 Standards and Regulatory Compliance News AlertThis newsletter is sponsored by NetcordiaNetwork World's Standards and Regulations News Alert, 07/27/07Q&A: Security top concern for new IETF chair, 07/26/07: Three months into his job as chair of the leading Internet standards body, Russ Housley talked with Network World National Correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan about his strategy for bolting security onto the freewheeling Internet. SOX: Five years of headaches, 07/26/07: Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to prevent Enron-like scandals, the law has forced large public companies to clean up their accounting. Next-gen 911 system nears completion, 07/25/07: The IETF plans to wrap up work on key components of its next-generation emergency communications system by year-end. The new system will support voice calls, text messages and images sent over the Internet.
U.S. standards committee still undecided on Open XML,07/25/07: A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft, even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming vote. Future of HTTP at center of debate, 07/25/07: The IETF held a session in Chicago on Tuesday to debate whether HTTP should be tweaked to fix known errors or completely reworked to address its well-known security weaknesses. Identity framework moves into next phase, 07/25/07: The Liberty Alliance Project has started developing technical specifications for how companies can protect sensitive personal data within their IT systems and securely share that data with other organizations. How admissible is your data?, 07/23/07: On May 4, Judge Paul W. Grimm issued a ruling in the case of Lorraine v. Markel that could have a significant impact on e-discovery cases and the admissibility of e-mail. Judge Grimm’s ruling read, in part: IEEE group settles on faster Ethernet plans, 07/24/07: A technical group working on the next generation of Ethernet has agreed to disagree and will now work on a single standard that covers both 40Gbps and 100Gbps speeds. U.K. considers VoIP emergency call access, 07/26/07: Internet telephony providers in the U.K. could eventually have to provide access to emergency services as part of a regulation under consideration by the country's telecommunications regulator. |
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