] With eyes fixed on the burgeoning Linux enterprise
] market, networking software specialist Novell (Quote,
] Chart) on Tuesday announced plans to shell out $210
] million in cash to acquire Germany's SUSE Linux AG.

Novell's still in the game!

Novell Acquires SUSE and IBM Tosses In

] Microsoft on Monday said it would use IBM chips in its
] next generation Xbox game and consumer electronics
] devices, dealing a blow to Intel and providing a much
] needed boost for IBM's lossmaking chip business.

Whoa...

FT.com / Business / US

] This is a big week for Apple. Last week the company
] unveiled the Windows version of its popular, free iTunes
] music-downloading software - and tomorrow, it will
] release Mac OS X version 10.3 ( or Panther), the next
] edition of Apple's three-year-old operating system.

For those of you who (like me) don't pay too much attention to Apple...

Apple's Latest 0.1 Adds a Lot

Decius wrote:
] ] Host Identity Protocol [3] (HIP) defines a mechanism that
] ] decouples the transport layer from the internetworking
] ] layer, and introduces a new Host Identity namespace. When
] ] a host uses HIP, the transport layer sockets and IPsec
] ] Security Associations are not bound to IP addresses but
] ] to Host Identifiers. This document specifies how the
] ] mapping from Host Identifiers to IP addresses can be
] ] extended from a static one-to-one mapping into a dynamic
] ] one-to-many mapping. This enables end-host mobility and
] ] multi-homing.
]
]
] Abaddon and I spent some time last summer working on a protocl
] called Adaptive Addressing Protocol (AAP). It was an attempt
] to make Mobile IP less silly by allowing hosts to change their
] IP addresses without dropping connections. It did so by
] associating connections with a unique identifier, secured by a
] Diffie Hellman key exchange. Last night, Jeremy points me at
] this. This is APP, basically. Its amazing how close our
] designs are. Its also *really* frustrating. We were going to
] have a working demo this weekend for Phreaknic.
]
] I'm going to read through this stuff and see if there are any
] design decisions that we made that might be of value to this
] working group. Having said that, its worth memeing this
] documentation. This is the right answer for mobile IP
] and it will probably be the answer we end up with for
] multihoming of small networks because deploying something like
] this is less expensive then renumbering the internet
] geographically.

I've had this idea before as well. Yay!

RE: Host Identity Protocol

]
] The SCO Group, which has sued IBM for more than $3
] billion and claims that Linux is an unauthorized
] derivative of Unix, on Thursday said it had received a
] $50 million cash boost in a private investment deal led
] by BayStar Capital, an investment fund.

Ugh...

SCO Gains $50 Million Cash Boost

Mozilla 1.5 released!

Mozilla 1.5

] On 25 May 2001, ICANN and VeriSign, Inc., entered into an
] Unsponsored Registry Agreement under which VeriSign
] operates the .com top-level domain. The agreement and its
] appendices may be viewed by following the links below.

Alright ... here it is ... I haven't had time to read it yet. The agreement was between verisign and ICANN and "overseen" by the Dept. of Commerce which apparently had some veto power in the matter.

ICANN | .com Registry Agreement

Decius wrote:
] ] VeriSign also made a mistake by informing ICANN and other
] ] standards bodies only a few days before it launched Site
] ] Finder, he added. "The number one complaint, actually,
] ] that we heard across the board was this lack of notice,"
] ] Lewis said. "We do sincerely regret any inconvenience
] ] that the service created, notwithstanding that most of
] ] the concerns that we discussed today ... were largely
] ] addressed within a matter of days, if not hours."
]
] In the last meeting Verisign made it clear that they had their
] reasons for not informing anyone about the changes and that
] future changes would also be made without notice. Of course,
] they have very little to loose by RErelease the site with
] notice, as everyone is aware of it at this point and we know
] they aren't asking permission, so they've decided to let us
] know. They get headlines that say "look, we're sorry" and
] people who aren't paying attention don't know any better.
]
] ICANN must end Verisign's contract.

I think I've brought this up before: is verisign's contract with ICANN or with some US Govt agency (Commerce?)

RE: Declan gave Verisign the headline they wanted

Cute flash.

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

]
] There has been quite a lot of activity in the Red Hat
] case.
]
] SCO filed a Motion to Dismiss the action in its entirety,
] as you know, and Red Hat filed its answering brief. But
] since we last reported on this case, Red Hat initiated
] discovery. They asked SCO for documents and for answers
] to some pointed questions. IBM is forcing SCO into a
] corner in Utah, and Red Hat is forcefully and
] aggressively trying to do the same in Delaware. You'll
] see, I think, that we haven't been wasting our time
] telling the world the details of this story. The big
] picture is that Red Hat is telling SCO to prove their
] allegations with specificity. They also want all their
] source code, and I'm sure you can figure out what they
] want to do with it, when I tell you that they asked for
] the complete Linux Kernel Personality source code, among
] the other products for which they have requested source
] code.

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