Archive 26. November 2004

Half a million euros fine for Prince Ernst August

Can't they finally lock this guy up?

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Large Surveillance Operation on Internet Relay Chat

What a pile of rubbish.

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Criticism of ITU Proposals for Network Management

And again new brain cramps from the ITU - this time even with obvious evidence of this bureaucratic monster's technical incompetence. Sorry, but geographically or politically oriented allocation of IP addresses is simply and plainly gross nonsense - merely submitting such a proposal already disqualifies one from further discussions about technical matters of the Internet ...

Yes, RIPE and other IP registries are certainly also geographically organized - but their organization is based on the rough geographic structure of network topology. Breaking that down to such silly concepts as nation states would be utter lunacy.

At heise online news you can find the original article.