Market-Survey/?kc=BLBLBEMNL08112008STR1 one can see that companies have started realizing that one of the major threats is email and spam and started focusing on it, indicating a shift in budget allocations. Great news and opportunties for eID deployments.

ICANN Concludes Successful 32nd Meeting in Paris

Gaetan EGLOFF — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:06:00 GMT

Board gives go-ahead for expansion of the domain name system.

PARIS, FRANCE: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) concluded its 32nd International Public Meeting in Paris today after four days of discussions that will shape the future of the Internet. The conclusion of the meeting saw the approval of a proposal to expand the world’s Domain Name System and to work on adapting it to accommodate top level domain names in scripts such as Arabic, Cyrillic or other non-Latin scripts.

Over 1670 participants from 150 countries, including 250 participants from the host country France, took part in the meeting, and helped ICANN make great progress in several key areas. At the closing session, the ICANN Board and community thanked the meeting’s sponsors and gave particular thanks to French Minister of State Eric Besson who opened ICANN's meeting at the beginning of the week. (The Minister of State is responsible for Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development of the Digital Economy.)

26 June 2008http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-26jun08-en.htm La création de nouvelles extensions votée par le gestionnaire de l'internet (ICANN)PARIS (AFP) — Le conseil d'administration de l'Icann, instance chargée de gérer au niveau mondial les adresses internet, a adopté jeudi à l'unanimité le principe de la création de nouvelles extensions, a annoncé un responsable de l'Afnic, association s'occupant des noms de domaine français.http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iCiklC2yKg2DDUsMimQRQqlkIGSw

33rd America's Cup

admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:24:00 GMT

Today AC Management, as scheduled, published the AC90 Rule marking an exciting milestone in the path to the 33rd America’s Cup. This rule has been crafted over the past six weeks through a design consultation process with all entered challengers, the Defender, and headed by Tom Schnackenberg as the class rule and competition regulations consultant for ACM.

Designers from all six entered teams have met regularly since the design process began on 15 September. Tom Schnackenberg comments on the sessions: “The process has been an invigorating one with the challengers helping enormously in making improvements to the rule. It is amazing how inventive people are in this environment, bouncing ideas off each other, these past six weeks have been a very enjoyable experience.”

The AC90 Rule, in brief, will be 90ft overall maximum length, 6.5m in draft whilst racing and will have a displacement of 23tons. This last parameter was defined by the challengers on their request. Tom adds some insight: “In writing the AC90 Rule we have used the experience gained in forming Version 5 of the America’s Cup Class rule. We have tried to keep it simple because of the short timeframe, while also taking care not to ignore the lessons of the last 18 years of the ACC. The rule is a box rule rather than a rating rule and differs greatly to Version 5 in that the yacht will be big, fast and much more demanding.”

Juan Kouyoumdjian, principal designer for British challenger, TeamOrigin, comments on the result of the design sessions: “To sit in a series of meetings chaired by Tom Schnackenberg and write a class rule for something as significant as the boat to be used for the America’s Cup has been an honour for me personally and a really inspiring experience. The profile of designers, engineers and naval architects representing the challengers and the Defender is, as always, really special. This has been an efficient and productive process and the boat itself will be spectacular: challenging to design, to sail and to race.”

John Cutler, technical director for Desafío Español, adds his take on the result: “We are happy with the process. It has been a lot of hard work for all the teams, the challengers and the Defender, and there have been a lot of changes. The boat will be exciting to sail, a challenge to design and also a challenge for the crew to master. It will provide exciting racing.”

As far as the next steps towards the 33rd America’s Cup are concerned, Tom Schnackenberg will continue the dialogue with the challengers and the Defender to finalise the Competition Regulations for a 2009 event.

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