| Visa pilots new payment card security initiatives Acknowledging the need for controls that go beyond those offered by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, a senior Visa Inc. executive Thursday described two new initiatives to reduce payment card fraud being tested by the company. H-1B lottery approaches, experts mull TARP effect Economic conditions could lessen demand for H-1B visas as U.S. government officials work to limit abuse of the program. Biggest mistake for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible, developers admit The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 - a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol - is that it lacks backwards compatibility with the existing Internet Protocol, known as IPv4. IETF to explore new routing technique The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is forming a new working group to address scalability issues in the Internet¿s routing system caused by companies splitting their network traffic over multiple carriers, a practice called multihoming. Google: IPv6 is easy, not expensive Google engineers say it was not expensive and required only a small team of developers to enable all of the company’s applications to support IPv6. India Inc. gets White House meeting on H-1B visas A delegation from one of India's largest business groups visited Washington last week to make a case for the H-1B visa program, among other political topics. And it was a group with enough clout to meet with top White House officials. Standards Compliant IE8 + IE7 Compatibility Mode: Blessing or Curse? Blogger Mitchell Ashley opins abuot Microsoft heralding IE8 as the first standards compliant browser. But IE 8 has to live in a world that isn’t fully web standards compliant, partly because of IE’s own non-compliant and “unique feature” past sins. Implementation of web coding standards seem about as precise as many network protocols; the details, like the devil (as they say), are in the details of vendors’ implementations. Broadcom unveils 10G chips that use SFP+ Broadcom this week introduced two 10 Gigabit Ethernet chips that support the SFP+ standard. ANSI Panel to Standardize Identity Theft Tracking Know the difference between 'identity theft' and 'identity fraud'? Don't feel bad if you don't. Even within the security industry, within the government, and within law enforcement, the terms are used interchangeably although they are in fact different. No business case for IPv6, survey finds Business incentives are completely lacking today for upgrading to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, according to a survey of network operators conducted by the Internet Society (ISOC). Comply! Compliance with regulations is a bear, but there are tools to get you there. Our revamped Product Guide can help you sort through them all. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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