Latest standards and regulations news.
Verizon, others offer IMS extensions: Now comes the hard part for A-IMS, 07/31/06
Now that a group of wireless vendors, led by customer Verizon Wireless, have proposed extensions to an evolving industry specification for converging IP-based wireline and wireless services, the hard part will be in garnering further support for their …
Verizon Wireless leads group offering IMS extensions, 07/27/06
A group of wireless vendors, led by customer Verizon Wireless, are proposing a “next-generation network architecture” for mobile networks that attempts to fill in gaps in an evolving industry specification for converging IP-based wireline and wireless …
IEEE opens the door for a faster Ethernet, 07/27/06
The IEEE 802.3 working group has gone ahead and established a Higher Speed Study Group to look at what the next generation of Ethernet might look like, …
Experts weigh giving ICANN full control of DNS, 07/26/06
Internet governance experts argued on Wednesday for and against having the government hand over completely the technical coordination and management of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS) to the private, non-profit ICANN this year.
Linux Newsletter: Too many Linux mobility cooks in the kitchen?, 07/26/06
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum – a group that wants to standardize Linux technology for the cell phone industry – received a boost to its …
Group to promote domain-level accreditation, reputation services, 07/25/06
In an effort to bolster e-mail user confidence and see that more legitimate business correspondence finds its way to intended recipients, a vendor group has organized to promote domain-level accreditation and reputation services as preferred …
Legislators call for research into energy efficient data centers, 07/25/06
The House of Representatives this month voted to approve a bill calling for a study of energy efficient servers.
Second draft of GPL 3 due out Tuesday, 07/21/06
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is due to release the second draft of the GNU general public license version 3 (GPLv3) Tuesday, according to sources close to the organization.
