Security top concern for new IETF chair; SOX: Five years of headaches

Standards and Regulatory Compliance News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Netcordia Network Downtime, the Configuration Error Are you missing easy ways to make your network more reliable? Learn steps you can take and tools you can use to avoid downtime. Network World's Standards and Regulations News Alert, 07/27/07 Q&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. Network World VoIP and Convergence Buyer's Guide Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information will quickly help you pinpoint the hardware or software you need to build out a converged voice and data network. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guide now. 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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